Competitors 7 from 4 nations Venue Forest Park | Start date 1904 | |
Location Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri, United States | ||
The men's 1 mile freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the Swimming at the 1904 Summer Olympics programme. It was the first time the event was held at such a distance at the Olympics and the only time the mile was used; later incarnations of the event used 1500 metres as the distance.
7 swimmers from 4 nations competed.
References
Swimming at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's 1 mile freestyle Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA