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Men's 200 metre team swimming
at the Games of the II Olympiad
The swimming venue in 1900
VenueRiver Seine
DateAugust 12
Competitors20 from 2 nations
Teams4
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) German Swimming Federation
 Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tritons Lillois
 France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Pupilles de Neptune de Lille
 France
Swimming at the
1900 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Freestyle
200 mmen
1000 mmen
4000 mmen
Backstroke
200 mmen
Other
200 m teammen
200 m obstaclemen
Underwatermen

The men's 200 metre team swimming was an event on the swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics schedule in Paris. It was held on August 12, 1900. 20 swimmers from two nations constituted four teams; 18 of the swimmers actually swam. The event was won by the German Swimming Federation, defeating three French teams. Tritons Lillois took silver, Pupilles de Neptune de Lille bronze, and Libellule de Paris fourth place.

Background

This was the only time a team swimming event was held. The competition was supposed to include five teams, but the team from Great Britain arrived after the start of the competition.

Competition format

There were four heats, with five swimmers in each heat.

Scoring used a fairly strange system: swimmers were seeded into the final heats through an initial ranking round, then received a number of points depending on what place they received in which heat. The five swimmers in the first heat were given between 1 and 5 points, with the winner receiving 1 and points increasing with place. The swimmers in the second heat received between 6 and 10 points, and so on.

The scores of the five swimmers on a team were summed, and the team with the fewest points won. This gave a strong advantage to the German team, which had three swimmers in the first heat, and an equally strong disadvantage to the Parisian team, with three swimmers in the fourth heat.

If points are given by best time regardless of heat, the Pupilles de Neptune and the Tritons switch places, though the Germans still win and the Parisian team still takes fourth.

Each race was 200 metres long. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events).

Schedule

Date Time Round
Sunday, 11 August 1900 Round 1
Final

Results

Round 1

Each team had one swimmer in each of the five first-round heats. These heats determined in which final heat the swimmer would swim and thus the point range that the swimmer could achieve. No times are known from the results of this round.

Round 1 heat 1

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Notes
1 Joseph Bertrand  France Tritons Lillois H1
2 B. Rosier  France Libellule de Paris H2
— Herbert von Petersdorff  Germany German Swimming Federation DNS
Philippe Houben  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille DNS

Round 1 heat 2

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Points
1 Ernst Hoppenberg  Germany German Swimming Federation H1
2 Jules Clévenot  France Libellule de Paris H2
3 Georges Leuillieux  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille H3
4 Victor Cadet  France Tritons Lillois H4

Round 1 heat 3

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Points
1 Maurice Hochepied  France Tritons Lillois H1
2 Gustav Lexau  Germany German Swimming Federation H2
3 Louis Martin  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille H3
4 R. Féret  France Libellule de Paris H4

Round 1 heat 4

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Points
1 Ernest Lührsen  Germany German Swimming Federation H1
2 Désiré Mérchez  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille H2
3 Victor Hochepied  France Tritons Lillois H3
4 Gasaigne  France Libellule de Paris H4

Round 1 heat 5

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Points
1 Max Hainle  Germany German Swimming Federation H1
2 René Tartara  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille H2
3 Jules Verbecke  France Tritons Lillois H3
4 Pelloy  France Libellule de Paris H4

Final

Final heat 1

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Time Points
1 Ernst Hoppenberg  Germany German Swimming Federation 2:35.4 1
2 Max Hainle  Germany German Swimming Federation 2:36.0 2
3 Maurice Hochepied  France Tritons Lillois 2:53.0 3
4 Ernest Lührsen  Germany German Swimming Federation 2:55.0 4
5 Joseph Bertrand  France Tritons Lillois 3:00.0 5

Final heat 2

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Time Points
1 Gustav Lexau  Germany German Swimming Federation 2:42.0 6
2 Jules Clévenot  France Libellule de Paris 2:45.0 7
3 René Tartara  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille 2:48.6 8
4 Désiré Mérchez  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille 2:55.4 9
5 B. Rosier  France Libellule de Paris 3:04.4 10

Final heat 3

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Time Points
1 Louis Martin  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille 2:51.4 11
2 Victor Hochepied  France Tritons Lillois 2:56.4 12
3 Jules Verbecke  France Tritons Lillois 3:01.6 13
4 Georges Leuillieux  France Pupilles de Neptune de Lille 2:55.0 14

Final heat 4

Rank Swimmer Nation Team Time Points
1 R. Féret  France Libellule de Paris 3:00.4 15
2 Gasaigne  France Libellule de Paris 3:02.0 16
3 Pelloy  France Libellule de Paris 3:06.0 17
4 Victor Cadet  France Tritons Lillois 3:18.0 18

Did not start

The following two swimmers did not compete and thus earned 19 points for their teams:

Team scores

Rank Nation Team Swimmers Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Germany (GER) German Swimming Federation 32
1+2+4+6+19
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  France (FRA) Tritons Lillois 51
3+5+12+13+18
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France (FRA) Pupilles de Neptune de Lille 61
8+9+11+14+19
4  France (FRA) Libellule de Paris 65
7+10+15+16+17

Notes

  1. ^ "Men's 200 metre team swimming". Olympics.com. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
  2. ^ "200 metres Team Swimming, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  3. Mallon, pp. 201, 205-6

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