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[1]
 Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tritons Lillois
 France
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Pupilles de Neptune de Lille
 France

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 a team from Great Britain arrived after the start of the competition.[2]

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.[2]

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.[3]

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 1900Round 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.[2]

Round 1 heat 1

RankSwimmerNationTeamNotes
1Joseph Bertrand FranceTritons LilloisH1
2B. Rosier FranceLibellule de ParisH2
—Herbert von Petersdorff GermanyGerman Swimming FederationDNS
Philippe Houben FrancePupilles de Neptune de LilleDNS

Round 1 heat 2

RankSwimmerNationTeamPoints
1Ernst Hoppenberg GermanyGerman Swimming FederationH1
2Jules Clévenot FranceLibellule de ParisH2
3Georges Leuillieux FrancePupilles de Neptune de LilleH3
4Victor Cadet FranceTritons LilloisH4

Round 1 heat 3

RankSwimmerNationTeamPoints
1Maurice Hochepied FranceTritons LilloisH1
2Gustav Lexau GermanyGerman Swimming FederationH2
3Louis Martin FrancePupilles de Neptune de LilleH3
4R. Féret FranceLibellule de ParisH4

Round 1 heat 4

RankSwimmerNationTeamPoints
1Ernest Lührsen GermanyGerman Swimming FederationH1
2Désiré Mérchez FrancePupilles de Neptune de LilleH2
3Victor Hochepied FranceTritons LilloisH3
4Gasaigne FranceLibellule de ParisH4

Round 1 heat 5

RankSwimmerNationTeamPoints
1Max Hainle GermanyGerman Swimming FederationH1
2René Tartara FrancePupilles de Neptune de LilleH2
3Jules Verbecke FranceTritons LilloisH3
4Pelloy FranceLibellule de ParisH4

Final

Final heat 1

RankSwimmerNationTeamTimePoints
1Ernst Hoppenberg GermanyGerman Swimming Federation2:35.41
2Max Hainle GermanyGerman Swimming Federation2:36.02
3Maurice Hochepied FranceTritons Lillois2:53.03
4Ernest Lührsen GermanyGerman Swimming Federation2:55.04
5Joseph Bertrand FranceTritons Lillois3:00.05

Final heat 2

RankSwimmerNationTeamTimePoints
1Gustav Lexau GermanyGerman Swimming Federation2:42.06
2Jules Clévenot FranceLibellule de Paris2:45.07
3René Tartara FrancePupilles de Neptune de Lille2:48.68
4Désiré Mérchez FrancePupilles de Neptune de Lille2:55.49
5B. Rosier FranceLibellule de Paris3:04.410

Final heat 3

RankSwimmerNationTeamTimePoints
1Louis Martin FrancePupilles de Neptune de Lille2:51.411
2Victor Hochepied FranceTritons Lillois2:56.412
3Jules Verbecke FranceTritons Lillois3:01.613
4Georges Leuillieux FrancePupilles de Neptune de Lille2:55.014

Final heat 4

RankSwimmerNationTeamTimePoints
1R. Féret FranceLibellule de Paris3:00.415
2Gasaigne FranceLibellule de Paris3:02.016
3Pelloy FranceLibellule de Paris3:06.017
4Victor Cadet FranceTritons Lillois3:18.018

Did not start

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

Team scores[1]

RankNationTeamSwimmersPoints
1st place, gold medalist(s) Germany (GER)German Swimming Federation32
1+2+4+6+19
2nd place, silver medalist(s) France (FRA)Tritons Lillois51
3+5+12+13+18
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) France (FRA)Pupilles de Neptune de Lille61
8+9+11+14+19
4 France (FRA)Libellule de Paris
65
7+10+15+16+17

Notes

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

References

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