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Swimming At The 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's 4000 Metre Freestyle
The men's 4000 metre freestyle was an event on the Swimming at the 1900 Summer Olympics schedule in Paris. It was the longest of the three freestyle events. It was held on 15 August and 19 August 1900. 29 swimmers from 7 nations competed. The event was won by John Arthur Jarvis of Great Britain, completing a double with the 1000 metre freestyle. Zoltán Halmay of Hungary took silver, with Louis Martin of France earning bronze. Jarvis swam using the front crawl; Halmay used the Trudgen stroke. Background The 4000 metre freestyle event was held only once, and was the longest Olympic swimming event until the 10 kilometre open water event was introduced in 2008. John Arthur Jarvis was the dominant long distance swimmer of the time and a heavy favourite in this event. He was in the midst of a run of British titles in the 880 yard (1898-1901), mile (1897-1902) and long-distance (1898-1904). Competition format The competition used a two-round format, with semifinals and a final. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seine
) , mouth_location = Le Havre/Honfleur , mouth_coordinates = , mouth_elevation = , progression = , river_system = Seine basin , basin_size = , tributaries_left = Yonne, Loing, Eure, Risle , tributaries_right = Ource, Aube, Marne, Oise, Epte The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre (and Honfleur on the left bank). It is navigable by ocean-going vessels as far as Rouen, from the sea. Over 60 percent of its length, as far as Burgundy, is negotiable by large barges and most tour boats, and nearly its whole length is available for recreational boating; excursion boats offer sightseeing tours of the river banks in the capital city, Paris. There are 37 bridges in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texier (swimmer)
Texier is a surname, and may refer to: * Alexandre Texier, French professional ice hockey player * Catherine Texier, French-American writer * Félix Marie Charles Texier, French historian * Henri Texier, French jazz bassist *Jehan Texier or Le Texier, better known as Jehan de Beauce, a 15th/16th-century French architect. * Marie-Gustave-Victor-René-Alfred Texier (1882 - 1978), French general * Texier (crew), French sailor, Olympic Games medalist * Texier (helmsman) Texier was a French sailor who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. With crew members Texier (crew), Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Robert Linzeler Texier as helmsman took the 2nd place in first race of the 0 to 0.5 ..., French sailor, Olympic Games medalist {{surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regnault (swimmer)
Regnault may refer to: * Regnault (crater), a crater on the Moon * French submarine ''Regnault'' (Q113), a ''Lagrange''-class submarine built for the French Navy * Lycée Regnault, a school in Tangier, Morocco People with the surname * Alice Regnault (1849–1931), French actress * Antoine Régnault (16th c.), French merchant and bourgeois * Étienne Regnault (d. 1688), first governor of Réunion * Félix Regnault (1863–1938), French physician, anthropologist and prehistorian * François Regnault (born 1938), French philosopher, playwright and dramaturg * Henri Regnault, (1843–1871), French painter * Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878), French scientist, father of Henri * Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754–1829), French painter * Jules Regnault (1834–1894), French economist * Kyle Regnault (born 1988), American baseball player * Patrick Regnault (born 1974), French football player * Valère Regnault (1545–1623), French Jesuit theologian See also * Renaud (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Gellé
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation of Aramaic כיפא (''Kefa),'' the nickname Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as Saint Peter. Pierre is also found as a surname. People with the given name * Abbé Pierre, Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement * Monsieur Pierre, Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle (c. 1890–1963), French ballroom dancer and dance teacher * Pierre (footballer), Lucas Pierre Santos Oliveira (born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Pierre, Baron of Beauvau (c. 1380–1453) * Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre (1845–1919) * Pierre, marquis de Fayet (died 1737), French naval commander and Governor General of Saint-Domingue * Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortier (swimmer)
{{otheruses Mortier was an organ manufacturer from Antwerp, Belgium that made dance organs and orchestrions. History The company was founded by Theophile Mortier (1855–1944). Mortier started in 1898 as a vending agent for the Parisian organ builder Gavioli & Cie, in a period when the French and German organ industry was in full bloom. Theophile Mortier was originally the manager of a dance hall, in which there was always a Gavioli organ playing. He made it a habit to sell the installed organ after a short while. He was fortunate enough most of the time to make a profit on selling these used organs. As time went by he became more and more an organ dealer and a very good customer of Gavioli. He set up a repair shop in order to provide maintenance and repair for the organs, which he had sold. The organ builder Guillaume Bax managed this shop. In 1906 Mortier started to build organs himself, as an annex of the Gavioli company. Due to internal operations difficulties, Gavioli co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobierski (swimmer)
Kobierski (feminine Kobierska) is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Janusz Adam Kobierski (born 1947), Polish priest and poet * Marcin Kobierski (born 1977), Polish canoer * Stanislaus Kobierski Stanislaus "Tau" Kobierski (15 November 1910 in Düsseldorf — 18 November 1972) was a German footballer. Kobierski's parents were Poles who emigrated to Germany from Poznań. Between 1931 and 1941, he played 26 times and scored 9 goals fo ... (1910–1972), German footballer {{surname Polish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
