Francis "Frank" Gailey (21 January 1882 – 10 July 1972) was an Australian-born American competition swimmer who swam in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, Missouri. Gailey was born in

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, Queensland, Australia, but later emigrated to the United States and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1906. For the 1904 Olympics, he was sponsored by the Olympic Club of San Francisco. The

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(IOC) officially counts Gailey's four medals for the United States, although research undertaken by several Australian newspapers in 2008–09 showed that Gailey was an Australian citizen at the time.Harry Gordon,
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stated that "Gailey's medals, newly credited to Australia, increase the nation's total at summer Olympics to 449". At the 1904 Summer Olympics, Gailey competed in four swimming events, and due to the lack of entrants all the events were straight finals, on 6 September he entered the 220 yard freestyle, where he finished just under two seconds behind American Charles Daniels and gained a silver medal, on the same day he also entered the 1 mile freestyle and after swimming for nearly 29 minutes he finished in third place behind German

Emil Rausch Emil A. Rausch (11 September 1883 – 14 December 1954) was a German freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics and 1906 Intercalated Games. In the 1904 Olympics he won gold medals in the 880 yard freestyle and 1 mile freesty ...

and Hungarian Géza Kiss. The next day Gailey competed in his other two events the 440 yard freestyle, where again he finished second to Charles Daniels, and then the German

beat him in the 880 yard freestyle, so in his two days of events he finished with 3 silver medals and one bronze.

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