Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between 30 and 31 July at the Empire Pool. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool. Key: Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall
Kowloon Tsai Swimming Pool Kowloon Tsai Swimming Pool The Kowloon Tsai Swimming Pool () was the first public swimming pool complex in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Since the old Victoria Park Swimming Pool was demolished in 2014, it stands as the oldest existing public swimming pool in Hong Kong. The pool complex is located in Kowloon Tsai Park and comprises a main 50 metre pool, a leisure pool, and a children's pool. It was decided in 1958 to build a swimming pool in Kowloon. On 5 January 1960 the chairman of the Urban Council announced that a swimming pool would be built at Kowloon Tsai,