Combined events at the Olympics combined event featured on the programme, as happened at the 1904 Summer Olympics, but the Greeks introduced a variation of the Ancient Olympic pentathlon. This contained four track and field events – standing long jump, ancient-style discus throw, javelin throw and a stadion race (192 m) – with the final event being Greco-Roman wrestling. American Martin Sheridan was the initial favourite, having already won gold and silver medals in individual jump and throws events, but dropped out due to injury. Lawson Robertson and István Mudin each won two of the rounds (Robertson the long jump and stadion, Mudin the discus
Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle over the mile was 24:33.0, beating the standing record of 24:42.6 set by David Billington in 1905. Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle The men's 1500 metre freestyle was one of 6 swimming events on the swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the longest of the 3 individual freestyle event distances. The competition was held from Tuesday July 21, 1908, to Saturday July 25, 1908. Nineteen swimmers from eight nations competed. These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1908 Summer Olympics. "(*)" one mile (1609.34