| Date | 7 September 1904 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Life Saving Exhibition Lake, Forest Park, St. Louis | |
| Participants | 6 from 3 countries | |
| Format | Final only. | |
Emil Rausch added the 880-yard championship to the mile freestyle that he had won the day before, winning by 12 seconds over Frank Gailey, who earned his third silver medal of the Olympics. With Hungary’s Géza Kiss finishing in third, this was one of the very few events at the 1904 Olympics in which the three medalists came from three different countries.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | Emil Rausch |  GER | 13:11.4 | Gold | ||
| 2 | 44 | Frank Gailey |  USA | 13:23.4 | Silver | ||
| 3 | 19 | Géza Kiss |  HUN | – | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 40 | Edgar Adams | USA | – | |||
| 5 | – | Otto Wahle | USA | – | |||
| 6 | 46 | Jam Handy | USA | – | |||
| 47 | Max Pape | GER | – | ||||
| 1 | Zoltán Halmay | HUN | – | ||||
| 11 | Charlie Daniels | USA | – | ||||
| – | John Meyers | USA | – | ||||
| 15 | George Van Cleaf | USA | – | ||||
| 12 | Joe Ruddy | USA | – | ||||
| 13 | David Bratton | USA | – | ||||
| – | Arthur C. Meyers | USA | – |
