Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Swimming at the
1952 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m men   women
400 m men   women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men   women
Breaststroke
200 m men   women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m   women
4×200 m men  

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between July 28 and 30 at the Swimming Stadium.[1] 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 eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

GoldJean Boiteux
 France
SilverFord Konno
 United States
BronzePer-Olof Östrand
 Sweden

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jack Wardrop  Great Britain 4:43.7
2 Yasuo Tanaka  Japan 4:44.3
3 Gotfryd Gremlowski  Poland 4:49.0
4 Jo Bernardo  France 4:53.5
5 Pentti Ikonen  Finland 4:55.7
6 Geoffrey Marks  Sri Lanka 5:15.2
7 Georg Mascetti  Saar 5:31.2

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Hironoshin Furuhashi  Japan 4:43.3
2 Viktor Drobinsky  Soviet Union 4:56.5
3 Neo Chwee Kok  Singapore 4:57.5
4 Eduardo Priggione  Uruguay 5:12.1
5 Walter Bardgett  Bermuda 5:18.0
6 Sonny Monteiro  Hong Kong 5:21.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jimmy McLane  United States 4:46.5
2 Dennis Ford  South Africa 4:50.2
3 Allen Gilchrist  Canada 4:52.5
4 Enrique Granados  Spain 4:53.7
5 Federico Zwanck  Argentina 4:56.4
6 Ricardo Esperard  Brazil 5:09.5
7 Walter Schneider  Switzerland 5:27.3

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jean Boiteux  France 4:45.1
2 Graham Johnston  South Africa 4:52.3
3 Anatoly Raznochintsev  Soviet Union 4:56.8
4 Peter Steinwender  Austria 5:03.6
5 Peter Head  Great Britain 5:04.2
6 Cheung Kin Man  Hong Kong 5:11.4

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 György Csordás  Hungary 4:45.7
2 Ford Konno  United States 4:47.9
3 Joris Tjebbes  Netherlands 4:54.4
4 Carlos Alberto Bonacich  Argentina 5:06.3
5 Per Olsen  Norway 5:08.6
6 Pentti Paatsalo  Finland 5:09.3
7 Robert Cook  Bermuda 5:15.4

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Per-Olof Östrand  Sweden 4:38.6
2 Gusztáv Kettesi  Hungary 4:53.0
3 Garrick Agnew  Australia 4:55.5
4 Roar Woldum  Norway 5:14.4
5 Einari Aalto  Finland 5:15.8

Heat 7

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Tetsuo Okamoto  Brazil 4:46.1
2 John Marshall  Australia 4:46.8
3 Gerry McNamee  Canada 4:53.5
4 Alfredo Yantorno  Argentina 4:54.5
5 Ronald Burns  Great Britain 4:55.2
6 Nguyễn Văn Phan  South Vietnam 5:36.5

Heat 8

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Wayne Moore  United States 4:43.2
2 Peter Duncan  South Africa 4:44.0
3 Yoshio Tanaka  Japan 4:54.0
4 Angelo Romani  Italy 5:05.1
5 René Million  France 5:07.0
6 Fernando Madeira  Portugal 5:08.6
7 Muhammad Ramzan  Pakistan 5:45.7

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Jean Boiteux  France 4:30.7 OR
Ford Konno  United States 4:31.3
Per-Olof Östrand  Sweden 4:35.2
4 Peter Duncan  South Africa 4:37.9
5 Jack Wardrop  Great Britain 4:39.9
6 Wayne Moore  United States 4:40.1
7 Jimmy McLane  United States 4:40.3
8 Hironoshin Furuhashi  Japan 4:42.1

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
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