Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1948 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 100 metre freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between July 30 and 31 at the Empire Pool.^[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 two lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Wally Ris  United States
Silver	Alan Ford  United States
Bronze	Géza Kádas  Hungary

Results

Heats

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Alex Jany	France	58.1	Q
1	Wally Ris	United States	58.1	Q
3	Géza Kádas	Hungary	58.2	Q
4	Keith Carter	United States	58.7	Q
5	Per-Olof Olsson	Sweden	59.0	Q
6	Bruce Bourke	Australia	59.1	Q
7	Alan Ford	United States	59.2	Q
8	Elemér Szathmáry	Hungary	59.7	q
8	Taha Youssef El-Gamal	Egypt	59.7	Q
10	Zoltán Szilárd	Hungary	59.8	q
11	Alberto Isaac	Mexico	1:00.1	Q
12	Horacio White	Argentina	1:00.2	Q
12	Martin Lundén	Sweden	1:00.2	q
14	Warren Boyd	Australia	1:00.4	q
15	Aram Boghossian	Brazil	1:00.9	Q
16	Ronald Stedman	Great Britain	1:01.3	Q
17	Manuel Guerra	Spain	1:00.7
18	Olle Johansson	Sweden	1:01.0
18	Peter Salmon	Canada	1:01.0
20	Jesús Domínguez	Spain	1:01.3
21	Henri Padou, Jr.	France	1:01.5
22	Ari Guðmundsson	Iceland	1:01.6
22	Sérgio Rodrigues	Brazil	1:01.6
24	Augusto Cantón	Argentina	1:01.8
25	Nicasio Silverio	Cuba	1:02.0
26	Pat Kendall	Great Britain	1:02.1
27	Trevor Harrop	Great Britain	1:02.3
28	Ali Ahmed Bagdadi	Egypt	1:02.4
29	Dorri El-Said	Egypt	1:02.5
29	Raúl García	Cuba	1:02.5
31	Eric Jubb	Canada	1:02.8
32	Wu Chuanyu	China	1:03.5
33	Plauto Guimarães	Brazil	1:03.7
34	Sachin Nag	India	1:03.8
35	Isidoro Pérez	Spain	1:04.0
36	Fernand Martinaux	France	1:04.2
37	Walter Schneider	Switzerland	1:05.1
38	Isaac Monsoor	India	1:06.4
39	Dilip Mitra	India	1:06.9
40	Panagiotis Khatzikyriakakis	Greece	1:07.4
41	Derek Oatway	Bermuda	1:08.6

Key: Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place

Semifinals

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	Wally Ris	United States	57.5	Q, OR
2	Keith Carter	United States	57.6	Q
3	Alan Ford	United States	57.8	Q
4	Alex Jany	France	57.9	Q
5	Géza Kádas	Hungary	58.0	Q
6	Per-Olof Olsson	Sweden	59.1	q
7	Zoltán Szilárd	Hungary	59.6	Q
8	Taha Youssef El-Gamal	Egypt	59.9	q
9	Bruce Bourke	Australia	1:00.0
10	Martin Lundén	Sweden	1:00.2
11	Alberto Isaac	Mexico	1:00.4
11	Horacio White	Argentina	1:00.4
13	Elemér Szathmáry	Hungary	1:00.5
14	Aram Boghossian	Brazil	1:01.0
14	Ronald Stedman	Great Britain	1:01.0
16	Warren Boyd	Australia	1:01.1

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Wally Ris	United States	57.3	OR
	Alan Ford	United States	57.8
	Géza Kádas	Hungary	58.1
4	Keith Carter	United States	58.3
5	Alex Jany	France	58.3
6	Per-Olof Olsson	Sweden	59.3
7	Zoltán Szilárd	Hungary	59.6
8	Taha Youssef El-Gamal	Egypt	1:00.5

Key: OR = Olympic record

References