Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The men's 400 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.[1] It was the seventh appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held from Monday to Wednesday, 10 to 12 August 1936.

Swimming at the
1936 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
200 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mwomen
4×200 mmen

Thirty-four swimmers from 16 nations competed.

Medalists
Gold Silver Bronze
Jack Medica
 United States		 Shunpei Uto
 Japan		 Shozo Makino
 Japan

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record 4:38.7 Jack Medica Honolulu (USA) 30 August 1934
Olympic Record 4:48.4 Buster Crabbe Los Angeles (USA) 10 August 1932

In the fifth heat Shunpei Uto set a new Olympic record with 4:45.5 minutes. In the final Jack Medica bettered the Olympic record with 4:44.5 minutes.

Results

Heats

Monday 10 August 1936: The fastest two in each heat and the next two fastest from across the heats advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat 1

PlaceSwimmerTimeQual.
1 Hiroshi Negami (JPN)4:52.6QQ
2 John Macionis (USA)4:57.1QQ
3 Heinz Arendt (GER)4:57.2qq
4 Árpád Lengyel (HUN)4:57.7
5 Edmund Pader (AUT)5:16.9
6 Robert Hooper (CAN)5:17.2

Heat 2

PlaceSwimmerTimeQual.
1 Bob Leivers (GBR)4:57.2QQ
2 Otto Przywara (GER)5:11.7QQ
3 Aage Hellstrøm (DEN)5:18.2
4 João Havelange (BRA)5:31.5

Heat 3

PlaceSwimmerTimeQual.
1 Shozo Makino (JPN)4:51.3QQ
2 Ralph Flanagan (USA)4:54.7QQ
3 Norman Wainwright (GBR)5:03.6
4 Bob Hamerton (CAN)5:13.3
5 Jørgen Jørgensen (DEN)5:17.8
6 István Angyal (HUN)5:20.9
7 Werner Lehmann (SUI)5:36.8

Heat 4

PlaceSwimmerTimeQual.
1 Ödön Gróf (HUN)4:59.4QQ
2 Hans Freese (GER)5:03.1QQ
3 Heikki Hietanen (FIN)5:08.9
4 William Pearson (GBR)5:12.7
5 Aluizio Lage (BRA)5:18.3
6 Washington Guzmán (CHI)5:19.1
7 Franz Seltenheim (AUT)5:38.3

Heat 5

PlaceSwimmerTimeQual.
1 Shunpei Uto (JPN)4:45.5QQ OR
2 Jean Taris (FRA)4:53.9QQ
3 Bob Pirie (CAN)4:56.0qq
4 Poul Petersen (DEN)5:20.3
5 Edmund Cooper (BER)5:53.8

Heat 6

PlaceSwimmerTimeQual.
1 Jack Medica (USA)4:55.9QQ
2 Walter Ledgard (PER)5:05.5QQ
3 Piet Stam (NED)5:07.8
4 Manoel Villar (BRA)5:18.2
5 Hans Brenner (SUI)5:33.8

Semifinals

Tuesday 11 August 1936: The fastest three in each semi-final and the fastest fourth-placed advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

PlaceSwimmerTimeQual.
1 Shunpei Uto (JPN)4:48.4QQ
2 Ralph Flanagan (USA)4:49.9QQ
3 Hiroshi Negami (JPN)4:55.4QQ
4 John Macionis (USA)4:56.4
5 Hans Freese (GER)4:58.5
6 Bob Pirie (CAN)4:58.7
7 Ödön Gróf (HUN)5:01.9

Semifinal 2

PlaceSwimmerTimeQual.
1 Shozo Makino (JPN)4:48.2QQ
 Jack Medica (USA)4:48.2QQ
3 Jean Taris (FRA)4:53.6QQ
4 Bob Leivers (GBR)4:55.7qq
5 Heinz Arendt (GER)5:13.4
6 Otto Przywara (GER)5:14.9

Final

Wednesday 12 August 1936:

PlaceSwimmerTime
1 Jack Medica (USA)4:44.5 OR
2 Shunpei Uto (JPN)4:45.6
3 Shozo Makino (JPN)4:48.1
4 Ralph Flanagan (USA)4:52.7
5 Hiroshi Negami (JPN)4:53.6
6 Jean Taris (FRA)4:53.8
7 Bob Leivers (GBR)5:00.9

References
  1. "Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
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