Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 31 July and 2 August, 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 consists of 30 lengths of the pool.
| Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 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 | |
Even though the top three swimmers were from different countries, all of them were of Japanese origin. Ford Konno was Japanese American and Tetsuo Okamoto was Japanese Brazilian.
Medalists
| Gold | Ford Konno.svg.png){kind=small} |
| Silver | Shiro Hashizume.svg.png){kind=small} |
| Bronze | Tetsuo Okamoto.svg.png){kind=small} |
Results
Heats
Swimmers was starting in six heats. Eight of them with best times qualified to final round. Shiro Hashizume in first heat established new olympic record.
Heat 1
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shiro Hashizume | | 18:34.0 | Q OR |
| 2 | Gotfryd Gremlowski | .svg.png){kind=small} | 19:17.5 | |
| 3 | Tonatiuh Gutiérrez | .svg.png){kind=small} | 19:18.9 | |
| 4 | Sylvio dos Santos | | 19:26.8 | |
| 5 | Graham Johnston | .svg.png){kind=small} | 19:27.1 | |
| 6 | Gerry McNamee | .svg.png){kind=small} | 20:02.5 | |
| 7 | Sambiao Basanung | .svg.png){kind=small} | 20:58.6 |
Heat 2
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jimmy McLane | | 19:09.3 | Q |
| 2 | Heinz-Günther Lehmann |  | 19:17.9 | |
| 3 | Efrén Fierro | | 19:55.8 | |
| 4 | Garrick Agnew |  | 20:03.8 | |
| 5 | Walter Schneider |  | 21:36.2 | |
| 6 | Muhammad Ramzan |  | 23:44.3 |
Heat 3
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tetsuo Okamoto | | 19:05.6 | Q |
| 2 | György Csordás | .svg.png){kind=small} | 19:26.2 | |
| 3 | Yukiyoshi Aoki | | 19:27.0 | |
| 4 | Endel Press | .svg.png){kind=small} | 20:11.7 | |
| 5 | Walter Bardgett | .svg.png){kind=small} | 21:42.4 | |
| 6 | Sonny Monteiro | .svg.png){kind=small} | 22:26.7 |
Heat 4
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jean Boiteux |  | 19:12.3 | |
| 2 | Bill Woolsey | | 19:24.6 | |
| 3 | César Borja | | 19:43.3 | |
| 4 | Bob Sreenan |  | 19:59.2 | |
| 5 | Vladimir Lavrienko | | 20:07.8 | |
| 6 | Cheung Kin Man | | 20:50.2 | |
| 7 | Eduardo Priggione |  | 21:11.9 |
Heat 5
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ford Konno | | 18:53.7 | Q |
| 2 | Jo Bernardo | | 19:06.5 | Q |
| 3 | Dennis Ford | | 19:27.6 | |
| 4 | Allen Gilchrist | | 20:08.3 |
Heat 6
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Duncan | | 19:03.5 | Q |
| 2 | John Marshall | | 19:09.2 | Q |
| 3 | Yasuo Kitamura | | 19:10.3 | Q |
| 4 | Enrique Granados | .svg.png){kind=small} | 19:45.9 | |
| 5 | Geoffrey Marks | .svg.png){kind=small} | 20:59.4 | |
| 6 | Robert Cook | | 20:59.6 | |
| 7 | Roar Woldum |  | 21:19.5 |
Final
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ford Konno | | 18:30.3 | OR |
 | Shiro Hashizume | | 18:41.4 | |
 | Tetsuo Okamoto | | 18:51.3 | |
| 4 | Jimmy McLane | | 18:51.5 | |
| 5 | Jo Bernardo | | 18:59.1 | |
| 6 | Yasuo Kitamura | | 19:00.4 | |
| 7 | Peter Duncan | | 19:12.1 | |
| 8 | John Marshall | | 19:53.4 |
Key: OR = Olympic record
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References
- "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2016.