Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 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 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between August 5 and 7, at the Empire Pool. 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.

Medalists

Gold	Jimmy McLane United States (USA)
Silver	John Marshall Australia (AUS)
Bronze	György Mitró Hungary (HUN)

Results

Semifinals

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jimmy McLane	United States	19:52.2	Q
2	John Marshall	Australia	19:53.8	Q
3	György Mitró	Hungary	20:06.5	Q
4	György Csordás	Hungary	20:06.6	Q
5	Forbes Norris	United States	20:09.3	Q
6	Marjan Stipetić	Yugoslavia	20:12.9	Q
7	Donald Bland	Great Britain	20:19.8	q
8	Bill Heusner	United States	20:23.9	q
9	Jo Bernardo	France	20:25.5
10	Ferenc Vörös	Hungary	20:31.4
11	Florbel Pérez	Uruguay	20:32.6
12	Miroslav Bartůšek	Czechoslovakia	20:32.9
13	Luis González	Colombia	20:41.6
14	Rolf Egon	Brazil	20:44.6

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

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Jimmy McLane	United States	19:18.5
	John Marshall	Australia	19:31.3
	György Mitró	Hungary	19:43.2
4	György Csordás	Hungary	19:54.2
5	Marjan Stipetić	Yugoslavia	20:10.7
6	Forbes Norris	United States	20:18.8
7	Donald Bland	Great Britain	20:19.8
8	Bill Heusner	United States	20:45.4

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 1500 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-01.