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. 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

Gold	Jean Boiteux France (FRA)
Silver	Ford Konno United States (USA)
Bronze	Per-Olof Östrand Sweden (SWE)

Results

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

• 1952 Summer Olympics results: Men's 400 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-22.