Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 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 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between July 31 and August 2, 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 consists of 30 lengths of the pool.

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
United States (USA)
Silver Shiro Hashizume
Japan (JPN)
Bronze Tetsuo Okamoto
Brazil (BRA)

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 Japan 18:34.0 Q OR
2 Gotfryd Gremlowski Poland 19:17.5
3 Tonatiuh Gutiérrez Mexico 19:18.9
4 Sylvio dos Santos Brazil 19:26.8
5 Graham Johnston South Africa 19:27.1
6 Gerry McNamee Canada 20:02.5
7 Sambiao Basanung Philippines 20:58.6

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jimmy McLane United States 19:09.3 Q
2 Heinz-Günther Lehmann Germany 19:17.9
3 Efrén Fierro Mexico 19:55.8
4 Garrick Agnew Australia 20:03.8
5 Walter Schneider Switzerland 21:36.2
6 Muhammad Ramzan Pakistan 23:44.3

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Tetsuo Okamoto Brazil 19:05.6 Q
2 György Csordás Hungary 19:26.2
3 Yukiyoshi Aoki Japan 19:27.0
4 Endel Press Soviet Union 20:11.7
5 Walter Bardgett Bermuda 21:42.4
6 Sonny Monteiro Hong Kong 22:26.7

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jean Boiteux France 19:12.3
2 Bill Woolsey United States 19:24.6
3 César Borja Mexico 19:43.3
4 Bob Sreenan Great Britain 19:59.2
5 Vladimir Lavrienko Soviet Union 20:07.8
6 Cheung Kin Man Hong Kong 20:50.2
7 Eduardo Priggione Uruguay 21:11.9

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ford Konno United States 18:53.7 Q
2 Jo Bernardo France 19:06.5 Q
3 Dennis Ford South Africa 19:27.6
4 Allen Gilchrist Canada 20:08.3

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Peter Duncan South Africa 19:03.5 Q
2 John Marshall Australia 19:09.2 Q
3 Yasuo Kitamura Japan 19:10.3 Q
4 Enrique Granados Spain 19:45.9
5 Geoffrey Marks Ceylon 20:59.4
6 Robert Cook Bermuda 20:59.6
7 Roar Woldum Norway 21:19.5

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Ford Konno United States 18:30.3 OR
Shiro Hashizume Japan 18:41.4
Tetsuo Okamoto Brazil 18:51.3
4 Jimmy McLane United States 18:51.5
5 Jo Bernardo France 18:59.1
6 Yasuo Kitamura Japan 19:00.4
7 Peter Duncan South Africa 19:12.1
8 John Marshall Australia 19:53.4

Key: OR = Olympic record

References


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