Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle
| Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freestyle | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| Backstroke | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| Breaststroke | ||||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| Butterfly | ||||
| 100 m | women | |||
| 200 m | men | |||
| Freestyle relay | ||||
| 4×100 m | women | |||
| 4×200 m | men | |||
The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place between December 5 and 7. 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 |  Lorraine CrappAustralia (AUS) |
| Silver | Dawn Fraser Australia (AUS) |
| Bronze |  Sylvia RuuskaUnited States (USA) |
Results
Final
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Lorraine Crapp | Australia | 4:54.6 | OR |
 | Dawn Fraser | Australia | 5:02.5 | |
 | Sylvia Ruuska | United States | 5:07.1 | |
| 4 | Marley Shriver | United States | 5:12.9 | |
| 5 | Ripszima Székely | .svg.png){kind=small} Hungary | 5:14.2 | |
| 6 | Sandra Morgan | Australia | 5:14.3 | |
| 7 | Héda Frost |  France | 5:15.4 | |
| 8 | Valéria Gyenge | Hungary | 5:21.0 |
Key: OR = Olympic record
References
- 1956 Summer Olympics results: Women's 400 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-30.
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