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Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Swimming at the
1952 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
200 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 28 and 30 July 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 consisted of eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

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Left-right:Konno, Boiteux, Östrand
Gold Jean Boiteux
 France
Silver Ford Konno
 United States
Bronze Per-Olof Östrand
 Sweden

At the conclusion of the race, Boiteux's father jumped into the pool to congratulate his son.[2]

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jack Wardrop  Great Britain 4:43.7
2 Yasuo Tanaka  Japan 4:44.3
3 Gotfryd Gremlowski  Poland 4:49.0
4 Jo Bernardo  France 4:53.5
5 Pentti Ikonen  Finland 4:55.7
6 Geoffrey Marks  Ceylon 5:15.2
7 Georg Mascetti  Saar 5:31.2

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Hironoshin Furuhashi  Japan 4:43.3
2 Viktor Drobinsky  Soviet Union 4:56.5
3 Neo Chwee Kok  Singapore 4:57.5
4 Eduardo Priggione  Uruguay 5:12.1
5 Walter Bardgett  Bermuda 5:18.0
6 Sonny Monteiro  Hong Kong 5:21.6

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jimmy McLane  United States 4:46.5
2 Dennis Ford  South Africa 4:50.2
3 Allen Gilchrist  Canada 4:52.5
4 Enrique Granados  Spain 4:53.7
5 Federico Zwanck  Argentina 4:56.4
6 Ricardo Esperard  Brazil 5:09.5
7 Walter Schneider  Switzerland 5:27.3

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Jean Boiteux  France 4:45.1
2 Graham Johnston  South Africa 4:52.3
3 Anatoly Raznochintsev  Soviet Union 4:56.8
4 Peter Steinwender  Austria 5:03.6
5 Peter Head  Great Britain 5:04.2
6 Cheung Kin Man  Hong Kong 5:11.4

Heat 5

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 György Csordás  Hungary 4:45.7
2 Ford Konno  United States 4:47.9
3 Joris Tjebbes  Netherlands 4:54.4
4 Carlos Alberto Bonacich  Argentina 5:06.3
5 Per Olsen  Norway 5:08.6
6 Pentti Paatsalo  Finland 5:09.3
7 Robert Cook  Bermuda 5:15.4

Heat 6

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Per-Olof Östrand  Sweden 4:38.6
2 Gusztáv Kettesi  Hungary 4:53.0
3 Garrick Agnew  Australia 4:55.5
4 Roar Woldum  Norway 5:14.4
5 Einari Aalto  Finland 5:15.8

Heat 7

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Tetsuo Okamoto  Brazil 4:46.1
2 John Marshall  Australia 4:46.8
3 Gerry McNamee  Canada 4:53.5
4 Alfredo Yantorno  Argentina 4:54.5
5 Ronald Burns  Great Britain 4:55.2
6 Nguyễn Văn Phan  Vietnam 5:36.5

Heat 8

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Wayne Moore  United States 4:43.2
2 Peter Duncan  South Africa 4:44.0
3 Yoshio Tanaka  Japan 4:54.0
4 Angelo Romani  Italy 5:05.1
5 René Million  France 5:07.0
6 Fernando Madeira  Portugal 5:08.6
7 Muhammad Ramzan  Pakistan 5:45.7

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Jean Boiteux  France 4:30.7 OR
2 Ford Konno  United States 4:31.3
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

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  2. ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 398. ISBN 0140066322.


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