Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 31 July and 2 August, 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 consists of 30 lengths of the pool.

Left-right: Hashizume, Konno, Okamoto on the podium

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

GoldFord Konno
 United States
SilverShiro Hashizume
 Japan
BronzeTetsuo Okamoto
 Brazil

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

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Shiro Hashizume Japan18:34.0Q OR
2Gotfryd Gremlowski Poland19:17.5
3Tonatiuh Gutiérrez Mexico19:18.9
4Sylvio dos Santos Brazil19:26.8
5Graham Johnston South Africa19:27.1
6Gerry McNamee Canada20:02.5
7Sambiao Basanung Philippines20:58.6

Heat 2

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Jimmy McLane United States19:09.3Q
2Heinz-Günther Lehmann Germany19:17.9
3Efrén Fierro Mexico19:55.8
4Garrick Agnew Australia20:03.8
5Walter Schneider Switzerland21:36.2
6Muhammad Ramzan Pakistan23:44.3

Heat 3

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Tetsuo Okamoto Brazil19:05.6Q
2György Csordás Hungary19:26.2
3Yukiyoshi Aoki Japan19:27.0
4Endel Press Soviet Union20:11.7
5Walter Bardgett Bermuda21:42.4
6Sonny Monteiro Hong Kong22:26.7

Heat 4

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Jean Boiteux France19:12.3
2Bill Woolsey United States19:24.6
3César Borja Mexico19:43.3
4Bob Sreenan Great Britain19:59.2
5Vladimir Lavrienko Soviet Union20:07.8
6Cheung Kin Man Hong Kong20:50.2
7Eduardo Priggione Uruguay21:11.9

Heat 5

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Ford Konno United States18:53.7Q
2Jo Bernardo France19:06.5Q
3Dennis Ford South Africa19:27.6
4Allen Gilchrist Canada20:08.3

Heat 6

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Peter Duncan South Africa19:03.5Q
2John Marshall Australia19:09.2Q
3Yasuo Kitamura Japan19:10.3Q
4Enrique Granados Spain19:45.9
5Geoffrey Marks Ceylon20:59.4
6Robert Cook Bermuda20:59.6
7Roar Woldum Norway21:19.5

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Ford Konno United States18:30.3OR
Shiro Hashizume Japan18:41.4
Tetsuo Okamoto Brazil18:51.3
4Jimmy McLane United States18:51.5
5Jo Bernardo France18:59.1
6Yasuo Kitamura Japan19:00.4
7Peter Duncan South Africa19:12.1
8John Marshall Australia19:53.4

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
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