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
Silver	Shiro Hashizume  Japan
Bronze	Tetsuo 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

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	23x15px South Africa	19:27.1
6	Gerry McNamee	23x15px Canada	20:02.5
7	Sambiao Basanung	23x15px 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	23x15px Soviet Union	20:11.7
5	Walter Bardgett	23x15px Bermuda	21:42.4
6	Sonny Monteiro	23x15px 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	23x15px Soviet Union	20:07.8
6	Cheung Kin Man	23x15px 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	23x15px South Africa	19:27.6
4	Allen Gilchrist	23x15px Canada	20:08.3

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Peter Duncan	23x15px 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	23x15px Spain	19:45.9
5	Geoffrey Marks	Ceylon	20:59.4
6	Robert Cook	23x15px 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	23x15px South Africa	19:12.1
8	John Marshall	Australia	19:53.4

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics results: Men's 1500 m freestyle, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-23.