Men 1500m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1928 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Monday, 6th August - Gold Medal: Arne Borg, Sweden
Final 15:15timegapLY
1. Arne BorgSWE Sweden19:51.8OR226
2. Andrew CharltonAUS Australia20:02.6+10.8s620
3. Clarence CrabbeUSA United States20:28.8+37.0s320
4. Raymond RuddyUSA United States21:05.0+1:13.2416
5. Alberto ZorrillaARG Argentina21:23.8+1:32.0522
6. Garnet AultCaN Canada21:46.0+1:54.2122
RoundHAthl.date
Semifinals29
Heats519
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Borg was eight metres ahead at halfway, and increasing his lead in the last 150m and won bay 15m with 20m between second and third.

Semifinals - Sunday, 5th August 14:00

11 swimmers in 2 Semis. First 3 from each Semi advanced to Final.
Semi 1 10:00TeamtimeRk.LY
1. Arne BorgSWE Sweden20:42.01.626
2. Alberto ZorrillaARG Argentina21:17.04.522
3. Garnet AultCaN Canada21:33.46.422
4. Nobuo AraiJPN Japan21:42.48.3
-. Takaji TakebayashiJPN JapanDNF 218
Semi 2 10:35TeamtimeRk.LY
1. Clarence CrabbeUSA United States20:55.42. 20
2. Andrew CharltonAUS Australia20:57.03. 20
3. Raymond RuddyUSA United States21:31.25. 16
4. Giuseppe PerentinITA Italy21:35.87. 22
-. Austin ClappUSA United StatesDNS 117
-. Katsuo TakaishiJPN JapanDNS 21

Heats - Saturday, 4th August 10:00

26 swimmers were put in 1 heat with 6 and 5 heats of 5. First from each heat and best 3rd advanced to Semifinals - "Rule of Best 3rd".
Heat 1 10:00TeamtimeRk.LY
1. Austin ClappUSA United States21:31.05.317
2. Takaji TakebayashiJPN Japan22:30.411.618
3. James ThompsonCaN Canada22:56.614.422
4. Giovanni GambiITA Italy 120
5. Jean TarisFRA France 519
-. Jack HatfieldGBR Great BritainDNS 234
Heat 2 10:25TeamtimeRk.LY
1. Nobuo AraiJPN Japan21:35.46.3
2. Giuseppe PerentinITA Italy21:42.47.122
3. Theodoor de ManNED Netherlands23:03.215.419
4. David LindsayNZL New Zealand 521
-. Edward Percival PeterGBR Great BritainDNS 226
Heat 3TeamtimeRk.LY
1. Katsuo TakaishiJPN Japan21:20.84.521
2. Raymond RuddyUSA United States22:12.08.316
3. Václav AntošTCH Czechoslovakia22:43.012.123
-. Paolo CosotliITA ItalyDNS 418
-. Paul RadmilovicGBR Great BritainDNS 242
Heat 4TeamtimeRk.LY
1. Alberto ZorrillaARG Argentina22:21.210.122
2. Garnet AultCaN Canada22:55.813.422
-. Oliver HalassyHUN HungaryDNS 319
-. D. D. MuljiIND IndiaDNS 2
-. Albert VandeplanqueFRA FranceDNS 517
Heat 5TeamtimeRk.LY
1. Arne BorgSWE Sweden20:14.21.126
2. Andrew CharltonAUS Australia20:17.42.320
3. Clarence CrabbeUSA United States20:17.83.220
4. Walter HandschuhmacherGeR Germany22:18.69.424
5. Taburan TamsePHI Philippines 5
It happened 3 medalist were from Heat 5, proving the logic of "Rule of Best 3rd".
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