Men 1500m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Friday, 7th December - Gold Medal: Murray Rose, Australia |
Final | | time | gap | L | Y | 1. Murray Rose | Australia | 17:58.9 | | 5 | 17 | 2. Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | Japan | 18:00.3 | +1.4s | 3 | 17 | 3. George Breen | United States | 18:08.2 | +9.3s | 4 | 21 | 4. Murray Garretty | Australia | 18:26.5 | +27.6s | 6 | _ | 5. William Slater | Canada | 18:38.1 | +39.2s | 8 | 16 | 6. Jean Boiteux | France | 18:38.3 | +39.4s | 1 | 23 | 7. Yukiyoshi Aoki | Japan | 18:38.3 | +39.4s | 7 | 22 | 8. Gary Winram | Australia | 19:06.2 | +1:07.3 | 2 | 20 |
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Heats - Wednesday, 5th December |
Best 8 times advanced to Final. |
Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Murray Rose | Australia | 18:04.1 | +11.2s OR | 6 | 17 | 2. | 2. Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | Japan | 18:04.3 | +11.4s | 4 | 17 | 3. | 3. William Slater | Canada | 18:51.6 | +58.7s | 7 | 16 | 8. | 4. Guy Montserret | France | 19:17.4 | +1:24.5 | 5 | 21 | 15. | 5. Gyorgy Csordas | Hungary | 19:44.2 | +1:51.3 | 3 | 28 | 18. | -. Ulfiano Babol | Philippines | DNS | | 2 | _ | |
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Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Gary Winram | Australia | 18:35.7 | +42.8s | 6 | 20 | 5. | 2. Yukiyoshi Aoki | Japan | 18:36.0 | +43.1s | 3 | 22 | 6. | 3. George Helela Jr Onekea | United States | 19:13.8 | +1:20.9 | 5 | 17 | 13. | 4. Peter Duncan | South Africa | 19:58.5 | +2:05.6 | 2 | 21 | 19. | 5. Raul Martin Fernandez | Cuba | 19:59.9 | +2:07.0 | 7 | 15 | 20. | -. Sylvio Kelly Dos Santos | Brazil | DNS | | 4 | 21 | | -. Gilberto Martinez | Colombia | DNS | | 1 | _ | |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. George Breen | United States | 17:52.9 | WR | 4 | 21 | 1. | 2. Sandor Zaborszky | Hungary | 19:01.2 | +1:08.3 | 3 | 21 | 10. | 3. Jacques Collignon | France | 19:10.8 | +1:17.9 | 2 | _ | 12. | 4. Bana Sailani | Philippines | 19:16.8 | +1:23.9 | 7 | 19 | 14. | 5. Gennady Androsov | Soviet Union | 19:22.6 | +1:29.7 | 5 | 17 | 16. | 6. Hans-Joachim Reich | UT Germany | 19:28.6 | +1:35.7 | 6 | 26 | 17. | -. Anthony Wellesley Briscoe | South Africa | DNS | | 1 | _ | |
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Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Murray Garretty | Australia | 18:27.4 | +34.5s | 4 | _ | 4. | 2. Jean Boiteux | France | 18:46.6 | +53.7s | 5 | 23 | 7. | 3. Seizaburo Yagi | Japan | 18:57.3 | +1:04.4 | 3 | 19 | 9. | 4. David Allison Radcliffe | United States | 19:09.6 | +1:16.7 | 2 | 22 | 11. | -. Arpad Domjan | Hungary | DNS | | 7 | 22 | | -. Per-Olof Ostrand | Sweden | DNS | | 6 | 26 | | -. Muhammad Razman | Pakistan | DNS | | 1 | 22 | |
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