Men 400m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Tuesday, 4th December - Gold Medal: Murray Rose, Australia |
Final | | time | gap | L | Y | 1. Murray Rose | Australia | 4:27.3 | WR | 4 | 17 | 2. Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | Japan | 4:30.4 | +3.1s | 5 | 17 | 3. George Breen | United States | 4:32.5 | +5.2s | 6 | 21 | 4. Kevin O'Halloran | Australia | 4:32.9 | +5.6s | 7 | 19 | 5. Hans Zierold | UT Germany | 4:34.6 | +7.3s | 2 | 18 | 6. Gary Winram | Australia | 4:34.9 | +7.6s | 3 | 20 | 7. Koji Nonoshita | Japan | 4:38.2 | +10.9s | 1 | _ | 8. Angelo Romani | Italy | 4:41.7 | +14.4s | 8 | 22 |
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Heats - Saturday, 1st December |
Best 8 times advanced to Final. |
Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Kevin O'Halloran | Australia | 4:36.9 | +5.2s | 3 | 19 | 6. | 2. Koji Nonoshita | Japan | 4:37.4 | +5.7s | 7 | _ | 7. | 3. Angelo Romani | Italy | 4:37.6 | +5.9s | 6 | 22 | 8. | 4. Bill Woolsey | United States | 4:38.2 | +6.5s | 4 | 22 | 10. | 5. Sylvio Kelly Dos Santos | Brazil | 4:48.8 | +17.1s | 5 | 21 | 23. | 6. Ulfiano Babol | Philippines | 4:53.4 | +21.7s | 8 | _ | 30. | 7. Shiu-Ming Wan | Hong Kong | 5:02.6 | +30.9s | 1 | _ | 32. |
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Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. John Wardrop | Great Britain | 4:39.8 | +8.1s | 6 | 24 | 11. | 2. Anthony Wellesley Briscoe | South Africa | 4:41.4 | +9.7s | 1 | _ | 13. | 3. George Helela Jr Onekea | United States | 4:41.6 | +9.9s | 3 | 17 | 14. | 4. Hans Kohler | UT Germany | 4:43.5 | +11.8s | 5 | 20 | 18. | 5. Habib Nasution | Indonesia | 4:44.0 | +12.3s | 2 | 20 | 19. | 6. Per-Olof Ostrand | Sweden | 4:45.9 | +14.2s | 4 | 26 | 20. | 7. Gilberto Martinez | Colombia | 4:51.4 | +19.7s | 8 | _ | 28. | 8. Raul Martin Fernandez | Cuba | 4:58.2 | +26.5s | 7 | 15 | 31. |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. George Breen | United States | 4:35.7 | +4.0s | 5 | 21 | 4. | 2. Peter Duncan | South Africa | 4:46.7 | +15.0s | 4 | 21 | 21. | 3. Karri Kalervo Kayhko | Finland | 4:49.6 | +17.9s | 2 | 18 | 26. | 4. Yoshiro Noda | Japan | 4:49.9 | +18.2s | 6 | 20 | 27. | 5. Guy Montserret | France | 4:52.6 | +20.9s | 7 | 21 | 29. | -. Haroldo Lara | Brazil | DNS | | 1 | _ | -. | -. Sandor Zaborszky | Hungary | DNS | | 3 | 21 | -. |
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Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Gary Winram | Australia | 4:34.5 | +2.8s | 5 | 20 | 3. | 2. Jean Boiteux | France | 4:37.9 | +6.2s | 3 | 23 | 9. | 3. William Slater | Canada | 4:40.4 | +8.7s | 2 | 16 | 12. | 4. Neil Mckechnie | Great Britain | 4:42.6 | +10.9s | 7 | 17 | 15. | 5. Boris Nikitin | Soviet Union | 4:42.8 | +11.1s | 6 | 18 | 16. | 6. William Steuart | South Africa | 4:43.0 | +11.3s | 4 | _ | 17. | 7. Bana Sailani | Philippines | 4:49.0 | +17.3s | 1 | 19 | 24. |
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Heat 5 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Murray Rose | Australia | 4:31.7 | | 5 | 17 | 1. | 2. Tsuyoshi Yamanaka | Japan | 4:31.8 | +0.1s | 3 | 17 | 2. | 3. Hans Zierold | UT Germany | 4:35.7 | +4.0s | 4 | 18 | 4. | 4. Jeno Acs | Hungary | 4:47.6 | +15.9s | 6 | 20 | 22. | 5. Jacques Collignon | France | 4:49.3 | +17.6s | 1 | _ | 25. | -. Sri Chand Bajaj | India | DNS | | 2 | _ | -. | -. Gyorgy Csordas | Hungary | DNS | | 8 | 28 | -. | -. George Park | Canada | DNS | | 7 | _ | -. |
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