Women 400m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Friday, 7th December - Gold Medal: Lorraine Crapp, Australia |
Final | | time | gap | L | Y | 1. Lorraine Crapp | Australia | 4:54.6 | OR | 4 | 18 | 2. Dawn Fraser | Australia | 5:02.5 | +7.9s | 5 | 19 | 3. Sylvia Ruuska | United States | 5:07.1 | +12.5s | 2 | 14 | 4. Marley Shriver | United States | 5:12.9 | +18.3s | 3 | 19 | 5. Rypszima Szekely | Hungary | 5:14.2 | +19.6s | 7 | 20 | 6. Sandra Morgan | Australia | 5:14.3 | +19.7s | 6 | 14 | 7. Heda Frost | France | 5:15.4 | +20.8s | 8 | 20 | 8. Valeria Gyenge | Hungary | 5:21.0 | +26.4s | 1 | 23 |
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Heats - Wednesday, 5th December |
Best 8 times advanced to Final. |
Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Valeria Gyenge | Hungary | 5:14.2 | +14.0s | 6 | 23 | 7. | 2. Heda Frost | France | 5:14.4 | +14.2s | 5 | 20 | 8. | 3. Karin Larsson | Sweden | 5:18.3 | +18.1s | 4 | 15 | 12. | 4. Beth Whittall | Canada | 5:21.7 | +21.5s | 1 | 20 | 15. | 5. Winifred Griffin | New Zealand | 5:31.0 | +30.8s | 3 | 24 | 25. | 6. Gertrudes Lozada | Philippines | 5:34.2 | +34.0s | 7 | _ | 26. | -. Jeanette Myburgh | South Africa | DNS | | 2 | 16 | |
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Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Marley Shriver | United States | 5:07.6 | +7.4s OR | 4 | 19 | 3. | 2. Sandra Morgan | Australia | 5:07.8 | +7.6s | 6 | 14 | 4. | 3. Ingrid Kunzel-Reinhardt | UT Germany | 5:20.8 | +20.6s | 2 | 18 | 14. | 4. Gladys Priestley | Canada | 5:27.5 | +27.3s | 3 | 18 | 21. | 5. Anita Hellstrom | Sweden | 5:29.2 | +29.0s | 5 | 16 | 23. | 6. Vivianne Gouverneur | France | 5:29.7 | +29.5s | 1 | _ | 24. | -. Margaret Northrop | Kenya | DNS | | 7 | 22 | |
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Heat 3 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Dawn Fraser | Australia | 5:02.5 | +2.3s OR | 5 | 19 | 2. | 2. Sylvia Ruuska | United States | 5:10.3 | +10.1s | 3 | 14 | 5. | 3. Rypszima Szekely | Hungary | 5:10.5 | +10.3s | 6 | 20 | 6. | 4. Susan Roberts | South Africa | 5:16.8 | +16.6s | 7 | 17 | 10. | 5. Colette Thomas | France | 5:23.9 | +23.7s | 2 | 27 | 17. | 6. Birgitta Wangberg | Sweden | 5:27.0 | +26.8s | 4 | 16 | 19. | 7. Eiko Wada | Japan | 5:27.2 | +27.0s | 1 | 17 | 20. |
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Heat 4 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Lorraine Crapp | Australia | 5:00.2 | OR | 6 | 18 | 1. | 2. Susan Douglas Gray | United States | 5:16.7 | +16.5s | 4 | 17 | 9. | 3. Natalie Ann Myburgh | South Africa | 5:16.8 | +16.6s | 3 | 16 | 10. | 4. Marion Roe | New Zealand | 5:18.5 | +18.3s | 5 | 21 | 13. | 5. Margaret Girvan | Great Britain | 5:23.6 | +23.4s | 1 | 24 | 16. | 6. Gilda Aranda | Mexico | 5:24.2 | +24.0s | 2 | _ | 18. | 7. Yukiko Otaka | Japan | 5:28.7 | +28.5s | 7 | 16 | 22. |
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