Women's 400 m freestyle - Swimming |  | ||||
 Women's 400 m freestyle 1956
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| Final | |||||||||
 | Lorraine Crapp |  | AUS | 4.54,6 | OR | ||||
 | Dawn Fraser | | AUS | 5.02,5 | |||||
 | Sylvia Ruuska |  | USA | 5.07,1 | |||||
| 4. | Marley Shriver | | USA | 5.12,9 | |||||
| 5. | Eva Szekely |  | HUN | 5.14,2 | |||||
| 6. | Sandra Morgan | | AUS | 5.14,3 | |||||
| 7. | Heda Frost |  | FRA | 5.15,4 | |||||
| 8. | Valeria Gyenge | | HUN | 5.21,0 | |||||
| Round 1 | |||||||||
| 1. | Valeria Gyenge | | HUN | 5.14,2 | q | ||||
| 2. | Heda Frost | | FRA | 5.14,4 | q | ||||
| 3. | Karin Larsson |  | SWE | 5.18,3 | |||||
| 4. | Elizabeth Whittall |  | CAN | 5.21,7 | |||||
| 5. | Winifred Griffin |  | NZL | 5.31,0 | |||||
| 6. | Gertrudez Lozada |  | PHI | 5.34,2 | |||||
| Round 1 | |||||||||
| 1. | Marley Shriver | | USA | 5.07,6 | OR | ||||
| 2. | Sandra Morgan | | AUS | 5.07,8 | q | ||||
| 3. | Ingrid Kunzel |  | GER | 5.20,8 | |||||
| 4. | Gladys Priestley | | CAN | 5.27,5 | |||||
| 5. | Anita Hellström | | SWE | 5.29,2 | |||||
| 6. | Viviane Gouverneur | | FRA | 5.29,7 | |||||
| Round 1 | |||||||||
| 1. | Dawn Fraser | | AUS | 5.02,5 | OR | ||||
| 2. | Sylvia Ruuska | | USA | 5.10,3 | q | ||||
| 3. | Eva Szekely | | HUN | 5.10,5 | q | ||||
| 4. | Susan Roberts |  | RSA | 5.16,8 | |||||
| 5. | Colette Thomas | | FRA | 5.23,9 | |||||
| 6. | Brigitta Wängberg | | SWE | 5.27,0 | |||||
| 7. | Eiko Wada |  | JPN | 5.27,2 | |||||
| Round 1 | |||||||||
| 1. | Lorraine Crapp | | AUS | 5.00,2 | OR | ||||
| 2. | Susan Gray | | USA | 5.16,7 | |||||
| 3. | Natalie Myburgh | | RSA | 5.16,8 | |||||
| 4. | Marrion Roe | | NZL | 5.18,6 | |||||
| 5. | Margaret Girvan |  | GBR | 5.23,6 | |||||
| 6. | Gilda Aranda Rojas |  | MEX | 5.24,2 | |||||
| 7. | Yukiko Otaka | | JPN | 5.28,7 | |||||
Women's 400 m freestyle - Swimming - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics
Event Format: Swimmers competed in preliminary heats and final. The eight swimmers with the best time in the preliminary heats advanced to the final. The winner of the final was the Gold Medal winner. Event facts: Women's 400 m freestyle competition was held at the Swimming Stadium and 26 athletes participated in the event. |
| These results for Women's 400 m freestyle - Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympics - are based on the official Olympic reports and the Olympian Database |
