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Men's 400 m freestyle - Swimming |   | ||||
 Men's 400 m freestyle 1952
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| Final | |||||
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Jean Boiteux |  |
FRA | 4.30,7 | OR |
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Ford Konno |  |
USA | 4.31,3 | |
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Per-Olof Östrand |  |
SWE | 4.35,2 | |
| 4. | Peter Duncan |  |
RSA | 4.37,9 | |
| 5. | John Wardrop |  |
GBR | 4.39,9 | |
| 6. | Wayne Moore | |
USA | 4.40,1 | |
| 7. | James McLane | |
USA | 4.40,3 | |
| 8. | Hironashi Furuhashi |  |
JPN | 4.42,1 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | Jean Boiteux | |
FRA | 4.33,1 | OR |
| 2. | Per-Olof Östrand | |
SWE | 4.33,6 | q |
| 3. | John Wardrop | |
GBR | 4.41,1 | q |
| 4. | James McLane | |
USA | 4.42,2 | q |
| 5. | Graham Johnston | |
RSA | 4.45,5 | |
| 6. | Gotfryd Gremlowski |  |
POL | 4.47,4 | |
| 7. | Yoshio Tanaka | |
JPN | 4.48,0 | |
| 8. | Joris Tjebbes |  |
NED | 5.01,9 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Wayne Moore | |
USA | 4.42,0 | q |
| 2. | Yasuo Tanaka | |
JPN | 4.44,9 | |
| 3. | Gerry McNamee |  |
CAN | 4.46,7 | |
| 4. | John Marshall |  |
AUS | 4.50,3 | |
| 5. | Dennis Ford | |
RSA | 4.53,6 | |
| 6. | Joseph Bernardo | |
FRA | 4.56,0 | |
| Semifinal - Heat 3 | |||||
| 1. | Ford Konno | |
USA | 4.38,6 | q |
| 2. | Peter Duncan | |
RSA | 4.41,7 | q |
| 3. | Hironashi Furuhashi | |
JPN | 4.44,2 | q |
| 4. | Tetsuo Okamoto |  |
BRA | 4.46,2 | |
| 5. | Allen Gilchrist | |
CAN | 4.52,4 | |
| 6. | Gusztav Kettesi |  |
HUN | 4.54,3 | |
| 7. | Enrique Granados |  |
ESP | 4.56,2 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 1 | |||||
| 1. | John Wardrop | | GBR | 4.43,7 | q |
| 2. | Yasuo Tanaka | | JPN | 4.44,3 | q |
| 3. | Gotfryd Gremlowski | | POL | 4.49,0 | q |
| 4. | Joseph Bernardo | | FRA | 4.53,5 | q |
| 5. | Pentti Ikonen |  | FIN | 4.55,7 | |
| 6. | Geoffrey Marks |  | SRI | 5.15,2 | |
| 7. | Georg Mascetti |  | SAA | 5.31,2 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 2 | |||||
| 1. | Hironashi Furuhashi | | JPN | 4.43,3 | q |
| 2. | Viktor Drobinsky |  | URS | 4.56,5 | |
| 3. | Chwee Neo Kok |  | SIN | 4.57,5 | |
| 4. | Eduardo Priggione |  | URU | 5.12,1 | |
| 5. | Walter Bardgett |  | BER | 5.18,0 | |
| 6. | Francisco Monteiro |  | HKG | 5.21,6 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 3 | |||||
| 1. | James McLane | | USA | 4.46,5 | q |
| 2. | Dennis Ford | | RSA | 4.50,2 | q |
| 3. | Allen Gilchrist | | CAN | 4.52,5 | q |
| 4. | Enrique Granados | | ESP | 4.53,7 | q |
| 5. | Federico Zwanck |  | ARG | 4.56,4 | |
| 6. | Ricardo Esberard | | BRA | 5.09,5 | |
| 7. | Walter Schneider |  | SUI | 5.27,3 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 4 | |||||
| 1. | Jean Boiteux | | FRA | 4.45,1 | q |
| 2. | Graham Johnston | | RSA | 4.52,3 | q |
| 3. | Anatoly Raznochintsev | | URS | 4.56,8 | |
| 4. | Peter Steinwender |  | AUT | 5.03,6 | |
| 5. | Peter Head | | GBR | 5.04,2 | |
| 6. | Kin Man Cheung | | HKG | 5.11,4 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 5 | |||||
| 1. | György Csordas | | HUN | 4.45,7 | q |
| 2. | Ford Konno | | USA | 4.47,9 | q |
| 3. | Joris Tjebbes | | NED | 4.54,4 | q |
| 4. | Carlos Bonacich | | ARG | 5.06,3 | |
| 5. | Per Olsen |  | NOR | 5.08,6 | |
| 6. | Pentti Paatsalo | | FIN | 5.09,3 | |
| 7. | Robert Cook | | BER | 5.15,4 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 6 | |||||
| 1. | Per-Olof Östrand | | SWE | 4.38,6 | OR |
| 2. | Gusztav Kettesi | | HUN | 4.53,0 | q |
| 3. | Garrick Agnew | | AUS | 4.55,5 | q |
| 4. | Roar Woldum | | NOR | 5.14,4 | |
| 5. | Einari Aalto | | FIN | 5.15,8 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 7 | |||||
| 1. | Tetsuo Okamoto | | BRA | 4.46,1 | q |
| 2. | John Marshall | | AUS | 4.46,8 | q |
| 3. | Gerry McNamee | | CAN | 4.53,5 | q |
| 4. | Alfredo Yantorno | | ARG | 4.54,5 | q |
| 5. | Ronald Burns | | GBR | 4.55,2 | |
| 6. | Phan Nguyen Van |  | VIE | 5.36,5 | |
| Round 1 - Heat 8 | |||||
| 1. | Wayne Moore | | USA | 4.43,2 | q |
| 2. | Peter Duncan | | RSA | 4.44,0 | q |
| 3. | Yoshio Tanaka | | JPN | 4.54,0 | q |
| 4. | Angelo Romani |  | ITA | 5.05,1 | |
| 5. | René Million | | FRA | 5.07,0 | |
| 6. | Fernando Madeira |  | POR | 5.08,6 | |
| 7. | Muhammad Ramzan |  | PAK | 5.45,7 | |
| Men's 400 m freestyle - Swimming - Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics
Event Format:
Swimmers competed in preliminary heats, semifinals and final. Normally eight swimmers competed in each heat. The 16 swimmers with the best time in the preliminary heats advanced to the semifinals. From the semifinals the eight swimmers with the best time in the semifinals advanced to the final. Event facts: Men's 400 m freestyle competition was held at the Uimastadion and 51 athletes participated in the event. |
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| These results for Men's 400 m freestyle - Helsinki 1952 Summer Olympics - are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||
