Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

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Swimming at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mwomen
200 mmen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 2 and 3.[1] This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of 30 lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold John Konrads
 Australia
Silver Murray Rose
 Australia
Bronze George Breen
 United States

Results

Heats

Five heats were held; the eight fastest swimmers advanced to the Finals. Those that advanced are highlighted. The heats were held September 2.

Heat One

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Japan 17:46.5
2 Aubrey Bürer South Africa 18:17.8
3 Gerhard Hetz Germany 18:32.2
4 Ilkka Suvanto Finland 18:41.1
5 Alfredo Guzmán Mexico 19:11.1
6 Paolo Galletti Italy 20:28.2
7 Rainer Goltzsche Switzerland 20:45.1

Heat Two

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Alan Somers United States 17:54.1
2 Murray McLachlan South Africa 18:09.9
3 Masami Nakabo Japan 18:30.4
4 Bob Sreenan Great Britain 18:57.1
5 Tin Maung Ni
Burma
 19:09.8
6 Slobodan Kićović Yugoslavia 20:29.0
Alberto Feo Corao Venezuela DNS

Heat Three

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 George Breen United States 17:55.9
2 Lars-Erik Bengtsson Sweden 18:19.7
3 Veljko Rogošić Yugoslavia 18:51.8
4 Miguel Torres Spain 19:21.8
5 Massimo Rosi Italy 19:52.9
6 András Bodnár Hungary 20:22.2
Robert Chenaux Puerto Rico DNS

Heat Four

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 John Konrads Australia 17:52.0
2 József Katona Hungary 17:53.5
3 Richard Campion Great Britain 17:54.8
4 Hans-Ulrich Millow Germany 18:22.7
5 Mauricio Ocampo Mexico 18:29.0
6 Zakaria Nasution Indonesia 19:18.6
Amiram Trauber Israel DNS

Heat Five

Rank Athlete Country Time
1 Murray Rose Australia 17:32.8
2 Bana Sailani Philippines 18:18.8
3 Gennady Androsov Soviet Union 18:39.0
4 Hans-Ulrich Dürst Switzerland 19:21.9
5 Eduardo de Sousa Portugal 19:40.1
Bengt-Olov Almstedt Sweden DNS

Final

The Men's 1500 m Freestyle Final was held September 3.

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 John Konrads  Australia 17:19.6 OR
2 Murray Rose  Australia 17:21.7
3 George Breen  United States 17:30.6
4 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka  Japan 17:34.7
5 József Katona  Hungary 17:43.7
6 Murray McLachlan  South Africa 17:44.9
7 Alan Somers  United States 18:02.8
8 Richard Campion  Great Britain 18:22.7

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2016.

External links

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