Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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Left-right: Murray Rose, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka and John Konrads after the final race Murray Rose, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, John Konrads 1960.jpg
Left-right: Murray Rose, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka and John Konrads after the final race

The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between 30 and 31 August. [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 eight lengths of the pool.

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Medalists

Gold Murray Rose
Flag of Australia.svg Australia
Silver Tsuyoshi Yamanaka
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Japan
Bronze John Konrads
Flag of Australia.svg Australia

Results

Heats

Six heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. The swimmers that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Japan4:21.0
2 Hans-Joachim Klein Germany4:31.6
3 Veljko Rogošić Yugoslavia4:39.5
4 Tamás Hornyánszky Hungary4:46.2
5 Helmut Ilk Austria4:58.1
6 Karl Fridlin Switzerland5:02.3

Heat Two

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 John Konrads Australia4:24.3
2 József Katona Hungary4:29.5
3 Richard Campion Great Britain4:32.3
4 Sven-Göran Johansson Sweden4:35.6
5 Kari Haavisto Finland4:36.0
6 Jean Pommat France4:46.5
Leonid Kolesnikov Soviet UnionDNF

Heat Three

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Ian Black Great Britain4:21.9
2 Makoto Fukui Japan4:26.7
3 Jerzy Tracz Poland4:38.6
4 Per-Olof Ericsson Sweden4:41.2
5 Ilkka Suvanto Finland4:42.1
6 Raúl Guzmán Mexico4:42.2
7 Eduardo de Sousa Portugal4:51.6

Heat Four

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Murray Rose Australia4:22.5
2 Aubrey Bürer South Africa4:31.9
3 Paolo Galletti Italy4:36.6
4 Milan Jeger Yugoslavia4:41.4
5 Zakaria Nasution Indonesia4:54.0
6 Amiram Trauber Israel4:58.6
7 Robert Chenaux Puerto Rico5:24.6

Heat Five

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Murray McLachlan South Africa4:25.9
2 Gene Lenz United States4:29.2
3 Jean-Pascal Curtillet France4:36.5
4 Rubén Roca Cuba4:41.3
5 José Cossio Spain4:50.1
6 Fong Seow Jit Malaya 5:07.3

Heat Six

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Alan Somers United States4:19.2
2 Mauricio Ocampo Mexico4:35.3
3 Gerhard Hetz Germany4:38.4
4 Bana Sailani Philippines4:40.2
5 Jan Lutomski Poland4:42.8
6 Massimo Rosi Italy4:45.1
7 Hans-Ulrich Dürst Switzerland4:52.5

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Murray Rose Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 4:18.3 OR
Silver medal icon.svg Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 4:21.4
Bronze medal icon.svg John Konrads Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 4:21.8
4 Ian Black Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 4:21.8
5 Alan Somers Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:22.0
6 Murray McLachlan Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg  South Africa 4:26.3
7 Gene Lenz Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:26.8
8 Makoto Fukui Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 4:29.6

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2016.