Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

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The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place between 14 and 15 October. [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 Don Schollander
Flag of the United States.svg United States
Silver Frank Wiegand
Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg United Team of Germany
Bronze Allan Wood
Flag of Australia.svg Australia

Results

Heats

Seven heats were held; the fastest eight swimmers advanced to the Finals. Those that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Bob Windle Australia4:21.6
2 Haruo Yoshimuta Japan4:28.8
3 Wolfgang Kremer Germany4:29.9
4 Giovanni Orlando Italy4:30.8
5 Carlos Canepa Peru 4:44.9
6 László Szlamka Hungary5:00.0

Heat Two

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Roy Saari United States4:20.0
2 Sandy Gilchrist Canada4:24.2
3 Sergio De Gregorio Italy4:27.4
4 Aleksandr Paramonov Soviet Union4:34.0
5 Julio Arango Colombia4:35.1
6 Tin Maung Ni Myanmar4:40.9
7 Robert Loh Hong Kong4:53.3

Heat Three

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 John Nelson United States4:19.9
2 Johan Bontekoe Netherlands4:26.6
3 Yevgeny Novikov Soviet Union4:30.0
4 Carlos van der Maath Argentina4:30.2
5 Alan Durrett Northern Rhodesia 4:39.0
6 Aad Oudt Netherlands4:46.5

Heat Four

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Japan4:21.1
2 Hans Rosendahl Sweden4:23.5
3 Ron Jacks Canada4:29.3
4 Pierpaolo Spangaro Italy4:30.0
5 Tuomo Hämäläinen Finland4:35.5
6 Gert Kölli Austria4:38.4
7 Kim Bong-jo South Korea4:55.8

Heat Five

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Russell Phegan Australia4:19.8
2 József Katona Hungary4:24.7
3 Takeshi Yamakage Japan4:27.8
4 John Thurley Great Britain4:31.0
5 Slobodan Dijaković Yugoslavia4:41.0
6 Téodoro Capriles Venezuela4:44.5
7 Walter Ledgard Jr. Peru4:50.4

Heat Six

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Frank Wiegand Germany4:17.2
2 Semyon Belits-Geiman Soviet Union4:19.4
3 Petr Lohnický Czechoslovakia4:28.9
4 Celestino Pérez Puerto Rico4:30.9
5 Bob Lord Great Britain4:33.2
6 Francis Luyce France4:33.2
7 Ilkka Suvanto Finland4:38.0
8 András Bodnár Hungary5:03.7

Heat Seven

RankAthleteCountryTime
1 Don Schollander United States4:15.8
2 Allan Wood Australia4:16.2
3 Mats Svensson Sweden4:24.6
4 Martin Klink Germany4:29.1
5 Ralph Hutton Canada4:29.4
6 John Martin-Dye Great Britain4:34.3
7 Tan Thuan Heng Malaysia4:38.2
8 Pano Capéronis Switzerland4:43.8

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Don Schollander Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:12.2 WR
Silver medal icon.svg Frank Wiegand Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 4:14.9
Bronze medal icon.svg Allan Wood Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 4:15.1
4 Roy Saari Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:16.7
5 John Nelson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 4:16.9
6 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 4:19.1
7 Russell Phegan Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 4:20.2
8 Semyon Belits-Geiman Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 4:21.4

Key: WR = World record

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2016.