Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle
Appearance
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Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics | ||
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Freestyle | ||
100 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
100 m | women | |
200 m | men | |
Freestyle relay | ||
4 × 100 m | women | |
4 × 200 m | men | |
The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place between 5 and 7 December.[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.
Medalists
[edit]Gold | Lorraine Crapp![]() |
Silver | Dawn Fraser![]() |
Bronze | Sylvia Ruuska![]() |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]- Heat 1
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Valéria Gyenge | ![]() |
5:14.2 | |
2 | Héda Frost | ![]() |
5:14.4 | |
3 | Karin Larsson | ![]() |
5:18.3 | |
4 | Beth Whittall | ![]() |
5:21.7 | |
5 | Winifred Griffin | ![]() |
5:31.0 | |
6 | Gertrudes Lozada | ![]() |
5:34.2 |
- Heat 2
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Marley Shriver | ![]() |
5:07.6 | |
2 | Sandra Morgan | ![]() |
5:07.8 | |
3 | Ingrid Künzel | ![]() |
5:20.8 | |
4 | Gladys Priestley | ![]() |
5:27.5 | |
5 | Anita Hellström | ![]() |
5:29.2 | |
6 | Viviane Gouverneur | ![]() |
5:29.7 |
- Heat 3
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Dawn Fraser | ![]() |
5:02.5 | |
2 | Sylvia Ruuska | ![]() |
5:10.3 | |
3 | Ripszima Székely | ![]() |
5:10.5 | |
4 | Susan Roberts | ![]() |
5:16.8 | |
5 | Colette Thomas | ![]() |
5:23.9 | |
6 | Birgitta Wängberg | ![]() |
5:27.0 | |
7 | Eiko Wada | ![]() |
5:27.2 |
- Heat 4
Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | Lorraine Crapp | ![]() |
5:00.2 | |
2 | Susan Gray | ![]() |
5:16.7 | |
3 | Natalie Myburgh | ![]() |
5:16.8 | |
4 | Marrion Roe | ![]() |
5:18.5 | |
5 | Margaret Girvan | ![]() |
5:23.6 | |
6 | Gilda Aranda | ![]() |
5:24.2 | |
7 | Yukiko Otaka | ![]() |
5:28.7 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
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Lorraine Crapp | ![]() |
4:54.6 | OR |
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Dawn Fraser | ![]() |
5:02.5 | |
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Sylvia Ruuska | ![]() |
5:07.1 | |
4 | Marley Shriver | ![]() |
5:12.9 | |
5 | Ripszima Székely | ![]() |
5:14.2 | |
6 | Sandra Morgan | ![]() |
5:14.3 | |
7 | Héda Frost | ![]() |
5:15.4 | |
8 | Valéria Gyenge | ![]() |
5:21.0 |
Key: OR = Olympic record
References
[edit]- ^ "Swimming at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Women's 400 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 21 April 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2016.