Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

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The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place from 28 to 29 July at the Swimming Stadium.[1] The relay featured teams of four swimmers each swimming four lengths of the 50 m pool freestyle.

Medalists

Rank Nationality Name Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States Wayne Moore
Bill Woolsey
Ford Konno
Jimmy McLane
8:31.1 OR[2]
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Japan Hiroshi Suzuki
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi
Toru Goto
Teijiro Tanikawa
8:33.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France Joseph Bernardo
Aldo Eminente
Alexandre Jany
Jean Boiteux
8:45.9

Results

Heats

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Heat One
Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Jo Bernardo, Aldo Eminente, Alex Jany, and Jean Boiteux (FRA) 8:55.9
2  Roy Botham, Ronald Burns, Thomas Welsh, and Jack Wardrop (GBR) 8:59.7
3  Rex Aubrey, Frank O'Neill, Garrick Agnew, and John Marshall (AUS) 9:01.4
4  Viktor Drobinsky, Vasily Karmanov, Leonid Meshkov, and Lev Balandin (URS) 9:01.9
5  Carlo Pedersoli, Egidio Massaria, Angelo Romani, and Giovanni Paliaga (ITA) 9:17.9
6  Pentti Ikonen, Pentti Paatsalo, Mauno Valkeinen, and Leo Telivuo (FIN) 9:26.6
Heat Two
Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Wally Wolf, Don Sheff, Frank Dooley and Bumpy Jones (USA) 8:50.9
2  György Csordás, László Gyöngyösi, Gusztáv Kettesi and Imre Nyéki (HUN) 8:54.6
3  Graham Johnston, Dennis Ford, John Durr and Peter Duncan (RSA) 8:58.7
4  Haroldo Lara, Sylvio dos Santos, Aram Boghossian and João Gonçalves Filho (BRA) 9:09.0
5  Kamiel Reynders, Joseph Anthoon, Marcel Anthoon and Alfons Bierebeek (BEL) 9:45.5
Heat Three
Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Hiroshi Suzuki, Toru Goto and Teijiro Tanikawa (JPN) 8:42.1
2  Rolf Olander, Göran Larsson, Olle Johansson and Per-Olof Östrand (SWE) 8:52.3
3  Federico Zwanck, Marcelo Trabucco, Pedro Galvão and Alfredo Yantorno (ARG) 8:59.3
4  Gerry McNamee, Lucien Beaumont, Leo Portelance and Allen Gilchrist (CAN) 9:10.9
5  Gotfryd Gremlowski, Antoni Tołkaczewski, Józef Lewicki and Jerzy Boniecki (POL) 9:13.7
6  Alberto Isaac, Efrén Fierro, César Borja and Tonatiuh Gutiérrez (MEX) 9:15.7

Final

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Place Swimmers Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Wayne Moore, Bill Woolsey, Ford Konno and Jimmy McLane (USA) 8:31.1 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Hiroshi Suzuki, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Toru Goto, and Teijiro Tanikawa (JPN) 8:33.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Jo Bernardo, Aldo Eminente, Alex Jany, and Jean Boiteux (FRA) 8:45.9
4  Lars Svantesson, Göran Larsson, Per-Olof Östrand and Olle Johansson (SWE) 8:46.8
5  László Gyöngyösi, György Csordás, Géza Kádas and Imre Nyéki (HUN) 8:52.6
6  Roy Botham, Ronald Burns, Thomas Welsh, and Jack Wardrop (GBR) 8:52.9
7  Graham Johnston, Dennis Ford, John Durr and Peter Duncan (RSA) 8:55.1
8  Federico Zwanck, Marcelo Trabucco, Pedro Galvão and Alfredo Yantorno (ARG) 8:56.9

References

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Helsinki 1952 4x200m freestyle relay men". IOC. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. ^ Heats Summary
  4. ^ Final