- Medalists
- Records
- Results Heats Semifinals Final
- References
- External links
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}{{SwimmingAt1936SummerOlympics}}The men's 1500 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics programme.[1] It was the seventh appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held from Thursday to Saturday, 13 to 15 August 1936. Twenty-one swimmers from ten nations competed. Medalists{{flagIOCmedalist|Noboru Terada|JPN|1936 Summer}} | {{flagIOCmedalist|Jack Medica|USA|1936 Summer}} | {{flagIOCmedalist|Shunpei Uto|JPN|1936 Summer}} |
RecordsThese were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics. World Record | 19:07.2 | SWE}} Arne Borg | Bologna (ITA) | 2 September 1927 |
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Olympic Record | 19:12.4 | JPN}} Kusuo Kitamura | Los Angeles (USA) | 13 August 1932 |
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ResultsHeatsThursday 13 August 1936: The fastest three in each heat and the next two fastest from across the heats advanced to the semi-finals. Heat 1 Place | Swimmer | Time | Qual. |
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1 | {{flagIOCathlete|Sunao Ishiharada|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:55.8 | QQ | 2 | {{flagIOCathlete|Bob Leivers|GBR|1936 Summer}} | 20:04.4 | QQ | 3 | {{flagIOCathlete|Heinz Arendt|GER|1936 Summer}} | 20:10.7 | QQ | 4 | {{flagIOCathlete|Bob Pirie|CAN|1936 Summer}} | 20:16.4 | qq | 5 | {{flagIOCathlete|Manoel Villar|BRA|1936 Summer}} | 21:49.9 | 6 | {{flagIOCathlete|István Angyal|HUN|1936 Summer}} | Heat 2 Place | Swimmer | Time | Qual. |
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1 | {{flagIOCathlete|Jack Medica|USA|1936 Summer}} | 19:55.5 | QQ | {{flagIOCathlete|Noboru Terada|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:55.5 | QQ | 3 | {{flagIOCathlete|Jørgen Jørgensen|DEN|1936 Summer}} | 21:42.0 | QQ | 4 | {{flagIOCathlete|Robert Hooper|CAN|1936 Summer}} | 21:47.4 | 5 | {{flagIOCathlete|João Havelange|BRA|1936 Summer}} | 22:54.1 | Heat 3 Place | Swimmer | Time | Qual. |
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1 | {{flagIOCathlete|Shumpei Uto|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:48.3 | QQ | 2 | {{flagIOCathlete|Ralph Flanagan|USA|1936 Summer}} | 19:49.9 | QQ | 3 | {{flagIOCathlete|Hans Freese|GER|1936 Summer}} | 20:13.7 | QQ | 4 | {{flagIOCathlete|Christian Talli|FRA|1936 Summer}} | 21:03.0 | qq | 5 | {{flagIOCathlete|Bob Hamerton|CAN|1936 Summer}} | 21:05.5 | 6 | {{flagIOCathlete|Aage Hellstrøm|DEN|1936 Summer}} | 21:16.9 | Heat 4 Place | Swimmer | Time | Qual. |
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1 | {{flagIOCathlete|Jim Cristy|USA|1936 Summer}} | 20:26.5 | QQ | 2 | {{flagIOCathlete|Norman Wainwright|GBR|1936 Summer}} | 20:47.6 | QQ | 3 | {{flagIOCathlete|Otto Przywara|GER|1936 Summer}} | 20:59.0 | QQ | 4 | {{flagIOCathlete|Edmund Pader|AUT|1936 Summer}} | 21:13.9 |
SemifinalsFriday 14 August 1936: The fastest three in each semi-final and the fastest fourth-placed from across the heats advanced to the final. Semifinal 1 Place | Swimmer | Time | Qual. |
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1 | {{flagIOCathlete|Noboru Terada|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:48.6 | QQ | 2 | {{flagIOCathlete|Ralph Flanagan|USA|1936 Summer}} | 19:59.4 | QQ | 3 | {{flagIOCathlete|Bob Leivers|GBR|1936 Summer}} | 20:10.0 | QQ | 4 | {{flagIOCathlete|Jim Cristy|USA|1936 Summer}} | 20:25.8 | 5 | {{flagIOCathlete|Hans Freese|GER|1936 Summer}} | 20:27.6 | 6 | {{flagIOCathlete|Otto Przywara|GER|1936 Summer}} | 20:55.0 | 7 | {{flagIOCathlete|Jørgen Jørgensen|DEN|1936 Summer}} | 21:46.3 | Semifinal 2 Place | Swimmer | Time | Qual. |
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1 | {{flagIOCathlete|Jack Medica|USA|1936 Summer}} | 19:42.8 | QQ | 2 | {{flagIOCathlete|Sunao Ishiharada|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:53.9 | QQ | 3 | {{flagIOCathlete|Shumpei Uto|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:55.6 | QQ | 4 | {{flagIOCathlete|Heinz Arendt|GER|1936 Summer}} | 19:56.1 | qq | 5 | {{flagIOCathlete|Norman Wainwright|GBR|1936 Summer}} | 20:14.4 | 6 | {{flagIOCathlete|Bob Pirie|CAN|1936 Summer}} | 20:17.3 | 7 | {{flagIOCathlete|Christian Talli|FRA|1936 Summer}} | 21:09.8 |
FinalSaturday 15 August 1936: Place | Swimmer | Time |
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1 | {{flagIOCathlete|Noboru Terada|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:13.7 | 2 | {{flagIOCathlete|Jack Medica|USA|1936 Summer}} | 19:34.0 | 3 | {{flagIOCathlete|Shumpei Uto|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:34.5 | 4 | {{flagIOCathlete|Sunao Ishiharada|JPN|1936 Summer}} | 19:48.5 | 5 | {{flagIOCathlete|Ralph Flanagan|USA|1936 Summer}} | 19:54.8 | 6 | {{flagIOCathlete|Bob Leivers|GBR|1936 Summer}} | 19:57.4 | 7 | {{flagIOCathlete|Heinz Arendt|GER|1936 Summer}} | 19:59.0 |
References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1936/SWI/mens-1500-metres-freestyle.html |title=Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle |accessdate=13 September 2016 |work=Sports Reference}}
External links- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Olympic Report]
- {{cite web | last = Wudarski | first = Pawel | year = 1999 | url = http://olympic.w.interia.pl/ | title = Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich | accessdate = 9 November 2008|language=pl}}
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