Swimming at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

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

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Noboru Terada Japan	Jack Medica United States	Shunpei Uto Japan

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Summer Olympics.

World Record	19:07.2	Arne Borg	Bologna (ITA)	2 September 1927
Olympic Record	19:12.4	Kusuo Kitamura	Los Angeles (USA)	13 August 1932

Results

Heats

Thursday 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.
1	Sunao Ishiharada (JPN)	19:55.8	QQ
2	Bob Leivers (GBR)	20:04.4	QQ
3	Heinz Arendt (GER)	20:10.7	QQ
4	Bob Pirie (CAN)	20:16.4	qq
5	Manoel Villar (BRA)	21:49.9
6	István Angyal (HUN)

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Jack Medica (USA)	19:55.5	QQ
1	Noboru Terada (JPN)	19:55.5	QQ
3	Jørgen Jørgensen (DEN)	21:42.0	QQ
4	Robert Hooper (CAN)	21:47.4
5	João Havelange (BRA)	22:54.1

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Shumpei Uto (JPN)	19:48.3	QQ
2	Ralph Flanagan (USA)	19:49.9	QQ
3	Hans Freese (GER)	20:13.7	QQ
4	Christian Talli (FRA)	21:03.0	qq
5	Bob Hamerton (CAN)	21:05.5
6	Aage Hellstrøm (DEN)	21:16.9

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Jim Cristy (USA)	20:26.5	QQ
2	Norman Wainwright (GBR)	20:47.6	QQ
3	Otto Przywara (GER)	20:59.0	QQ
4	Edmund Pader (AUT)	21:13.9

Semifinals

Friday 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.
1	Noboru Terada (JPN)	19:48.6	QQ
2	Ralph Flanagan (USA)	19:59.4	QQ
3	Bob Leivers (GBR)	20:10.0	QQ
4	Jim Cristy (USA)	20:25.8
5	Hans Freese (GER)	20:27.6
6	Otto Przywara (GER)	20:55.0
7	Jørgen Jørgensen (DEN)	21:46.3

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Jack Medica (USA)	19:42.8	QQ
2	Sunao Ishiharada (JPN)	19:53.9	QQ
3	Shumpei Uto (JPN)	19:55.6	QQ
4	Heinz Arendt (GER)	19:56.1	qq
5	Norman Wainwright (GBR)	20:14.4
6	Bob Pirie (CAN)	20:17.3
7	Christian Talli (FRA)	21:09.8

Final

Saturday 15 August 1936:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Noboru Terada (JPN)	19:13.7
2	Jack Medica (USA)	19:34.0
3	Shumpei Uto (JPN)	19:34.5
4	Sunao Ishiharada (JPN)	19:48.5
5	Ralph Flanagan (USA)	19:54.8
6	Bob Leivers (GBR)	19:57.4
7	Heinz Arendt (GER)	19:59.0

References

^ "Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2016.

External links

Olympic Report
Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 9 November 2008.

[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres Freestyle". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2016.

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