Swimming at the 1912 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle
at the Games of the V Olympiad
VenueDjurgårdsbrunnsviken
DatesJuly 11–14
Competitors26 from 13 nations
Medalists
   Canada
   Great Britain
   Australasia
Swimming at the
1912 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m   men   women
400 m men
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men
Breaststroke
200 m men
400 m men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m women
4×200 m men

The men's 400 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme.[1] It was the third appearance of the event, which had been introduced in 1904. The competition was held from Thursday July 11, 1912 to Sunday July 14, 1912.

Twenty-six swimmers from 13 nations competed.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1912 Summer Olympics.

World Record 5:28.4 Hungary Béla Las-Torres Budapest (HUN) June 5, 1912
Olympic Record 5:36.8 United Kingdom Henry Taylor London (GBR) July 16, 1908

In the first heat Harold Hardwick set a new Olympic record with 5:36.0 minutes. In the fifth heat Cecil Healy improved the Olympic record with 5:34.0 minutes. In the first semi-final George Hodgson set a world record with 5:25.4 minutes and in the final he improved his record again with 5:24.4 minutes.

Results

Quarterfinals

The top two in each heat advanced along with the fastest loser overall.

Heat 1

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Harold Hardwick (ANZ) 5:36.0 QS OR
2  Malcolm Champion (ANZ) 5:37.0 QS
3  James Reilly (USA) 6:10.2
4  Nils-Erik Haglund (SWE) 6:23.4
5  Davide Baiardo (ITA)
 Mario Massa (ITA) DNF

Heat 2

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Thomas Battersby (GBR) 6:03.6 QS
2  John Johnsen (NOR) 6:14.4 QS
3  Eskil Wedholm (SWE) 6:29.8
 Pavel Avksentyev (RUS) DNF

Heat 3

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Max Ritter (GER) 5:44.6 QS
2  Alajos Kenyery (HUN) 5:46.0 QS
3  Nicholas Nerich (USA) 5:50.4 qs
 Theodore Tartakover (ANZ) DNF
 David Theander (SWE) DNF

Heat 4

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Béla Las-Torres (HUN) 5:36.2 QS
2  Henry Taylor (GBR) 5:48.4 QS
 Nikolay Voronkov (RUS) DNF

Heat 5

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Cecil Healy (ANZ) 5:34.0 QS OR
2  John Hatfield (GBR) 5:35.6 QS
3  Franz Schuh (AUT) 6:09.4

Heat 6

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  George Hodgson (CAN) 5:50.6 QS
2  William Foster (GBR) 5:52.4 QS
3  Oscar Schiele (GER) 5:57.0
4  George Godfrey (RSA) 6:30.6
5  Harry Hedegaard (DEN) 7:07.8

Semifinals

The top two from each heat and the faster of the two third place swimmers advanced.

Semifinal 1

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  George Hodgson (CAN) 5:25.4 QF WR
2  John Hatfield (GBR) 5:25.6 QF
3  William Foster (GBR) 5:49.0
4  Nicholas Nerich (USA) 5:51.0
5  Thomas Battersby (GBR) 5:51.2
6  John Johnsen (NOR)
 Max Ritter (GER) DNS

Semifinal 2

Place Swimmer Time Qual.
1  Harold Hardwick (ANZ) 5:31.0 QF
2  Béla Las-Torres (HUN) 5:34.8 QF
3  Cecil Healy (ANZ) 5:37.8 qf
4  Malcolm Champion (ANZ) 5:38.0
5  Henry Taylor (GBR) 5:48.2
 Alajos Kenyery (HUN) DNS

Final

Place Swimmer Time
1  George Hodgson (CAN) 5:24.4 WR
2  John Hatfield (GBR) 5:25.8
3  Harold Hardwick (ANZ) 5:31.2
4  Cecil Healy (ANZ) 5:37.8
5  Béla Las-Torres (HUN) 5:42.0

References

Notes

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/29/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.