Melbourne 1956 - Swimming

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Men: 100m freestyle
Date: 29 November 1956 / 29 November 1956 / 30 November 1956

Rank Name Nation Time
1 Jon Henricks AUS 55.4
2 John Devitt AUS 55.8
3 Gary Chapman AUS 56.7
4 Logan Patterson USA 57.2
5 Richard Hanley USA 57.6
6 William Woolsey USA 57.6
7 Atsushi Tani JPN 58.0
8 Aldo Eminente FRA 58.1
Men: 400m freestyle
Date: 1 December 1956 / 4 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Murray Rose AUS 4:27.3
2 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka JPN 4:30.4
3 George Breen USA 4:32.5
4 Kevin O'Halloran AUS 4:32.9
5 Hans Zierold GER 4:34.6
6 Gary Winram AUS 4:34.9
7 Koji Nonoshita JPN 4:38.2
8 Angelo Romani ITA 4:41.7
Men: 1500m freestyle
Date: 5 December 1956 / 7 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Murray Rose AUS 17:58.9
2 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka JPN 18:00.3
3 George Breen USA 18:08.2
4 Murray Garretty AUS 18:26.5
5 William Slater CAN 18:38.1
6 Jean Boiteux FRA 18:38.3
7 Yukiyoshi Aoki JPN 18:38.3
8 Gary Winram AUS 19:06.2
Men: 100m backstroke
Date: 4 December 1956 / 5 December 1956 / 6 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 David Theile AUS 1:02.2
2 John Monckton AUS 1:03.2
3 Frank McKinney USA 1:04.5
4 Robert Christophe FRA 1:04.9
5 John Hayres AUS 1:05.0
6 Graham Sykes GBR 1:05.6
7 Albert Wiggins USA 1:05.8
8 Yoshinobu Oyakawa USA 1:06.9
Men: 200m breaststroke
Date: 3 December 1956 / 6 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Yoshio Furukawa JPN 2:34.7
2 Masahiro Yoshimura JPN 2:36.7
3 Kharis Iounitchev URS 2:36.8
4 Terry Gathercole AUS 2:38.7
5 Igor Zasseda URS 2:39.0
6 Knud Gleie DEN 2:40.0
7 Manuel Sanguily CUB 2:42.0
8 Hugues Broussard FRA
Men: 200m butterfly
Date: 30 November 1956 / 1 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 William Yorzyk USA 2:19.3
2 Takashi Ishimoto JPN 2:23.8
3 Gyorgy Tumpek HUN 2:23.9
4 Jack Nelson USA 2:26.6
5 John Marshall AUS 2:27.2
6 Eulalio Rios MEX 2:27.3
7 Brian Wilkinson AUS 2:29.7
8 Alexandru Popescu ROU 2:31.0
Men: 4x200m freestyle relay
Date: 1 December 1956 / 3 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Kevin O'Halloran; John Devitt; Murray Rose; Jon Henricks { + Gary Chapman; Graham Hamilton; Murray Garretty} AUS 8:23.6
2 Richard Hanley; George Breen; William Woolsey; Ford Konno { + Perry Jecko; Richard Tenabe} USA 8:31.5
3 Vitaliy Sorokin; Vladimir Stroujanov; Gennady Nikolayev; Boris Nikitin URS 8:34.7
4 Manabu Koga; Atsushi Tani; Koji Nonoshita; Tsuyoshi Yamanaka { + Hiroshi Suzuki} JPN 8:36.6
5 Hans Kohler; Hans-Joachim Reich; Hans Zierold; Horst Bleeker GER 8:43.4
6 Kenneth Williams; Ronald Roberts; Neil McKechnie; John Wardrop GBR 8:45.2
7 Federico Dennerlein; Paolo Galletti; Guido Elmi; Angelo Romani ITA 8:46.2
8 William Steuart; Anthony Briscoe; Dennis Ford; Peter Duncan RSA 8:49.5
Women: 100m freestyle
Date: 29 November 1956 / 30 November 1956 / 1 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Dawn Fraser AUS 1:02.0
2 Lorraine Crapp AUS 1:02.3
3 Faith Leech AUS 1:05.1
4 Joan Rosazza USA 1:05.2
5 Virginia Grant CAN 1:05.4
6 Shelley Mann USA 1:05.6
7 Marrion Douglas Roe NZL 1:05.6
8 Natalie Myburgh RSA 1:05.8
Women: 400m freestyle
Date: 5 December 1956 / 7 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Lorraine Crapp AUS 4:54.6
2 Dawn Fraser AUS 5:02.5
3 Sylvia Ruuska USA 5:07.1
4 Marley Shriver USA 5:12.9
5 Rypsyma Szekely HUN 5:14.2
6 Sandra Morgan AUS 5:14.3
7 Heda Frost FRA 5:15.4
8 Valeria Gyenge HUN 5:21.0
Women: 100m backstroke
Date: 3 December 1956 / 5 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Judith Grinham GBR 1:12.9
2 Carin Cone USA 1:12.9
3 Margaret Edwards GBR 1:13.1
4 Helga Schmidt GER 1:13.4
5 Maureen Murphy USA 1:14.1
6 Julie Hoyle GBR 1:14.3
7 Sara Barber CAN 1:14.3
8 Gerganyia Beckitt AUS 1:14.7
Women: 200m breaststroke
Date: 29 November 1956 / 30 November 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Ursula Happe GER 2:53.1
2 Eva Szekely HUN 2:54.8
3 Eva-Maria ten Elsen GER 2:55.1
4 Vinka Jericevic YUG 2:55.8
5 Klara Killermann HUN 2:56.1
6 Helen Gordon GBR 2:56.1
7 Mary Jane Sears USA 2:57.2
8 Christine Gosden GBR 2:59.2
Women: 100m butterfly
Date: 3 December 1956 / 5 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Shelley Mann USA 1:11.0
2 Nancy Ramey USA 1:11.9
3 Mary Jane Sears USA 1:14.4
4 Maria Littomeritzky HUN 1:14.9
5 Beverley Ann Bainbridge AUS 1:15.2
6 Jutta Langenau GER 1:17.4
7 Elizabeth Whittall CAN 1:17.9
8 Sara Barber CAN 1:18.4
Women: 4x100m freestyle relay
Date: 4 December 1956 / 6 December 1956
Rank Name Nation Time
1 Dawn Fraser; Faith Leech; Sandra Morgan; Lorraine Crapp { + Margaret Gibson; Elizabeth Fraser} AUS 4:17.1
2 Sylvia Ruuska; Shelley Mann; Nancy Simons; Joan Rosazza { + Betty Brey; Kathryn Knapp; Marley Shriver} USA 4:19.2
3 Natalie Myburgh; Susan Roberts; Moira Abernethy; Jeanette Myburgh RSA 4:25.7
4 Ingrid Kunzel; Hertha Haase; Kati Jansen; Birgit Klomp GER 4:26.1
5 Helen Stewart; Gladys Priestley; Sara Barber; Virginia Grant CAN 4:28.3
6 Anita Hellstrom; Birgitta Wangberg; Anna Larsson; Kate Jobson SWE 4:30.0
7 Maria Littomeritzky; Katalin Szoke; Judit Temes; Valeria Gyenge HUN 4:31.1
8 Frances Hogben; Judith Grinham; Margaret Girvan; Fearne Ewart GBR 4:35.8