The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between 5 and 7 August, at the Empire Pool. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated (unlike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly events). Nearly all swimmers use the front crawl or a variant of that stroke. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consists of 30 lengths of the pool.
Results
Heats Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 John Marshall 20:01.1 2 György Csordás 20:06.8 3 Marijan Stipetić 20:10.1 4 Donald Bland 20:13.9 5 György Mitró 20:15.0 6 Jimmy McLane 20:17.7 7 Miroslav Bartůšek 20:19.4 8 Per-Olof Östrand 20:19.8 9 Florbel Pérez 20:20.2 10 Forbes Norris 20:21.0 11 Bill Heusner 20:29.6 12 Ferenc Vörös 20:31.9 13 Jack Hale 20:31.9 14 Jo Bernardo 20:34.8 15 Rolf Kestener 20:36.3 16 Luis González 20:40.6 17 Don Johnston 20:41.8 18 Jack Wardrop 20:43.0 19 Ramón Bravo 20:45.5 20 Luis Child 20:47.0 21 Angel Maldonado 20:47.2 22 René Cornu 21:01.6 23 Sambiao Basanung 21:05.9 24 Isidoro Martínez-Vela 21:13.7 25 César Borja 21:15.8 26 Alejandro Febrero 21:15.9 27 Adolfo Mancuso 21:16.7 28 Vanja Illić 21:17.0 29 Joseph Reynders 21:23.1 30 Doug Gibson 21:25.6 31 Juan Garay 21:33.2 32 Jesús Domínguez 21:33.5 33 Garrick Agnew 21:40.1 34 Janko Puhar 21:45.1 35 Derek Oatway 21:55.1 36 Bimal Chandra 22:52.9 37 Philip Tribley 22:56.6 38 Allen Gilchrist 23:00.6 39 Anwar Aziz Chaudhry 25:37.4
Semifinals
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Jimmy McLane 19:52.2 Q 2 John Marshall 19:53.8 Q 3 György Mitró 20:06.5 Q 4 György Csordás 20:06.6 Q 5 Forbes Norris 20:09.3 Q 6 Marjan Stipetić 20:12.9 Q 7 Donald Bland 20:19.8 q 8 Bill Heusner 20:23.9 q 9 Jo Bernardo 20:25.5 10 Ferenc Vörös 20:31.4 11 Florbel Pérez 20:32.6 12 Miroslav Bartůšek 20:32.9 13 Luis González 20:41.6 14 Rolf Kestener 20:44.6
Key: Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place
Final Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Jimmy McLane 19:18.5 John Marshall 19:31.3 György Mitró 19:43.2 4 György Csordás 19:54.2 5 Marjan Stipetić 20:10.7 6 Forbes Norris 20:18.8 7 Donald Bland 20:19.8 8 Bill Heusner 20:45.4
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