Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle


The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place between September 3 and 4. This swimming event used freestyle swimming, which means that the method of the stroke is not regulated. 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 consisted of 30 lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Results

Heats

Heat 1
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Hans Faßnacht16:34.63
2Peter Rosenkranz16:58.26
3François Deley17:06.09
4Jim Carter17:16.01
5Sergio Irredento17:19.45
6Friðrik Guðmundsson17:32.47
7Edwin Borja18:12.17

Heat 2
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Graham Windeatt15:59.63
2Guillermo García16:29.48
3Anders Bellbring16:33.27
4Deane Buckboro16:52.50
5Gerardo Vera17:10.33
6Gustavo González17:23.53

Heat 3
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Mike Burton16:09.56
2Graham White16:19.63
3Brian Brinkley16:54.39
4Alberto García17:05.68
5Jorge Jaramillo17:35.84
6Eugen Almer17:49.80

Heat 4
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Doug Northway16:15.30
2Mark Treffers16:23.86
3Dusan Grozaj16:44.59
4Vincenzo Finocchiaro17:13.42
5Tomas Becerra17:16.38
6Alfredo Carlos Machado17:20.34
7Guillermo Pacheco17:36.36
8Dae Imlani17:37.65

Heat 5
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Brad Cooper16:11.41
2Bengt Gingsjö16:26.67
3Klaus Dockhorn16:55.30
4Jo O-ryeon17:29.23
5Aleksandr Samsonov17:32.88
6Kamal Kenawi Ali Moustafa17:40.37
7Neil Dexter17:42.83
8Brian Clifford18:09.28

Heat 6
RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
1Ton van Klooster16:34.77
2Axel Freudenberg16:37.19
3Zoltán Verrasztó17:18.66
4Władysław Wojtakajtis17:23.47
5Christoph Kreienbühl17:27.67
6Csaba Sós17:43.97
ACDimitrios Theodoropoulos16:17.61DQ
ACRick DeMont18:15.90DQ

Final

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Mike Burton15:52.58WR
Graham Windeatt15:58.48
Doug Northway16:09.25
4Bengt Gingsjö16:16.01
5Graham White16:17.22
6Mark Treffers16:18.84
7Brad Cooper16:30.49
8Guillermo García16:36.03

Key: WR = World record