Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Swimming at the
1948 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m men   women
400 m men   women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men   women
Breaststroke
200 m men   women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m   women
4×200 m men  

The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between July 30 and 31 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 consisted of two lengths of the pool.

Contents

Medalists

Gold  Wally Ris
United States (USA)
Silver  Alan Ford
United States (USA)
Bronze  Géza Kádas
Hungary (HUN)

Results

Heats

Rank Name Country Time Notes
1 Alex Jany France 58.1 Q
1 Wally Ris United States 58.1 Q
3 Géza Kádas Hungary 58.2 Q
4 Keith Carter United States 58.7 Q
5 Per-Olof Olsson Sweden 59.0 Q
6 Bruce Bourke Australia 59.1 Q
7 Alan Ford United States 59.2 Q
8 Elemér Szathmáry Hungary 59.7 q
8 Taha Youssef El-Gamal Egypt 59.7 Q
10 Zoltán Szilárd Hungary 59.8 q
11 Alberto Isaac Mexico 1:00.1 Q
12 Horacio White Argentina 1:00.2 Q
12 Martin Lundén Sweden 1:00.2 q
14 Warren Boyd Australia 1:00.4 q
15 Aram Boghossian Brazil 1:00.9 Q
16 Ronald Stedman Great Britain 1:01.3 Q
17 Manuel Guerra Spain 1:00.7
18 Olle Johansson Sweden 1:01.0
18 Peter Salmon Canada 1:01.0
20 Jesús Domínguez Spain 1:01.3
21 Henri Padou France 1:01.5
22 Ari Guðmundsson Iceland 1:01.6
22 Sérgio Rodrígues Brazil 1:01.6
24 Augusto Cantón Argentina 1:01.8
25 Nicasio Silverio Cuba 1:02.0
26 Pat Kendall Great Britain 1:02.1
27 Trevor Harrop Great Britain 1:02.3
28 Ali Ahmed Bagdadi Egypt 1:02.4
29 Dorri El-Said Egypt 1:02.5
29 Raúl García Cuba 1:02.5
31 Eric Jubb Canada 1:02.8
32 Wu Chuanyu China 1:03.5
33 Plauto Guimarães Brazil 1:03.7
34 Sachin Nag India 1:03.8
35 Isidoro Pérez Spain 1:04.0
36 Fernand Martinaux France 1:04.2
37 Walter Schneider Switzerland 1:05.1
38 Isaac Monsoor India 1:06.4
39 Dilip Mitra India 1:06.9
40 Panagiotis Khatzikyriakakis Greece 1:07.4
41 Derek Oatway Bermuda 1:08.6

Key: Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place

Semifinals

Rank Name Country Time Notes
1 Wally Ris United States 57.5 Q, OR
2 Keith Carter United States 57.6 Q
3 Alan Ford United States 57.8 Q
4 Alex Jany France 57.9 Q
5 Géza Kádas Hungary 58.0 Q
6 Per-Olof Olsson Sweden 59.1 q
7 Zoltán Szilárd Hungary 59.6 Q
8 Taha Youssef El-Gamal Egypt 59.9 q
9 Bruce Bourke Australia 1:00.0
10 Martin Lundén Sweden 1:00.2
11 Alberto Isaac Mexico 1:00.4
11 Horacio White Argentina 1:00.4
13 Elemér Szathmáry Hungary 1:00.5
14 Aram Boghossian Brazil 1:01.0
14 Ronald Stedman Great Britain 1:01.0
16 Warren Boyd Australia 1:01.1

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
Wally Ris United States 57.3 OR
Alan Ford United States 57.8
Géza Kádas Hungary 58.1
4 Keith Carter United States 58.3
5 Alex Jany France 58.3
6 Per-Olof Olsson Sweden 59.3
7 Zoltán Szilárd Hungary 59.6
8 Taha Youssef El-Gamal Egypt 1:00.5

Key: OR = Olympic record

References