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Swimming at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre individual medley

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The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 1964 Summer Olympics took place on 12–14 October.[1] This swimming event used medley swimming. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle. Unlike other events using freestyle, swimmers could not use butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke for the freestyle leg; most swimmers use the front crawl in freestyle events.

Medalists

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Gold Dick Roth
 United States
Silver Roy Saari
 United States
Bronze Gerhard Hetz
 United Team of Germany

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Carl Robie  United States 4:52.0
2 Ralph Hutton  Canada 5:06.2
3 John Oravainen  Australia 5:07.0
4 Stefan Weinrich  Germany 5:07.8
5 Celestino Pérez  Puerto Rico 5:10.9
6 Veljko Rogošić  Yugoslavia 5:11.0
7 Gershon Shefa  Israel 5:11.2

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Sandy Gilchrist  Canada 4:58.3
2 Dick Roth  United States 5:01.3
3 Terry Buck  Australia 5:02.5
4 Elliot Chenaux  Puerto Rico 5:11.3
5 Juan Fortuny  Spain 5:18.2
6 Juan Alanís  Mexico 5:18.6
7 António Basto  Portugal 5:19.7
8 Luis Paz  Peru 5:39.5

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Roy Saari  United States 5:02.3
2 György Kosztolánczy  Hungary 5:03.8
3 Jan Jiskoot  Netherlands 5:04.4
4 Dieter Pfeifer  Germany 5:05.2
5 Ilkka Suvanto  Finland 5:09.0
6 Rafael Hernández  Mexico 5:09.8
7 Charles Fox  Northern Rhodesia 5:38.2

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Country Time Note
1 Gerhard Hetz  Germany 4:57.6
2 Csaba Ali  Hungary 5:05.4
3 Olle Ferm  Sweden 5:10.5
4 Alex Alexander  Australia 5:10.8
5 Guðmundur Gíslason  Iceland 5:15.5
6 Hannu Vaahtoranta  Finland 5:16.2
7 Guillermo Davila  Mexico 5:27.1
8 Narong Chok-Umnuay  Thailand 5:44.1

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Dick Roth  United States 4:45.4 WR
2 Roy Saari  United States 4:47.1
3 Gerhard Hetz  United Team of Germany 4:51.0
4 Carl Robie  United States 4:51.4
5 Sandy Gilchrist  Canada 4:57.6
6 Jan Jiskoot  Netherlands 5:01.9
7 György Kosztolánczy  Hungary 5:01.9
8 Terry Buck  Australia 5:03.0

Key: WR = World record

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's 400 metres Individual Medley". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2016.