Swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the Games of the VIII Olympiad
Date	July 13–15
Competitors	22 from 12 nations
Medalists
Boy Charlton  Australia Arne Borg  Sweden Frank Beaurepaire  Australia

Swimming at the 1924 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 1500 metre freestyle was a swimming event held as part of the swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event, which was established in 1908. The competition was held on Sunday July 13, 1924, on Monday July 14, 1924, and on Tuesday July 15, 1924.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1924 Summer Olympics.

World Record	21:15.0	Arne Borg	Sydney (AUS)	January 30, 1924
Olympic Record	22:00.0	George Hodgson	Stockholm (SWE)	July 10, 1912

In the third heat Boy Charlton set a new Olympic record with 21:20.4 minutes, but in the next heat Arne Borg bettered his own world record to 21:11.4 minutes. In the final both swimmers were under the standing world record with Boy Charlton bettered the record by more than a minute to 20:06.6 minutes.

Results

Heats

Sunday July 13, 1924: The fastest two in each heat and the fastest third-placed from across the heats advanced.

Heat 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Harold Annison (GBR)	22:38.4	QQ
2	Adam Smith (USA)	22:48.8	QQ
3	Moss Christie (AUS)	22:49.4
—	Gustave Klein (FRA)	DNF
	Kazuo Onoda (JPN)	DNF

Heat 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Åke Borg (SWE)	22:55.2	QQ
2	John Taylor (GBR)	23:16.6	QQ
3	Kazuo Noda (JPN)	23:44.2
4	Jean Rebeyrol (FRA)	24:46.4

Heat 3

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Boy Charlton (AUS)	21:20.4	QQ OR
2	Jack Hatfield (GBR)	22:26.8	QQ
3	Dick Howell (USA)	22:48.2	qq
4	Dionysios Vasilopoulos (GRE)	26:17.4
—	Ante Roje (YUG)	DNF

Heat 4

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Arne Borg (SWE)	21:11.4	QQ WR
2	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	22:43.2	QQ
3	Luigi Bacigalupo (ITA)	25:04.4

Heat 5

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Frank Beaurepaire (AUS)	22:17.6	QQ
2	22x20px George Vernot (CAN)	23:11.4	QQ
3	Salvator Pellegry (FRA)	24:07.6
4	Václav Antoš (TCH)	24:44.0
5	22x20px Pedro Méndez (ESP)	26:23.5

Semifinals

Monday July 14, 1924: The fastest two in each semi-final and the faster of the two third-placed swimmer advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Boy Charlton (AUS)	21:28.4	QF
2	Arne Borg (SWE)	21:50.8	QF
3	Jack Hatfield (GBR)	21:53.4	qf
4	Adam Smith (USA)	22:39.8
5	22x20px George Vernot (CAN)	23:02.4
6	John Taylor (GBR)	23:13.8

Semifinal 2

Place	Swimmer	Time	Qual.
1	Frank Beaurepaire (AUS)	21:41.6	QF
2	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	21:48.6	QF
3	Åke Borg (SWE)	21:59.4
4	Harold Annison (GBR)	23:11.8
—	Dick Howell (USA)	DNS

Final

Tuesday July 15, 1924:

Place	Swimmer	Time
1	Boy Charlton (AUS)	20:06.6 WR
2	Arne Borg (SWE)	20:41.4
3	Frank Beaurepaire (AUS)	21:48.4
4	Jack Hatfield (GBR)	21:55.6
5	Katsuo Takaishi (JPN)	22:10.4

References

• Olympic Report
• sports-reference