Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place between December 5 and 7. 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 eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Lorraine Crapp Australia
Silver	Dawn Fraser Australia
Bronze	Sylvia Ruuska United States

Results

Heats

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Semifinals

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Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Lorraine Crapp	Australia	4:54.6	OR
	Dawn Fraser	Australia	5:02.5
	Sylvia Ruuska	United States	5:07.1
4	Marley Shriver	United States	5:12.9
5	Ripszima Székely	Hungary	5:14.2
6	Sandra Morgan	Australia	5:14.3
7	Héda Frost	France	5:15.4
8	Valéria Gyenge	Hungary	5:21.0