Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle
Introduction 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 (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 30 lengths of the pool.
Medalists
Results ===Heats==='''Heat 1''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Hans Faßnacht    16:34.63   2  Peter Rosenkranz    16:58.26   3  François Deley    17:06.09   4  Jim Carter    17:16.01   5  Sergio Irredento    17:19.45   6  Friðrik Guðmundsson    17:32.47   7  Edwin Borja    18:12.17  '''Heat 2''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Graham Windeatt    15:59.63   2  Guillermo García    16:29.48   3  Anders Bellbring    16:33.27   4  Deane Buckboro    16:52.50   5  Gerardo Vera    17:10.33   6  Gustavo González    17:23.53  '''Heat 3''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Mike Burton    16:09.56   2  Graham White    16:19.63   3  Brian Brinkley    16:54.39   4  Alberto García    17:05.68   5  Jorge Jaramillo    17:35.84   6  Eugen Almer    17:49.80  '''Heat 4''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Doug Northway    16:15.30   2  Mark Treffers    16:23.86   3  Dusan Grozaj    16:44.59   4  Vincenzo Finocchiaro    17:13.42   5  Tomas Becerra    17:16.38   6  Alfredo Carlos Machado    17:20.34   7  Guillermo Pacheco    17:36.36   8  Dae Imlani    17:37.65  '''Heat 5''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Brad Cooper    16:11.41   2  Bengt Gingsjö    16:26.67   3  Klaus Dockhorn    16:55.30   4  Jo O-ryeon    17:29.23   5  Aleksandr Samsonov    17:32.88   6  Kamal Kenawi Ali Moustafa    17:40.37   7  Neil Dexter    17:42.83   8  Brian Clifford    18:09.28  '''Heat 6''' Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes 1  Ton van Klooster    16:34.77   2  Axel Freudenberg    16:37.19   3  Zoltán Verrasztó    17:18.66   4  Władysław Wojtakajtis    17:23.47   5  Christoph Kreienbühl    17:27.67   6  Csaba Sós    17:43.97   AC  Dimitrios Theodoropoulos    16:17.61  DQ AC  Rick DeMont    18:15.90  DQ===Final=== Rank  Athlete Country  Time  Notes  1  Mike Burton   15:52.58  '''WR'''  2 Graham Windeatt   15:58.48  '''  '''  3  Doug Northway   16:09.25  ''' ''' 4  Bengt Gingsjö   16:16.01  ''' ''' 5   Graham White   16:17.22  ''' ''' 6   Mark Treffers   16:18.84  ''' ''' 7  Brad Cooper   16:30.49  ''' ''' 8  Guillermo García   16:36.03  ''' ''''''Key''': WR = World record
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