Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

The men's 1500 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 31 July and 2 August, at the Swimming Stadium.

[1] 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.

Even though the top three swimmers were from different countries, all of them were of Japanese origin.

Shiro Hashizume in first heat established new olympic record.