| Men 400m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Tuesday, 4th December - Gold Medal: Murray Rose, Australia | 
| Final |   | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Murray Rose |   Australia | 4:27.3 | WR | 4 | 17 |  | 2. Tsuyoshi Yamanaka |   Japan | 4:30.4 | +3.1s | 5 | 17 |  | 3. George Breen |   United States | 4:32.5 | +5.2s | 6 | 21 |  | 4. Kevin O'Halloran |   Australia | 4:32.9 | +5.6s | 7 | 19 |  | 5. Hans Zierold |   UT Germany | 4:34.6 | +7.3s | 2 | 18 |  | 6. Gary Winram |   Australia | 4:34.9 | +7.6s | 3 | 20 |  | 7. Koji Nonoshita |   Japan | 4:38.2 | +10.9s | 1 | _ |  | 8. Angelo Romani |   Italy | 4:41.7 | +14.4s | 8 | 22 |   
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Heats - Saturday, 1st December | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| Heat 1 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Kevin O'Halloran |   Australia | 4:36.9 | +5.2s | 3 | 19 | 6. |  | 2. Koji Nonoshita |   Japan | 4:37.4 | +5.7s | 7 | _ | 7. |  | 3. Angelo Romani |   Italy | 4:37.6 | +5.9s | 6 | 22 | 8. |  | 4. Bill Woolsey |   United States | 4:38.2 | +6.5s | 4 | 22 | 10. |  | 5. Sylvio Kelly Dos Santos |   Brazil | 4:48.8 | +17.1s | 5 | 21 | 23. |  | 6. Ulfiano Babol |   Philippines | 4:53.4 | +21.7s | 8 | _ | 30. |  | 7. Shiu-Ming Wan |   Hong Kong | 5:02.6 | +30.9s | 1 | _ | 32. |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. John Wardrop |   Great Britain | 4:39.8 | +8.1s | 6 | 24 | 11. |  | 2. Anthony Wellesley Briscoe |   South Africa | 4:41.4 | +9.7s | 1 | _ | 13. |  | 3. George Helela Jr Onekea |   United States | 4:41.6 | +9.9s | 3 | 17 | 14. |  | 4. Hans Kohler |   UT Germany | 4:43.5 | +11.8s | 5 | 20 | 18. |  | 5. Habib Nasution |   Indonesia | 4:44.0 | +12.3s | 2 | 20 | 19. |  | 6. Per-Olof Ostrand |   Sweden | 4:45.9 | +14.2s | 4 | 26 | 20. |  | 7. Gilberto Martinez |   Colombia | 4:51.4 | +19.7s | 8 | _ | 28. |  | 8. Raul Martin Fernandez |   Cuba | 4:58.2 | +26.5s | 7 | 15 | 31. |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. George Breen |   United States | 4:35.7 | +4.0s | 5 | 21 | 4. |  | 2. Peter Duncan |   South Africa | 4:46.7 | +15.0s | 4 | 21 | 21. |  | 3. Karri Kalervo Kayhko |   Finland | 4:49.6 | +17.9s | 2 | 18 | 26. |  | 4. Yoshiro Noda |   Japan | 4:49.9 | +18.2s | 6 | 20 | 27. |  | 5. Guy Montserret |   France | 4:52.6 | +20.9s | 7 | 21 | 29. |  | -. Haroldo Lara |   Brazil | DNS |   | 1 | _ | -. |  | -. Sandor Zaborszky |   Hungary | DNS |   | 3 | 21 | -. |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Gary Winram |   Australia | 4:34.5 | +2.8s | 5 | 20 | 3. |  | 2. Jean Boiteux |   France | 4:37.9 | +6.2s | 3 | 23 | 9. |  | 3. William Slater |   Canada | 4:40.4 | +8.7s | 2 | 16 | 12. |  | 4. Neil Mckechnie |   Great Britain | 4:42.6 | +10.9s | 7 | 17 | 15. |  | 5. Boris Nikitin |   Soviet Union | 4:42.8 | +11.1s | 6 | 18 | 16. |  | 6. William Steuart |   South Africa | 4:43.0 | +11.3s | 4 | _ | 17. |  | 7. Bana Sailani |   Philippines | 4:49.0 | +17.3s | 1 | 19 | 24. |   
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| Heat 5 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Murray Rose |   Australia | 4:31.7 |   | 5 | 17 | 1. |  | 2. Tsuyoshi Yamanaka |   Japan | 4:31.8 | +0.1s | 3 | 17 | 2. |  | 3. Hans Zierold |   UT Germany | 4:35.7 | +4.0s | 4 | 18 | 4. |  | 4. Jeno Acs |   Hungary | 4:47.6 | +15.9s | 6 | 20 | 22. |  | 5. Jacques Collignon |   France | 4:49.3 | +17.6s | 1 | _ | 25. |  | -. Sri Chand Bajaj |   India | DNS |   | 2 | _ | -. |  | -. Gyorgy Csordas |   Hungary | DNS |   | 8 | 28 | -. |  | -. George Park |   Canada | DNS |   | 7 | _ | -. |   
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