| Women 400m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Friday, 7th December - Gold Medal: Lorraine Crapp, Australia | 
| Final |   | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Lorraine Crapp |   Australia | 4:54.6 | OR | 4 | 18 |  | 2. Dawn Fraser |   Australia | 5:02.5 | +7.9s | 5 | 19 |  | 3. Sylvia Ruuska |   United States | 5:07.1 | +12.5s | 2 | 14 |  | 4. Marley Shriver |   United States | 5:12.9 | +18.3s | 3 | 19 |  | 5. Rypszima Szekely |   Hungary | 5:14.2 | +19.6s | 7 | 20 |  | 6. Sandra Morgan |   Australia | 5:14.3 | +19.7s | 6 | 14 |  | 7. Heda Frost |   France | 5:15.4 | +20.8s | 8 | 20 |  | 8. Valeria Gyenge |   Hungary | 5:21.0 | +26.4s | 1 | 23 |   
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Heats - Wednesday, 5th December | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| Heat 1 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Valeria Gyenge |   Hungary | 5:14.2 | +14.0s | 6 | 23 | 7. |  | 2. Heda Frost |   France | 5:14.4 | +14.2s | 5 | 20 | 8. |  | 3. Karin Larsson |   Sweden | 5:18.3 | +18.1s | 4 | 15 | 12. |  | 4. Beth Whittall |   Canada | 5:21.7 | +21.5s | 1 | 20 | 15. |  | 5. Winifred Griffin |   New Zealand | 5:31.0 | +30.8s | 3 | 24 | 25. |  | 6. Gertrudes Lozada |   Philippines | 5:34.2 | +34.0s | 7 | _ | 26. |  | -. Jeanette Myburgh |   South Africa | DNS |   | 2 | 16 |   |   
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| Heat 2 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Marley Shriver |   United States | 5:07.6 | +7.4s OR | 4 | 19 | 3. |  | 2. Sandra Morgan |   Australia | 5:07.8 | +7.6s | 6 | 14 | 4. |  | 3. Ingrid Kunzel-Reinhardt |   UT Germany | 5:20.8 | +20.6s | 2 | 18 | 14. |  | 4. Gladys Priestley |   Canada | 5:27.5 | +27.3s | 3 | 18 | 21. |  | 5. Anita Hellstrom |   Sweden | 5:29.2 | +29.0s | 5 | 16 | 23. |  | 6. Vivianne Gouverneur |   France | 5:29.7 | +29.5s | 1 | _ | 24. |  | -. Margaret Northrop |   Kenya | DNS |   | 7 | 22 |   |   
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| Heat 3 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Dawn Fraser |   Australia | 5:02.5 | +2.3s OR | 5 | 19 | 2. |  | 2. Sylvia Ruuska |   United States | 5:10.3 | +10.1s | 3 | 14 | 5. |  | 3. Rypszima Szekely |   Hungary | 5:10.5 | +10.3s | 6 | 20 | 6. |  | 4. Susan Roberts |   South Africa | 5:16.8 | +16.6s | 7 | 17 | 10. |  | 5. Colette Thomas |   France | 5:23.9 | +23.7s | 2 | 27 | 17. |  | 6. Birgitta Wangberg |   Sweden | 5:27.0 | +26.8s | 4 | 16 | 19. |  | 7. Eiko Wada |   Japan | 5:27.2 | +27.0s | 1 | 17 | 20. |   
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| Heat 4 |   | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Lorraine Crapp |   Australia | 5:00.2 | OR | 6 | 18 | 1. |  | 2. Susan Douglas Gray |   United States | 5:16.7 | +16.5s | 4 | 17 | 9. |  | 3. Natalie Ann Myburgh |   South Africa | 5:16.8 | +16.6s | 3 | 16 | 10. |  | 4. Marion Roe |   New Zealand | 5:18.5 | +18.3s | 5 | 21 | 13. |  | 5. Margaret Girvan |   Great Britain | 5:23.6 | +23.4s | 1 | 24 | 16. |  | 6. Gilda Aranda |   Mexico | 5:24.2 | +24.0s | 2 | _ | 18. |  | 7. Yukiko Otaka |   Japan | 5:28.7 | +28.5s | 7 | 16 | 22. |   
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