| Men 1500m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne, Australia - Friday, 7th December - Gold Medal: Murray Rose, Australia | 
| | Final |  | time | gap | L | Y |  | 1. Murray Rose |  Australia | 17:58.9 |  | 5 | 17 |  | 2. Tsuyoshi Yamanaka |  Japan | 18:00.3 | +1.4s | 3 | 17 |  | 3. George Breen |  United States | 18:08.2 | +9.3s | 4 | 21 |  | 4. Murray Garretty |  Australia | 18:26.5 | +27.6s | 6 | _ |  | 5. William Slater |  Canada | 18:38.1 | +39.2s | 8 | 16 |  | 6. Jean Boiteux |  France | 18:38.3 | +39.4s | 1 | 23 |  | 7. Yukiyoshi Aoki |  Japan | 18:38.3 | +39.4s | 7 | 22 |  | 8. Gary Winram |  Australia | 19:06.2 | +1:07.3 | 2 | 20 | 
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| Heats - Wednesday, 5th December | 
| Best 8 times advanced to Final. | 
| | Heat 1 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Murray Rose |  Australia | 18:04.1 | +11.2s OR | 6 | 17 | 2. |  | 2. Tsuyoshi Yamanaka |  Japan | 18:04.3 | +11.4s | 4 | 17 | 3. |  | 3. William Slater |  Canada | 18:51.6 | +58.7s | 7 | 16 | 8. |  | 4. Guy Montserret |  France | 19:17.4 | +1:24.5 | 5 | 21 | 15. |  | 5. Gyorgy Csordas |  Hungary | 19:44.2 | +1:51.3 | 3 | 28 | 18. |  | -. Ulfiano Babol |  Philippines | DNS |  | 2 | _ |  | 
 |  | | Heat 2 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Gary Winram |  Australia | 18:35.7 | +42.8s | 6 | 20 | 5. |  | 2. Yukiyoshi Aoki |  Japan | 18:36.0 | +43.1s | 3 | 22 | 6. |  | 3. George Helela Jr Onekea |  United States | 19:13.8 | +1:20.9 | 5 | 17 | 13. |  | 4. Peter Duncan |  South Africa | 19:58.5 | +2:05.6 | 2 | 21 | 19. |  | 5. Raul Martin Fernandez |  Cuba | 19:59.9 | +2:07.0 | 7 | 15 | 20. |  | -. Sylvio Kelly Dos Santos |  Brazil | DNS |  | 4 | 21 |  |  | -. Gilberto Martinez |  Colombia | DNS |  | 1 | _ |  | 
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| | Heat 3 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. George Breen |  United States | 17:52.9 | WR | 4 | 21 | 1. |  | 2. Sandor Zaborszky |  Hungary | 19:01.2 | +1:08.3 | 3 | 21 | 10. |  | 3. Jacques Collignon |  France | 19:10.8 | +1:17.9 | 2 | _ | 12. |  | 4. Bana Sailani |  Philippines | 19:16.8 | +1:23.9 | 7 | 19 | 14. |  | 5. Gennady Androsov |  Soviet Union | 19:22.6 | +1:29.7 | 5 | 17 | 16. |  | 6. Hans-Joachim Reich |  UT Germany | 19:28.6 | +1:35.7 | 6 | 26 | 17. |  | -. Anthony Wellesley Briscoe |  South Africa | DNS |  | 1 | _ |  | 
 |  | | Heat 4 |  | time | gap | L | Y | Rk |  | 1. Murray Garretty |  Australia | 18:27.4 | +34.5s | 4 | _ | 4. |  | 2. Jean Boiteux |  France | 18:46.6 | +53.7s | 5 | 23 | 7. |  | 3. Seizaburo Yagi |  Japan | 18:57.3 | +1:04.4 | 3 | 19 | 9. |  | 4. David Allison Radcliffe |  United States | 19:09.6 | +1:16.7 | 2 | 22 | 11. |  | -. Arpad Domjan |  Hungary | DNS |  | 7 | 22 |  |  | -. Per-Olof Ostrand |  Sweden | DNS |  | 6 | 26 |  |  | -. Muhammad Razman |  Pakistan | DNS |  | 1 | 22 |  | 
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