Swimming — 1,500 metres Freestyle, Men

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1908	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	19	8
1912	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	19	11
1920	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	24	13
1924	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	22	12
1928	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	19	13
1932	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	15	8
1936	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	21	10
1948	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	39	21
1952	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	37	22
1956	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	20	11
1960	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	30	19
1964	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	31	21
1968	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	21	16
1972	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	43	28
1976	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	31	20
1980	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	17	11
1984	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	27	19
1988	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	35	22
1992	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	30	24
1996	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	34	26
2000	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	41	32
2004	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	34	28
2008	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	35	27
2012	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	31	25
2016	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	45	32
2020	1,500 metres Freestyle, Men	Olympic	28	20

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1908	Henry Taylor	GBR	Sydney Battersby	GBR	Frank Beaurepaire	ANZ
1912	George Hodgson	CAN	Jack Hatfield	GBR	Harold Hardwick	ANZ
1920	Norman Ross	USA	George Vernot	CAN	Frank Beaurepaire	AUS
1924	Boy Charlton	AUS	Arne Borg	SWE	Frank Beaurepaire	AUS
1928	Arne Borg	SWE	Boy Charlton	AUS	Buster Crabbe	USA
1932	Kuzuo Kitamura	JPN	Shozo Makino	JPN	Jim Cristy	USA
1936	Noboru Terada	JPN	Jack Medica	USA	Shunpei Uto	JPN
1948	Jimmy McLane	USA	John Marshall	AUS	György Mitró	HUN
1952	Ford Konno	USA	Shiro Hashizume	JPN	Tetsuo Okamoto	BRA
1956	Murray Rose	AUS	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka	JPN	George Breen	USA
1960	John Konrads	AUS	Murray Rose	AUS	George Breen	USA
1964	Bob Windle	AUS	John Nelson	USA	Allan Wood	AUS
1968	Mike Burton	USA	John Kinsella	USA	Greg Brough	AUS
1972	Mike Burton	USA	Graham Windeatt	AUS	Doug Northway	USA
1976	Brian Goodell	USA	Bobby Hackett	USA	Steve Holland	AUS
1980	Vladimir Salnikov	URS	Aleksandr Chayev	URS	Max Metzker	AUS
1984	Mike O'Brien	USA	George DiCarlo	USA	Stefan Pfeiffer	FRG
1988	Vladimir Salnikov	URS	Stefan Pfeiffer	FRG	Uwe Daßler	GDR
1992	Kieren Perkins	AUS	Glen Housman	AUS	Jörg Hoffmann	GER
1996	Kieren Perkins	AUS	Daniel Kowalski	AUS	Graeme Smith	GBR
2000	Grant Hackett	AUS	Kieren Perkins	AUS	Chris Thompson	USA
2004	Grant Hackett	AUS	Larsen Jensen	USA	Dave Davies	GBR
2008	Oussama Mellouli	TUN	Grant Hackett	AUS	Ryan Cochrane	CAN
2012	Sun Yang	CHN	Ryan Cochrane	CAN	Oussama Mellouli	TUN
2016	Gregorio Paltrinieri	ITA	Connor Jaeger	USA	Gabriele Detti	ITA
2020	Bobby Finke	USA	Mykhailo Romanchuk	UKR	Florian Wellbrock	GER

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Australia	AUS	8	8	6	22
United States	USA	8	7	6	21
Japan	JPN	2	3	1	6
Soviet Union	URS	2	1	0	3
Great Britain	GBR	1	2	2	5
Canada	CAN	1	2	1	4
Sweden	SWE	1	1	0	2
Italy	ITA	1	0	1	2
Tunisia	TUN	1	0	1	2
People's Republic of China	CHN	1	0	0	1
West Germany	FRG	0	1	1	2
Ukraine	UKR	0	1	0	1
Australasia	ANZ	0	0	2	2
Germany	GER	0	0	2	2
Brazil	BRA	0	0	1	1
East Germany	GDR	0	0	1	1
Hungary	HUN	0	0	1	1

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Total
Kieren Perkins	AUS	2	1	3
Grant Hackett	AUS	2	1	3
Vladimir Salnikov	RUS URS	2	0	2
Mike Burton	USA	2	0	2
Boy Charlton	AUS	1	1	2
Murray Rose	AUS	1	1	2
Arne Borg	SWE	1	1	2