Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle
Rank Swimmer Nation Time
1 Wally Ris United States 58.1
2 Ronald Stedman Great Britain 1:01.3
3 Henri Padou , Jr France 1:01.5
4 Sérgio Rodrigues Brazil 1:01.6
5 Wu Chuanyu Republic of China 1:03.5
6 Derek Oatway Bermuda 1:08.6
Results -- Heats
The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place between 30 and 31 July at the Empire Pool. 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. Because an Olympic-size swimming pool is 50 metres long, this race consisted of two lengths of the pool.