The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Swimming - 1500 Meter Freestyle

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 23 Medals
AUSTRALIA - 22 Medals
JAPAN - 6 Medals

Medal Table
1500 Meter Freestyle
 50 Meter Freestyle 100 Meter Freestyle
200 Meter Freestyle 400 Meter Freestyle 800 Meter Freestyle
100 Meter Backstroke
 200 Meter Backstroke
 100 Meter Breaststroke
200 Meter Breaststroke
 100 Meter Butterfly
 200 Meter Butterfly
200 Meter Individual Medley
 400 Meter Individual Medley
 4 X 100 Meter Freestyle
4 X 200 Meter Freestyle
 4 X 100 Meter Medley
 Marathon 10KM
Discontinued Events

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1908
 Henry Taylor - Great Britain
 Thomas Battersby - Great Britain
 Frank Beaurepaire - Australasia
1912
 George Hodgson - Canada
 Jack Hatfield - Great Britain
 Harold Hardwick - Australasia
1920
 Norman Ross - United States
 George Vernot - Canada
 Frank Beaurepaire - Australia
1924
 Andrew Charlton - Australia
 Arne Borg - Sweden
 Frank Beaurepaire - Australia
1928
 Arne Borg - Sweden
 Andrew Charlton - Australia
 Buster Crabbe - United States
1932
 Kusuo Kitamura - Japan
 Shozo Makino - Japan
 Jim Cristy - United States
1936
 Noboru Tarada - Japan
 Jack Medica - United States
 Shunpei Uto - Japan
1948
 Jimmy McLane - United States
 John Marshall - Australia
 György Mitró - Hungary
1952
 Ford Konno - United States
 Shiro Hashizume - Japan
 Tetsuo Okamoto - Brazil
1956
 Murray Rose - Australia
 Tsuyoshi Yamanaka - Japan
 George Breen - United States
1960
 John Konrads - Australia
 Murray Rose - Australia
 George Breen - United States
1964
 Bob Windle - Australia
 John Nelson - United States
 Allan Wood - Australia
1968
 Mike Burton - United States
 John Kinsella - United States
 Greg Brough - Australia
1972
 Mike Burton - United States
 Graham Windeatt - Australia
 Doug Northway - United States
1976
 Brian Goodell - United States
 Bobby Hackett - United States
 Stephne Holland - Australia
1980
 Vladimir Salnikov - Soviet Union
 Aleksandr Chayev - Soviet Union
 Max Metzker - Australia
1984
 Mike O'Brien - United States
 George DiCarlo - United States
 Stefan Pfieffer - West Germany
1988
 Vladimir Salnikov - Soviet Union Stefan Pfieffer - West Germany Uwe Dassler - East Germany
1992
 Kieren Perkins - Australia
 Glen Housman - Australia
 Jörg Hoffmann - Germany
1996
 Kieren Perkins - Australia Daniel Kowalski - Australia
 Graeme Smith - Great Britain
2000
 Grant Hackett - Australia
 Kieren Perkins - Australia Chris Thompson - United States
2004
 Grant Hackett - Australia Larsen Jensen - United States
 David Davies - Great Britain
2008
 Oussama Mellouli - Tunisia
 Grant Hackett - Australia Ryan Cochrane - Canada
2012
 Sun Yang - China
 Ryan Cochrane - Canada Oussama Mellouli - Tunisia
2016
 Gregorio Patrinieri - Italy
 Connor Jaeger - United States
 Gabriele Detti - Italy
2020
 Robert Finke - United States Mykhailo Romanchuk - Ukraine Florian Wellbrock - Germany

Women's  Men's  Medal Table
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
2020
 Katie Ledecky - United States Erica Sullivan - United States Sarah Köhler - Germany

Medal Total  Men's  Women's 
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 United States 9
 8
 6
 23
2
 Australia
 8
 8
 6
 22
3
 Japan
 2
 3
 1
 6
4
 Great Britain
 1
 2
 2
 5
5
 Canada
 1
 2
 1
 4
6
 Soviet Union
 2
 1
 0
 3
7
 Germany 0
 0
 3
 3
8
 Sweden
 1
 1
 0
 2
9
 Tunisia
 1
 0
 1
 2
10
 Italy
 1
 0
 1
 2
11
 West Germany
 0
 1
 1
 2
12
 Australasia
 0
 0
 2
 2
13
 China
 1
 0
 0
 1
14
 Ukraine
 0
 1
 0
 1
15
 Hungary
 0
 0
 1
 1
16
 Brazil
 0
 0
 1
 1
17
 East Germany
 0
 0
 1
 1