Melbourne 1956 - Swimming - Men: 100m freestyle - Heats

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Date: 29 November 1956
Summary
Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nation	Time
1	Jon Henricks	AUS	57.3
2	Richard Hanley	USA	57.8
3	William Steuart	RSA	59.2
4	Lev Balandin	URS	59.6
5	Hans Kohler	GER	59.8
6	Karri Kayhko	FIN	59.8
7	Andre Laurent	BEL	1:00.7

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nation	Time
1	Manabu Koga	JPN	57.7
2	Aldo Eminente	FRA	58.0
3	Vitaliy Sorokin	URS	58.6
4	Kin Man Cheung	HKG	59.8
5	Horst Bleeker	GER	1:00.1
6	Sergio Martinez	COL	1:00.2
7	Peter Duncan	RSA	1:00.4

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nation	Time
1	John Devitt	AUS	57.2
2	Paolo Pucci	ITA	58.3
3	Hiroshi Suzuki	JPN	58.4
4	Paul Voell	GER	58.4
5	Kenneth Williams	GBR	59.4
6	Dennis Ford	RSA	59.5
7	Sri Chand Bajaj	IND	1:01.6

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nation	Time
1	Logan Patterson	USA	56.8
2	Atsushi Tani	JPN	57.1
3	Carlo Pedersoli	ITA	58.5
4	Haroldo de Melo Lara	BRA	59.9
5	Habib Nasution	INA	1:00.1
6	Alexandre Jany	FRA	1:00.2

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nation	Time
1	Gary Chapman	AUS	57.8
2	William Woolsey	USA	58.2
3	Ronald Roberts	GBR	58.3
4	Gyula Dobay	HUN	58.5
5	George Park	CAN	58.8
6	Dakula Arabani	PHI	1:00.2
7	Shiu-Ming Wan	HKG	1:00.7