Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 400 metre freestyle

Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between August 31 and September 1. 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 eight lengths of the pool.

Medalists

Gold	Chris von Saltza United States
Silver	Jane Cederqvist Sweden
Bronze	Tineke Lagerberg Netherlands

Results

Heats

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Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Chris von Saltza	United States	4:50.6	OR
	Jane Cederqvist	Sweden	4:53.9
	Tineke Lagerberg	Netherlands	4:56.9
4	Ilsa Konrads	Australia	4:57.9
5	Dawn Fraser	Australia	4:58.5
6	Nan Rae	Great Britain	4:59.7
7	Corrie Schimmel	Netherlands	5:02.3
8	Bibbi Segerström	Sweden	5:02.4