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The Top Ranked
Swimmers of the 1950s
|
Rnk |
Athlete |
Nation |
|
1 |
Murray Rose |
Australia |
|
2 |
Ford Konno |
USA |
|
3 |
Jean Boiteux |
France |
|
4 |
Yoshi Oyakawa |
USA |
|
5 |
Bill Yorzyk |
USA |
|
6 |
Clarke Scholes |
USA |
|
7 |
David Theile |
Australia |
|
8 |
John Davies |
Australia |
|
9 |
Jon Henricks |
Australia |
|
10 |
Masaru Furukawa |
Japan |
|
11 |
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka |
Japan |
|
12 |
Gilbert Bozon |
France |
|
13 |
Hiroshi Suzuki |
Japan |
|
14 |
Bowen Stassforth |
USA |
|
15 |
John Devitt |
Australia |
|
16 |
John Monckton |
Australia |
|
17 |
Masahiro Yoshimura |
Japan |
|
18 |
Shiro Hashizume |
Japan |
|
19 |
Takashi Ishimoto |
Japan |
|
20 |
George Breen |
USA |
|
21 |
Tetsuo Okamoto |
Brazil |
|
22 |
Herbert Klein |
Germany |
|
23 |
Per-Olof Ostrand |
Sweden |
|
24 |
Frank McKinney |
USA |
|
25 |
Gary Chapman |
Australia |
|
26 |
Goran Larsson |
Sweden |
|
27 |
Gyorgy Tumpek |
Hungary |
|
28 |
Jack Taylor |
USA |
|
29 |
Kharis Yunichev |
Soviet Union |
|
30 |
Peter Duncan |
South Africa |
|
31 |
Jimmy McLane |
USA |
|
32 |
Allen Stack |
USA |
|
33 |
Jack Nelson |
USA |
|
34 |
Kevin O'Halloran |
Australia |
|
35 |
Murray Garretty |
Australia |
|
36 |
Nobuyasu Hirayama |
Japan |
|
37 |
Reid Patterson |
USA |
|
38 |
Robert Christophe |
France |
|
39 |
Terry Gathercole |
Australia |
|
40 |
Toru Goto |
Japan |
|
41 |
John Marshall |
Australia |
|
42 |
Jack Wardrop |
Great Britain |
|
43 |
William Slater |
Canada |
|
44 |
Jo Bernardo |
France |
|
45 |
Dick Hanley |
USA |
|
46 |
Geza Kadas |
Hungary |
|
47 |
Hans Zierold |
Germany |
|
48 |
Ihor Zaseda |
Soviet Union |
|
49 |
John Hayres |
Australia |
|
50 |
Pedro Galvao |
Argentina |
|
51 |
Takayoshi Kajikawa |
Japan |
|
52 |
Bill Woolsey |
USA |
|
53 |
Gary Winram |
Australia |
|
54 |
Knud Gleie |
Denmark |
|
55 |
Bert Wardrop |
Great Britain |
|
56 |
Eulalio Rios |
Mexico |
|
57 |
Graham Sykes |
Great Britain |
|
58 |
Jiro Nagasawa |
Japan |
|
59 |
Rex Aubrey |
Australia |
|
60 |
Wayne Moore |
USA |
|
61 |
Yasuo Kitamura |
Japan |
|
62 |
Aldo Eminente |
France |
|
63 |
Yukiyoshi Aoki |
Japan |
|
64 |
Manuel Sanguily |
Cuba |
|
65 |
Albert Wiggins |
USA |
|
66 |
Atsushi Tani |
Japan |
|
67 |
Boris Skanata |
Yugoslavia |
|
68 |
Brian Wilkinson |
Australia |
|
69 |
Koji Nonoshita |
Japan |
|
70 |
Maurice Lusien |
France |
|
71 |
Angelo Romani |
Italy |
|
72 |
Alexandru Popescu |
Romania |
|
73 |
Henri Broussard |
France |
|
74 |
Hironoshin Furuhashi |
Japan |
|
75 |
Lin Meiring |
South Africa |
|
76 |
Ludovít Komadel |
Czechoslovakia |
|
77 |
Ronald Gora |
USA |
|
78 |
John Brockway |
Great Britain |
|
79 |
Dick Cleveland |
USA |
|
80 |
Farid Dosaiev |
Soviet Union |
|
81 |
Gyula Dobay |
Hungary |
|
82 |
Horst Weber |
Germany |
|
83 |
Jerry Holan |
USA |
|
84 |
Kazuo Tomita |
Japan |
|
85 |
Sandor Zaborszky |
Hungary |
|
86 |
Viktor Solovyov |
Soviet Union |
|
87 |
Yasuo Tanaka |
Japan |
|
88 |
Yoshihiro Hamaguchi |
Japan |
|
89 |
Gyorgy Csordas |
Hungary |
|
90 |
George Onekea |
USA |
|
91 |
Gotfryd Gremlowski |
Poland |
|
92 |
Jacques Collignon |
France |
|
93 |
Gerry McNamee |
Canada |
|
94 |
Rene Kohn |
Luxembourg |
|
95 |
Gilbert Desmit |
Belgium |
|
96 |
Graham Symonds |
Great Britain |
|
97 |
Heinz-Gunther Lehmann |
Germany |
|
98 |
Louis Kozma |
Belgium |
|
99 |
Monty Nitzkowski |
USA |
|
100 |
Seizaburo Yagi |
Japan |
|
101 |
Tony Briscoe |
South Africa |
|
102 |
Joao Goncalves Filho |
Brazil |
|
103 |
Lev Balandin |
Soviet Union |
|
104 |
Alex Jany |
France |
|
105 |
Agapito Lozada |
Philippines |
|
106 |
Daan Buijze |
Netherlands |
|
107 |
David Hawkins |
Australia |
|
108 |
Dieter Pfeifer |
Germany |
|
109 |
Fernando Pavan |
Brazil |
|
110 |
Keiji Hase |
Japan |
|
111 |
Manabu Koga |
Japan |
|
112 |
Rene Pirolley |
France |
|
113 |
Vitaly Sorokin |
Soviet Union |
|
114 |
Dennis Ford |
South Africa |
|
115 |
Carlo Pedersoli |
Italy |
|
116 |
Jeno Ats |
Hungary |
|
117 |
Shamsher Khan |
India |
|
118 |
Palsons Naibula |
Philippines |
|
119 |
Lincoln Hurring |
New Zealand |
|
120 |
Allen Gilchrist |
Canada |
|
121 |
George Park |
Canada |
|
122 |
Guy Montserrat |
France |
|
123 |
Joris Tjebbes |
Netherlands |
|
124 |
Graham Johnston |
South Africa |
|
125 |
Karri Kayhko |
Finland |
|
126 |
Bana Sailani |
Philippines |
|
127 |
Lucien Beaumont |
Canada |
|
128 |
Christopher Walkden |
Great Britain |
|
129 |
David Radcliffe |
USA |
|
130 |
Egidio Massaria |
Italy |
|
131 |
Ekkehard Miersch |
Germany |
|
132 |
Istvan Szivos Sr. |
Hungary |
|
133 |
Laszlo Magyar |
Hungary |
|
134 |
Nikola Trojanovic |
Yugoslavia |
|
135 |
Orlando Cossani |
Argentina |
|
136 |
Paolo Pucci |
Italy |
|
137 |
Paul Voell |
Germany |
|
138 |
Cesar Borja |
Mexico |
|
139 |
Efren Fierro |
Mexico |
|
140 |
Tonatiuh Gutierrez |
Mexico |
|
141 |
Ladislav Bacik |
Czechoslovakia |
|
142 |
Ronald Roberts |
Great Britain |
|
143 |
Haydn Rigby |
Great Britain |
|
144 |
Leo Portelance |
Canada |
|
145 |
Lucien Zins |
France |
|
146 |
Vladimir Borisenko |
Soviet Union |
|
147 |
Walter Ocampo |
Mexico |
|
148 |
Hans Kohler |
Germany |
|
149 |
Gusztav Kettesi |
Hungary |
|
150 |
Gyorgy Ipacs |
Hungary |
|
151 |
Ilo da Fonseca |
Brazil |
|
152 |
John Durr |
South Africa |
|
153 |
Neil McKechnie |
Great Britain |
|
154 |
Robert Hughes |
USA |
|
155 |
Shah Ghazi |
Pakistan |
|
156 |
Yasumasu Nishino |
Japan |
|
157 |
Yoshiro Noda |
Japan |
|
158 |
Octavio Mobiglia |
Brazil |
|
159 |
Billy Steuart |
South Africa |
|
160 |
Raul Martin |
Cuba |
|
161 |
Alvaro Gomez |
Colombia |
|
162 |
Gennady Androsov |
Soviet Union |
|
163 |
Ghulam Rasul |
Pakistan |
|
164 |
Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil |
France |
|
165 |
Cheung Kin Man |
Hong Kong |
|
166 |
Haroldo Lara |
Brazil |
|
167 |
Clemente Mejia |
Mexico |
|
168 |
Gerard Coignot |
France |
|
169 |
Marek Petrusewicz |
Poland |
|
170 |
Enrique Granados |
Spain |
|
171 |
Sylvio dos Santos |
Brazil |
|
172 |
Garrick Agnew |
Australia |
|
173 |
Adhemar Grijo Filho |
Brazil |
|
174 |
Aulis Kahkonen |
Finland |
|
175 |
Bengt Rask |
Sweden |
|
176 |
Bob Sreenan |
Great Britain |
|
177 |
Endel Edasi |
Soviet Union |
|
178 |
Endel Press |
Soviet Union |
|
179 |
Fong Seow Hor |
Malaya |
|
180 |
Helmut Koppelstatter |
Austria |
|
181 |
Jitse van der Veen |
Netherlands |
|
182 |
Juha Tikka |
Finland |
|
183 |
Laszlo Gyongyosi |
Hungary |
|
184 |
Leonid Sagayduk |
Soviet Union |
|
185 |
Norihiko Kurahashi |
Japan |
|
186 |
Pyotr Skripchenkov |
Soviet Union |
|
187 |
Thomas Welsh |
Great Britain |
|
188 |
Yoshio Tanaka |
Japan |
|
189 |
Hans-Joachim Reich |
Germany |
|
190 |
Habib Nasution |
Indonesia |
|
191 |
Ahmed Nazir |
Pakistan |
|
192 |
Boris Nikitini |
Soviet Union |
|
193 |
Hideo Ninomiya |
Japan |
|
194 |
Horst Bleeker |
Germany |
|
195 |
Kenneth Williams |
Great Britain |
|
196 |
Pedro Cayco |
Philippines |
|
197 |
Nicasio Silverio |
Cuba |
|
198 |
Vladimir Skomarovsky |
Soviet Union |
|
199 |
Viktor Drobinsky |
Soviet Union |
|
200 |
Neo Chwee Kok |
Singapore |
|
201 |
Anatoly Raznochintsev |
Soviet Union |
|
202 |
Walter Bardgett |
Bermuda |
|
203 |
Geoffrey Marks |
Sri Lanka |
|
204 |
Walter Schneider |
Switzerland |
|
205 |
Blago Barbijeri |
Yugoslavia |
|
206 |
Brian Barnes |
Great Britain |
|
207 |
Habib Suharko |
Indonesia |
|
208 |
Hermann Gericke |
Switzerland |
|
209 |
Imre Nyeki |
Hungary |
|
210 |
Lim Heng Chek |
Malaya |
|
211 |
Ludovicus Schoenmaekers |
Belgium |
|
212 |
Olle Johansson |
Sweden |
|
213 |
Vladimer Lavrinenko |
Soviet Union |
|
214 |
Vladimir Lopatin |
Soviet Union |
|
215 |
Alberto Isaac |
Mexico |
|
216 |
Dakula Arabani |
Philippines |
|
217 |
Iosif Novac |
Romania |
|
218 |
Juan Lanz |
Mexico |
|
219 |
Sergio Martinez |
Colombia |
|
220 |
Ulfiano Babol |
Philippines |
|
221 |
Eduardo Priggione |
Uruguay |
|
222 |
Roar Woldum |
Norway |
|
223 |
Alfredo Yantorno |
Argentina |
|
224 |
Carlos Alberto Bonacich |
Argentina |
|
225 |
Peter Steinwender |
Austria |
|
226 |
Frank O'Neill |
Australia |
|
227 |
Bijoy Barman |
India |
|
228 |
Wu Chuanyu |
China |
|
229 |
Wan Shiu Ming |
Hong Kong |
|
230 |
Gilberto Martinez |
Colombia |
|
231 |
Francisco Monteiro |
Hong Kong |
|
232 |
Robert Cook |
Bermuda |
|
233 |
Peter Salmon |
Canada |
|
234 |
Federico Zwanck |
Argentina |
|
235 |
Muhammad Ramzan |
Pakistan |
|
236 |
Marcelo Trabucco |
Argentina |
|
237 |
Michel Vandamme |
France |
|
238 |
Rene Muniz |
Mexico |
|
239 |
Roberto Queralt |
Spain |
|
240 |
Eduardo Barbeiro |
Portugal |
|
241 |
Andre Laurent |
Belgium |
|
242 |
Erkki Marttinen |
Finland |
|
243 |
Jerzy Boniecki |
Poland |
|
244 |
Sri Chand Bajaj |
India |
|
245 |
Vlastimil Linhart |
Czechoslovakia |
|
246 |
Yury Kurchashov |
Soviet Union |
|
247 |
Pentti Ikonen |
Finland |
|
248 |
Per Olsen |
Norway |
|
249 |
Einari Aalto |
Finland |
|
250 |
Peter Head |
Great Britain |
|
251 |
Rene Million |
France |
|
252 |
Ronald Burns |
Great Britain |
|
253 |
Alfons Oehy |
Switzerland |
|
254 |
Awad Moukhtar Halloudah |
Egypt |
|
255 |
Sambiao Basanung |
Philippines |
|
256 |
Vladimír Skovajsa |
Czechoslovakia |
|
257 |
Eurico Surgey |
Portugal |
|
258 |
Khamlillal Shah |
India |
|
259 |
Tom Pettersen |
Norway |
|
260 |
Aram Boghossian |
Brazil |
|
261 |
Dorri El-Said |
Egypt |
|
262 |
Lars Svantesson |
Sweden |
|
263 |
Leo Telivuo |
Finland |
|
264 |
Muhammad Bashir |
Pakistan |
|
265 |
Giorgio Grilz |
Italy |
|
266 |
Fernando Madeira |
Portugal |
|
267 |
Nguyen Van Phan |
South Vietnam |
|
268 |
Pentti Paatsalo |
Finland |
|
269 |
Ricardo Esperard |
Brazil |
|
270 |
Alfonso Buonocore |
Italy |
|
271 |
Guilherme Patroni |
Portugal |
|
272 |
Hernan Aviles |
Chile |
|
273 |
Jose Valdes |
Guatemala |
|
274 |
Mauno Valkeinen |
Finland |
|
275 |
Oscar Saiz |
Venezuela |
|
276 |
Ricardo Conde |
Spain |
|
277 |
Georg Mascetti |
Saar |
|
278 |
Abdel Aziz El-Shafei |
Egypt |
|
279 |
David Buch |
Israel |
|
280 |
Isaac Monsoor |
India |
|
281 |
Michel Currat |
Switzerland |
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