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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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