Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle The men's 400 metre freestyle event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between 28 and 30 July at the Swimming Stadium. 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. At the conclusion of the race, Boiteux's father jumped into the pool to
Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool between 21 and 25 June 2013. Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool Mersin Olympic Swimming Pool is a complex of swimming pools in Mersin, Turkey. The complex is at . It is on 2869 street about east of İsmet İnönü Boulevard and about west of Müftü River. Both Macit Özcan Sports Complex and Nevin Yanıt Athletics Complex are situated within of the pool complex. The complex was built on a ground area. There are three pools in the complex: an Olympic-size swimming pool with a spectator capacity of 1000 and two smaller pools for practice. At the 2013 Mediterranean Games, the pool