Word: konno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio State's 19-year-old Ford Konno smashed the Olympic 1,500-meter freestyle swimming record and wrapped up victory: his first put the U.S. out in front of the U.S.S.R. for the first time...
...France's Jean Boiteux, who beat out Ford Konno in the 400-meter free-style swimming final, setting an Olympic record of 4 min. 30.7 sec. and inspiring his excited father to plunge for joy, beret and all, into the pool...
...grounds, Swimmer Moore plunged into the water for the final 400-meter free-style heat of the U.S. Olympic tryouts. Marshall, who will compete for Australia in the Olympics, was not in the run, but Jimmy McLane was, and so was Ohio State's wiry Hawaiian star, Ford Konno, one of the world's best free-style swimmers. Splashing immediately into the lead, Yale's Moore cut the water like a hungry shark. At the 100-meter mark he led Yale Teammate McLane by two feet, at the 200-meter mark by four, at the 300-meter...
...Moore was faster. With McLane nine feet behind him, Wayne had covered the distance in 4 min. 36.2 sec., nearly five seconds under the Olympic record. Only three swimmers have ever beaten Wayne's time: Japan's Hironoshin Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Ohio's Konno, who surprised most tryout watchers last week by having to thrash desperately to squeeze out his third place and Olympic berth behind Moore and McLane...
...Ford Konno's 1.,500-meter free-style performance in whipping Australia's (and Yale's) Defending Champion John Marshall in meet record time of 18:15.5, breaking Marshall's record by more than three seconds. Hawaii's wiry (5 ft. 7 in., 145-lb.) star, who swims for Ohio State, edged the U.S.'s (and Yale's) 1948 Olympic winner, Jimmy McLane, by six feet, Marshall by 60. Konno also won the 440, placed third...