Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

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The men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in the Canadian city of Montreal on 22 July.[1] The United States used two different foursomes in the heats and final - each combination won the race and broke the world record.[2]

Final[edit]

RANK FINAL TIME
Gold  United States
John Naber
John Hencken
Matt Vogel
Jim Montgomery
3:42.22 WR
Silver  Canada
Stephen Pickell
Graham Smith
Clay Evans
Gary MacDonald
3:45.94
Bronze  West Germany
Klaus Steinbach
Walter Kusch
Michael Kraus
Peter Nocke
3:47.49
4.  Great Britain
James Carter
David Wilkie
John Mills
Brian Brinkley
3:49.56
5.  Soviet Union
Igor Omelchenko
Arvydas Juozaitis
Evgeniy Seredin
Andrey Krylov
3:49.90
6.  Australia
Mark Kerry
Paul Jarvie
Neil Rogers
Peter Coughlan
3:51.54
7.  Italy
Enrico Bisso
Giorgio Lalle
Paolo Barelli
Marcello Guarducci
3:52.92
8.  Japan
Tadashi Honda
Nobutaka Taguchi
Hideaki Hara
Tsuyoshi Yanagidate
3:54.74
NR

Heats[edit]

Heat 1[3]

Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Steve Pickell, Graham Smith, Bruce Robertson, Gary MacDonald (CAN) 3:50.61
2  Gary Abraham, Duncan Goodhew, John Mills, Kevin Burns (GBR) 3:52.35
3  Mark Kerry, Paul Jarvie, Neil Rogers, Peter Coughlan (AUS) 3:53.98
4  Carlos Berrocal, Carlos Nazario, John Daly, Fernando Cañales (PUR) 3:58.62
5  Mikael Brandén, Anders Norling, Bengt Gingsjö, Dan Larsson (SWE) 3:58.82
6  Ignacio Álvarez, Gustavo Lozano, José Luis Prado, Guillermo García (MEX) 4:02.69

Heat 2[4]

Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Peter Rocca, Chris Woo, Joe Bottom, Jack Babashoff (USA) 3:47.28 WR
2  Klaus Steinbach, Peter Lang, Michael Kraus, Dirk Braunleder (FRG) 3:51.57
3  Igor Omelchenk'o, Nikolay Pankin, Yevgeny Seredin, Andrey Bogdanov (URS) 3:53.64
4  Tadashi Honda, Nobutaka Taguchi, Hideaki Hara, Tsuyoshi Yanagidate (JPN) 3:56.18 NR
5  Enrico Bisso, Giorgio Lalle, Paolo Barelli, Marcello Guarducci (ITA) 3:57.30
6  Santiago Esteva, Pedro Balcells, Mario Lloret, Jorge Comas (ESP) 3:58.22
7  Ramón Volcan, Glen Sochasky, Luis Goicoechea, Andrés Arraez (VEN) 4:05.07
8  Paulo Frischknecht, Henrique Vicêncio, José Pereira, António de Melo (POR) 4:20.84

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 4 × 100 metres Medley Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  2. ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 415. ISBN 0140066322.
  3. ^ Heat 1
  4. ^ Heat 2

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