Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics | ||
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Freestyle | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | women | |
1500 m | men | |
Backstroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Breaststroke | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Butterfly | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
Individual medley | ||
400 m | men | women |
Freestyle relay | ||
4×100 m | women | |
4×200 m | men | |
Medley relay | ||
4×100 m | men | women |
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]
RANK | FINAL | TIME |
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United States John Naber John Hencken Matt Vogel Jim Montgomery | 3:42.22 WR | |
Canada Stephen Pickell Graham Smith Clay Evans Gary MacDonald | 3:45.94 | |
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 |
Heat 1 [3]
Place | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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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 |
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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 |
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