Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay at the Games of the XXI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Pool | |||||||||
Date | 21 July 1976 (final) | |||||||||
Winning time | 7:23.22 WR | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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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 × 200 m freestyle relay event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on Wednesday, 21 July. [1]
Heat 1 [2]
Place | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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1 | HaJo Geisler , Andreas Schmidt , Werner Lampe , Peter Nocke (FRG) | 7:37.59 | |
2 | Alan McClatchey , David Dunne , Gordon Downie , Brian Brinkley (GBR) | 7:37.92 | |
3 | Marcello Guarducci , Roberto Pangaro , Paolo Barelli , Paolo Revelli (ITA) | 7:41.39 | |
4 | Bent Brask , Arne Borgstrøm , Håkon Iversøn , Fritz Warncke (NOR) | 7:46.42 | |
5 | Marc Lazzaro , Benôit Laffineur , Colin Ress , Fabien Noël (FRA) | 7:47.39 | |
6 | Fernando Cañales , José-Ricardo de Jesús , Arnaldo Pérez , Francisco Cañales (PUR) | 8:05.21 |
Heat 2 [3]
Place | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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1 | Sergey Koplyakov , Andrey Krylov , Andrey Smirnov , Vladimir Mikheyev (URS) | 7:33.21 | |
2 | Roger Pyttel , Wilfried Hartung , Rainer Strohbach , Frank Pfütze (GDR) | 7:40.58 | |
3 | Graham Windeatt , Mark Tonelli , Peter Coughlan , Peter Dawson (AUS) | 7:44.42 | |
4 | Petar Georgiev , Stefan Georgiev , Toni Statelov , Nikolay Ganev (BUL) | 7:57.08 | |
5 | José Pereira , António de Melo , Rui Abreu , Paulo Frischknecht (POR) | 8:26.68 |
Heat 3 [4]
Place | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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1 | John Naber , Jim Montgomery , Doug Northway , Tim Shaw (USA) | 7:30.33 | |
2 | Pär Arvidsson , Peter Pettersson , Anders Bellbring , Bengt Gingsjö (SWE) | 7:41.82 | |
3 | Karim Ressang , René van der Kuil , Andre in het Veld , Henk Elzerman (NED) | 7:42.54 | |
4 | David López-Zubero , Jesús Fuentes , Fernando Gómez-Reino , Santiago Esteva (ESP) | 7:49.22 | |
5 | Guillermo García , Eduardo Pérez , Guillermo Zavala , José Luis Prado (MEX) | 8:05.12 | |
6 | Ramón Volcan , Andrés Arraez , Glen Sochasky , Luis Goicoechea (VEN) | 8:08.38 | |
7 | Steve Badger , Bill Sawchuk , Steve Pickell , James Hett (CAN) | DQ |
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