Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

Men's 400 metre freestyle at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Date	22 July
Medalists
Brian Goodell  United States Tim Shaw  United States Vladimir Raskatov  Soviet Union
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Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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
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The men's 400 metre freestyle event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place on Tuesday, 22 July.^[1]

Heats[]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Pierre Andraca	France	4:00.34
2	Brett Naylor	New Zealand	4:00.38
3	Rainer Strohbach	East Germany	4:02.24
4	Stefan Wenz	West Germany	4:06.25
5	Kevin Williamson	Ireland	4:09.60
6	Sigurður Ólafsson	Iceland	4:18.11

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Djan Madruga	Brazil	3:59.62	Q, OR
2	Frank Pfütze	East Germany	4:04.66
3	Tom Alexander	Canada	4:05.63
4	Bengt Jönsson	Sweden	4:07.28
5	Borut Petrič	Yugoslavia	4:07.54
6	Lutz Löscher	East Germany	4:12.88
7	Kris Sumono	Indonesia	4:17.48

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Volodymyr Raskatov	Soviet Union	3:57.56	Q, OR
2	Bill Sawchuk	Canada	4:02.18
3	István Koczka	Hungary	4:03.75
4	Peter Pettersson	Sweden	4:04.15
5	Graham Windeatt	Australia	4:04.31
6	Frank Richardson	Nicaragua	4:40.76

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Steve Holland	Australia	3:58.39	Q
2	Steve Badger	Canada	4:00.14	Q
3	Henk Elzerman	Netherlands	4:02.16
4	Vladimir Salnikov	Soviet Union	4:02.79
5	Georgios Karpouzis	Greece	4:12.41
6	Andreas Schmidt	West Germany	4:14.36
7	Rui Abreu	Portugal	4:28.43

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Mikheyev	Soviet Union	4:00.20	Q
2	Casey Converse	United States	4:00.65
3	Alan McClatchey	Great Britain	4:02.09
4	Werner Lampe	West Germany	4:03.04
5	Arne Borgstrøm	Norway	4:03.49
6	Gerhard Waldmann	Switzerland	4:09.54
7	Edwin Borja	Philippines	4:18.97

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Tim Shaw	United States	3:56.40	Q, OR
2	Zoltán Wladár	Hungary	4:00.55
3	Gordon Downie	Great Britain	4:01.00
4	Bengt Gingsjö	Sweden	4:04.68
5	Johan Van Steenberghe	Belgium	4:08.28
6	Francisco Cañales	Puerto Rico	4:15.78

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Brian Goodell	United States	3:55.24	Q, OR
2	Sándor Nagy	Hungary	4:00.02	Q
3	Max Metzker	Australia	4:00.82
4	René van der Kuil	Netherlands	4:03.14
5	David López-Zubero	Spain	4:03.73
6	Andy Knowles	Bahamas	4:10.78
7	Tomas Becerra	Colombia	4:14.73
8	Patrick Novaretti	Monaco	4:20.62

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Brian Goodell	United States	3:51.93	WR
	Tim Shaw	United States	3:52.54
	Volodymyr Raskatov	Soviet Union	3:55.76
4	Djan Madruga	Brazil	3:57.18
5	Steve Holland	Australia	3:57.59
6	Sándor Nagy	Hungary	3:57.81
7	Vladimir Mikheyev	Soviet Union	4:00.79
8	Steve Badger	Canada	4:20.83

References[]

External links[]

• Official Olympic Report