Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

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Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Pool
Date21 July 1976 (final)
Winning time7:23.22 WR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States (USA)
Mike Bruner, Bruce Furniss, John Naber, Jim Montgomery, Tim Shaw*, Doug Northway*
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Soviet Union (URS)
Sergey Koplyakov, Andrey Krylov, Volodymyr Raskatov, Andrey Bogdanov, Andrey Smirnov*, Vladimir Mikheyev*
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Great Britain (GBR)
Alan McClatchey, David Dunne, Gordon Downie, Brian Brinkley
*Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.
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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]

Final[]

RANK FINAL TIME
Gold  United States
Mike Bruner
Bruce Furniss
John Naber
Jim Montgomery
7:23.22 WR
Silver  Soviet Union
Vladimir Raskatov
Andrei Bogdanov
Sergey Kopliakov
Andrei Krylov
7:27.97
Bronze  Great Britain
Alan McClatchey
David Dunne
Gordon Downie
Brian Brinkley
7:32.11
4.  West Germany
Klaus Steinbach
Peter Nocke
Werner Lampe
Hans-Joachim Geisler
7:32.27
5.  East Germany
Roger Pyttel
Wilfried Hartung
Rainer Strohbach
Frank Pfütze
7:38.92
6.  Netherlands
Karim Ressang
René van der Kuil
André in het Veld
Henk Elzerman
7:42.56
7.  Sweden
Pär Arvidsson
Peter Pettersson
Anders Bellbring
Bengt Gingsjö
7:42.84
8.  Italy
Marcello Guarducci
Roberto Pangaro
Paolo Barelli
Paolo Revelli
7:43.39

Heats[]

Heat 1[2]

Place Swimmers Time Notes
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
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
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

References[]

  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  2. ^ Heat 1
  3. ^ Heat 2
  4. ^ Heat 3

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