Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
Breaststroke
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m		women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m		women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women

The men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place August 29 — September 1.^[1] The relay featured teams of four swimmers each swimming four lengths of the 50 m pool freestyle.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States George Harrison Dick Blick Mike Troy Jeff Farrell	Japan Makoto Fukui Hiroshi Ishii Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Tatsuo Fujimoto	Australia David Dickson John Devitt Murray Rose John Konrads

Results

Heats

Two heats were held; the fastest eight teams advanced to the Finals. The teams that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

Rank	Country	Time
1	Japan	8:17.1
2	Great Britain	8:26.9
3	Soviet Union	8:30.6
4	Sweden	8:30.6
5	Poland	8:32.0
6	France	8:41.2
7	Switzerland	9:18.1

Heat Two

Rank	Country	Time
1	United States	8:18.0
2	Australia	8:24.2
3	Germany	8:29.4
4	Finland	8:29.7
5	Hungary	8:32.6
6	Italy	8:38.1
7	Yugoslavia	8:49.8
8	Mexico	8:50.4

Final

Rank	Country	Time
1	United States	8:10.2
2	Japan	8:13.2
3	Australia	8:13.8
4	Great Britain	8:28.1
5	Finland	8:29.7
6	Sweden	8:31.0
7	Germany	8:31.8
8	Soviet Union	8:32.8

Rosters

Country	Athletes
United States	George Harrison Dick Blick Mike Troy Jeff Farrell Bill Darnton Tom Winters Steve Clark
Japan	Makoto Fukui Hiroshi Ishii Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Tatsuo Fujimoto
Australia	David Dickson John Devitt Murray Rose John Konrads John Rigby Allan Wood
Great Britain	Hamilton Milton John Martin-Dye Richard Campion Ian Black
Finland	Ilkka Suvanto Kari Haavisto Stig-Olof Grenner Karri Käyhkö
Sweden	Sven-Göran Johansson Lars-Erik Bengtsson Bengt Nordwall Per-Ola Lindberg Bengt-Olov Almstedt
Germany	Frank Wiegand Gerhard Hetz Hans Zierold Hans-Joachim Klein
Soviet Union	Igor Luzhkovsky Gennady Nikolayev Vitaly Sorokin Boris Nik'it'ini Serhiy Tovstoplet
Poland	Andrzej Salamon Bernard Aluchna Jerzy Tracz Jan Lutomski
Hungary	György Müller László Lantos Gyula Dobay József Katona
France	Jean-Pascal Curtillet Gérard Gropaiz Marc Kamoun Jean Boiteux
Italy	Fritz Dennerlein Bruno Bianchi Angelo Romani Paolo Galleti
Switzerland	Peter Bärtschi Rainer Goltzsche Karl Fridlin Hans-Ulrich Dürst
Yugoslavia	Milan Jeger Slobodan Kićović Vlado Brinovec Veljko Rogošić
Mexico	Raúl Guzmán Alfredo Guzmán Jorge Escalante Mauricio Ocampo

References

↑ "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay". Sports Reference. Retrieved 20 October 2016.

Olympic champions in men's 4×200 m freestyle relay

1908: Derbyshire, Radimilovic, Foster, Taylor (GBR)
1912: Healy, Champion, Boardman, Hardwick (ANZ)
1920: McGillivray, Kealoha, Ross, Kahanamoku (USA)
1924: Weissmuller, O'Connor, Glancy, Breyer (USA)
1928: Weissmuller, Clapp, Laufer, Kojac (USA)
1932: Yusa, Miyazaki, Yokoyama, Toyoda (JPN)
1936: Yusa, Sugiura, Arai, Taguchi (JPN)
1948: Ris, McLane, Wolf, Smith (USA)
1952: Moore, Woolsey, Konno, McLane (USA)
1956: O'Halloran, Devitt, Rose, Henricks (AUS)
1960: Harrison, Blick, Troy, Farrell (USA)
1964: Schollander, Clark, Saari, Ilman (USA)
1968: Schollander, Spitz, Nelson, Rerych (USA)
1972: Spitz, Kinsella, Tyler, Genter (USA)
1976: Bruner, Furniss, Naber, Montgomery (USA)
1980: Koplyakov, Salnikov, Stukolkin, Krylov (URS)
1984: Heath, Larson, Float, Hayes (USA)
1988: Dalbey, Cetlinski, Gjertsen, Biondi (USA)
1992: Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi (EUN)
1996: Davis, Hudepohl, Schumacher, Berube (USA)
2000: Thorpe, Klim, Pearson, Kirby (AUS)
2004: Phelps, Lochte, Vanderkaay, Keller (USA)
2008: Phelps, Lochte, Berens, Vanderkaay (USA)
2012: Lochte, Dwyer, Berens, Phelps (USA)
2016: Dwyer, Haas, Lochte, Phelps (USA)

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