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Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

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Swimming at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
Individual medley
400 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

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]

Final

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RANK FINAL TIME
Gold  United States
John Naber
John Hencken
Matt Vogel
Jim Montgomery 		3:42.22 WR
Silver  Canada
Stephen Pickell
Graham Smith
Clay Evans
Gary MacDonald 		3:45.94
Bronze  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

Heats

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Heat 1[3]

Place Swimmers Time Notes
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
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

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 4 × 100 metres Medley Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  2. ^ Wallechinsky, David (1984). The Complete Book of the Olympics. England: Penguin Books. p. 415. ISBN 0140066322.
  3. ^ Heat 1
  4. ^ Heat 2
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