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Swimming at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mwomen
200 mmen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen
Medley relay
4 × 100 mmenwomen

The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place August 29 — September 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

Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Makoto Fukui, Hiroshi Ishii, Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) 8:17.1
2  Hamilton Milton, John Martin-Dye, Richard Campion, Ian Black (GBR) 8:26.9
3  Vitaly Sorokin, Gennady Nikolayev, Serhiy Tovstoplet, Boris Nik'it'ini (URS) 8:30.6
3  Bengt-Olov Almstedt, Lars-Erik Bengtsson, Bengt Nordwall, Per-Ola Lindberg (SWE) 8:30.6
5  Andrzej Salamon, Bernard Aluchna, Jerzy Tracz, Jan Lutomski (POL) 8:32.0
6  Jean-Pascal Curtillet, Gérard Gropaiz, Marc Kamoun, Jean Boiteux (FRA) 8:41.2
7  Peter Bärtschi, Rainer Goltzsche, Karl Fridlin, Hans-Ulrich Dürst (SUI) 9:18.1
-  Horst-Günter Gregor, Gerhard Hetz, Frank Wiegand, Hans-Joachim Klein (GER) DNS

Heat Two

Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Bill Darnton, Tom Winters, Steve Clark, George Harrison (USA) 8:18.0
2  David Dickson, John Rigby, Allan Wood, John Devitt (AUS) 8:24.2
3  Frank Wiegand, Gerhard Hetz, Hans Zierold, Hans-Joachim Klein (GER) 8:29.4
4  Ilkka Suvanto, Kari Haavisto, Stig-Olof Grenner, Karri Käyhkö (FIN) 8:29.7
5  György Müller, László Lantos, Gyula Dobay, József Katona (HUN) 8:32.6
6  Fritz Dennerlein, Bruno Bianchi, Angelo Romani, Paolo Galleti (ITA) 8:38.1
7  Milan Jeger, Slobodan Kićović, Vlado Brinovec, Veljko Rogošić (YUG) 8:49.8
8  Raúl Guzmán, Alfredo Guzmán, Jorge Escalante, Mauricio Ocampo (MEX) 8:50.4

Final

Place Swimmers Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy, Jeff Farrell (USA) 8:10.2 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Makoto Fukui, Hiroshi Ishii, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) 8:13.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  David Dickson, John Devitt, Murray Rose, John Konrads (AUS) 8:13.8
4  Hamilton Milton, John Martin-Dye, Richard Campion, Ian Black (GBR) 8:28.1
5  Ilkka Suvanto, Kari Haavisto, Stig-Olof Grenner, Karri Käyhkö (FIN) 8:29.7
6  Sven-Göran Johansson, Lars-Erik Bengtsson, Bengt Nordwall, Per-Ola Lindberg (SWE) 8:31.0
7  Frank Wiegand, Gerhard Hetz, Hans Zierold, Hans-Joachim Klein (GER) 8:31.8
8  Igor Luzhkovsky, Gennady Nikolayev, Vitaly Sorokin, Boris Nik'it'ini (URS) 8:32.8

References

  1. "Swimming at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  2. result
  3. final
Olympic champions in men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay
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