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

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

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	John Naber John Hencken Matt Vogel Jim Montgomery	3:42.22 WR
	Stephen Pickell Graham Smith Clay Evans Gary MacDonald	3:45.94
	Klaus Steinbach Walter Kusch Michael Kraus Peter Nocke	3:47.49
4.	James Carter David Wilkie John Mills Brian Brinkley	3:49.56
5.	Igor Omelchenko Arvydas Juozaitis Evgeniy Seredin Andrey Krylov	3:49.90
6.	Mark Kerry Paul Jarvie Neil Rogers Peter Coughlan	3:51.54
7.	Enrico Bisso Giorgio Lalle Paolo Barelli Marcello Guarducci	3:52.92
8.	Tadashi Honda Nobutaka Taguchi Hideaki Hara Tsuyoshi Yanagidate	3:54.74 NR

Heats

Heat 1^[3]

Place	width=620	Swimmers	width=90	Time	width=90	Notes
1		3:50.61
2		3:52.35
3		3:53.98
4		3:58.62
5		3:58.82
6		4:02.69

Heat 2^[4]

Place	width=620	Swimmers	width=90	Time	width=90	Notes
1		3:47.28	WR
2		3:51.57
3		3:53.64
4		3:56.18	NR
5		3:57.30
6		3:58.22
7		4:05.07
8		4:20.84

External links

• Official Olympic Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 4 × 100 metres Medley Relay . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417164011/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1976/SWI/mens-4-x-100-metres-medley-relay.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 11 December 2016 . Sports Reference.
2. Book: Wallechinsky . David . The Complete Book of the Olympics . 1984 . Penguin Books . England . 0140066322 . 415 .
3. https://www.fina.org/competitions/1097/olympic-games-montreal-1976/results?disciplines=SW&event=cebd4f60-de79-4fac-ad1a-5d6f13b17bcd&unit=heat-1 Heat 1
4. https://www.fina.org/competitions/1097/olympic-games-montreal-1976/results?disciplines=SW&event=cebd4f60-de79-4fac-ad1a-5d6f13b17bcd&unit=heat-2 Heat 2