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

Event:	Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
Games:	1976 Summer
Venue:	Olympic Pool
Date:	21 July 1976 (final)
Gold:	Mike Bruner, Bruce Furniss, John Naber, Jim Montgomery, Tim Shaw*, Doug Northway*
Silver:	Sergey Koplyakov, Andrey Krylov, Volodymyr Raskatov, Andrey Bogdanov, Andrey Smirnov*, Vladimir Mikheyev*
Bronze:	Alan McClatchey, David Dunne, Gordon Downie, Brian Brinkley *Indicates the swimmer only competed in the preliminary heats.
Win Value:	7:23.22
Prev:	1972
Next:	1980

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

Heats

Heat 1^[2]

Place	width=620	Swimmers	width=90	Time	width=90	Notes
1		7:37.59
2		7:37.92
3		7:41.39
4		7:46.42
5		7:47.39
6		8:05.21

Heat 2^[3]

Place	width=620	Swimmers	width=90	Time	width=90	Notes
1		7:33.21
2		7:40.58
3		7:44.42
4		7:57.08
5		8:26.68

Heat 3^[4]

Place	width=620	Swimmers	width=90	Time	width=90	Notes
1		7:30.33
2		7:41.82
3		7:42.54
4		7:49.22
5		8:05.12
6		8:08.38
7			DQ

External links

• Official Olympic Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Swimming at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417165948/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1976/SWI/mens-4-x-200-metres-freestyle-relay.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 11 December 2016 . Sports Reference.
2. https://www.fina.org/competitions/1097/olympic-games-montreal-1976/results?disciplines=SW&event=1133b3f6-d331-42ba-aa2c-d0f336083bf5&unit=heat-1 Heat 1
3. https://www.fina.org/competitions/1097/olympic-games-montreal-1976/results?disciplines=SW&event=1133b3f6-d331-42ba-aa2c-d0f336083bf5&unit=heat-2 Heat 2
4. https://www.fina.org/competitions/1097/olympic-games-montreal-1976/results?disciplines=SW&event=1133b3f6-d331-42ba-aa2c-d0f336083bf5&unit=heat-3 Heat 3