Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
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
Results
Heats
Two heats were held; the fastest eight teams advanced to the Finals. The teams that advanced are highlighted.Heat One
Heat Two
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 |