Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place August 31.^[1] The relay featured teams of four swimmers each swimming four lengths of the 50 m pool freestyle.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States John Kinsella Fred Tyler Steve Genter Mark Spitz	West Germany Klaus Steinbach Werner Lampe Hans Vosseler Hans Fassnacht	Soviet Union Igor Grivennikov Viktor Mazanov Georgi Kulikov Vladimir Bure

Results edit

Heats edit

Heat 1^[2]

Place	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Graham Windeatt, Bruce Featherston, Graham White, Mike Wenden (AUS)	7:49.03	OR
2	Ralph Hutton, Deane Buckboro, Ian MacKenzie, Brian Phillips (CAN)	7:57.69
3	Brian Brinkley, John Mills, Michael Bailey, Colin Cunningham (GBR)	7:58.33
4	Peter Prijdekker, Bert Bergsma, Roger van Hamburg, Hans Elzerman (NED)	8:00.87
5	Guillermo García, Roberto Strauss, José Luis Prado, Jorge Urreta (MEX)	8:08.39
6	Alfredo Carlos Machado, Ruy de Oliveira, Paulo Zanetti, José Roberto Aranha (BRA)	8:17.91
7	Dae Imlani, Edwin Borja, Carlos Singson, Jairulla Jaitulla (PHI)	8:44.01

Heat 2^[3]

Place	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Mark Spitz, Gary Conelly, Tom McBreen, Mike Burton (USA)	7:46.42	OR
2	Wilfried Hartung, Udo Poser, Roger Pyttel, Lutz Unger (GDR)	7:51.11
3	Georgijs Kuļikovs, Vladimir Bure, Viktor Aboimov, Aleksandr Samsonov (URS)	7:51.44
4	Hans Faßnacht, Gerhard Schiller, Folkert Meeuw, Hans-Günther Vosseler (FRG)	7:53.98
5	Bengt Gingsjö, Hans Ljungberg, Anders Bellbring, Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	7:57.54
6	Pierre Caland, Pierre-Yves Copin, Jean-Jacques Moine, Michel Rousseau (FRA)	8:00.79
7	Roberto Pangaro, Arnaldo Cinquetti, Lorenzo Marugo, Riccardo Targetti (ITA)	8:03.98

Final edit

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Place	Swimmers	Time	Notes
	John Kinsella, Fred Tyler, Steve Genter, Mark Spitz (USA)	7:35.78	WR
	Klaus Steinbach, Werner Lampe, Hans-Günther Vosseler, Hans Faßnacht (FRG)	7:41.69
	Igor Grivennikov, Viktor Mazanov, Georgijs Kuļikovs, Vladimir Bure (URS)	7:45.76
4	Bengt Gingsjö, Hans Ljungberg, Anders Bellbring, Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	7:47.37
5	Mike Wenden, Graham Windeatt, Robert Nay, Brad Cooper (AUS)	7:48.66
6	Wilfried Hartung, Peter Bruch, Udo Poser, Lutz Unger (GDR)	7:49.11
7	Bruce Robertson, Brian Phillips, Ian MacKenzie, Ralph Hutton (CAN)	7:53.61
8	Brian Brinkley, John Mills, Michael Bailey, Colin Cunningham (GBR)	7:55.59

References edit

^ "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
^ Heat 1
^ Heat 2
^ final

[SportsRef-1] "Swimming at the 1972 Munich Summer Games: Men's 4 × 200 metres Freestyle Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2016.

[2] Heat 1

[3] Heat 2

[4] ^ final

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