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The men's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1968 Olympic Games took place on October 26.[1] This swimming event uses medley swimming as a relay. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool, each using a different stroke. The first on each team used the backstroke , the second used the breaststroke , the third used the butterfly stroke , and the final swimmer used freestyle (restricted to not allow any of the first three strokes to be used, though nearly all swimmers use front crawl regardless).
The first swimmer must touch the wall before the next can leave the starting block, and so forth; timing of the starts is thus important.
Medalists [ edit ]
Results [ edit ]
Heat 1
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Kishio Tanaka , Nobutaka Taguchi , Satoshi Maruya , Kunihiro Iwasaki (JPN )
4:04.3
2
Viktor Mazanov , Nikolay Pankin , Yury Suzdaltsev , Sergey Gusev (URS )
4:04.8
3
Jim Shaw , Bill Mahony , Tom Arusoo , Sandy Gilchrist (CAN )
4:06.0
4
Leonardo Baremboin , Alberto Forelli , Luis Nicolao , Carlos van der Maath (ARG )
4:08.4
5
László Cseh Sr. , Sándor Szabó , István Szentirmay , Gábor Kucsera (HUN )
4:08.8
6
César Filardi , José Sylvio Fiolo , João Lima Neto , José Roberto Aranha (BRA )
4:11.1
Heat 2
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Ronnie Mills , Chet Jastremski , Carl Robie , Don Schollander (USA )
4:03.4
2
Roland Matthes , Egon Henninger , Horst-Günter Gregor , Frank Wiegand (GDR )
4:04.1
3
Reinhard Blechert , Gregor Betz , Lutz Stoklasa , Wolfgang Kremer (FRG )
4:04.7
4
Hans Tegeback , Thomas Johnsson , Bo Westergren , Lester Eriksson (SWE )
4:12.2
5
Tony Asamali , Amman Jalmaani , Leroy Goff , Roosevelt Abdulgafur (PHI )
4:15.7
6
Gerald Evard , Nicolas Gilliard , Ayis Capéronis , Pano Capéronis (SUI )
4:20.6
7
Francisco Ramis , José Ferraioli , Gary Goodner , Jorge González (PUR )
4:27.6
Heat 3
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Karl Byrom , Ian O'Brien , Robert Cusack , Mike Wenden (AUS )
4:04.8
2
Santiago Esteva , José Durán , Arturo Lang-Lenton , José Antonio Chicoy (ESP )
4:06.8
3
Joseph Jackson , Roger Roberts , Martyn Woodroffe , Bobby McGregor (GBR )
4:07.7
4
José Joaquín Santibáñez , Felipe Muñoz , Mario Santibáñez , Rafaél Cal (MEX )
4:10.0
5
Franco Del Campo , Massimo Sacchi , Antonio Attanasio , Pietro Boscaini (ITA )
4:10.3
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Charlie Hickcox , Don McKenzie , Doug Russell , Ken Walsh (USA )
3:54.9
WR
2
Roland Matthes , Egon Henninger , Horst-Günter Gregor , Frank Wiegand (GDR )
3:57.5
3
Yuri Gromak , Vladimir Nemshilov , Vladimir Kosinsky , Leonid Ilyichov (URS )
4:00.7
4
Karl Byrom , Ian O'Brien , Robert Cusack , Mike Wenden (AUS )
4:00.8
5
Kishio Tanaka , Nobutaka Taguchi , Satoshi Maruya , Kunihiro Iwasaki (JPN )
4:01.8
NR
6
Reinhard Blechert , Gregor Betz , Lutz Stoklasa , Wolfgang Kremer (FRG )
4:05.4
7
Jim Shaw , Bill Mahony , Tom Arusoo , Sandy Gilchrist (CAN )
4:07.3
8
Santiago Esteva , José Durán , Arturo Lang-Lenton , José Antonio Chicoy (ESP )
4:07.3
References [ edit ]
1960 : Frank McKinney , Paul Hait , Lance Larson , Jeff Farrell (USA )
1964 : Thompson Mann , Bill Craig , Fred Schmidt , Steve Clark (USA )
1968 : Charlie Hickcox , Don McKenzie , Doug Russell , Ken Walsh (USA )
1972 : Mike Stamm , Tom Bruce , Mark Spitz , Jerry Heidenreich (USA )
1976 : John Naber , John Hencken , Matt Vogel , Jim Montgomery (USA )
1980 : Mark Kerry , Peter Evans , Mark Tonelli , Neil Brooks (AUS )
1984 : Rick Carey , Steve Lundquist , Pablo Morales , Rowdy Gaines (USA )
1988 : David Berkoff , Richard Schroeder , Matt Biondi , Chris Jacobs (USA )
1992 : Jeff Rouse , Nelson Diebel , Pablo Morales , Jon Olsen , David Berkoff , Hans Dersch , Melvin Stewart , Matt Biondi (USA )
1996 : Jeff Rouse , Jeremy Linn , Mark Henderson , Gary Hall Jr. , Josh Davis , Kurt Grote , John Hargis , Tripp Schwenk (USA )
2000 : Lenny Krayzelburg , Ed Moses , Ian Crocker , Gary Hall Jr. , Neil Walker , Tommy Hannan , Jason Lezak (USA )
2004 : Aaron Peirsol , Brendan Hansen , Ian Crocker , Jason Lezak , Lenny Krayzelburg , Mark Gangloff , Michael Phelps , Neil Walker (USA )
2008 : Aaron Peirsol , Brendan Hansen , Michael Phelps , Jason Lezak , Matt Grevers , Mark Gangloff , Ian Crocker , Garrett Weber-Gale (USA )
2012 : Matt Grevers , Brendan Hansen , Michael Phelps , Nathan Adrian , Nick Thoman , Eric Shanteau , Tyler McGill , Cullen Jones (USA )
2016 : Ryan Murphy , Cody Miller , Michael Phelps , Nathan Adrian , David Plummer , Cordes , Shields , Dressel (USA )
2020 : Ryan Murphy , Michael Andrew , Caeleb Dressel , Zach Apple , Hunter Armstrong , Andrew Wilson , Tom Shields , Blake Pieroni (USA )