Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 1972 Olympic Games took place on September 4.[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
Results
Heats
[2]
Heat 1
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Igor Grivennikov , Viktor Stulikov , Viktor Sharygin , Viktor Aboimov (URS )
3:56.57
2
Bill Kennedy , Bill Mahony , Bruce Robertson , Bob Kasting (CAN )
3:57.05
3
László Cseh Sr. , Sándor Szabó , András Hargitay , István Szentirmay (HUN )
3:59.86
4
Jean-Paul Berjeau , Roger-Philippe Menu , Alain Mosconi , Michel Rousseau (FRA )
4:00.50
5
José Joaquín Santibáñez , Felipe Muñoz , Hugo Valencia , Guillermo García (MEX )
4:05.61
Heat 2
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Roland Matthes , Klaus Katzur , Hartmut Flöckner , Lutz Unger (GDR )
3:55.23
2
Rômulo Arantes Filho , José Sylvio Fiolo , Sérgio Waismann , José Roberto Aranha (BRA )
3:58.56
3
Tadashi Honda (1:00.23) NR , Nobutaka Taguchi , Yasuhiro Komazaki , Jiro Sasaki (JPN )
3:59.55
NR
4
Andreas Weber , Walter Kusch , Lutz Stoklasa , Klaus Steinbach (FRG )
4:00.56
5
Enrique Melo , Pedro Balcells , Arturo Lang-Lenton , Jorge Comas (ESP )
4:03.73
6
Gerardo Rosario , Amman Jalmaani , Carlos Brosas , Luis Ayesa (PHI )
4:13.62
Heat 3
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Mitch Ivey , John Hencken , Gary Hall , David Fairbank (USA )
3:51.98
2
Colin Cunningham , David Wilkie , John Mills , Malcolm Windeatt (GBR )
3:58.97
3
Brad Cooper , Paul Jarvie , Neil Rogers , Mike Wenden (AUS )
4:00.16
4
Anders Sandberg , Gunnar Larsson , Hans Ljungberg , Anders Bellbring (SWE )
4:06.67
5
Piotr Dłucik , Cezary Śmiglak , Andrzej Chudziński , Zbigniew Pacelt (POL )
4:07.87
6
Sarun Van , Sokhon Yi , Chhay-Kheng Nhem , Samnang Prak (KHM )
4:20.71
Final
[3]
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
Mike Stamm , Tom Bruce , Mark Spitz , Jerry Heidenreich (USA )
3:48.16
WR
Roland Matthes , Klaus Katzur , Hartmut Flöckner , Lutz Unger (GDR )
3:52.12
Erik Fish , Bill Mahony , Bruce Robertson , Bob Kasting (CAN )
3:52.26
4
Igor Grivennikov , Nikolay Pankin , Viktor Sharygin , Vladimir Bure (URS )
3:53.26
5
Rômulo Arantes Filho , José Sylvio Fiolo , Sérgio Waismann , José Roberto Aranha (BRA )
3:57.89
6
Tadashi Honda (59.83) NR , Nobutaka Taguchi , Yasuhiro Komazaki , Jiro Sasaki (JPN )
3:58.23
NR
7
Colin Cunningham , David Wilkie , John Mills , Malcolm Windeatt (GBR )
3:58.82
8
László Cseh Sr. , Sándor Szabó , István Szentirmay , Attila Császári (HUN )
3:59.07
References
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 , Kevin Cordes , Tom Shields , Caeleb Dressel (USA )
2020 : Ryan Murphy , Michael Andrew , Caeleb Dressel , Zach Apple , Hunter Armstrong , Andrew Wilson , Tom Shields , Blake Pieroni (USA )
2024 : Xu Jiayu , Qin Haiyang , Sun Jiajun , Pan Zhanle , Wang Changhao (CHN )