Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
Breaststroke
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m			women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m			women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men		women

The men's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 27 (qualification) and September 1 (final).^[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

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States Frank McKinney Paul Hait Lance Larson Jeff Farrell	Australia David Theile Terry Gathercole Neville Hayes Geoff Shipton	Japan Kazuo Tomita Koichi Hirakida Yoshihiko Osaki Keigo Shimuzu

Results

Heats

Three heats were held; the fastest eight teams advanced to the Finals. The teams that advanced are highlighted.

Heat One

Place	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Geoff Shipton, Julian Carroll, William Burton, Kevin Berry (AUS)	4:14.8
2	Wolfgang Wagner, Günter Tittes, Hermann Lotter, Uwe Jacobsen (EUA)	4:17.7
3	Robert Christophe, Roland Boullanger, Jean Pommat, Alain Gottvallès (FRA)	4:21.7
4	Alejandro Gaxiola, Enrique Rabell, Mauricio Ocampo, Jorge Escalante (MEX)	4:23.1
5	Ilkka Suvanto, Kari Haavisto, Stig-Olof Grenner, Karri Käyhkö (FIN)	4:27.3
6	Joram Shnider, Gershon Shefa, Itzhak Luria, Amiram Trauber (ISR)	4:37.6

Heat Two

Place	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Yoshihiko Osaki, Keigo Shimizu, Kazuo Watanabe, Katsuki Ishihara (JPN)	4:16.0
2	Giuseppe Avellone, Roberto Lazzari, Fritz Dennerlein, Bruno Bianchi (ITA)	4:16.0
3	Leonid Barbiyer, Leonid Kolesnikov, Grigory Kiselyov, Igor Luzhkovsky (URS)	4:16.2
4	Graham Sykes, Christopher Walkden, Ian Black, Stanley Clarke (GBR)	4:16.8
5	Lorenzo Cortez, Antonio Saloso, Freddie Elizalde, Bana Sailani (PHI)	4:28.0
6	Athos de Oliveira Filho, Farid Zablith Filho, Aldo Perseke, Fernando de Abreu (BRA)	4:30.1

Heat Three

Place	Swimmers	Time	Notes
1	Jeff Farrell, Bob Bennett, Dave Gillanders, Steve Clark (USA)	4:08.2
2	Bob Wheaton, Steve Rabinovitch, Cam Grout, Dick Pound (CAN)	4:15.3
3	Jan Jiskoot, Wieger Mensonides, Gerrit Korteweg, Ron Kroon (NED)	4:16.1
4	József Csikány, György Kunsági, László Kiss, László Lantos (HUN)	4:17.7
5	Mihovil Dorčić, Đorđe Perišić, Veljko Rogošić, Janez Kocmur (YUG)	4:25.5
6	Raúl Cerqueira, Eduardo de Sousa, Luís Vaz Jorge, Herlander Ribeiro (POR)	4:39.9

Final

References