The men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay event at the 1964 Olympic Games took place on October 15 (qualification) and October 16 (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
Left-right: Steve Clark, Fred Schmidt, Bill Craig, Thompson Mann
Results
Heats
Heat 1 [2]
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Ernst-Joachim Küppers , Egon Henninger , Horst-Günter Gregor , Hans-Joachim Klein (GER )
4:06.6
2
Shigeo Fukushima , Kenji Ishikawa , Isao Nakajima , Yukiaki Okabe (JPN )
4:07.3
3
Viktor Mazanov , Aleksandr Tutakayev , Valentin Kuzmin , Viktor Semchenkov (URS )
4:07.6
4
Geoff Thwaites , Neil Nicholson , Brian Jenkins , Bobby McGregor (GBR )
4:12.3
5
Jan Weeteling , Hemmie Vriens , Jan Jiskoot , Ron Kroon (NED )
4:12.6
6
Athos de Oliveira Filho , Farid Zablith Filho , Mauri Fonseca , Álvaro Pires (BRA )
4:21.2
7
Michael Eu , Cheah Tong Kim , Bernard Chan , Tan Thuan Heng (MAS )
4:29.3
Heat 2[3]
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Rich McGeagh , Virg Luken , Walter Richardson , Bob Bennett (USA )
4:05.1
OR
2
József Csikány , Ferenc Lenkei , József Gulrich , Gyula Dobay (HUN )
4:08.8
3
Dino Rora , Gian Corrado Gross , Giampiero Fossati , Pietro Boscaini (ITA )
4:09.3
4
Peter Reynolds , Peter Tonkin , Kevin Berry , David Dickson (AUS )
4:11.4
5
Ralph Hutton , Sandy Gilchrist , Daniel Sherry , Ron Jacks (CAN )
4:15.5
6
Carlos van der Maath , Miguel Angel Navarro , Luis Nicolao , Alberto Bourdillón (ARG )
4:15.8
7
Jesús Cabrera , Nazario Padrón , Joaquín Pujol , José Miguel Espinosa (ESP )
4:17.4
Final
[4]
Place
Swimmers
Time
Notes
1
Thompson Mann , Bill Craig , Fred Schmidt , Steve Clark (USA )
3:58.4
WR
2
Ernst-Joachim Küppers , Egon Henninger , Horst-Günter Gregor , Hans-Joachim Klein (GER )
4:01.6
3
Peter Reynolds , Ian O'Brien , Kevin Berry , David Dickson (AUS )
4:02.3
4
Viktor Mazanov , Heorhiy Prokopenko , Valentin Kuzmin , Vladimir Shuvalov (URS )
4:04.2
5
Shigeo Fukushima , Kenji Ishikawa , Isao Nakajima , Yukiaki Okabe (JPN )
4:06.6
6
József Csikány , Ferenc Lenkei , József Gulrich , Gyula Dobay (HUN )
4:08.5
7
Dino Rora , Gian Corrado Gross , Giampiero Fossati , Pietro Boscaini (ITA )
4:10.3
8
Geoff Thwaites , Neil Nicholson , Brian Jenkins , Bobby McGregor (GBR )
4:11.4
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 , Cordes , Shields , Dressel (USA )
2020 : Ryan Murphy , Michael Andrew , Caeleb Dressel , Zach Apple , Hunter Armstrong , Andrew Wilson , Tom Shields , Blake Pieroni (USA )