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). 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

Rank	Country	Time
1	Australia	4:14.8
2	Germany	4:17.7
3	France	4:21.7
4	Mexico	4:23.1
5	Finland	4:27.3
6	Israel	4:37.6

Heat Two

Rank	Country	Time
1	Japan	4:16.0
2	Italy	4:16.0
3	Soviet Union	4:16.2
4	Great Britain	4:16.8
5	Philippines	4:28.0
6	Brazil	4:30.1

Heat Three

Rank	Country	Time
1	United States	4:08.2
2	Canada	4:15.3
3	Netherlands	4:16.1
4	Hungary	4:17.7
5	Yugoslavia	4:25.5
6	Portugal	4:39.9

Final

Rank	Country	Time
1	United States	4:05.4
2	Australia	4:12.0
3	Japan	4:12.2
4	Canada	4:16.8
5	Soviet Union	4:16.8
6	Italy	4:17.2
7	Great Britain	4:17.6
8	Netherlands	4:18.2

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-11-05.