Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay
# Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay

The men's 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place August 29 — September 1. The relay featured teams of four swimmers each swimming four lengths of the 50 m pool freestyle.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| United States George Harrison Dick Blick Mike Troy Jeff Farrell | Japan Makoto Fukui Hiroshi Ishii Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Tatsuo Fujimoto | Australia David Dickson John Devitt Murray Rose John Konrads |

## Results

### Heats

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

**Heat One**

| Place | Swimmers | Time |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Makoto Fukui, Hiroshi Ishii, Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) | 8:17.1 |
| 2 | Hamilton Milton, John Martin-Dye, Richard Campion, Ian Black (GBR) | 8:26.9 |
| 3 | Vitaly Sorokin, Gennady Nikolayev, Serhiy Tovstoplet, Boris Nik'it'ini (URS) | 8:30.6 |
| 3 | Bengt-Olov Almstedt, Lars-Erik Bengtsson, Bengt Nordwall, Per-Ola Lindberg (SWE) | 8:30.6 |
| 5 | Andrzej Salamon, Bernard Aluchna, Jerzy Tracz, Jan Lutomski (POL) | 8:32.0 |
| 6 | Jean-Pascal Curtillet, Gérard Gropaiz, Marc Kamoun, Jean Boiteux (FRA) | 8:41.2 |
| 7 | Peter Bärtschi, Rainer Goltzsche, Karl Fridlin, Hans-Ulrich Dürst (SUI) | 9:18.1 |
| - | Horst-Günter Gregor, Gerhard Hetz, Frank Wiegand, Hans-Joachim Klein (GER) | DNS |

**Heat Two**

| Place | Swimmers | Time |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Bill Darnton, Tom Winters, Steve Clark, George Harrison (USA) | 8:18.0 |
| 2 | David Dickson, John Rigby, Allan Wood, John Devitt (AUS) | 8:24.2 |
| 3 | Frank Wiegand, Gerhard Hetz, Hans Zierold, Hans-Joachim Klein (GER) | 8:29.4 |
| 4 | Ilkka Suvanto, Kari Haavisto, Stig-Olof Grenner, Karri Käyhkö (FIN) | 8:29.7 |
| 5 | György Müller, László Lantos, Gyula Dobay, József Katona (HUN) | 8:32.6 |
| 6 | Fritz Dennerlein, Bruno Bianchi, Angelo Romani, Paolo Galleti (ITA) | 8:38.1 |
| 7 | Milan Jeger, Slobodan Kićović, Vlado Brinovec, Veljko Rogošić (YUG) | 8:49.8 |
| 8 | Raúl Guzmán, Alfredo Guzmán, Jorge Escalante, Mauricio Ocampo (MEX) | 8:50.4 |

### Final

| Place | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| | George Harrison, Dick Blick, Mike Troy, Jeff Farrell (USA) | 8:10.2 | WR |
| | Makoto Fukui, Hiroshi Ishii, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Tatsuo Fujimoto (JPN) | 8:13.2 | |
| | David Dickson, John Devitt, Murray Rose, John Konrads (AUS) | 8:13.8 | |
| 4 | Hamilton Milton, John Martin-Dye, Richard Campion, Ian Black (GBR) | 8:28.1 | |
| 5 | Ilkka Suvanto, Kari Haavisto, Stig-Olof Grenner, Karri Käyhkö (FIN) | 8:29.7 |
| 6 | Sven-Göran Johansson, Lars-Erik Bengtsson, Bengt Nordwall, Per-Ola Lindberg (SWE) | 8:31.0 | |
| 7 | Frank Wiegand, Gerhard Hetz, Hans Zierold, Hans-Joachim Klein (GER) | 8:31.8 | |
| 8 | Igor Luzhkovsky, Gennady Nikolayev, Vitaly Sorokin, Boris Nik'it'ini (URS) | 8:32.8 | |
