1936 Summer Olympics / Swimming - 4 × 200 m freestyle (men)

sport	swim
discipline	4 × 200 m freestyle
gender	Men
Attendees	74 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Olympic swimming stadium
Competition phase	August 10, 1936 (semi-finals) August 11, 1936 (final)
Winning time	8: 51.5 min
Medalist  Japan Yusa , Sugiura , Taguchi , Arai  United States Flanagan , Macionis , Wolf , Medica  Hungary Lengyel , Abay-Nemes , Gróf , Csik
← 1932 1948 →

Swimming competitions at the 1936 Olympic Games
100 m freestyle	Men	Women
400 m freestyle	Men	Women
1500 m freestyle	Men
100 m back	Men	Women
200 m chest	Men	Women
4 × 100 m freestyle		Women
4 × 200 m freestyle	Men

The men's 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin took place on August 10th and 11th. Olympic champion was the Japanese relay with Yusa Masanori , Sugiura Shigeo , Taguchi Masaharu and Arai Shigeo , who swam a world record time in the final. Silver went to the Americans and bronze to Hungarians.

Records

Before the start of the Olympic Games, the following records were valid.

World record	8: 52.2 min	Japan	Tokyo , Japan	August 19, 1935
Olympic record	8: 58.4 min		Los Angeles , United States	August 9, 1932

The following new records were set:

World record	8: 51.5 min	Japan	final
Olympic record	8: 56.1 min		Semi-final 3

Results

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on August 10th. The first two seasons of each run as well as the two fastest third seasons qualified for the finals.

Semi-final 1

rank	nation	Athletes	time	Note
1	France	René Cavalero Alfred Nakache Christian Talli Jean Taris	9: 21.7 min	QQ
2	Canada	Munroe Bourne Bob Hamerton Robert Hooper Bob Pirie	9: 40.0 min	QQ
3	Brazil	Aluizio location Leônidas da Silva Manoel Villar Isaac Morais	9: 42.5 min
4th	Philippines	Jikirum Adjaluddin Arsad Alpad Nils Christiansen José Obial	9: 45.8 min
5	Bermuda	Edmund Cooper Leonard Spence Dudley Spurling John Young	10: 50.5 min
6th	Greece	Richardos Brousalis Spyridon Mavrogiorgos Panagiotis Provatopoulos Angelos Vlakhos	10: 51.0 min

Semi-final 2

rank	nation	Athletes	time	Note
1	United States	Ralph Gilman Charles Hutter Jack Medica Paul Wolf	9: 10.4 min	QQ
2	Hungary	Oszkár Abay-Nemes Ferenc Csik Ödön Gróf Árpád Lengyel	9: 20.8 min	QQ
3	Great Britain	Mostyn Ffrench-Williams Rom and Gabrielsen Bob Leivers Norman Wainwright	9: 30.8 min	qq
4th	Denmark	Poul Petersen Jørgen Jørgensen Aage Hellstrøm John Christensen	9: 39.6 min
5	Austria	Herbert Hnatek Franz Seltenheim Edmund Pader Günther Zobernig	10: 58.4 min
6th	Luxembourg	Norbert Franck Pierre Hastert Marcel Neumann Georges Tandel	10: 59.8 min
	Poland	Kazimierz Bocheński Helmut Barysz Joachim Karliczek Ilja Szrajbman	DSQ

Semi-final 3

rank	nation	Athletes	time	Note
1	Japan	Arai Shigeo Sugiura Shigeo Taguchi Masaharu Yusa Masanori	8: 56.1 min	QQ, ( OR )
2	German Empire	Helmut Fischer Hermann Heibel Wolfgang Heimlich Werner Plath	9: 21.4 min	QQ
3	Sweden	Björn Borg Sten-Olof Bolldén Sven-Pelle Pettersson Gunnar Werner	9: 35.3 min	qq
4th	Yugoslavia	Draško Vilfan Tone Gazzari Zmaj Defilipis Anton Cerer	9: 40.3 min
5	Egypt	Higazi Said Ibrahim Fadl Mahmoud Kadri Zaki Saad al-Dine	10:05.3 min

final

August 11, 1936

rank	nation	Athletes	time
1	Japan	Yusa Masanori Sugiura Shigeo Taguchi Masaharu Arai Shigeo	8: 51.5 min ( WR )
2	United States	Ralph Flanagan John Macionis Paul Wolf Jack Medica	9: 03.0 min
3	Hungary	Árpád Lengyel Oszkár Abay-Nemes Ödön Gróf Ferenc Csik	9: 12.3 min
4th	France	Alfred Nakache Christian Talli René Cavalero Jean Taris	9: 18.2 min
5	German Empire	Werner Plath Hermann Heibel Wolfgang Heimlich Helmut Fischer	9: 19.0 min
6th	Great Britain	Mostyn Ffrench-Williams Rom and Gabrielsen Bob Leivers Norman Wainwright	9: 21.5 min
7th	Canada	Munroe Bourne Bob Hamerton Robert Hooper Bob Pirie	9: 27.5 min
8th	Sweden	Björn Borg Sten-Olof Bolldén Sven-Pelle Pettersson Gunnar Werner	9: 37.5 min

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