4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay, Men

Preliminary Round

Heat 1

Pos	Athlete(s)	Country	Mark
1	East Germany	GDR	3:30.31
	Roger Pyttel		52.55
	Detlev Grabs		52.21
	Günter Schröder		53.01
	Lutz Wanja		52.54
2	Soviet Union	URS	3:31.36
	Sergey Krasyuk		53.92
	Andrey Avtushenko		51.99
	Andrey Krylov		53.51
	Sergey Koplyakov		51.94
3	Netherlands	NED	3:34.09
	Cees Vervoorn		53.18
	Remmy Schaap		54.14
	Frans Debets		53.72
	Fred Eefting		53.05
4	Spain	ESP	3:35.29
	Juan Barro		53.55
	Jorge Comas		54.21
	Ramón Lavín		53.35
	Gonzalo Jiménez		54.18
5	Denmark	DEN	3:36.70
	Jasper Nordsted-Jørgensen		54.39
	Henrik Rasmussen		53.67
	Jens Bronnum		54.49
	Ole Johansen		54.15
6	Japan	JPN	3:37.78
	Hidenori Ishii		53.37
	Hiroshi Sakamoto		54.22
	Shinsuke Kayama		54.60
	Shuji Tsukasaki		55.19

Heat 2

Pos	Athlete(s)	Country	Mark
1	Sweden	SWE	3:27.19
	Per Holmertz		52.11
	Dan Larsson		51.45
	Per-Ola Quist		51.91
	Per-Alvar Magnusson		51.72
2	Canada	CAN	3:29.38
	Bill Sawchuk		—
	Graham Smith		—
	Gary MacDonald		52.93
	Peter Szmidt		51.31
	Graham Welbourn		52.48
	Jay Tapp		52.66
3	Italy	ITA	3:29.93
	Marcello Guarducci		51.10
	Raffaele Franceschi		52.98
	Paolo Sinigaglia		—
	Paolo Revelli		52.95
	Fabio Rampelli		52.90
4	Australia	AUS	3:30.28
	Mark Morgan		52.64
	Ron McKeon		53.54
	Graeme Brewer		51.94
	Glenn Patching		52.16
5	Puerto Rico	PUR	3:33.54
	Fernando Canales		51.63
	José-Ricardo de Jesús		53.97
	Carlos Berrocal		53.50
	Arnaldo Pérez		54.44
6	Ecuador	ECU	3:43.29
	Enrique Ledesma		56.70
	Gabriel Fierro		56.05
	Alfredo Mackliff		54.30
	Daniel Pinargote		56.24

Heat 3

Pos	Athlete(s)	Country	Mark
1	United States	USA	3:25.45
	Jack Babashoff		—
	Rowdy Gaines		—
	Jim Montgomery		—
	David McCagg		—
	Mark Greenwood		52.02
	David Dickson		51.49
	David Larson		51.28
	Joe Bottom		50.66
2	Great Britain	GBR	3:28.76
	Martin Smith		52.26
	Mark Taylor		53.30
	Richard Burrell		51.55
	David Dunne		51.65
3	Germany	GER	3:28.84
	Andreas Schmidt		51.69
	Ulrich Temps		52.21
	Peter Knust		—
	Klaus Steinbach		—
	Kersten Meier		52.56
	Karsten Lippmann		52.38
4	Israel	ISR	3:35.45
	Ron Kehrmann		54.19
	Zohar Weiss		54.15
	Amir Ganiel		53.86
	Nir Shamir		53.25
5	Portugal	POR	3:38.37
	Rui de Abreu		53.27
	Paulo Frischknecht		54.32
	José Gomes Pereira		53.25
	José Leite		57.53
DNS	Kuwait	KUW	—
DNS	New Zealand	NZL	—

Final

Pos	Athlete(s)	Country	Mark
1	United States	USA	3:19.74
	Jack Babashoff		51.30
	Rowdy Gaines		49.52
	Jim Montgomery		49.66
	David McCagg		49.26
	Mark Greenwood		—
	David Dickson		—
	David Larson		—
	Joe Bottom		—
2	Germany	GER	3:26.65
	Andreas Schmidt		52.01
	Ulrich Temps		51.99
	Peter Knust		52.17
	Klaus Steinbach		50.48
	Kersten Meier		—
	Karsten Lippmann		—
3	Sweden	SWE	3:26.95
	Per Holmertz		51.99
	Dan Larsson		51.72
	Per-Ola Quist		51.88
	Per-Alvar Magnusson		51.36
4	Canada	CAN	3:27.14
	Bill Sawchuk		52.76
	Graham Smith		51.82
	Gary MacDonald		50.90
	Peter Szmidt		51.66
	Graham Welbourn		—
	Jay Tapp		—
5	Italy	ITA	3:28.901
	Marcello Guarducci		51.94
	Raffaele Franceschi		52.46
	Paolo Sinigaglia		52.74
	Paolo Revelli		51.76
	Fabio Rampelli		—
6	Great Britain	GBR	3:28.93
	Martin Smith		52.69
	Mark Taylor		52.95
	Richard Burrell		51.30
	David Dunne		51.99
7	Australia	AUS	3:29.37
	Mark Morgan		52.64
	Ron McKeon		52.87
	Graeme Brewer		51.65
	Glenn Patching		52.21
8	East Germany	GDR	3:30.04
	Roger Pyttel		52.37
	Detlev Grabs		52.37
	Günter Schröder		52.78
	Lutz Wanja		52.52