Swimming European Championships 1997 at Sevilla (spa) Men: 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay August 20: Final: 1. Great Britain (Paul Palmer, Andrew Clayton, Gavin Meadows, James Salter) 7:17.56 2. Netherlands (Pieter van den Hoogenband, Mark van der Zijden, Martijn Zuijdweg, Marcel Wouda) 7:17.84 3. Germany (Lars Conrad, Christian Keller, Stefan Pohl, Steffen Zesner) 7:18.86 4. Italy (Massimiliano Rosolino, Emanuele Idini, Emiliano Brembilla, Paulo Ghighlione) 7:19.27 5. Poland (Dominik Matuzenicz, Bartosz Sikora, Maciej Kajak, Piotr Florczyk) 7:31.45 6. Switzerland (Adrian Andermatt, Philippe Meyer, Fausto Marui, Alex Meischer-Jost) 7:38.77 -. Sweden (Anders Lyrbring, Max von Bodungen, Lars Frölander, Jonas Lundström) disqualified -. Russia did not start