Swimming Olympic Games 1968 at Mexico City (mex) Men: 4 x 100 m Medley Relay October 26: Final: 1. USA (Charles Hickcox, Don McKenzie, Doug Russell, Ken Walsh) 3:54.9 (WR) 2. East Germany (Roland Matthes* , Egon Henninger, Horst-Günther Gregor, Frank Wiegand) 3:57.5 3. Soviet Union (Yuriy Gromak, Vladimir Kosinskiy, Volodymyr Nemshilov, Leonid Ilyichev) 4:00.7 4. Australia (Karl Byrom, Ian O'Brien, Robert Cusack, Mike Wenden) 4:00.8 5. Japan (Yasuo Tanaka, Nobutaka Taguchi, Satoshi Maruya, Kunihiro Iwasaki) 4:01.8 6. West Germany (Reinhard Blechert, Gregor Betz, Lutz Stoklasa, Wolfgang Kremer) 4:05.4 7. Canada (James Shaw, William Mahony, Thomas Arusco, John Gilchrist) 4:07.3 8. Spain (Santiago Esteva, José Duran, Arturo Lang, José Chicoy) 4:08.8 * 58.0 (WR) at 100 m Backstroke