Swimming Olympic Games 1956 at Melbourne (aus) Men: 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay December 3: Final: 1. Australia (Kevin O'Halloran, John Devitt, Murray Rose, Jon Henricks) 8:23.6 (WR) 2. USA (Richard Hanley, George Breen, William Woolsey, Ford Konno) 8:31.5 3. Soviet Union (Vitaliy Sorokin, Vladimir Strushanov, Gennadiy Nikolayev, Boris Nikitin) 8:34.7 4. Japan (Manabu Koga, Atsushi Tani, Koji Nonoshita, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka) 8:36.6 5. Germany (Hans Kühler, Hans-Joachim Reich, Hans Zierold, Horst Sleeker) 8:43.4 6. Great Britain (Kenneth Williams, Ronald Roberts, Neil McKechnie, John Wardrop) 8:45.2 7. Italy (Federico Dennedein, Paolo Galletti, Guido Elmi, Anthony Romani) 8:46.2 8. South Africa (William Stewart, Anthony Briscoe, Dennis Ford, Peter Duncan) 8:49.5