Swimming World Championships 1973 at Beograd (yug) Men: 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay September 5: Final: 1. USA (Mel Nash, Joe Bottom, Jim Montgomery, John Murphy) 3:27.18 2. Soviet Union (Igor Grivennikov, Viktor Aboymov, Vladimir Krivtsov, Vladimir Bure) 3:31.36 3. East Germany (Roland Matthes, Roger Pyttel, Peter Bruch, Hartmut Flöckner) 3:32.03 4. West Germany (Klaus Steinbach, Peter Nocke, Gerhard Schiller, P. Labudde) 3:33.33 5. Brazil (Ruy Oliveira, José Namorado, J. Adams, José Diaz) 3:33.39 6. Australia (Mike Wenden, Stephen Badger, Greg Rogers, John Kulasalu) 3:35.27 7. Italy (Roberto Pangaro, Alberto Castagnetti, Paolo Barelli, Marcello Guarducci) 3:36.84 8. France (Patrick Juge, Pierre-Yves Copin, André Foucart, Alain Hermitte) 3:41.26