Swimming World Championships 1973 at Beograd (yug) Men: 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay September 7: Final: 1. USA (Kurt Krumpholz, Robin Backhaus, Rick Klatt, Jim Montgomery) 7:33.22 (WR) 2. Australia (John Kulasalu, Stephen Badger, Bradford Cooper, Mike Wenden) 7:43.65 3. West Germany (Klaus Steinbach, Werner Lampe, Peter Nocke, Folkert Meeuw) 7:43.68 4. East Germany (Roger Pyttel, Peter Bruch, Wilfried Hartung, Lutz Unger) 7:44.44 5. Sweden (Bernt Zarnowiecki, Bengt Gingsjoe, Anders Bellbring, Gunnar Larsson) 7:45.58 6. Soviet Union (Viktor Aboymov, Vladimir Krivtsov, Aleksandr Samsonov, Vladimir Bure) 7:47.79 7. Great Britain (Brian Brinkley, Raymond Terrell, Colin Cunningham, Gordon Downie) 7:54.30 8. France (Patrick Moreau, Pierre Amardeilh, Olivier Middleton, Marc Lazzaro) 8:04.45