Swimming World Championships 1978 at West-Berlin (wge) Men: 4 x 200 m Freestyle Relay August 24: Final: 1. USA (Bruce Furniss, Billy Forrester, Bobby Hackett, Rowdy Gaines) 7:20.82 (WR) 2. Soviet Union (Sergey Rusin, Andrey Krylov, Vladimir Salnikov, Sergey Kopliakov) 7:28.41 3. West Germany (Andreas Schmidt, Peter Knust, Karsten Lippmann, Frank Wennmann) 7:33.29 4. Sweden (Pelle Holmertz, Per-Ola Quist, Gary Andersson, Per-Alvar Magnusson) 7:33.48 5. Italy (Paolo Revelli, Marcello Guarducci, Raffaele Franceschi, Giorgio Quadri) 7:34.89 6. East Germany (Roger Pyttel, Detlev Grabs, Günter Schröder, Rainer Strohbach) 7:38.53 7. France (Pierre Andraca, Gilles Plancon, Didier Matusic, Fabien Noël) 7:39.87 8. Australia (Graeme Brewer, Ron McKeon, Glenn Patching, Mark Morgan) 7:39.94