| Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics |
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | |||
| 800 m | men | |||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 80 m hurdles | women | |||
| 110 m hurdles | men | |||
| 400 m hurdles | men | |||
| 3000 m steeplechase |
men | |||
| 4×100 m relay | men | women | ||
| 4×400 m relay | men | |||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 20 km walk | men | |||
| 50 km walk | men | |||
| Field events | ||||
| Long jump | men | women | ||
| Triple jump | men | |||
| High jump | men | women | ||
| Pole vault | men | |||
| Shot put | men | women | ||
| Discus throw | men | women | ||
| Javelin throw | men | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Decathlon | men | |||
These are the official results of the Men's 4x400m Relay event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were fifteen nations competing.
| RANK | NATION | NAME ATHLETES | HEAT | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States (USA) | Tom Courtney Charles Jenkins Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn |
3:10.6 | 3:04.7 | |
| Australia (AUS) | Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper Leon Gregory David Lean |
3:10.4 | 3:06.0 | |
| Great Britain (GBR) | Peter Higgins Derek Johnson John Salisbury Michael Wheeler |
3:08.8 | 3:07.1 | |
| 4. | Germany (EUA) | Karl-Friedrich Haas Jürgen Kühl Walter Oberste Manfred Porschke |
3:09.8 | 3:08.2 |
| 5. | Canada (CAN) | Douglas Clement Murray Cockburn Laird Sloan Terry Tobacco |
3:10.6 | 3:10.2 |
| 6. | Jamaica (JAM) | Keith Gardner George Kerr Melville Spence Malcolm Spence |
3:11.0 | DSQ |
| — | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | Jaroslav Jiranek Josef Trousil Vaclav Janesek Vilem Mandlik |
3:10.6 | DNQ |
| — | Soviet Union (URS) | Anatoliy Yulin Ardalion Ignatyev Konstantin Grachev Yuriy Lituyev |
3:11.2 | DNQ |
| — | Finland (FIN) | Eero Kivela Osvald Mildh Pentti Rekola Voitto Hellstén |
3:11.4 | DNQ |
| — | France (FRA) | Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau Pierre Haarhoff |
3:10.6 | DNQ |
| — | Japan (JPN) | Kanji Akagi Keiji Ogushi Shigeharu Suzuki Yoshitaka Muroya |
3:13.8 | DNQ |
| — | Puerto Rico (PUR) | Francisco Rivera Ismael Delgado Iván Rodríguez Ovidio de Jesús |
3:13.8 | DNQ |
| — | Kenya (KEN) | Arap Kiptalam Keter Bartonjo Rotich Kamau George Wanyoke Kibet Boit |
3:17.6 | DNQ |
| — | Colombia (COL) | Alfonso Muñoz Carlos Sierra Guillermo Zapata Jaime Aparicio |
3:27.4 | DNQ |
| — | Ethiopia (ETH) | Ayanev Bayene Beyene Legesse Hailou Abebe Mamo Wolde |
3:30.0 | DNQ |
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