Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay

at the Games of the XVII Olympiad

Venue

Dates

September 7 (heats and semifinals)
September 8 (final)

Medalists

01 !		Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer United Team of Germany
02 !		Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin Soviet Union
03 !		Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead Great Britain

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
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

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.

Results

The fastest three teams in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead	Great Britain	40.27
2	Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	40.39
3	Peter Laeng Heinz Müller Werner Schaufelberger Sebald Schnellmann	Switzerland	40.92
4	Jassim Karim Kuraishi Khudhir Zalata Fahmi Falih Mahmoud Ghanim	Iraq	41.87
5	Boonsong Arjtaweekul Prajim Wongsuwan Phaibulya Vacharabhan Suthi Manyakass	Thailand	42.19

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Armando Sardi Pier Giorgio Cazzola Salvatore Giannone Livio Berruti	Italy	40.16
2	Jimmy Omagbemi Abdul Karim Amu Smart Akraka Adebayo Oladapo	Nigeria	40.25
3	Clive Bonas Horacio Esteves* Emilio Romero Rafael Romero	Venezuela	41.11
4	Remegio Vista Isaac Gómez Enrique Bautista Rogelio Onofre	Philippines	41.55
-	Aggrey Awori Gadi Ado Erasmus Amukun Jean Baptiste Okello	Uganda	[41.90]	DQ

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer	United Team of Germany	39.61	=WR
2	Ioannis Komitoudis Konstantinos Lolos Leonidas Kormalis Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	41.81
3	Abdul Malik Muhammad Ramzan Ali Ghulam Raziq Abdul Khaliq	Pakistan	42.67
-	Marian Foik Jan Jarzembowski Józef Szmidt Jerzy Juskowiak	Poland	[40.73]	DQ

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Frank Budd Ray Norton Stone Johnson Dave Sime	United States	39.87
2	Lynn Eves George Short Terry Tobacco Harry Jerome*	Canada	42.27
3	Keiji Ogushi Kimitada Hayase Takayuki Okazaki Hiroshi Shibata	Japan	42.60
4	Abdul Ghafar Ghafoori Abdul Hadi Shekaib Habib Sayed Ali Yusuf Zaid	Afghanistan	44.53
-	Paul Genevay Jocelyn Delecour Abdoulaye Seye Claude Piquemal	France	[40.45]	DQ

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer	United Team of Germany	39.88
2	Clive Bonas Lloyd Murad Emilio Romero Rafael Romero	Venezuela	40.49
3	Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead	Great Britain	40.63
4	Lynn Eves George Short Terry Tobacco Sig Ohlemann	Canada	41.27
5	Keiji Ogushi Kimitada Hayase Takayuki Okazaki Hiroshi Shibata	Japan	42.39
-	Jimmy Omagbemi Abdul Karim Amu Smart Akraka Adebayo Oladapo	Nigeria	[40.33]	DQ

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Frank Budd Ray Norton Stone Johnson Dave Sime	United States	39.67
2	Armando Sardi Pier Giorgio Cazzola Salvatore Giannone Livio Berruti	Italy	40.29
3	Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	40.30
4	Peter Laeng Heinz Müller Werner Schaufelberger Sebald Schnellmann	Switzerland	41.06
5	Ioannis Komitoudis Konstantinos Lolos Leonidas Kormalis Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	41.90
6	Abdul Malik Muhammad Ramzan Ali Ghulam Raziq Abdul Khaliq	Pakistan	42.99

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer	United Team of Germany	39.66
02 !	Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin	Soviet Union	40.24
03 !	Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead	Great Britain	40.32
4	Armando Sardi Pier Giorgio Cazzola Salvatore Giannone Livio Berruti	Italy	40.33
5	Clive Bonas Lloyd Murad Emilio Romero Rafael Romero	Venezuela	40.83
-	Frank Budd Ray Norton Stone Johnson Dave Sime	United States	[39.60]	DQ

Key: =WR = equalled world record; DQ = disqualified; * = competed in heats only

4 × 100 metres relay at the Summer Olympics
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