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

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Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue Olympic Stadium
DatesSeptember 7 (heats and semifinals)
September 8 (final)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany
Silver medal icon.svg Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Bronze medal icon.svg Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
  1956
1964  

The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8. [1]

Results

Heats

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

Heat one

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 40.27
2 Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 40.39
3 Peter Laeng
Heinz Müller
Werner Schaufelberger
Sebald Schnellmann
Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 40.92
4 Jassim Karim Kuraishi
Khudhir Zalata
Falih Fahmi
Mahmoud Ghanim
Flag of Iraq (1959-1963).svg  Iraq 41.87
5 Boonsong Arjtaweekul
Prajim Wongsuwan
Phaibulya Vacharabhan
Suthi Manyakass
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand 42.19

Heat two

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Armando Sardi
Pier Giorgio Cazzola
Salvatore Giannone
Livio Berruti
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 40.16
2 Jimmy Omagbemi
Abdul Karim Amu
Smart Akraka
Adebayo Oladapo
Flag of Nigeria (1952-1960).svg  Nigeria 40.25
3 Clive Bonas
Horacio Esteves*
Emilio Romero
Rafael Romero
Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).png  Venezuela 41.11
4 Remegio Vista
Isaac Gómez
Enrique Bautista
Rogelio Onofre
Flag of the Philippines (1936-1985, 1986-1998).svg  Philippines 41.55
- Aggrey Awori
Gadi Ado
Erasmus Amukun
Jean Baptiste Okello
Flag of the Uganda Protectorate.svg  Uganda [41.90]DQ

Heat three

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 39.61=WR
2 Ioannis Komitoudis
Konstantinos Lolos
Leonidas Kormalis
Nikolaos Georgopoulos
Flag of Greece (1828-1978).svg  Greece 41.81
3 Abdul Malik
Muhammad Ramzan Ali
Ghulam Raziq
Abdul Khaliq
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 42.67
- Marian Foik
Jan Jarzembowski
Józef Szmidt
Jerzy Juskowiak
Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland [40.73]DQ

Heat four

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Frank Budd
Ray Norton
Stone Johnson
Dave Sime
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 39.87
2 Lynn Eves
George Short
Terry Tobacco
Harry Jerome*
Canadian Red Ensign (1957-1965).svg  Canada 42.27
3 Keiji Ogushi
Kimitada Hayase
Takayuki Okazaki
Hiroshi Shibata
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 42.60
4 Abdul Ghafar Ghafoori
Abdul Hadi Shekaib
Habib Sayed
Ali Yusuf Zaid
Flag of Afghanistan (1931-1973).svg  Afghanistan 44.53
- Paul Genevay
Jocelyn Delecour
Abdoulaye Seye
Claude Piquemal
Flag of France.svg  France [40.45]DQ

Semifinals

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

Heat one

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 39.88
2 Clive Bonas
Lloyd Murad
Emilio Romero
Rafael Romero
Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).png  Venezuela 40.49
3 Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 40.63
4 Lynn Eves
George Short
Terry Tobacco
Sig Ohlemann
Canadian Red Ensign (1957-1965).svg  Canada 41.27
5 Keiji Ogushi
Kimitada Hayase
Takayuki Okazaki
Hiroshi Shibata
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 42.39
- Jimmy Omagbemi
Abdul Karim Amu
Smart Akraka
Adebayo Oladapo
Flag of Nigeria (1952-1960).svg  Nigeria [40.33]DQ

Heat two

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1 Frank Budd
Ray Norton
Stone Johnson
Dave Sime
Flag of the United States.svg  United States 39.67
2 Armando Sardi
Pier Giorgio Cazzola
Salvatore Giannone
Livio Berruti
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 40.29
3 Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 40.30
4 Peter Laeng
Heinz Müller
Werner Schaufelberger
Sebald Schnellmann
Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 41.06
5 Ioannis Komitoudis
Konstantinos Lolos
Leonidas Kormalis
Nikolaos Georgopoulos
Flag of Greece (1828-1978).svg  Greece 41.90
6 Abdul Malik
Muhammad Ramzan Ali
Ghulam Raziq
Abdul Khaliq
Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan 42.99

Final

The United States team (of Frank Budd-Ray Norton-Stone Johnson-Dave Sime) finished first in a world record time of 39.4 s but were disqualified because at the first exchange from Budd to Norton, Norton started too early and the exchange happened outside the changeover box. The West German team who finished second in 39.5 s received the gold medals and became the new world record holders.

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 39.4 (39.66)WR
Silver medal icon.svg Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 40.1 (40.24)
Bronze medal icon.svg Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 40.2 (40.32)
4 Armando Sardi
Pier Giorgio Cazzola
Salvatore Giannone
Livio Berruti
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 40.2 (40.33)
5 Clive Bonas
Lloyd Murad
Emilio Romero
Rafael Romero
Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).png  Venezuela 40.7 (40.83)
- Frank Budd
Ray Norton
Stone Johnson
Dave Sime
Flag of the United States.svg  United States [39.4 (39.60)]DQ

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

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