Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 7, 1960 (heats and semifinals) September 8, 1960 (final)
Medalists
Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis   United States Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann   United Team of Germany Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr   British West Indies
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The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on 7 and 8 September. ^[1]

Results

Heats

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann	United Team of Germany	3:10.58
2	Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco	Canada	3:10.65
3	Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder	Yugoslavia	3:10.75
4	Pentti Rekola Börje Strand Voitto Hellstén Jussi Rintamäki	Finland	3:11.90
5	Ovidio de Jesús José Luis Villalongo Ramón Vega German Guenard	Puerto Rico	3:13.91

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr	British West Indies	3:09.28
2	Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski	Poland	3:09.67
3	Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Fraschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera	Italy	3:10.00
4	Marcel Lambrechts Jos Lambrechts Lodewijk De Clerck Roger Moens	Belgium	3:15.26
5	Roger Bofferding Felix Heuertz Norbert Haupert Ramon Humbert	Luxembourg	3:21.87

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli	Switzerland	3:10.79
2	Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence	South Africa	3:16.32
3	Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell	Great Britain	3:20.47
-	Leonidas Kormalis Konstantinos Moragiemos Evangelos Depastas Vasilios Sillis	Greece		DNF

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis	United States	3:10.58
2	William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi	Ghana	3:10.66
3	Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson	Sweden	3:10.91
4	Zdeněk Váňa Jaromír Šlégr Jaroslav Jirásek Josef Trousil	Czechoslovakia	3:11.33
5	Konstantin Grachev Boris Kriunov Vladimir Polyanichev Arnold Matsulevych	Soviet Union	3:12.31

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence	South Africa	3:06.53
2	Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann	United Team of Germany	3:07.60
3	Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell	Great Britain	3:07.67
4	Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Fraschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera	Italy	3:07.83
5	Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco	Canada	3:08.37
6	Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder	Yugoslavia	3:10.34

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis	United States	3:08.57
2	Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr	British West Indies	3:09.34
3	René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli	Switzerland	3:09.77
4	Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski	Poland	3:10.88
5	William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi	Ghana	3:11.03
6	Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson	Sweden	3:11.05

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis	United States	3:02.37	WR
	Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann	United Team of Germany	3:02.84
	Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr	British West Indies	3:04.13
4	Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence	South Africa	3:05.18
5	Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell	Great Britain	3:08.47
6	René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli	Switzerland	3:09.55

Key: WR = world record; DNF = did not finish

References

1. "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2017.