Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
| 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 4x100m Relay event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Eighteen nations took part in the competition.
Final classification
| RANK | NATION | NAME ATHLETES | HEAT | SEMI | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
 United States (USA) |
Thane Baker Leamon King Bobby Morrow Ira Murchison |
40.5 | 40.3 | 39.5 |
 |
 Soviet Union (URS) |
Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Vladimir Sukharev Boris Tokarev |
40.7 | 40.3 | 39.8 |
 |
 Germany (EUA) |
Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar Lothar Knörzer Leonhard Pohl |
40.8 | 40.5 | 40.3 |
| 4. |  Italy (ITA) |
Giovanni Ghiselli Franco Galbiati Luigi Gnocchi Vincenzo Lombardo |
40.9 | 41.1 | 40.3 |
| 5. |  Great Britain (GBR) |
Kenneth Box Roy Sandstrom David Segal Brian Shenton |
41.2 | 40.6 | 40.6 |
| 6. |  Poland (POL) |
Zenon Baranowski Marian Foik Janusz Jarzembowski Edward Szmidt |
40.9 | 41.0 | 40.6 |
| — |  Australia (AUS) |
Gavin Carragher Hector Hogan Raymond Land Edward McGlynn |
40.6 | 40.8 | DNQ |
| — |  Pakistan (PAK) |
Abdul Aziz Muhamad Sharif Butt Abdul Khaliq Ghulam Raziq |
41.3 | 40.8 | DNQ |
| — |  France (FRA) |
René Bonino Alain David Jocelyn Delecourt Constantin Lissenko |
40.8 | 41.3 | DNQ |
| — |  Japan (JPN) |
Kanji Akagi Akira Kiyofuji Masaji Tajima Kyohei Ushio |
42.2 | 41.3 | DNQ |
| — |  Hungary (HUN) |
György Csanyi Béla Goldoványi Sandor Jakabfy Geza Varasdi |
41.5 | 41.5 | DNQ |
| — |  Brazil (BRA) |
Ary Facanha de Sa Jorge Machado João Pires Sobrinho José Telles da Conceição |
41.6 | 43.8 | DNQ |
| — |  Canada (CAN) |
Joseph Foreman Richard Harding Stanley Levenson John Parrington |
41.7 | DNQ | DNQ |
| — |  Venezuela (VEN) |
Alfonso Bruno Clive Bonas Rafael Romero Apolinar Solorzano |
42.0 | DNQ | DNQ |
| — |  Thailand (THA) |
Montri Srinaka Phaibulya Vacharabhan Vanchak Voradilok Snay Wongchaoom |
44.2 | DNQ | DNQ |
| — |  Ethiopia (ETH) |
Haile Bekele Abebe Hailou Beyene Legesse Robba Nigouse |
44.3 | DNQ | DNQ |
| — |  Liberia (LBR) |
George Johnson Edward Martins Emmanuel Gbecy Putu James Roberts |
47.7 | DNQ | DNQ |
| — |  Nigeria (NGR) |
Edward Alabi Ajado Abdul Karim Amu Titus Abimbola Erinle Rafio Adio Oluwa |
DSQ | DNQ | DNQ |
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