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
Men's 4 × 400 metres relay; at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 7 (heats and semifinals); September 8 (final)
Medalists
	← 1956 1964 →

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.^[1]

Results

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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
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
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

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

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
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
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

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

^ "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.