Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
| Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| 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 | |
The men's
Melbourne, Australia. There were fifteen nations competing.[1]
Final classification
| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | HEAT | FINAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
 United States (USA)
|
Tom Courtney Charles Jenkins Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn |
3:10.6 | 3:04.7 |
|
 Australia (AUS)
|
Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper Leon Gregory David Lean John Goodman |
3:10.4 | 3:06.0 |
|
 Great Britain (GBR)
|
3:08.8 | 3:07.1 | |
| 4. |  United Team of Germany (EUA)
|
Manfred Porschke
|
3:09.8 | 3:08.2 |
| 5. |  Canada (CAN)
|
3:10.6 | 3:10.2 | |
| 6. |  Jamaica (JAM)
|
3:11.0 | DSQ | |
| — |  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
|
Vilem Mandlik
|
3:10.6 | DNQ |
| — |  Soviet Union (URS)
|
Anatoliy Yulin Ardalion Ignatyev Konstantin Grachev Yuriy Lituyev |
3:11.2 | DNQ |
| — |  Finland (FIN)
|
Voitto Hellstén
|
3:11.4 | DNQ |
| — |  France (FRA)
|
Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau Pierre Haarhoff |
3:10.6 | DNQ |
| — |  Japan (JPN)
|
Kanji Akagi Keiji Ogushi Shigeharu Suzuki Yoshitaka Muroya |
3:13.8 | DNQ |
| — |  Puerto Rico (PUR)
|
Iván Rodríguez
Ovidio de Jesús |
3:13.8 | DNQ |
| — |  Kenya (KEN)
|
Kamau George Wanyoke
Kibet Boit |
3:17.6 | DNQ |
| — |  Colombia (COL)
|
Carlos Sierra Guillermo Zapata Alfonso Muñoz Jaime Aparicio |
3:27.4 | DNQ |
| — |  Ethiopia (ETH)
|
Hailou Abebe
Mamo Wolde |
3:30.0 | DNQ |
References
- ^ "Athletics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2017.