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

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Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue
Olympic Stadium
DatesSeptember 7 (heats and semifinals)
September 8 (final)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jack Yerman
Earl Young
Glenn Davis
Otis Davis
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
George Kerr
 British West Indies

The men's 4 × 400 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

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1
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
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
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
-
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  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
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
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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jack Yerman
Earl Young
Glenn Davis
Otis Davis
 United States 3:02.37 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Jo Kaiser
Carl Kaufmann
 United Team of Germany 3:02.84
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
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.