Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.[1]
Men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |
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Venue | Olympic Stadium |
Dates | September 7 (heats and semifinals) September 8 (final) |
Medalists | |
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | |
800 m | men | women |
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 | |
Results
Heats
The fastest three teams in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead | 40.27 | ||
2 | Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin | 40.39 | ||
3 | Peter Laeng Heinz Müller Werner Schaufelberger Sebald Schnellmann | 40.92 | ||
4 | Jassim Karim Kuraishi Khudhir Zalata Falih Fahmi Mahmoud Ghanim | 41.87 | ||
5 | Boonsong Arjtaweekul Prajim Wongsuwan Phaibulya Vacharabhan Suthi Manyakass | 42.19 | ||
Heat two
Heat three
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer | 39.61 | =WR | |
2 | Ioannis Komitoudis Konstantinos Lolos Leonidas Kormalis Nikolaos Georgopoulos | 41.81 | ||
3 | Abdul Malik Muhammad Ramzan Ali Ghulam Raziq Abdul Khaliq | 42.67 | ||
- | Marian Foik Jan Jarzembowski Józef Szmidt Jerzy Juskowiak | [40.73] | DQ | |
Heat four
Semifinals
The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Frank Budd Ray Norton Stone Johnson Dave Sime | 39.67 | ||
2 | Armando Sardi Pier Giorgio Cazzola Salvatore Giannone Livio Berruti | 40.29 | ||
3 | Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin | 40.30 | ||
4 | Peter Laeng Heinz Müller Werner Schaufelberger Sebald Schnellmann | 41.06 | ||
5 | Ioannis Komitoudis Konstantinos Lolos Leonidas Kormalis Nikolaos Georgopoulos | 41.90 | ||
6 | Abdul Malik Muhammad Ramzan Ali Ghulam Raziq Abdul Khaliq | 42.99 | ||
Final
The United States team (of Frank Budd-Ray Norton-Stone Johnson-Dave Sime) finished first in a world record time of 39.4 s but were disqualified because at the first exchange from Budd to Norton, Norton started too early and the exchange happened outside the changeover box. The West German team who finished second in 39.5 s received the gold medals and became the new world record holders.
Key: =WR = equalled world record; DQ = disqualified; * = competed in heats only
References
- "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2017.