Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

The men's 4 × 100 metres relay was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Eighteen nations took part in the competition.^[1]

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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
	United Team of 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 Muhammad 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 Solórzano	42.0	DNQ	DNQ
—	Thailand (THA)	Montri Srinaka Phaibulya Vacharabhan Vanchak Voradilok Snay Wongchaoom	44.2	DNQ	DNQ
—	Ethiopia (ETH)	Bekele Haile 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