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
VenueOlympic Stadium
DatesSeptember 7 (heats and semifinals)
September 8 (final)
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
 United Team of Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
 Great Britain
← 1956
1964 →

Results

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Heats

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

Heat one

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
  Great Britain 40.27
2 Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
  Soviet Union 40.39
3 Peter Laeng
Heinz Müller
Werner Schaufelberger
Sebald Schnellmann
  Switzerland 40.92
4 Jassim Karim Kuraishi
Khudhir Zalata
Falih Fahmi
Mahmoud Ghanim
  Iraq 41.87
5 Boonsong Arjtaweekul
Prajim Wongsuwan
Phaibulya Vacharabhan
Suthi Manyakass
  Thailand 42.19

Heat two

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Armando Sardi
Pier Giorgio Cazzola
Salvatore Giannone
Livio Berruti
  Italy 40.16
2 Jimmy Omagbemi
Abdul Karim Amu
Smart Akraka
Adebayo Oladapo
  Nigeria 40.25
3 Clive Bonas
Horacio Esteves*
Emilio Romero
Rafael Romero
  Venezuela 41.11
4 Remegio Vista
Isaac Gómez
Enrique Bautista
Rogelio Onofre
  Philippines 41.55
- Aggrey Awori
Gadi Ado
Erasmus Amukun
Jean Baptiste Okello
  Uganda [41.90] DQ

Heat three

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
  United Team of Germany 39.61 =WR
2 Ioannis Komitoudis
Konstantinos Lolos
Leonidas Kormalis
Nikolaos Georgopoulos
  Greece 41.81
3 Abdul Malik
Muhammad Ramzan Ali
Ghulam Raziq
Abdul Khaliq
  Pakistan 42.67
- Marian Foik
Jan Jarzembowski
Józef Szmidt
Jerzy Juskowiak
  Poland [40.73] DQ

Heat four

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Frank Budd
Ray Norton
Stone Johnson
Dave Sime
  United States 39.87
2 Lynn Eves
George Short
Terry Tobacco
Harry Jerome*
  Canada 42.27
3 Keiji Ogushi
Kimitada Hayase
Takayuki Okazaki
Hiroshi Shibata
  Japan 42.60
4 Abdul Ghafar Ghafoori
Abdul Hadi Shekaib
Habib Sayed
Ali Yusuf Zaid
  Afghanistan 44.53
- Paul Genevay
Jocelyn Delecour
Abdoulaye Seye
Claude Piquemal
  France [40.45] DQ

Semifinals

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

Heat one

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
  United Team of Germany 39.88
2 Clive Bonas
Lloyd Murad
Emilio Romero
Rafael Romero
  Venezuela 40.49
3 Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
  Great Britain 40.63
4 Lynn Eves
George Short
Terry Tobacco
Sig Ohlemann
  Canada 41.27
5 Keiji Ogushi
Kimitada Hayase
Takayuki Okazaki
Hiroshi Shibata
  Japan 42.39
- Jimmy Omagbemi
Abdul Karim Amu
Smart Akraka
Adebayo Oladapo
  Nigeria [40.33] DQ

Heat two

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Frank Budd
Ray Norton
Stone Johnson
Dave Sime
  United States 39.67
2 Armando Sardi
Pier Giorgio Cazzola
Salvatore Giannone
Livio Berruti
  Italy 40.29
3 Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
  Soviet Union 40.30
4 Peter Laeng
Heinz Müller
Werner Schaufelberger
Sebald Schnellmann
  Switzerland 41.06
5 Ioannis Komitoudis
Konstantinos Lolos
Leonidas Kormalis
Nikolaos Georgopoulos
  Greece 41.90
6 Abdul Malik
Muhammad Ramzan Ali
Ghulam Raziq
Abdul Khaliq
  Pakistan 42.99

Final

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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.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
  United Team of Germany 39.4 (39.66) WR
  Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
  Soviet Union 40.1 (40.24)
  Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
  Great Britain 40.2 (40.32)
4 Armando Sardi
Pier Giorgio Cazzola
Salvatore Giannone
Livio Berruti
  Italy 40.2 (40.33)
5 Clive Bonas
Lloyd Murad
Emilio Romero
Rafael Romero
  Venezuela 40.7 (40.83)
- Frank Budd
Ray Norton
Stone Johnson
Dave Sime
  United States [39.4 (39.60)] DQ

Key: WR = world record; =WR = equalled world record; DQ = disqualified; * = competed in heats only

References

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  1. ^ "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.