Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Appearance
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Men's 4 × 400 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 | |
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.[1]
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]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 | Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann |
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3:10.58 | |
2 | Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco |
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3:10.65 | |
3 | Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder |
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3:10.75 | |
4 | Pentti Rekola Börje Strand Voitto Hellstén Jussi Rintamäki |
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3:11.90 | |
5 | Ovidio de Jesús José Luis Villalongo Ramón Vega German Guenard |
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3:13.91 |
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr |
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3:09.28 | |
2 | Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski |
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3:09.67 | |
3 | Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Fraschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera |
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3:10.00 | |
4 | Marcel Lambrechts Jos Lambrechts Lodewijk De Clerck Roger Moens |
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3:15.26 | |
5 | Roger Bofferding Felix Heuertz Norbert Haupert Ramon Humbert |
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3:21.87 |
Heat three
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli |
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3:10.79 | |
2 | Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence |
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3:16.32 | |
3 | Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell |
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3:20.47 | |
- | Leonidas Kormalis Konstantinos Moragiemos Evangelos Depastas Vasilios Sillis |
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DNF |
Heat four
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis |
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3:10.58 | |
2 | William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi |
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3:10.66 | |
3 | Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson |
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3:10.91 | |
4 | Zdeněk Váňa Jaromír Šlégr Jaroslav Jirásek Josef Trousil |
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3:11.33 | |
5 | Konstantin Grachev Boris Kriunov Vladimir Polyanichev Arnold Matsulevych |
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3:12.31 |
Semifinals
[edit]The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence |
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3:06.53 | |
2 | Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann |
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3:07.60 | |
3 | Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell |
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3:07.67 | |
4 | Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Fraschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera |
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3:07.83 | |
5 | Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco |
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3:08.37 | |
6 | Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder |
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3:10.34 |
Heat two
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis |
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3:08.57 | |
2 | Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr |
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3:09.34 | |
3 | René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli |
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3:09.77 | |
4 | Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski |
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3:10.88 | |
5 | William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi |
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3:11.03 | |
6 | Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson |
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3:11.05 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis |
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3:02.37 | WR |
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Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann |
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3:02.84 | |
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Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr |
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3:04.13 | |
4 | Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence |
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3:05.18 | |
5 | Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell |
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3:08.47 | |
6 | René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli |
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3:09.55 |
Key: WR = world record; DNF = did not finish
References
[edit]- ^ "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.