Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 7 (heats and semifinals) September 8 (final)
Medalists
Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer Germany   Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin Soviet Union   Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead Great Britain

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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 x 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.

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	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 Fahmi Falih 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	James 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 Amukum Jean Baptiste Okello	Uganda	[41.90]	DQ

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer	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

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	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
-	James 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

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

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

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 4x100 metre relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-10.