The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 7 and 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 RadfordDavid JonesDavid SegalNick Whitehead 40.27 2 Gusman KosanovLeonid BartenevYuriy KonovalovEdvin Ozolin 40.39 3 Peter LaengHeinz MüllerWerner SchaufelbergerSebald Schnellmann 40.92 4 Jassim Karim KuraishiKhudhir ZalataFalih FahmiMahmoud Ghanim 41.87 5 Boonsong ArjtaweekulPrajim WongsuwanPhaibulya VacharabhanSuthi Manyakass 42.19
Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Armando SardiPier Giorgio CazzolaSalvatore GiannoneLivio Berruti 40.16 2 Jimmy OmagbemiAbdul Karim AmuSmart AkrakaAdebayo Oladapo 40.25 3 Clive BonasHoracio Esteves*Emilio RomeroRafael Romero 41.11 4 Remegio VistaIsaac GómezEnrique BautistaRogelio Onofre 41.55 - Aggrey AworiGadi AdoErasmus AmukunJean Baptiste Okello [41.90] DQ
Heat three Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Bernd CullmannArmin HaryWalter MahlendorfMartin Lauer 39.61 =WR 2 Ioannis KomitoudisKonstantinos LolosLeonidas KormalisNikolaos Georgopoulos 41.81 3 Abdul MalikMuhammad Ramzan AliGhulam RaziqAbdul Khaliq 42.67 - Marian FoikJan JarzembowskiJózef SzmidtJerzy Juskowiak [40.73] DQ
Heat four Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Frank BuddRay NortonStone JohnsonDave Sime 39.87 2 Lynn EvesGeorge ShortTerry TobaccoHarry Jerome* 42.27 3 Keiji OgushiKimitada HayaseTakayuki OkazakiHiroshi Shibata 42.60 4 Abdul Ghafar GhafooriAbdul Hadi ShekaibHabib SayedAli Yusuf Zaid 44.53 - Paul GenevayJocelyn DelecourAbdoulaye SeyeClaude Piquemal [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 CullmannArmin HaryWalter MahlendorfMartin Lauer 39.88 2 Clive BonasLloyd MuradEmilio RomeroRafael Romero 40.49 3 Peter RadfordDavid JonesDavid SegalNick Whitehead 40.63 4 Lynn EvesGeorge ShortTerry TobaccoSig Ohlemann 41.27 5 Keiji OgushiKimitada HayaseTakayuki OkazakiHiroshi Shibata 42.39 - Jimmy OmagbemiAbdul Karim AmuSmart AkrakaAdebayo Oladapo [40.33] DQ
Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Frank BuddRay NortonStone JohnsonDave Sime 39.67 2 Armando SardiPier Giorgio CazzolaSalvatore GiannoneLivio Berruti 40.29 3 Gusman KosanovLeonid BartenevYuriy KonovalovEdvin Ozolin 40.30 4 Peter LaengHeinz MüllerWerner SchaufelbergerSebald Schnellmann 41.06 5 Ioannis KomitoudisKonstantinos LolosLeonidas KormalisNikolaos Georgopoulos 41.90 6 Abdul MalikMuhammad Ramzan AliGhulam RaziqAbdul 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. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Bernd CullmannArmin HaryWalter MahlendorfMartin Lauer 39.4 (39.66) WR Gusman KosanovLeonid BartenevYuriy KonovalovEdvin Ozolin 40.1 (40.24) Peter RadfordDavid JonesDavid SegalNick Whitehead 40.2 (40.32) 4 Armando SardiPier Giorgio CazzolaSalvatore GiannoneLivio Berruti 40.2 (40.33) 5 Clive BonasLloyd MuradEmilio RomeroRafael Romero 40.7 (40.83) - Frank BuddRay NortonStone JohnsonDave Sime [39.4 (39.60)] DQ
Key: WR = world record; =WR = equalled world record; DQ = disqualified; * = competed in heats only
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