European Athletics Championships 1958/4 × 400 m men

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 400 m relay of men
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Attendees	8 relays with 32 athletes
Competition phase	August 23rd (preliminary) August 24th (final)
Medalist
gold	Great Britain
silver	Germany
bronze	Sweden

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The men's 4-by-400-meter relay at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23 and 24, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

Great Britain won the European championship in the line-up of Ted Sampson , John MacIsaac , John Wrighton and John Salisbury . Second place went to Germany with Carl Kaufmann , Manfred Poerschke , Johannes Kaiser and Karl-Friedrich Haas . Bronze went to Sweden (Nils Holmberg, Hans Lindgren, Lennart Johnsson, Alf Petersson).

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 03.9 min	Jamaica ( Arthur Wint , Leslie Laing , Herb McKenley , George Rhoden )	OS Helsinki , Finland	July 27, 1952
European record	3: 06.6 min	Federal Republic of Germany ( Hans Geister , Günther Steines , Heinz Ulzheimer , Karl-Friedrich Haas )
EM record	3: 08.7 min	France (Claude Haarhoff, Jacques Degats, Jean-Paul Martin du Gard , Jean-Pierre Goudeau)	EM Bern , Switzerland	August 29, 1950

Record improvements

The existing championship record was improved by eight tenths of a second in the final on August 24th by the British European championship relay:
3: 07.9 min - Great Britain ( Ted Sampson , John MacIsaac , John Wrighton , John Salisbury ) 

Preliminary round

August 23, 1958, 4:30 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three relays per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the finals, only one team per race was eliminated.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	Germany	Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas	3: 12.5
2	Soviet Union	Konstantin Gratschow Abram Krywoschejew Michail Nikolski Valentin Rachmanow	3: 13.2
3	Italy	Nereo Fossati Mario Fraschini Giovanni Scavo Renato Panciera	3: 13.3
4th	Finland	Börje Beach Pentti Rekola Jussi Rintamäki Voitto Hellsten	3: 13.4

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	Great Britain	Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury	3: 13.4
2	Sweden	Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Johnsson Alf Petersson	3: 14.6
3	Poland	Stanisław Swatowski Jacek Jakubowski Tadeusz Kaźmierski Zbigniew Makomaski	3: 14.9
4th	Switzerland	Bruno Urben Bruno Galliker Christian Wägli René Weber	3: 15.3

final

August 24, 1958, 5:15 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	Great Britain	Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury	3: 07.9 CR
2	Germany	Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas	3: 08.2 SB
3	Sweden	Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Johnsson Alf Petersson	3: 10.7 NO
4th	Italy	Nereo Fossati Mario Fraschini Giovanni Scavo Renato Panciera	3: 11.1 SB
5	Soviet Union	Konstantin Gratschow Abram Krywoschejew Michail Nikolski Valentin Rachmanow	3: 11.4 SB
6th	Poland	Stanisław Swatowski Jacek Jakubowski Tadeusz Kaźmierski Zbigniew Makomaski	3: 13.8 SB

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed April 26, 2019
• Men 4x400m Relay European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed April 26, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 26, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, 4 × 400 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on April 26, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on April 26, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 400 m , accessed on April 26, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 400 m on rfea.es, p. 37 (PDF), accessed on April 26, 2019