1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 6, 1932 (preliminary) August 7, 1932 (final)
Medalist  United States  DEU  ITA

The men's 4 by 100 meter relay at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 6 and 7, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 32 athletes took part in eight teams.

The US relay with Bob Kiesel , Emmett Toppino , Hector Dyer and Frank Wykoff won the gold medal in a new world record time . Silver went to Germany with Helmut Körnig , Friedrich Hendrix , Erich Borchmeyer and Arthur Jonath , bronze with Giuseppe Castelli , Ruggero Maregatti , Gabriele Salviati and Edgardo Toetti to Italy.

Existing records

• World record : 40.6 s - Germany ( Helmut Körnig , Georg Lammers , Erich Borchmeyer , Arthur Jonath ), Kassel , June 14, 1932
• Olympic record : 41.0 s - USA ( Frank Wykoff , James Quinn , Charles Borah , Henry Russell ), Amsterdam Olympic final , August 5, 1928

Conducting the competition

The relays competed on August 6 for two preliminary runs. The three best teams each qualified for the final, which was held on August 7th.

Note: The qualified relays are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

Date: August 6, 1932

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	German Empire	Helmut Körnig Friedrich Hendrix Erich Borchmeyer Arthur Jonath	41.2 s	electronic: 41.22 s
2	Japan	Takayoshi Yoshioka Nambu Chūhei Izuo Anno Itaro Nakajima	41.8 s
3	Great Britain	Don Finlay Stanley Fuller Stanley Engelhart Ernest Page	42.0 s
4th	Greece	Angelos Lambrou Christos Mantikas Vangelis Moiropoulos Renos Frangoudis	42.9 s
5	British India	Bunoo Sutton Ronald Vernieux Mehar Chand Dhawan Richard Carr	k. A.

Richard Carr, who started for the Indian relay team, was Olympic champion in hockey as a member of the Indian team .

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Bob Kiesel Emmett Toppino Hector Dyer Frank Wykoff	40.6 s	WRe / electronic: 40.61 s
2	Italy	Giuseppe Castelli Ruggero Maregatti Gabriele Salviati Edgardo Toetti	42.8 s
3	Canada	Percy Williams James Brown Harold Wright Birchall Pearson	45.0 s

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Bob Kiesel Emmett Toppino Hector Dyer Frank Wykoff	40.0 s	WR / electronic: 40.10 s
2	German Empire	Helmut Körnig Friedrich Hendrix Erich Borchmeyer Arthur Jonath	40.9 s
3	Italy	Giuseppe Castelli Ruggero Maregatti Gabriele Salviati Edgardo Toetti	41.2 s
4th	Canada	Percy Williams James Brown Harold Wright Birchall Pearson	41.3 s
5	Japan	Takayoshi Yoshioka Nambu Chūhei Izuo Anno Itaro Nakajima	41.3 s
6th	Great Britain	Don Finlay Stanley Fuller Stanley Engelhart Ernest Page	41.4 s

Date: August 7, 1932

The US season was the big favorite. She could even afford not to use three of her best sprinters this season. The double Olympic champion over 100 and 200 meters Eddie Tolan , Ralph Metcalfe , Olympic second over 100 and Olympic third over 200 meters , as well as George Simpson , Olympic medalist over 100 meters and bronze medalist over 200 meters were missing .
The world record was equalized in advance. The US team won the final by nine meters and improved the world record by another five tenths of a second with 40.0 seconds. The seats behind it were much tighter. Germany took silver with 40.9 s ahead of Italy - 41.2 s, Canada - 41.3 s and Japan - 41.3 s.

For the fourth time in a row, the USA became Olympic champions in the 4-by-100-meter relay .

The German team won silver for the second time in a row.

For Italy it was the first relay medal.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 245f

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m relay , accessed on September 17, 2017
• Official report pp. 439-440, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 17, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 561 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)