1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 4 x 400 meter relay | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 61 athletes from 15 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Melbourne Cricket Ground | ||||||||
| Competition phase | November 30, 1956 (preliminary) December 1, 1956 (final) |
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The men's 4-by-400-meter relay at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was played on November 30 and December 1, 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . 61 athletes took part in 15 relays.
The US relay won the Olympic gold medal with Lou Jones , Jesse Mashburn , Charles Jenkins and Tom Courtney in front of the Australian team ( Leon Gregory , Graham Gipson , Kevan Gosper and David Lean ). The British season won the bronze medal with the cast of John Salisbury , Michael Wheeler , Peter Higgins and Derek Johnson .
Swiss and Austrian relays did not take part. The German relay qualified for the final and finished fourth there.
Existing records
| World record | 3: 04.04 min |
.svg){kind=small} Jamaica ( Arthur Wint , Leslie Laing , Herb McKenley , George Rhoden ) |
Helsinki , Finland | July 27, 1952 |
| Olympic record | Helsinki Final , Finland |
Conducting the competition
The relays competed on November 30th to three preliminary runs. The two best teams each qualified for the final, which took place on December 1st.
Note: The qualified relays are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
November 30, 4:35 p.m .: Preliminaries
December 1 , 5:10 p.m . : Final
Note: All times are local time in Melbourne (UTC + 10)
Prelims
Date: November 30, 1956, from 4.35 p.m.
Forward 1
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
.svg){kind=small} Canada
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Laird Sloan Doug Clement Murray Cockburn Terry Tobacco |
3: 10.6 min | 3: 10.59 min | |
| 2 |
 United States
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Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn Charles Jenkins Tom Courtney |
3: 10.6 min | 3: 10.60 min | |
| 3 |
 Czechoslovakia
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Jaroslav Jirásek Václav Janeček Vilém Mandlík Josef Trousil |
3: 10.8 min | 3: 10.96 min | |
| 4th |
 Finland
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Pentti Rekola Ossi Mildh Eero Kivelä Voitto Hellsten |
3: 11.4 min | 3: 11.52 min |
Forward 2
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Germany
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Jürgen Kühl Walter Colonel Manfred Poerschke Karl-Friedrich Haas |
3: 09.8 min | 3: 09.88 min | |
| 2 |
 Australia
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Leon Gregory Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper John Goodman |
3: 10.4 min | 3: 10.57 min | |
| 3 |
 France
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Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau Pierre Haarhoff |
3: 11.8 min | 3: 11.76 min | |
| 4th |
.svg){kind=small} Japan
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Kanji Akagi Keiji Ogushi Shigeharu Suzuki Yoshitaka Muroya |
3: 13.8 min | 3: 13.75 min | |
| 5 |
 Puerto Rico
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Ovidio de Jesús Ismael Delgado Frank Rivera Iván Rodríguez |
3: 13.8 min | 3: 13.81 min | |
| 6th |
 Colombia
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Carlos Sierra Guillermo Zapata Alfonso Muñoz Jaime Aparicio |
3: 27.4 min | k. A. |
Forward 3
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Great Britain
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John Salisbury Michael Wheeler Peter Higgins Derek Johnson |
3: 08.8 min | 3: 08.76 min | |
| 2 |
Jamaica
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Keith Gardner George Kerr Malcolm Spence Melville Spence |
3: 11.0 min | 3: 11.07 min | |
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
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Konstantin Gratschow Yuri Litujew Anatoly Julin Ardalion Ignatjew |
3: 11.2 min | 3: 11.27 min | |
| 4th |
.svg){kind=small} Kenya
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Kamau Wanyoke Kiptalam Keter Kibet Boit Bartonjo Rotich |
3: 17.6 min | 3: 17.68 min | |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Ethiopia
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Ajanew Bayene Beyene Legesse Mamo Wolde Abebe Hailou |
3: 30.0 min | 3: 29.93 min |
final
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United States
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Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn Charles Jenkins Tom Courtney |
3: 04.8 min | 3: 04.81 min | |
| 2 |
Australia
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Leon Gregory Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper David Lean |
3: 06.2 min | 3: 06.19 min | |
| 3 |
Great Britain
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John Salisbury Michael Wheeler Peter Higgins Derek Johnson |
3: 07.2 min | 3: 07.19 min | |
| 4th |
Germany
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Jürgen Kühl Walter Colonel Manfred Poerschke Karl-Friedrich Haas |
3: 08.2 min | 3: 08.27 min | |
| 5 |
Canada
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Laird Sloan Doug Clement Murray Cockburn Terry Tobacco |
3: 10.2 min | 3: 10.33 min | |
| DSQ |
Jamaica
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Keith Gardner George Kerr Malcolm Spence Melville Spence |
Date: December 1, 1956, 5:10 p.m.
The US season was the clear favorite.
The intermediate results from change to change were as follows - Jamaica as a disqualified season is not listed here:
- Change 1: USA (Jones) 47.1 / AUS (Gregory) 47.2 / GER (Kühl) 47.5 / GBR (Salisbury) 47.6 / CAN (Sloan) 46.2
- Change 2: USA (Mashburn 46.4) 1: 33.5 / AUS (Lean 46.3) 1: 33.5 / GBR (Wheeler 46.8) 1: 34.4 / GER (Oberste 47.3) 1 : 34.8 / CAN (Clement 47.8) 1: 36.0
- Change 3: USA (Courtney 45.8) 2: 19.0 / AUS (Gipson 46.6) 2: 20.1 / GBR (Higgins 46.2) 2: 20.7 / GER (Pörschke 47.0) 2 : 21.8 / CAN (Cockburn 47.5) 2: 23.5
- Goal: USA (Jenkins 45.5) 3: 04.8 / AUS (Gosper 46.1) 3: 06.2 / GBR (Johnson 46.5) 3: 07.2 / GER (Haas 46.4) 3: 08.2 / CAN (Tobacco 46.7) 3: 10.2
Starting runner Lou Jones put the US team in the lead. The Australians, who had made a switch in the season - David Lean for John Goodman - were able to maintain the pace for 800 meters. But from the third round they had to be demolished. Somewhat surprisingly, however, they left the higher-rated seasons from Great Britain and Germany behind. The Jamaican team, Olympic champion four years ago with a different line-up, was the last team to cross the finish line with 3: 11.3 minutes. She was subsequently disqualified for crossing the lane limit. Jamaica's Olympic record and world record from the 1952 finals in Helsinki remained unchanged here in Melbourne .
In the ninth Olympic final, the US season ran to its sixth victory.
Australia's relay won the first medal for their country in this discipline.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 153f
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 400 m , accessed October 4, 2017
- Official report p. 317f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 562 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2017
- ^ Official report p. 317, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2017
- ^ Official report p. 318, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2017
- ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896–1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 153
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