1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (men)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 4 x 400 meter relay | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 76 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Stadio Olimpico | ||||||||
| Competition phase | September 7, 1960 (preliminary / semi-finals) September 8, 1960 (final) |
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The men's 4-by-400-meter relay at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 7th and 8th, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . 76 athletes took part in nineteen seasons.
The US relay was Olympic champion ahead of the German team. The bronze medal went to the relay of the West Indian Federation.
The Swiss relay reached the final and was sixth there. An Austrian relay did not take part.
Existing records
| World record | 3: 03.9 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 September 7th to four heats. in which the first three teams qualified for the semi-finals on the same day. The first three teams from the preliminary rounds also reached the final on September 8th.
Note: The qualified relays are highlighted in light blue.
Time schedule
September 7th, 10.30 a.m .: Preliminaries
September 7, 5.10 p.m .: semi-finals
September 8, 4.30 p.m .: Final
Prelims
Date: September 7, 1960, from 10.30 a.m.
Forward 1
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
.svg){kind=small} Germany
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Manfred children Hans-Joachim Reske Johannes Kaiser Carl Kaufmann |
3: 10.4 min | 3: 10.58 min | |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} Canada
|
Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco |
3: 10.5 min | 3: 10.65 min | |
| 3 |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder |
3: 10.6 min | 3: 10.75 min | |
| 4th |
 Finland
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Pentti Rekola Börje Beach Voitto Hellsten Jussi Rintamäki |
3: 11.7 min | 3: 11.90 min | |
| 5 |
 Puerto Rico
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Ovidio de Jesús José Luis Villalongo Ramón Vega German Guenard |
3: 13.9 min | 3: 13.91 min |
Forward 2
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
.svg){kind=small} West Indian Federation
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George Kerr James Wedderburn Keith Gardner Malcolm Spence |
3: 09.1 min | 3: 09.28 min | |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} Poland
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Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski |
3: 09.5 min | 3: 09.67 min | |
| 3 |
 Italy
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Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Faschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera |
3: 09.8 min | 3: 10.00 min | |
| 4th |
 Belgium
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Marcel Lambrechts Jos Lambrechts Lodewijk De Clerck Roger Moens |
3: 15.1 min | 3: 15.26 min | |
| 5 |
 Luxembourg
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Roger Bofferding Felix Heuertz Norbert Haupert Ramon Humbert |
3: 21.7 min | 3: 21.87 min |
Forward 3
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Switzerland
|
René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi's brother Christian Wägli |
3: 10.7 min | 3: 10.79 min | |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} South African Union
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Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence |
3: 16.1 min | 3: 16.32 min | |
| 3 |
 Great Britain
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Barry Jackson Malcolm Yardley John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell |
3: 20.3 min | 3: 20.47 min | |
| DNF |
.svg){kind=small} Greece
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Leonidas Kormalis Konstantinos Moragiemos Evangelos Depastas Vasilios Sillis |
Forward 4
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 United States
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Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis |
3: 10.4 min | 3: 10.58 min | |
| 2 |
.svg){kind=small} Ghana
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William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi |
3: 10.5 min | 3: 10.66 min | |
| 3 |
 Sweden
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Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson |
3: 10.7 min | 3: 10.91 min | |
| 4th |
 Czechoslovakia
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Zdeněk Váňa Jaromír Šlégr Jaroslav Jirásek Josef Trousil |
3: 11.2 min | 3: 11.33 min | |
| 5 |
.svg){kind=small} Soviet Union
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Konstantin Grachev Boris Kriunow Vladimir Poljanitschew Arnold Mazulewitsch |
3: 12.1 min | 3: 12.31 min |
Semifinals
Date: September 7, 1960, from 5:10 p.m.
Run 1
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
South African Union
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Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence |
3: 06.4 min | 3: 06.53 min | |
| 2 |
Germany
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Manfred children Hans-Joachim Reske Johannes Kaiser Carl Kaufmann |
3: 07.4 min | 3: 07.60 min | |
| 3 |
Great Britain
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Barry Jackson Malcolm Yardley John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell |
3: 07.5 min | 3: 07.67 min | |
| 4th |
Italy
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Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Faschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera |
3: 07.7 min | 3: 07.83 min | |
| 5 |
Canada
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Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco |
3: 08.2 min | 3: 08.37 min | |
| 6th |
Yugoslavia
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Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder |
3: 10.2 min | 3: 10.34 min |
Run 2
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United States
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Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis |
3: 08.4 min | 3: 08.57 min | |
| 2 |
West Indian Federation
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Malcolm Spence James Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr |
3: 09.2 min | 3: 09.34 min | |
| 3 |
Switzerland
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René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi's brother Christian Wägli |
3: 09.7 min | 3: 09.77 min | |
| 4th |
Poland
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Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski |
3: 10.8 min | 3: 10.88 min | |
| 5 |
Ghana
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William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi |
3: 10.9 min | 3: 11.03 min | |
| 6th |
Sweden
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Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson |
3: 10.9 min | 3: 11.05 min |
final
| space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United States
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Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis |
3: 02.2 min | 3: 02.37 min | WR |
| 2 |
Germany
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Hans-Joachim Reske Manfred children of Johannes Kaiser Carl Kaufmann |
3: 02.7 min | 3: 02.84 min | |
| 3 |
West Indian Federation
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Malcolm Spence James Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr |
3: 04.0 min | 3: 04.13 min | |
| 4th |
South African Union
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Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence |
3: 05.0 min | 3: 05.18 min | |
| 5 |
Great Britain
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Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell |
3: 08.3 min | 3: 08.47 min | |
| 6th |
Switzerland
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René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi's brother Christian Wägli |
3: 09.4 min | 3: 09.55 min |
Date: September 8, 1960, 4:30 p.m.
With the Olympic champions over 400 meters and 400 meter hurdles , the US relay was clearly favored. Starting runner Jack Yerman also brought the team into the lead, which was expanded to almost eight meters ahead of the last change. Final runner Otis Davis let the German businessman, who was only slightly defeated in the 400-meter final, come up to the 200-meter mark. Then Davis picked up the pace and was able to keep his opponent in check. The US team improved the world record by more than a second and a half. The German relay team, which won the silver medal, also stayed below the previous record time and at the same time set a new European record. Bronze went to the runners of the West Indian Federation.
Split times and individual running times - unofficial :
- Change 1 - 46.2 s USA (Yerman) / 46.5 s West Indies. Föd. (Spence) / 46.7 s South Africa (Jefferys) / 47.0 s Ges.-Deutschld. (Reske) / 47.1 s Great Britain. (Yardley) / 48.3 s Switzerland (Weber)
- Alternation 2 - 1: 31.8 min USA (Young 45.6 s) / 1: 31.9 min EUA (children 44.9 s) / 1: 32.8 min ZAF (E. Davis 46.1 s) / 1: 32.9 min BWI (Wedderburn 46.4 s) / 1: 34.2 min GBR (Jackson 47.1 s) / 1: 35.1 min SUI (Zaugg 46.8 s)
- Alternation 3 - 2: 17.1 min USA (G. Davis 45.4 s) / 2: 17.8 min EUA (Kaiser 45.9 s) / 2: 18.6 min BWI (Gardner 45.8 s) / 2: 19.4 min ZAF (Day 46.5 s) / 2: 21.8 min GBR (Wrighton 47.6 s) / 2: 22.9 min SUI (brother 47.8 s)
- Goal - 3: 02.2 min USA (O. Davis 45.0 s) / 3: 02.7 min EUA (Kaufmann 44.9 s) / 3: 04.0 min BWI (Kerr 45.4 s) / 3 : 05.0 min ZAF (Spence 46.5 s) / 3: 08.3 min GRB (Brightwell 46.5 s) / 3: 09.4 min SUI (Wägli 46.5 s)
In the tenth Olympic final, the US relay won its seventh gold medal.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 219f
Videos
- OLIMPIADI 1960 4X400 USA , published December 31, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed October 15, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 400 m , accessed on October 15, 2017
- Official report pp. 100-106, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 15, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 562 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 64 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 15, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 100/102 (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 15, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 104 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 15, 2017
- ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 106 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 15, 2017
- ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 219
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