1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Men
Attendees	80 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 30, 1976 (preliminary round / semi-finals) July 31, 1976 (final)
Medalist  United States  GDR  URS

The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 30 and 31, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 80 athletes took part in 20 relays.

Olympic champion was the US season in the cast Harvey Glance , Johnny Jones , Millard Hampton and Steve Riddick . Silver went to the East German squadron ( Manfred Kokot , Jörg Pfeifer , Klaus-Dieter Kurrat , Alexander Thieme ), bronze to the Soviet squadron with Alexander Aksinin , Nikolai Kolesnikow , Juris Silovs and Valerij Borsow .

The season of the Federal Republic of Germany was eliminated in the semifinals.
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	38.19 s	USA ( Larry Black , Robert Taylor , Gerald Tinker , Eddie Hart )	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	September 10, 1972
Olympic record			Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany

Conducting the competition

The relays completed three preliminary heats on July 30th, in which the five best teams and the next fastest relay qualified for the semi-finals on the same day. From this, the four best teams reached the final, which took place on July 31st.

Time schedule

July 30th, 10:45 am: Preliminary
July 30th, 3:00 pm: Semi-finals
July 31st, 6:45 pm: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The directly qualified squadrons are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: July 30, 1976, from 10:45 a.m.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Harvey Glance Johnny Jones Millard Hampton Steve Riddick	38.76 s
2	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Luciano Caravani Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	39.35 s
3	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marian Voronin Bogdan Grzejszczak Zenon Licznerski	39.41 s
4th	Bermuda	Mike Sharpe Dennis Trott Calvin Dill Gregory Simons	39.90 s
5	Spain	José Luis Sánchez Javier Martínez Francisco García López Luis Sarría	39.93 s
6th	Ivory Coast	Arsène Kra Konan Georges Kablan Degnan Gaston Kouadio Amadou Meïté	40.23 s
7th	Antigua and Barbuda	Calvin Greenaway Paul Richards Everton Cornelius Elroy Turner	41.84 s

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	GDR	Manfred Kokot Jörg Pfeifer Klaus-Dieter Kurrat Alexander Thieme	39.42 s
2	BR Germany	Klaus Ehl Klaus-Dieter Bieler Dieter Steinmann Reinhard Borchert	39.63 s
3	Soviet Union	Alexander Aksinin Nikolai Kolesnikow Juris Silovs Valeriy Borsow	39.98 s
4th	Senegal	Christian Dorosario Momar N'Dao Barka Sy Adama Case	40.40 s
5	Thailand	Anat Ratanapol Suchart Jaesuraparp Somsakdi Boontud Sayan Paratanavong	40.53 s
6th	Kuwait	Abdul Aziz Abdul Kareem Abdul Kareem Al-Awad Ibrahim Al-Rabeeah Abdul Latif Abbas	41.61 s
7th	Saudi Arabia	Mohamed Al-Sehly Mohamed Ali Al-Malky Salem Khalifa Hamed Ali	42.00 s

Forward 3

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Cuba	Francisco Gómez Alejandro Casañas Hermes Ramírez Silvio Leonard	39.54 s
2	France	Jean-Claude Amoureux Joseph Arame Lucien Sainte-Rose Dominique Chauvelot	39.71 s
3	Canada	Hugh Spooner Marvin Nash Albin Dukowski Hugh Fraser	39.72 s
4th	Trinidad and Tobago	Anthony Husbands Christopher Brathwaite Charles Joseph Francis Adams	40.08 s
5	Bahamas	Danny Smith Walter Callander Clive Sands Leonard Jervis	40.47 s
6th	Barbados	Rawle Clarke Hamil Grimes Pearson Jordan Pearson Trotman	41.15 s

Semifinals

Date: July 30, 1976, from 3 p.m.

Run 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Harvey Glance Johnny Jones Millard Hampton Steve Riddick	38.51 s
2	Cuba	Francisco Gómez Alejandro Casañas Hermes Ramírez Silvio Leonard	39.25 s
3	GDR	Manfred Kokot Jörg Pfeifer Klaus-Dieter Kurrat Alexander Thieme	39.43 s
4th	Canada	Hugh Spooner Marvin Nash Albin Dukowski Hugh Fraser	39.46 s
5	Bermuda	Mike Sharpe Dennis Trott Calvin Dill Gregory Simons	39.78 s
6th	Trinidad and Tobago	Anthony Husbands Christopher Brathwaite Charles Joseph Francis Adams	39.88 s
7th	Ivory Coast	Arsène Kra Konan Georges Kablan Degnan Gaston Kouadio Amadou Meïté	40.64 s
8th	Thailand	Anat Ratanapol Suchart Jaesuraparp Somsakdi Boontud Sayan Paratanavong	40.68 s

Run 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marian Voronin Bogdan Grzejszczak Zenon Licznerski	39.09 s
2	France	Jean-Claude Amoureux Joseph Arame Lucien Sainte-Rose Dominique Chauvelot	39.33 s
3	Soviet Union	Alexander Aksinin Nikolai Kolesnikow Juris Silovs Valeriy Borsow	39.36 s
4th	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Luciano Caravani Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	39.39 s
5	BR Germany	Klaus Ehl Klaus-Dieter Bieler Dieter Steinmann Reinhard Borchert	39.58 s
6th	Senegal	Christian Dorosario Momar N'Dao Barka Sy Adama Case	40.37 s
7th	Bahamas	Danny Smith Walter Callander Clive Sands Leonard Jervis	40.53 s
DSQ	Spain	José Luis Sánchez Javier Martínez Francisco García López Luis Sarría

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Harvey Glance Johnny Jones Millard Hampton Steve Riddick	38.33 s
2	GDR	Manfred Kokot Jörg Pfeifer Klaus-Dieter Kurrat Alexander Thieme	38.66 s
3	Soviet Union	Alexander Aksinin Nikolai Kolesnikow Juris Silovs Valeriy Borsow	38.78 s
4th	Poland	Andrzej Świerczyński Marian Voronin Bogdan Grzejszczak Zenon Licznerski	38.83 s
5	Cuba	Francisco Gómez Alejandro Casañas Hermes Ramírez Silvio Leonard	39.01 s
6th	Italy	Vincenzo Guerini Luciano Caravani Luigi Benedetti Pietro Mennea	39.08 s
7th	France	Jean-Claude Amoureux Joseph Arame Lucien Sainte-Rose Dominique Chauvelot	39.16 s
8th	Canada	Hugh Spooner Marvin Nash Albin Dukowski Hugh Fraser	39.46 s

Date: July 31, 1976, 6.45pm

The outcome of this competition was completely open. No nation had so distinguished itself in the sprint disciplines with particularly strong individual runners that it would have been a clear favorite. But even if the US-Americans came out with no medals over 100 meters this time, they still had the Olympic gold medal here and also won silver and bronze over 200 meters . The squadrons of the GDR and the Soviet Union were also highly rated. In the heats, the Americans, who were the only team to stay below the 39-second mark, were particularly convincing.

In the final, too, the US runners presented themselves extremely well with good changes. The other teams had nothing to counter this and so the US team won this race very clearly ahead of the GDR relay, which won the silver medal by a narrow margin before the Soviet Union. Not far behind were the runners from Poland in fourth place. These four seasons stayed under 39 seconds. In Mexico City there were six and in Munich five teams that were able to undercut this mark.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 237

Videos

• 1976 Montreal Olympic 4x100m final , published on 27 December 2009 to youtube.com, accessed on 15 December 2017
• Borzov (relay 4 × 100m) - 1976 Olympics Games, Montreal , published November 3, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed December 15, 2017

Web links

• Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 4 × 100 meters Relay in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ), accessed April 2, 2020.
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , pp. 64–66, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 15, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 561 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 15 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 15, 2017
3. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 64, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 15, 2017
4. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 65, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 15, 2017
5. ↑ Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 4 × 100 meters Relay in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ), accessed April 2, 2020.