| Event: | Men's 4 × 400 metres relay |
| Games: | 1960 Summer |
| Venue: | Olympic Stadium |
| Dates: | September 7 (heats and semifinals) September 8 (final) |
| Longnames: | yes |
| Gold: | Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann |
| Silvernoc: | EUA |
| Bronze: | Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr |
| Bronzenoc: | BWI |
| Prev: | 1956 |
| Next: | 1964 |
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.[1]
The fastest three teams in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann | 3:10.58 | ||
| 2 | Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco | 3:10.65 | ||
| 3 | Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder | 3:10.75 | ||
| 4 | Pentti Rekola Börje Strand Voitto Hellstén Jussi Rintamäki | 3:11.90 | ||
| 5 | Ovidio de Jesús José Luis Villalongo Ramón Vega German Guenard | 3:13.91 | ||
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr | 3:09.28 | ||
| 2 | Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski | 3:09.67 | ||
| 3 | Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Fraschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera | 3:10.00 | ||
| 4 | Marcel Lambrechts Jos Lambrechts Lodewijk De Clerck Roger Moens | 3:15.26 | ||
| 5 | Roger Bofferding Felix Heuertz Norbert Haupert Ramon Humbert | 3:21.87 | ||
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli | 3:10.79 | ||
| 2 | Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence | 3:16.32 | ||
| 3 | Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell | 3:20.47 | ||
| - | Leonidas Kormalis Konstantinos Moragiemos Evangelos Depastas Vasilios Sillis | DNF | ||
Heat four
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis | 3:10.58 | ||
| 2 | William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi | 3:10.66 | ||
| 3 | Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson | 3:10.91 | ||
| 4 | Zdeněk Váňa Jaromír Šlégr Jaroslav Jirásek Josef Trousil | 3:11.33 | ||
| 5 | Konstantin Grachev Boris Kriunov Vladimir Polyanichev Arnold Matsulevych | 3:12.31 | ||
The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence | 3:06.53 | ||
| 2 | Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann | 3:07.60 | ||
| 3 | Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell | 3:07.67 | ||
| 4 | Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Fraschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera | 3:07.83 | ||
| 5 | Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco | 3:08.37 | ||
| 6 | Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder | 3:10.34 | ||
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis | 3:08.57 | ||
| 2 | Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr | 3:09.34 | ||
| 3 | René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli | 3:09.77 | ||
| 4 | Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski | 3:10.88 | ||
| 5 | William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi | 3:11.03 | ||
| 6 | Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson | 3:11.05 | ||
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:02.37 | WR | ||||
| 3:02.84 | |||||
| 3:04.13 | |||||
| 4 | 3:05.18 | ||||
| 5 | 3:08.47 | ||||
| 6 | 3:09.55 |
Key: WR = world record; DNF = did not finish