| Event: | Men's 4 × 100 metres relay |
| Games: | 1960 Summer |
| Venue: | Olympic Stadium |
| Dates: | September 7 (heats and semifinals) September 8 (final) |
| Longnames: | yes |
| Gold: | Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer |
| Goldnoc: | EUA |
| Silver: | Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin |
| Silvernoc: | URS |
| Bronze: | Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead |
| Bronzenoc: | GBR |
| Prev: | 1956 |
| Next: | 1964 |
The men's 4 × 100 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
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Armando Sardi Pier Giorgio Cazzola Salvatore Giannone Livio Berruti | 40.16 | ||
| 2 | Jimmy Omagbemi Abdul Karim Amu Smart Akraka Adebayo Oladapo | 40.25 | ||
| 3 | Clive Bonas Horacio Esteves | 41.11 | ||
| 4 | Remegio Vista Isaac Gómez Enrique Bautista Rogelio Onofre | 41.55 | ||
| - | Aggrey Awori Gadi Ado Erasmus Amukun Jean Baptiste Okello | [41.90] | DQ | |
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer | 39.61 | =WR | |
| 2 | Ioannis Komitoudis Konstantinos Lolos Leonidas Kormalis Nikolaos Georgopoulos | 41.81 | ||
| 3 | Abdul Malik Muhammad Ramzan Ali Ghulam Raziq Abdul Khaliq | 42.67 | ||
| - | Marian Foik Jan Jarzembowski Józef Szmidt Jerzy Juskowiak | [40.73] | DQ | |
Heat four
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frank Budd Ray Norton Stone Johnson Dave Sime | 39.87 | ||
| 2 | Lynn Eves George Short Terry Tobacco Harry Jerome | 42.27 | ||
| 3 | Keiji Ogushi Kimitada Hayase Takayuki Okazaki Hiroshi Shibata | 42.60 | ||
| 4 | Abdul Ghafar Ghafoori Abdul Hadi Shekaib Habib Sayed Ali Yusuf Zaid | 44.53 | ||
| - | Paul Genevay Jocelyn Delecour Abdoulaye Seye Claude Piquemal | [40.45] | DQ | |
The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer | 39.88 | ||
| 2 | Clive Bonas Lloyd Murad Emilio Romero Rafael Romero | 40.49 | ||
| 3 | Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead | 40.63 | ||
| 4 | Lynn Eves George Short Terry Tobacco Sig Ohlemann | 41.27 | ||
| 5 | Keiji Ogushi Kimitada Hayase Takayuki Okazaki Hiroshi Shibata | 42.39 | ||
| - | Jimmy Omagbemi Abdul Karim Amu Smart Akraka Adebayo Oladapo | [40.33] | DQ | |
Heat two
The United States team (of Frank Budd-Ray Norton-Stone Johnson-Dave Sime) finished first in a world record time of 39.4 s but were disqualified because at the first exchange from Budd to Norton, Norton started too early and the exchange happened outside the changeover box. The West German team who finished second in 39.5 s received the gold medals and became the new world record holders.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39.4 (39.66) | WR | ||||
| 40.1 (40.24) | |||||
| 40.2 (40.32) | |||||
| 4 | 40.2 (40.33) | ||||
| 5 | 40.7 (40.83) | ||||
| - | [39.4 (39.60)] | DQ |
Key: WR = world record; =WR = equalled world record; DQ = disqualified; * = competed in heats only