The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on 7 and 8 September.
Results
Heats
The fastest three teams in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Joachim ReskeManfred KinderJo KaiserCarl Kaufmann 3:10.58 2 Ergas LepsJoe MullinsSig OhlemannTerry Tobacco 3:10.65 3 Srđan SavićÐani KovačMiloje GrujićViktor Šnajder 3:10.75 4 Pentti RekolaBörje StrandVoitto HellsténJussi Rintamäki 3:11.90 5 Ovidio de JesúsJosé Luis VillalongoRamón VegaGerman Guenard 3:13.91
Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Malcolm SpenceJim WedderburnKeith GardnerGeorge Kerr 3:09.28 2 Edward BożekStanisław SwatowskiBogusław GierajewskiJerzy Kowalski 3:09.67 3 Giuseppe BommaritoMario FraschiniNereo FossatiRenato Panciera 3:10.00 4 Marcel LambrechtsJos LambrechtsLodewijk De ClerckRoger Moens 3:15.26 5 Roger BofferdingFelix HeuertzNorbert HaupertRamon Humbert 3:21.87
Heat three Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 René WeberErnst ZauggHansruedi BruderChristian Wägli 3:10.79 2 Edward JefferysEdgar DavisGordon DayMalcolm Spence 3:16.32 3 Malcolm YardleyBarry JacksonJohn WrightonRobbie Brightwell 3:20.47 - Leonidas KormalisKonstantinos MoragiemosEvangelos DepastasVasilios Sillis DNF
Heat four Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Jack YermanEarl YoungGlenn DavisOtis Davis 3:10.58 2 William QuayeJames AddyFrederick OwusuJohn Asare-Antwi 3:10.66 3 Hans-Olof JohanssonPer-Owe TrollsåsLennart JonssonAlf Petersson 3:10.91 4 Zdeněk VáňaJaromír ŠlégrJaroslav JirásekJosef Trousil 3:11.33 5 Konstantin GrachevBoris KriunovVladimir PolyanichevArnold Matsulevych 3:12.31
Semifinals
The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Edward JefferysEdgar DavisGordon DayMalcolm Spence 3:06.53 2 Joachim ReskeManfred KinderJo KaiserCarl Kaufmann 3:07.60 3 Malcolm YardleyBarry JacksonJohn WrightonRobbie Brightwell 3:07.67 4 Giuseppe BommaritoMario FraschiniNereo FossatiRenato Panciera 3:07.83 5 Ergas LepsJoe MullinsSig OhlemannTerry Tobacco 3:08.37 6 Srđan SavićÐani KovačMiloje GrujićViktor Šnajder 3:10.34
Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Jack YermanEarl YoungGlenn DavisOtis Davis 3:08.57 2 Malcolm SpenceJim WedderburnKeith GardnerGeorge Kerr 3:09.34 3 René WeberErnst ZauggHansruedi BruderChristian Wägli 3:09.77 4 Edward BożekStanisław SwatowskiBogusław GierajewskiJerzy Kowalski 3:10.88 5 William QuayeJames AddyFrederick OwusuJohn Asare-Antwi 3:11.03 6 Hans-Olof JohanssonPer-Owe TrollsåsLennart JonssonAlf Petersson 3:11.05
Final
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jack YermanEarl YoungGlenn DavisOtis Davis 3:02.37 WR Joachim ReskeManfred KinderJo KaiserCarl Kaufmann 3:02.84 Malcolm SpenceJim WedderburnKeith GardnerGeorge Kerr 3:04.13 4 Edward JefferysEdgar DavisGordon DayMalcolm Spence 3:05.18 5 Malcolm YardleyBarry JacksonJohn WrightonRobbie Brightwell 3:08.47 6 René WeberErnst ZauggHansruedi BruderChristian Wägli 3:09.55
Key: WR = world record; DNF = did not finish
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