Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
5000 m | men | |
10,000 m | men | |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | |
20 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | |
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Combined events | ||
Pentathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
These are the official results of the men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event was held on 30 and 31 July 1976. There were a total number of 16 nations competing.[1]
Medalists
[edit]Records
[edit]These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics.
World Record | 2:56.16 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Mexico City (MEX) | October 20, 1968 |
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Olympic Record | 2:56.16 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Mexico City (MEX) | October 20, 1968 |
Results
[edit]Final
[edit]- Held on 31 July 1976. The final was run in a hard rain.
RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
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![]() | ![]() | • Herman Frazier • Benny Brown • Fred Newhouse • Maxie Parks | 2:58.65 |
![]() | ![]() | • Ryszard Podlas • Jan Werner • Zbigniew Jaremski • Jerzy Pietrzyk | 3:01.43 |
![]() | ![]() | • Franz-Peter Hofmeister • Lothar Krieg • Harald Schmid • Bernd Herrmann | 3:01.98 |
4. | ![]() | • Ian Seale • Don Domansky • Leighton Hope • Brian Saunders | 3:02.64 |
5. | ![]() | • Leighton Priestley • Donald Quarrie • Colin Bradford • Seymour Newman | 3:02.84 |
6. | ![]() | • Michael Solomon • Horace Tuitt • Joseph Coombs • Charles Joseph | 3:03.46 |
7. | ![]() | • Eddy Gutierrez • Damaso Alfonso • Carlos Alvarez • Alberto Juantorena | 3:03.81 |
8. | ![]() | • Hannu Mäkelä • Ossi Karttunen • Stig Lönnqvist • Markku Kukkoaho | 3:06.51 |
Semifinals
[edit]- Held on 30 July 1976
Heat 1
[edit]RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
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1. | ![]() | • Herman Frazier • Benny Brown • Fred Newhouse • Maxie Parks | 2:59.52 |
2. | ![]() | • Franz-Peter Hofmeister • Lothar Krieg • Harald Schmid • Bernd Herrmann | 3:03.24 |
3. | ![]() | • Leighton Priestley • Donald Quarrie • Colin Bradford • Seymour Newman | 3:03.86 |
4. | ![]() | • Ian Seale • Don Domansky • Leighton Hope • Brian Saunders | 3:03.89 |
5. | ![]() | • Hannu Mäkelä • Ossi Karttunen • Stig Lönnqvist • Markku Kukkoaho | 3:05.02 |
6. | ![]() | • Pedro Ferrer • Ivan Mangual • Julio Ferrer • Jorge Ortíz | 3:06.08 |
7. | ![]() | • Kamil Al-Abbasi • Hamed Ali • Ahmed Asiry • Hassan Masallam | 3:17.53 |
— | ![]() | • Ainsley Bennett • Glen Cohen • David Jenkins • Alan Pascoe | DNF |
Heat 2
[edit]RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
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1. | ![]() | • Ryszard Podlas • Jan Werner • Zbigniew Jaremski • Jerzy Pietrzyk | 3:03.03 |
2. | ![]() | • Michael Solomon • Horace Tuitt • Joseph Coombs • Charles Joseph | 3:03.54 |
3. | ![]() | • Eddy Gutierrez • Dámaso Alfonso • Carlos Álvarez • Alberto Juantorena | 3:05.19 |
4. | ![]() | • Hugues Roger • Roger Velasquez • Francis Kerbiriou • Hector Llatser | 3:05.48 |
5. | ![]() | • Max Binnington • Peter Grant • Don Hanly • Rick Mitchell | 3:05.75 |
6. | ![]() | • Dmitriy Stukalov • Vladimir Ponomaryov • Viktor Anokhin • Yevgeniy Gavrilenko | 3:07.72 |
7. | ![]() | • Victor Gooding • Harcourt Wason • Hamil Grimes • Orlando Greene | 3:08.13 |
8. | ![]() | • Cuthbert Jacobs • Paul Richards • Elroy Turner • Fred Sowerby | 3:09.66 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Summer Games: Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2017.