Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 19 and 20 August.^[1]

Results edit

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	1	Soviet Union	Leonid Korolyov, Valeriy Yurchenko, Valeriy Yudin, Semyon Kocher	3:06.75	Q^[2]
2	1	United States	Mark Lutz, Darwin Bond, Ron Jenkins, Dennis Schultz	3:06.92	Q
3	1	France	Gilles Bertould, Patrick Salvador, Pierre Bonvin, Lionel Malingre	3:10.80	Q^[3]
4	1	Poland		3:11.2	q
5	1	Kuwait		3:23.7
1	2	Great Britain		3:10.0	Q
2	2	West Germany		3:10.8	Q
3	2	Italy	Daniele Giovanardi, Claudio Trachello, Giacomo Puosi, Pasqualino Abeti	3:12.2	Q^[4]
4	2	Puerto Rico		3:16.67	q

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	United States	Mark Lutz, Darwin Bond, Ron Jenkins, Dennis Schultz	3:04.40
	Great Britain	David Jenkins, Joe Chivers, Stephen Black, Stewart McCallum	3:05.38
	West Germany	Franz-Josef Gleen, Siegfried Götz, Wolfgang Druschky, Bernd Herrmann	3:06.11
4	France	Gilles Bertould, Patrick Salvador, Pierre Bonvin, Lionel Malingre	3:06.54
5	Poland		3:07.56
6	Italy	Daniele Giovanardi, Claudio Trachello, Giacomo Puosi, Pasqualino Abeti	3:09.17	^[7]
	Soviet Union	Leonid Korolyov, Valeriy Yurchenko, Valeriy Yudin, Semyon Kocher	DQ	^[a]^[2]
	Puerto Rico		DNS

^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p73)
^ French results
^ "L'Universiade a metà azzurri" (in Italian). La Stampa. 20 August 1973. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
^ "Final results". Chicago Tribune. 21 August 1973. p. 43. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
^ "Nur ein Finale ohne einheimische Athleten" [Only one final without local athletes]. Leichtathletik (in German). 35/1973. Bartels & Wernitz: 1250–1251. 28 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ "Maratona fra Italia e Bulgaria con scenimenti e contestazioni" (in Italian). La Stampa. 21 August 1973. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2020.