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 |  Vincent Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James Lee Evans
|
Mexico City (MEX) | October 20, 1968 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Record | 2:56.16 | Vincent Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James Lee Evans
|
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
 United States (USA)
|
• Herman Frazier • Benny Brown • Fred Newhouse • Maxie Parks |
2:58.65 |
|
 Poland (POL)
|
• Ryszard Podlas • Jan Werner • Zbigniew Jaremski • Jerzy Pietrzyk |
3:01.43 |
|
 West Germany (FRG)
|
• Franz-Peter Hofmeister • Lothar Krieg • Harald Schmid • Bernd Herrmann |
3:01.98 |
| 4. |  Canada (CAN)
|
• Ian Seale • Don Domansky • Leighton Hope • Brian Saunders |
3:02.64 |
| 5. |  Jamaica (JAM)
|
• Leighton Priestley • Donald Quarrie • Colin Bradford • Seymour Newman |
3:02.84 |
| 6. |  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
|
• Michael Solomon • Horace Tuitt • Joseph Coombs • Charles Joseph |
3:03.46 |
| 7. |  Cuba (CUB)
|
• Eddy Gutierrez • Damaso Alfonso • Carlos Alvarez • Alberto Juantorena |
3:03.81 |
| 8. |  Finland (FIN)
|
• 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | United States (USA)
|
• Herman Frazier • Benny Brown • Fred Newhouse • Maxie Parks |
2:59.52 |
| 2. | West Germany (FRG)
|
• Franz-Peter Hofmeister • Lothar Krieg • Harald Schmid • Bernd Herrmann |
3:03.24 |
| 3. | Jamaica (JAM)
|
• Leighton Priestley • Donald Quarrie • Colin Bradford • Seymour Newman |
3:03.86 |
| 4. | Canada (CAN)
|
• Ian Seale • Don Domansky • Leighton Hope • Brian Saunders |
3:03.89 |
| 5. | Finland (FIN)
|
• Hannu Mäkelä • Ossi Karttunen • Stig Lönnqvist • Markku Kukkoaho |
3:05.02 |
| 6. |  Puerto Rico (PUR)
|
• Pedro Ferrer • Ivan Mangual • Julio Ferrer • Jorge Ortíz |
3:06.08 |
| 7. |  Saudi Arabia (KSA)
|
• Kamil Al-Abbasi • Hamed Ali • Ahmed Asiry • Hassan Masallam |
3:17.53 |
| — |  Great Britain (GBR)
|
• Ainsley Bennett • Glen Cohen • David Jenkins • Alan Pascoe |
DNF |
Heat 2 edit
| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Poland (POL)
|
• Ryszard Podlas • Jan Werner • Zbigniew Jaremski • Jerzy Pietrzyk |
3:03.03 |
| 2. | Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)
|
• Michael Solomon • Horace Tuitt • Joseph Coombs • Charles Joseph |
3:03.54 |
| 3. | Cuba (CUB)
|
• Eddy Gutierrez • Dámaso Alfonso • Carlos Álvarez • Alberto Juantorena |
3:05.19 |
| 4. |  France (FRA)
|
• Hugues Roger • Roger Velasquez • Francis Kerbiriou • Hector Llatser |
3:05.48 |
| 5. |  Australia (AUS)
|
• Max Binnington • Peter Grant • Don Hanly • Rick Mitchell |
3:05.75 |
| 6. |  Soviet Union (URS)
|
• Dmitriy Stukalov • Vladimir Ponomaryov • Viktor Anokhin • Yevgeniy Gavrilenko |
3:07.72 |
| 7. |  Barbados (BAR)
|
• Victor Gooding • Harcourt Wason • Hamil Grimes • Orlando Greene |
3:08.13 |
| 8. |  Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)
|
• 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.