Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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 x 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.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Herman Frazier Benny Brown Fred Newhouse Maxie Parks	Poland (POL) Ryszard Podlas Jan Werner Zbigniew Jaremski Jerzy Pietrzyk	West Germany (FRG) Franz-Peter Hofmeister Lothar Krieg Harald Schmid Bernd Herrmann

Records

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

Final

• 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 Makela • Ossi Karttunen • Stig Lonnqvist • Markku Kukkoaho	3:06.51

Semifinals

• Held on 30 July 1976

Heat 1

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 Makela • Ossi Karttunen • Stig Lonnqvist • Markku Kukkoaho	3:05.02
6.	Puerto Rico (PUR)	• Pedro Ferrer • Ivan Mangual • Julio Ferrer • Jorge Ortiz	3:06.08
7.	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	• Kamil Al Abbasi • Hamed Ali • Ahmed Asiry • Hassan Masallam	3:17.53
—	Great Britain (GBR)	• Ainsley Bennett • Glendon Cohen • David Jenkins • Alan Pascoe	DNF

Heat 2

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 • Damaso Alfonso • Carlos Alvarez • 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 Ponomarev • Victor Anohin • Yevgeniy Gavrilenko	3:07.72
7.	Barbados (BAR)	• Victor Gooding • Harcourt Wason • Hamil Grimes • Orlando Greene	3:08.13
8.	Antigua (ANT)	• Cuthbert Jacobs • Paul Richards • Elroy Turner • Fred Sowerby	3:09.66

References

• Official Report
• Results