Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were fifteen nations competing.

Final classification

RANK	NATION	ATHLETES	HEAT	FINAL
	United States (USA)	Tom Courtney Charles Jenkins Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn	3:10.6	3:04.7
	Australia (AUS)	Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper Leon Gregory David Lean John Goodman	3:10.4	3:06.0
	Great Britain (GBR)	Peter Higgins Derek Johnson John Salisbury Michael Wheeler	3:08.8	3:07.1
4.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	Karl-Friedrich Haas Jürgen Kühl Walter Oberste Manfred Porschke	3:09.8	3:08.2
5.	Canada (CAN)	Douglas Clement Murray Cockburn Laird Sloan Terry Tobacco	3:10.6	3:10.2
6.	Jamaica (JAM)	Keith Gardner George Kerr Mel Spence Malcolm Spence	3:11.0	DSQ
—	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Jaroslav Jirásek Josef Trousil Václav Janeček Vilem Mandlik	3:10.6	DNQ
—	Soviet Union (URS)	Anatoliy Yulin Ardalion Ignatyev Konstantin Grachev Yuriy Lituyev	3:11.2	DNQ
—	Finland (FIN)	Eero Kivela Osvald Mildh Pentti Rekola Voitto Hellstén	3:11.4	DNQ
—	France (FRA)	Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau Pierre Haarhoff	3:10.6	DNQ
—	Japan (JPN)	Kanji Akagi Keiji Ogushi Shigeharu Suzuki Yoshitaka Muroya	3:13.8	DNQ
—	Puerto Rico (PUR)	Frank Rivera Ismael Delgado Iván Rodríguez Ovidio de Jesús	3:13.8	DNQ
—	Kenya (KEN)	Kiptalam Keter Bartonjo Rotich Kamau George Wanyoke Kibet Boit	3:17.6	DNQ
—	Colombia (COL)	Carlos Sierra Guillermo Zapata Alfonso Muñoz Jaime Aparicio	3:27.4	DNQ
—	Ethiopia (ETH)	Ayanev Bayene Beyene Legesse Hailou Abebe Mamo Wolde	3:30.0	DNQ

External links

• Official Report
• Results