# Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four

The men's coxless fours competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Albano, Italy. The event was held from August 31 until September 3.

## Competition format

This rowing competition consisted of two main rounds (heats and final), as well as a repechage round that allowed teams that did not win their heats to advance to the final. All races were 2,000 metres in distance.
* Heats: Three heats. With 16 boats entered, there were five or six boats per heat. The winner of each heat advanced directly to the final; all other boats went to the repechage.
* Repechage: Three heats. With 13 boats racing in but not winning their initial heats, there were four or five boats per repechage heat. The top boat in each repechage heat advanced to the final, with the remaining boats eliminated.
* Final: The final consisted of the six boats that had won either the preliminary heats or the repechage heats.

## Results
### Heats
#### Heat 1

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Michael BeresfordChristopher DavidgeColin PorterJohn Vigurs | Great Britain | 6:28.18 | Q |
| 2 | Arthur AyraultTed NashJohn SayreRusty Wailes | United States | 6:29.67 | R |
| 3 | Benedykt AugustyniakKazimierz NeumannBogdan PoniatowskiAntoni Rosołowicz | Poland | 6:34.20 | R |
| 4 | Lajos KissGyörgy SarlósJózsef SátoriBéla Zsitnik | Hungary | 6:34.90 | R |
| 5 | Hugo ChristiansenMogens JensenBørge Kaas AndersenOle Kassow | Denmark | 6:44.20 | R |
| 6 | Eero LaineHeikki LainePertti LaineArto Nikulainen | Finland | 7:08.95 | R |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jindřich BlažekMiroslav JíškaRené LíbalJaroslav Starosta | Czechoslovakia | 6:36.65 | Q |
| 2 | Martin BielzIonel PetrovȘtefan PongratzIosif Varga | Romania | 6:43.45 | R |
| 3 | David LordJack MokTrevor SteynJohn Stocchi | South Africa | 6:46.58 | R |
| 4 | Peter GillonPeter GuestKim JelbartBrian Vear | Australia | 6:49.83 | R |
| 5 | Robert AdamsClayton BrownChris LeachFranklin Zielski | Canada | 6:56.32 | R |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Igor AkhremchikYuriy BachurovValentin MorkovkinAnatoly Tarabrin | Soviet Union | 6:29.41 | Q |
| 2 | Tullio BaragliaRenato BosattaGiancarlo CrostaGiuseppe Galante | Italy | 6:31.84 | R |
| 3 | Victor HendrixManfred KluthGeorg NiermannAlbrecht Wehselau | United Team of Germany | 6:36.81 | R |
| 4 | Paul KöllikerGottfried KottmannKurt SchmidRolf Streuli | Switzerland | 6:43.48 | R |
| 5 | Juan HuberHéctor MoniÁngel PontaroloVicente Vansteenkiste | Argentina | 6:52.32 | R |

### Repechage
#### Repechage heat 1

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Arthur AyraultTed NashJohn SayreRusty Wailes | United States | 6:24.84 | Q |
| 2 | Victor HendrixManfred KluthGeorg NiermannAlbrecht Wehselau | United Team of Germany | 6:27.61 | |
| 3 | Robert AdamsClayton BrownChris LeachFranklin Zielski | Canada | 6:44.77 | |
| 4 | Peter GillonPeter GuestKim JelbartBrian Vear | Australia | 6:45.25 | |

#### Repechage heat 2

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Paul KöllikerGottfried KottmannKurt SchmidRolf Streuli | Switzerland | 6:42.19 | Q |
| 2 | Martin BielzIonel PetrovȘtefan PongratzIosif Varga | Romania | 6:47.04 | |
| 3 | Benedykt AugustyniakKazimierz NeumannBogdan PoniatowskiAntoni Rosołowicz | Poland | 6:48.50 | |
| 4 | Juan HuberHéctor MoniÁngel PontaroloVicente Vansteenkiste | Argentina | 6:56.35 | |
| – | Eero LaineHeikki LainePertti LaineArto Nikulainen | Finland | DNS | |

#### Repechage heat 3

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Tullio BaragliaRenato BosattaGiancarlo CrostaGiuseppe Galante | Italy | 6:37.79 | Q |
| 2 | Lajos KissGyörgy SarlósJózsef SátoriBéla Zsitnik | Hungary | 6:43.44 | |
| 3 | Hugo ChristiansenMogens JensenBørge Kaas AndersenOle Kassow | Denmark | 6:49.75 | |
| 4 | David LordJack MokTrevor SteynJohn Stocchi | South Africa | 6:50.32 | |

### Final

| Rank | Rowers | Nation | Time |
| | Arthur AyraultTed NashJohn SayreRusty Wailes | United States | 6:26.26 |
| | Tullio BaragliaRenato BosattaGiancarlo CrostaGiuseppe Galante | Italy | 6:28.78 |
| | Igor AkhremchikYuriy BachurovValentin MorkovkinAnatoly Tarabrin | Soviet Union | 6:29.62 |
| 4 | Jindřich BlažekMiroslav JíškaRené LíbalJaroslav Starosta | Czechoslovakia | 6:34.30 |
| 5 | Michael BeresfordChristopher DavidgeColin PorterJohn Vigurs | Great Britain | 6:36.18 |
| 6 | Paul KöllikerGottfried KottmannKurt SchmidRolf Streuli | Switzerland | 6:38.81 |