# Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.

## Results
### Heats

The fastest three teams in each of the four heats advanced to the semifinal round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann | United Team of Germany | 3:10.58 |
| 2 | Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco | Canada | 3:10.65 |
| 3 | Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder | Yugoslavia | 3:10.75 |
| 4 | Pentti Rekola Börje Strand Voitto Hellstén Jussi Rintamäki | Finland | 3:11.90 |
| 5 | Ovidio de Jesús José Luis Villalongo Ramón Vega German Guenard | Puerto Rico | 3:13.91 |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr | British West Indies | 3:09.28 |
| 2 | Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski | Poland | 3:09.67 |
| 3 | Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Fraschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera | Italy | 3:10.00 |
| 4 | Marcel Lambrechts Jos Lambrechts Lodewijk De Clerck Roger Moens | Belgium | 3:15.26 |
| 5 | Roger Bofferding Felix Heuertz Norbert Haupert Ramon Humbert | Luxembourg | 3:21.87 |
Heat three
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli | Switzerland | 3:10.79 | |
| 2 | Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence | South Africa | 3:16.32 | |
| 3 | Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell | Great Britain | 3:20.47 | |
| - | Leonidas Kormalis Konstantinos Moragiemos Evangelos Depastas Vasilios Sillis | Greece | | DNF |
Heat four
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis | United States | 3:10.58 |
| 2 | William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi | Ghana | 3:10.66 |
| 3 | Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson | Sweden | 3:10.91 |
| 4 | Zdeněk Váňa Jaromír Šlégr Jaroslav Jirásek Josef Trousil | Czechoslovakia | 3:11.33 |
| 5 | Konstantin Grachev Boris Kriunov Vladimir Polyanichev Arnold Matsulevych | Soviet Union | 3:12.31 |

### Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence | South Africa | 3:06.53 |
| 2 | Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann | United Team of Germany | 3:07.60 |
| 3 | Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell | Great Britain | 3:07.67 |
| 4 | Giuseppe Bommarito Mario Fraschini Nereo Fossati Renato Panciera | Italy | 3:07.83 |
| 5 | Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Sig Ohlemann Terry Tobacco | Canada | 3:08.37 |
| 6 | Srđan Savić Ðani Kovač Miloje Grujić Viktor Šnajder | Yugoslavia | 3:10.34 |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| 1 | Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis | United States | 3:08.57 |
| 2 | Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr | British West Indies | 3:09.34 |
| 3 | René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli | Switzerland | 3:09.77 |
| 4 | Edward Bożek Stanisław Swatowski Bogusław Gierajewski Jerzy Kowalski | Poland | 3:10.88 |
| 5 | William Quaye James Addy Frederick Owusu John Asare-Antwi | Ghana | 3:11.03 |
| 6 | Hans-Olof Johansson Per-Owe Trollsås Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson | Sweden | 3:11.05 |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis | United States | 3:02.37 | WR |
| | Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Jo Kaiser Carl Kaufmann | United Team of Germany | 3:02.84 | |
| | Malcolm Spence Jim Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr | British West Indies | 3:04.13 | |
| 4 | Edward Jefferys Edgar Davis Gordon Day Malcolm Spence | South Africa | 3:05.18 | |
| 5 | Malcolm Yardley Barry Jackson John Wrighton Robbie Brightwell | Great Britain | 3:08.47 | |
| 6 | René Weber Ernst Zaugg Hansruedi Bruder Christian Wägli | Switzerland | 3:09.55 | |
Key: WR = world record; DNF = did not finish