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

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.

## 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 Mäkelä • Ossi Karttunen • Stig Lönnqvist • 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 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

| 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 |