Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
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Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics ![]() |
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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, Canada. The event was held on 30 and 31 July 1976. There were a total number of 16 nations competing.
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Medalists
Gold | Silver | Bronze |
![]() Herman Frazier Benny Brown Fred Newhouse Maxie Parks |
![]() Ryszard Podlas Jan Werner Zbigniew Jaremski Jerzy Pietrzyk |
![]() 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 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Mexico City (MEX) | October 20, 1968 |
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Olympic Record | 2:56.16 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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 |
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• Herman Frazier • Benny Brown • Fred Newhouse • Maxie Parks |
2:58.65 |
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• Ryszard Podlas • Jan Werner • Zbigniew Jaremski • Jerzy Pietrzyk |
3:01.43 |
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• Franz-Peter Hofmeister • Lothar Krieg • Harald Schmid • Bernd Herrmann |
3:01.98 |
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• Ian Seale • Don Domansky • Leighton Hope • Brian Saunders |
3:02.64 |
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• Leighton Priestley • Donald Quarrie • Colin Bradford • Seymour Newman |
3:02.84 |
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• Michael Solomon • Horace Tuitt • Joseph Coombs • Charles Joseph |
3:03.46 |
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• Eddy Gutierrez • Damaso Alfonso • Carlos Alvarez • Alberto Juantorena |
3:03.81 |
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• Hannu Makela • Ossi Karttunen • Stig Lonnqvist • Markku Kukkoaho |
3:06.51 |
Semifinals
- Held on 30 July 1976
Heat 1
RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
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• Herman Frazier • Benny Brown • Fred Newhouse • Maxie Parks |
2:59.52 |
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• Franz-Peter Hofmeister • Lothar Krieg • Harald Schmid • Bernd Herrmann |
3:03.24 |
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• Leighton Priestley • Donald Quarrie • Colin Bradford • Seymour Newman |
3:03.86 |
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• Ian Seale • Don Domansky • Leighton Hope • Brian Saunders |
3:03.89 |
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• Hannu Makela • Ossi Karttunen • Stig Lonnqvist • Markku Kukkoaho |
3:05.02 |
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• Pedro Ferrer • Ivan Mangual • Julio Ferrer • Jorge Ortiz |
3:06.08 |
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• Kamil Al Abbasi • Hamed Ali • Ahmed Asiry • Hassan Masallam |
3:17.53 |
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• Ainsley Bennett • Glendon Cohen • David Jenkins • Alan Pascoe |
DNF |
Heat 2
RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
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• Ryszard Podlas • Jan Werner • Zbigniew Jaremski • Jerzy Pietrzyk |
3:03.03 |
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• Michael Solomon • Horace Tuitt • Joseph Coombs • Charles Joseph |
3:03.54 |
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• Eddy Gutierrez • Damaso Alfonso • Carlos Alvarez • Alberto Juantorena |
3:05.19 |
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• Hugues Roger • Roger Velasquez • Francis Kerbiriou • Hector Llatser |
3:05.48 |
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• Maxwell Binnington • Peter Grant • Donald Hanly • Richard Mitchell |
3:05.75 |
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• Dmitriy Stukalov • Vladimir Ponomarev • Victor Anohin • Yevgeniy Gavrilenko |
3:07.72 |
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• Victor Gooding • Harcourt Wason • Hamil Grimes • Orlando Greene |
3:08.13 |
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• Cuthbert Jacobs • Paul Richards • Elroy Turner • Fred Sowerby |
3:09.66 |