Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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Men's 4 x 400 metres relay
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Dates August 4 (heats)
August 5 (final)
Competitors  from 14 nations
Teams 14
Winning time 3:14.2
Medalists
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1st George Baird
Fred Alderman
Emerson Spencer
Ray Barbuti
 United States
2nd Otto Neumann
Harry Werner Storz
Richard Krebs
Hermann Engelhard
 Germany
3rd James Ball
Stanley Glover
Phil Edwards
Alex Wilson
23x15px Canada
← 1924
1932 →
Athletics at the
1928 Summer Olympics
Athletics pictogram.svg
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men
400 m men
800 m men women
1500 m men
5000 m men
10,000 m men
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men
Road events
Marathon men
Field events
Long jump men
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Decathlon men

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between August 4 & August 5.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Country Time Notes
1  United States 3:21.4 Q
2 23x15px Canada 3:22.0 Q
3  Hungary 3:23.2
4  Poland 3:24.2
5  Belgium

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 2

Rank Country Time Notes
1  Germany 3:20.8 Q
2  Sweden 3:21.2 Q
3  Italy 3:22.6
4  Netherlands
5  Czechoslovakia
6  Greece

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 3

Rank Country Time Notes
1  Great Britain 3:20.6 Q
2  France 3:23.0 Q
3 23x15px Mexico 3:23.4

Key: Q = Qualified

Final

Rank Country Time Notes
1st  United States 3:14.2 WR
2nd  Germany 3:14.8
3rd 23x15px Canada 3:15.4
4  Sweden 3:15.8
5  Great Britain 3:16.4
6  France 3:19.4

Key: WR = World record

References