Athletics 4x400 m Relay - men 1908-2016 


1908
1 USA 3'29"4
(William Hamilton, Nathaniel Cartmell, John Taylor, Melvin Sheppard)
2 Germany 3'32"4
(Arthur Hoffmann, Hans Eicke, Otto Trieloff, Hanns Braun)
3 Hungary 3'32"4
(Pal Simon, Frigyes Mesei-Wiesner, Jozsef Nagy, Odon Bodor)

1912
1 USA 3'16"6
(Melvin Sheppard, Edward Lindberg, James "Ted" Meredith, Charles Reidpath)
2 France 3'20"7
(Charles Lelong, Robert Schurrer, Pierre Failliot, Charles Poulenard)
3 Great Britain 3'23"2
(Gorge Nicol, Ernest Henley, James Soutter, Cyril Seedhouse)

1920
1 Great Britain 3'22"2
(Cecil Griffiths, Robert Lindsay, John Ainsworth-Davis, Guy Butler)
2 South Africa 3'23"0
(Harry Ravel, Clarence Oldfield, Jack Oosterlaak, Bevil Rudd)
3 France 3'23"5
(Georges "Géo" André, Gaston Féry, Maurice Delvart, André Deyaux)
4 USA 3'23"6
5 Sweden 3'24"3
6 Belgium 3'24"9

1924
1 USA 3'16"0
(Commodore Cochrane, William Helffrich, J. Oliver MacDonald, William Stevenson)
2 Sweden 3'17"0
(Artur Svensson, Erik Byléhn, Gustaf Wejnarth, Nils Engdahl)
3 Great Britain 3'17"4
(Edward Tome, Gorge Renwick, Richard Ripley, Guy Buther)
4 Canada 3'22"8
5 France 3'23"4
6 Italy 3'28"0
(Guido Cominotto, Alfredo Gargiullo, Ennio Mattiolini, Luigi Facelli)

1928
1 USA 3'14"2
(Gorge Baird, Emerson "Bud" Spencer, Frederick Alderman, Raymond Barbuti)
2 Germany 3'14"6
(Otto Neumann, Richard Kiebs, Wermer "Harry" Storz, Hermann Engelbard)
3 Canada 3'15"0
(Alexander Wilson, Philip Edwards, Stanley Glover, James Ball)
4 Sweden 3'15"8
5 Great Britain 3'16"4
6 France 3'19"4
Heat (3º) Italy 
(Giacomo Carlini, Luigi Facelli, Guido Cominotto, Ettore Tavernari)

1932
1 USA 3'08"2
(Ivan Faqua, Edgar Ablowich, Karl Warner, William Carr)
2 Great Britain 3'11"2
(Crew Stoneley, Thomas Hampson, David Burghley, Godfrey Rampling)
3 Canada 3'12"8
(Raymond Lewis, James Ball, Philip Edwards, Alexander Wilson)
4 Germany 3'14"4
5 Japan 3'14"6
6 Italy 3'17"8
(Giacomo Carlini, Giovanni Turba, Mario De Negri, Luigi Facelli)

1936
1 Great Britain 3'09"0
(Frederick Wolff, Godfrey Rampling, William Roberts, Arthur Godfrey Brown)
2 USA 3'11"0
(Harold Cagle, Robert Young, Edward O'Brien, Alfred Fitch)
3 Germany 3'11"8
(Helmut Hamann, Friedrich von Stülpagel, Harry Voigt, Rudolf Harbig)
4 Canada 3'11"8
5 Sweden 3'13"0
6 Hungary 3'14"8
Heat (3º) Italy 3'16"6
(Angelo Ferrario,Mario Lanzi, Marsilio Rossi,Otello Spampani)

1948
1 USA 3'10"4
(Arthur Cochran, Clifford Bourland, Leroy Harmden, Malvin Whitfield)
2 France 3'14"8
(Jean Kerebel, François Schewette, Chef d'Hotel, Jacques Lunis)
3 Sweden 3'16"0
(Kurt Lundquist, Lars Wolbrandt, Folke Alnevik Rune Lársson)
4 Finland 3'24"8
DNF Jamaica, Italy (Giovanni Rocca, Ottavio Missoni, Luigi Paterlini, Antonio Siddi)

1952
1 Jamaica 3'03"9
(Arthur Wins, Lesile Laing, Herbert McKenley, V. Gorge Rhoden)
2 USA 3'04"0
(Ollie Matson, Gerald Cole, Charles Moore, Malvin Whitfield)
3 Germany 3'06"6
(Hans Steines, Gunther Geister, Heinz Ulzheimer, Karl-Friedrich Haas)
4 Canada 3'09"3
5 Great Britain 3'10"0
6 France 3'10"1
Heat (4º) Italy 3'15"2
(Baldassarre Porto,Gianni Rocca, Luigi Grossi, Armando Filiput)

1956
1 USA 3'04"8
(Louis Jenkins, Jesse Jones, Charles Mashburn, Thomas Courtney)
2 Australia 3'06"2
(Leon Gipson, David Gregory, Graham Lean, Kevan Gosper)
3 Great Britain 3'07"2
(John Salinsbury, Michael Weeler, F. Peter Higgins, Derek Johnson)
4 United Team of Germany 3'08"2
5 Canada 3'10"2
DSQ Jamaica

1960
1 USA 3'02"2
(Jack Jerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis Davis)
2 United Team of Germany 3'02"7
(Hans-Joachim Reske, Manfred Kinder, Johannes Keiser, Carl Kauffmann)
3 British West Indies 3'04"0
(Gorge Kerr, James Wedderburn, Keith Gardner, Malcom Spence)
4 South Africa 3'05"0
5 Great Britain 3'08"3
6 Switzerland 3'09"4
Semif. (4º) Italy 3'07"7
(Mario Fraschini,Nerio Fossati, Renato Panciera,Giuseppe Bonmarito)

1964
1 USA 3'00"7
(Ollan Cassell, Michael Larrabee, Ulis Williams, Henry Carr)
2 Great Britain 3'01"6
(Timothy Graham, Adrian Metcalfe, John Cooper, Robbie Brightwell)
3 Trinidad & Tobago 3'01"7
(Edwin Skinner, Kent Bernard, Edwin Roberts, Wendell Mottley)
4 Jamaica 3'02"3
5 United Team of Germany 3'04"3
6 Poland 3'05"3
7 URSS 3'05"9
8 France 3'07"4
Heat (3º) Italy 3'07"6
(Bruno Bianchi,Salvatore Morale, Roberto Frinolli, Sergio Bello)

1968
1 USA 2'56"1
(Vincent Matthews, Ronald Freeman, G. Lawrence James, Lee Evans)
2 Kenya 2'59"6
(Daniel Rudisha, Matesi Nyamau, Naftali Bon, Charles Asati)
3 Federal Republic of Germany 3'00"5
(Helmar Muller, Manfred Kinder, Gerhard Hennige, Martin Jellinghaus)
4 Poland 3'00"5
5 Great Britain 3'01"2
6 Trinidad & Tobago 3'04"6
7 Italy 3'04"6
(Sergio Ottolina, Giacomo Puosi, Furio Fusi, Sergio Bello)
8 France 3'07"5

1972
1 Kenya 2'59"8
(Charles Asati, Heziakiah Nyamau, Robert Ouko, Julius Sang)
2 Great Britain 3'00"5
(Martin Reynolds, Alan Pascoe, Dabid Hemery, David Jenkins)
3 France 3'00"7
(Gilles Bertould, Daniel Velasques, Francio Kerbiriou, Jacques Carette)
4 Federal Republic of Germany 3'00"9
5 Poland3'01"1
6 Finland 3'01"1
7 Sweden 3'02"6
8 Trinidad &Tobago 3'03"6
Heat (5º) Italy 3'09"7
(Daniele Giovanardi,Giacomo Puosi, Lorenzo Cellerino, Sergio Bello)

1976
1 USA 2'58"65
(Herman Frazier, Benjamin Brown, Frederick Newhouse, Maxie Parks)
2 Poland 3'01"43
(Ryszard Podlas, Jan Werner, Zbigniew Jaremski, Jerzy Pietrzyk)
3 Federal Republic of Germany 3'01"98
(Franz-Peter Hofmeister, Lothar Krieg, Harald Schmid, Bernd Herrmann)
4 Canada 3'02"64
5 Jamaica 3'02"84
6 Trinidad & Tobago 3'03"46
7 Cuba 3'03"81
8 Finland 3'06"51

1980
1 URSS 3'01"1
(Remigijus Valiulis, Mikhail Linge, Nikolai Chernetsky, Viktor Markin)
2 German Democratic Republic 3'01"3
(Klaus Thiele, Andreas Knebel, Frank Schaffer, Volker Beck)
3 Italy 3'04"3
(Stefano Malinverni, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Tozzi, Pietro Mennea)
4 France 3'04"8
5 Brasil 3'05"9
6 Trinidad & Tobago 3'06"6
7 Czechoslovakia 3'07"0
DNF Great Britain 

1984
1 USA 2'57"91
(Sunder Nix, Ray Armstead, Alonzo Babers, Antonio McKay)
2 Great Britain 2'59"13
(Kriss Akabusi, Gary Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Bown)
3 Nigeria 2'59"32
(Sunday Uti, Moses Ugbusien, Ulo Rotimi Peters, Innocent Egbunike)
4 Australia 2'59"70
5 Italy 3'01"44 3
(Roberto Tozzi, Ernesto Nocco, Roberto Ribaud, Pietro Mennea)
6 Barbados 3'01"60
7 Uganda 3'02"09
8 Canada 3'02"82

1988
1 USA 2'56"16
(Danny Everett, Steven Lewis, Kevin Robinzine, Harry "Butch" Reynolds)
2 Jamaica 3'00"30
(Howard Davis, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Bertland Cameron)
3 Federal Republic of Germany 3'00"56
(Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt, Jorg Valhinger, Ralf Lubke)
4 German Democratic Republic 3'01"13
5 Great Britain 3'02"00
6 Australia 3'02"49
7 Nigeria 3'02"50
8 Kenya 3'04"69

1992
1 USA 2'55"74
(Andrei Valmon, Quincy Watts, Michael Johnson, Steve Lewis)
2 Cuba 2'59"51
(Lazaro Martinez Despaigne, Hector Herrera Ortiz, Norberto Tellez, Roberto Hernandez Prendes)
3 Great Britain 2'59"73
(Roger Black, David Grindley, Kriss Akabusi, John Regis)
4 Brasil 3'01"61
5 Nigeria 3'01"71
6 Italy 3'02"18
(Alessandro Aimar, Marco Vaccari, Fabio Grossi, Andrea Nuti)
7 Trinidad & Tobago 3'03"31
DNF Kenya

1996
1 USA 2'55''99
(Smith LaMont, Harrison Alvin, Mills Derek, Maybank Anthuan)
2 Great Britain 2'56''60
(Thomas Iwan, Baulch Jamie, Richardson Mark, Black Roger)
3 Jamaica 2'59''42
(McDonald Michael, Martin Roxbert, Haughton Greg, Clarke Davian)
4 Senegal 3'00"64
5 Japan 3'00"76
6 Poland 3'00"96
7 Bahamas 3'02"71
DNS Kenia
Semif. (5º) Italy 3'02"56
(Fabrizio Mori,Alessandro Aimar, Andrea Nuti, Ashbar Saber)

2000
1 USA 2'56"35
(Jerome Young, Angelo Taylor, Calvin Harrison, Alvin Harrison)
2 Nigeria 2'58"68
(Nduka Awazie, Clement Chukwu, Fidelis Gadzama, Enefiok Udo-Obong)
3 Jamaica 2'58"78
(Michael McDonald, Michael Blackwood, Sanjay Ayre, Danny McFarlane)
4 Bahamas 2'59"23
5 France 3'01"02
6 Great Britain 3'01"22
7 Poland 3'03"22
8 Australia 3'03"91

2004
1 USA 2'55"91
(Otis Harris, Derrick Brew, Jeremy Wariner, Darold Williamson)
2 Australia 3'00"60
(John Steffensen, Mark Ormrod, Patrick Dwyer, Clinton Hill)
3 Nigeria 3'00"90
(James Godday, Musa Audu, Saul Weigopwa, Enefiok Udo Obong)
4 Japan 3'00"99
5 Great Britain 3'01"07
6 Bahamas 3'01"88
7 Germany 3'02"22
8 Botswana 3'02"49

2008
1 USA 2'55"39
(LaShawn Merritt, Angelo Taylor, David Neville, Jeremy Warnier)
2 Bahamas 2'58"03
(Andretti Bain, Michael Mathieu, Andrae Williams, Christopher Brown)
3 Great Britain 2'58"81
(Andrew Steele, Robert Tobin, Michael Bingham, Martyn Rooney)
4 Belgium 2'59"37
5 Australia 3'00"02
6 Poland 3'00"32
7 Jamaica 3'01"45
Russian Federation has been stripped of bronze medal due to anti-doping violations committed by Denis Alexeev RUS (2'58"06 with teammates Maksim Dyldin, Vladislav Frolov e Anton Kokorin)

2012
1 Bahamas 2'56"72
(Chris Brown, Demetrius Pinder, Michael Mathieu, Ramon Miller)
2 USA 2'57"05
(Bryshon Nellum, Joshua Mance, Tony McQuay, Angelo Taylor)
3 Trinidad & Tobago 2'59"40
(Lalonde Gordon, Jarrin Solomon, Ade Alleyne Forte, Deon Lendore)
4 Great Britain 2'59"53
5 Belgium 3'01"83
6 Venezuela 3'02"18
7 South Africa 3'03"46
DNF Cuba
Russian Federation has been disqualified due to anti-doping violations committed by Maksim Dyldin RUS (3'00"09 with teammates Denis Alekseyev, Vladimir Krasnov e Pavel Trenikhin)

2016
1 USA 2'57"30
(Arman Hall, Tony McQuay, Gil Roberts, Lashawn Merritt)
2 Jamaica 2'58"16
(Peter Matthews, Nathon Allen, Fitzroy Dunkley, Javon Francis)
3 Bahamas 2'58"49
(Alonzo Russell, Michael Mathieu, Steven Gardiner, Chris Brown)
4 Belgium 2'58"52
5 Botswana 2'59"06
6 Cuba 2'59"53
7 Poland 3'00"50
8 Brasil 3'03"28