Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 8 (heats), August 9 (final)
Competitors	from 12 nations
Teams	12
Winning time	3:09.0
Medalists
Freddie Wolff Godfrey Rampling Bill Roberts Godfrey Brown  Great Britain Harold Cagle Robert Young Edward O'Brien Alfred Fitch  United States Helmut Hamann Friedrich Von Stülpnagel Harry Voigt Rudolf Harbig  Germany

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		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		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place between August 8 & August 9.

Results

Heats

The fastest two teams in each of the three heats advanced to the final round.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	United States	3:13.0
2	Hungary	3:17.0
3	Poland	3:17.6
4	Japan	3:18.4

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	3:14.4
2	Sweden	3:14.6
3	France	3:15.2

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Germany	3:15.0
2	Canada	3:15.0
3	Italy	3:16.6
4	23x15px South Africa	3:17.8
5	Czechoslovakia	3:22.2

Final

Rank	Country	Time	Notes
	Great Britain	3:09.0
	United States	3:11.0
	Germany	3:11.8
4	Canada	3:11.8
5	Sweden	3:13.0
6	Hungary	3:14.8

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 4x400 metre relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-05.