Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 19 and 20 August.

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	2	Soviet Union	Korolyov, Valeriy Yurchenko, Yudin, Semyon Kocher	3:06.75	Q
2	2	United States	Mark Lutz, Darwin Bond, Ron Jenkins, Dennis Schultz	3:06.92	Q
3	?	France	Gilles Bertould, Patrick Salvador, Pierre Bonvin, Lionel Malingre	3:10.80	Q

Final

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	United States	Mark Lutz, Darwin Bond, Ron Jenkins, Dennis Schultz	3:04.40
	Great Britain	David Jenkins, Joe Chivers, Stephen Black, Stewart McCallum	3:05.38
	West Germany	Franz-Josef Gleen, Siegfried Götz, Wolfgang Druschky, Bernd Herrmann	3:06.11
4	France	Gilles Bertould, Patrick Salvador, Pierre Bonvin, Lionel Malingre	3:06.54
5	Poland		3:07.6
6	Italy		3:09.1