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

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
George Baird Fred Alderman Emerson Spencer Ray Barbuti  United States Otto Neumann Harry Werner Storz Richard Krebs Hermann Engelhard  Germany James Ball Stanley Glover Phil Edwards Alex Wilson  Canada

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	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	Mexico	3:23.4

Key: Q = Qualified

Final

Rank	Country	Time	Notes
	United States	3:14.2	WR
	Germany	3:14.8
	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

• 1928 Summer Olympics results: Men's 4x400 metre relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-06.