Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4x100 metre relay at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 9 (heats, final)
Competitors	from 15 nations
Teams	15
Winning time	39.8
Medalists
Jesse Owens Ralph Metcalfe Foy Draper Frank Wykoff  United States Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli  Italy Wilhelm Leichum Erich Borchmeyer Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger  Germany

The men's 4x100 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place on August 9. The United States team of Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper and Frank Wykoff won in a world record time of 39.8. Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, both Jewish, were originally slated to compete in the American relay team but were unexpectedly replaced by Owens and Metcalfe.

Results

Heats

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

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	United States	Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Draper, Frank Wykoff	40.0	=WR
2	Italy	Mariani, Caldana, Ragni, Gonnelli	41.1
3	South Africa	Eric Grimbeek, Pat Dannaher, Tom Lavery, Marthinus Theunissen	41.7
4	Finland	Toivo Ahjopalo, Toivo Sariola, Palle Virtanen, Aki Tammisto	42.0
	Japan	Takayoshi Yoshioka, Monta Suzuki, B. Taniguchi, Masao Yazawa		DSQ

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Netherlands	41.3
2	Argentina	41.9
3	Hungary	42.0
4	Great Britain	42.4
5	France	42.6
6	Republic of China	44.8

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Germany	41.4
2	Canada	41.5
3	Sweden	41.5
4	Switzerland	42.2

Final

Rank	Country	Time	Notes
	United States	39.8	WR
	Italy	41.1
	Germany	41.2
4	Argentina	42.2
5	Canada	42.7
	Netherlands		DSQ

Key: DSQ = Disqualified, WR = World record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 4x100 metre relay, Sports Reference LLC, retrieved 2010-05-01.