Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

These are the official results of the Men's 4x400m Relay event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were fifteen nations competing.

Final classification

RANK	NATION	NAME ATHLETES	HEAT	FINAL
	United States (USA)	Tom Courtney Charles Jenkins Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn	3:10.6	3:04.7
	Australia (AUS)	Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper Leon Gregory David Lean	3:10.4	3:06.0
	Great Britain (GBR)	Peter Higgins Derek Johnson John Salisbury Michael Wheeler	3:08.8	3:07.1
4.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	Karl-Friedrich Haas Jürgen Kühl Walter Oberste Manfred Porschke	3:09.8	3:08.2
5.	Canada (CAN)	Douglas Clement Murray Cockburn Laird Sloan Terry Tobacco	3:10.6	3:10.2
6.	Jamaica (JAM)	Keith Gardner George Kerr Melville Spence Malcolm Spence	3:11.0	DSQ
—	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Jaroslav Jiranek Josef Trousil Vaclav Janesek Vilem Mandlik	3:10.6	DNQ
—	Soviet Union (URS)	Anatoly Yulin Ardalion Ignatyev Konstantin Grachev Yury Lituyev	3:11.2	DNQ
—	Finland (FIN)	Eero Kivela Osvald Mildh Pentti Rekola Voitto Hellstén	3:11.4	DNQ
—	France (FRA)	Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Jean-Pierre Goudeau Pierre Haarhoff	3:10.6	DNQ
—	Japan (JPN)	Kanji Akagi Keiji Ogushi Shigeharu Suzuki Yoshitaka Muroya	3:13.8	DNQ
—	Puerto Rico (PUR)	Francisco Rivera Ismael Delgado Iván Rodríguez Ovidio de Jesús	3:13.8	DNQ
—	Kenya (KEN)	Arap Kiptalam Keter Bartonjo Rotich Kamau George Wanyoke Kibet Boit	3:17.6	DNQ
—	Colombia (COL)	Alfonso Muñoz Carlos Sierra Guillermo Zapata Jaime Aparicio	3:27.4	DNQ
—	Ethiopia (ETH)	Ayanev Bayene Beyene Legesse Hailou Abebe Mamo Wolde	3:30.0	DNQ

References

• Official Report
• Results