1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Men's 4 x 400 metres relay
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 23 and 24 August 1958.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Ted Sampson
John MacIsaac
John Wrighton
John Salisbury
 Great Britain
Silver Carl Kaufmann
Manfred Poerschke
Johannes Kaiser
Karl-Friedrich Haas
 West Germany
Bronze Nils Holmberg
Hans Lindgren
Lennart Jonsson
Alf Petersson
 Sweden

Results

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Final

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24 August

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Great Britain Ted Sampson
John MacIsaac
John Wrighton
John Salisbury
3:07.9 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  West Germany Carl Kaufmann
Manfred Poerschke
Johannes Kaiser
Karl-Friedrich Haas
3:08.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Sweden Nils Holmberg
Hans Lindgren
Lennart Jonsson
Alf Petersson
3:10.7 NR
4  Italy Nereo Fossati
Mario Fraschini
Giovanni Scavo
Renato Panciera
3:11.1
5  Soviet Union Konstantin Grachov
Abram Krivosheyev
Mikhail Nikolskiy
Valentin Rakhmanov
3:11.4
6  Poland Stanisław Swatowski
Jacek Jakubowski
Tadeusz Kaźmierski
Zbigniew Makomaski
3:13.8

Heats

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23 August

Heat 1

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  West Germany Carl Kaufmann
Manfred Poerschke
Johannes Kaiser
Karl-Friedrich Haas
3:12.5 Q
2  Soviet Union Konstantin Grachov
Abram Krivosheyev
Mikhail Nikolskiy
Valentin Rakhmanov
3:13.2 Q
3  Italy Nereo Fossati
Mario Fraschini
Giovanni Scavo
Renato Panciera
3:13.3 Q
4  Finland Börje Strand
Pentti Rekola
Jussi Rintamäki
Voitto Hellstén
3:13.4

Heat 2

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Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  Great Britain Ted Sampson
John MacIsaac
John Wrighton
John Salisbury
3:13.4 Q
2  Sweden Nils Holmberg
Hans Lindgren
Lennart Jonsson
Alf Petersson
3:14.6 Q
3  Poland Stanisław Swatowski
Jacek Jakubowski
Tadeusz Kaźmierski
Zbigniew Makomaski
3:14.9 Q
4   Switzerland Bruno Urben
Bruno Galliker
Christian Wägli
René Weber
3:15.3

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.

References

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  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 384–390, retrieved 13 August 2014