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)
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

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

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.