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The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between August 4 & August 5.[1]

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Country Athletes Time Notes
1  Canada Ralph Adams, Johnny Fitzpatrick, Buck Hester, Percy Williams 42.2 Q
2  Great Britain Cyril Gill, Teddy Smouha, Walter Rangeley, Jack London 43.5 Q
3  Italy Giuseppe Castelli, Franco Reyser, Edgardo Toetti, Enrico Torre
4  Greece Vangelis Moiropoulos, Konstantinos Petridis, Angelos Lambrou, Renos Frangoudis 44.0
5  Spain Juan Serrahima, Diego Ordóñez, Fernando Muñagorri, Enrique de Chávarri

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 2

Rank Country Athletes Time Notes
1  France André Cerbonney, Gilbert Auvergne, André Dufau, André Mourlon 41.8 Q
2  Germany Georg Lammers, Richard Corts, Hubert Houben, Helmut Körnig Q
3  Belgium Paul Brochart, Fred Zinner, Adolphe Groscol, Willy Dujardin

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 3

Rank Country Athletes Time Notes
1  United States Frank Wykoff, Jimmy Quinn, Charley Borah, Hank Russell 41.2 Q
2  Switzerland Emmanuel Goldsmith, Willy Weibel, Willy Tschopp, Hans Niggl 42.6 Q
3  Japan Iwao Aizawa, Seishichi Inuma, Shigetoshi Osawa, Chuhei Nanbu
4  Turkey Semih Türkdoğan, Şinasi Şahingiray, Haydar Aşan, Mehmet Ali Aybar
 Hungary Ferenc Gerő, János Paizs, István Sugár, István Raggambi DSQ

Key: DSQ = Disqualified, Q = Qualified

Final

Rank Country Athletes Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States Frank Wykoff, Jimmy Quinn, Charley Borah, Hank Russell 41.0 =WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Germany Georg Lammers, Richard Corts, Hubert Houben, Helmut Körnig 41.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Great Britain Cyril Gill, Teddy Smouha, Walter Rangeley, Jack London 41.8
4  France André Cerbonney, Gilbert Auvergne, André Dufau, André Mourlon 42.0
5  Switzerland Emmanuel Goldsmith, Willy Weibel, Willy Tschopp, Hans Niggl 42.6
 Canada Ralph Adams, Johnny Fitzpatrick, Buck Hester, Percy Williams DSQ

Key: DSQ = Disqualified, =WR = Equalled world record

References

  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
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