Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 6 (heats) August 7 (final)
Teams	15
Winning time	40.6
Medalists
Barney Ewell Lorenzo Wright Harrison Dillard Mel Patton   United States   Alastair McCorquodale Jack Gregory Ken Jones Jack Archer   Great Britain   Michele Tito Enrico Perucconi Carlo Monti Antonio Siddi   Italy

Official Video Highlights

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
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
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on August 6 & August 7. The United States team easily won the final, but was initially disqualified when officials thought the pass between Barney Ewell and Lorenzo Wright had taken place outside of the zone. After further review, officials reversed the decision giving the U.S. the victory.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record Olympic record

United States (Foy Draper, Ralph Metcalfe, Jesse Owens, Frank Wykoff)

39.8

Berlin, Germany

9 August 1936

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 6 August 1948	16:00	Round 1
Saturday, 7 August 1948	15:30	Finals

Results

Round 1

Round 1 took place on 6 August. The first two teams from each heat advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	United States	Harrison Dillard, Barney Ewell, Mel Patton, Lorenzo Wright	41.1	Q
2	Italy	Carlo Monti, Enrico Perucconi, Antonio Siddi, Michele Tito	41.3	Q
3	Brazil	Aroldo da Silva, Hélio da Silva, Ivan Hausen, Rosalvo Ramos	42.4
-	Turkey	Kemal Aksur, Erdal Barkay, Raşit Öztaş, Ruhi Sarıalp	DSQ

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	Jack Archer, Jack Gregory, Ken Jones, Alastair McCorquodale	41.4	Q
2	Hungary	László Bartha, György Csányi, Béla Goldoványi, Ferenc Tima	41.4	Q
3	Australia	John Bartram, Bill Bruce, Morris Curotta, John Treloar	41.5
-	Uruguay	Hércules Azcune, Mario Fayos, Juan López, Walter Pérez	42.8
-	Bermuda	Hazzard Dill, Perry Johnson, Stanley Lines, Frank Mahoney	45.4
-	Belgium	Fernand Bourgaux, Pol Braekman, Fernand Linssen, Isidoor Van De Wiele	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Netherlands	Jan Lammers, Jan Meijer, Gabe Scholten, Jo Zwaan	41.7	Q
2	Canada	Ted Haggis, Don McFarlane, Jim O'Brien, Don Pettie	42.3	Q
3	Argentina	Alberto Biedermann, Gerardo Bönnhoff, Carlos Isaac, Fernando Lapuente	42.4
4	Iceland	Ásmundur Bjarnason, Haukur Clausen, Trausti Eyjólfsson, Finnbjörn Þorvaldsson	42.9
-	France	Julien Lebas, Marc Litaudon, Alain Porthault, René Valmy	DNF

Final

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	United States	Harrison Dillard, Barney Ewell, Mel Patton, Lorenzo Wright	40.6
	Great Britain	Jack Archer, Jack Gregory, Ken Jones, Alastair McCorquodale	41.3
	Italy	Carlo Monti, Enrico Perucconi, Antonio Siddi, Michele Tito	41.5
4	Hungary	László Bartha, György Csányi, Béla Goldoványi, Ferenc Tima	41.6
5	Canada	Ted Haggis, Don McFarlane, Jim O'Brien, Don Pettie	41.9
6	Netherlands	Jan Lammers, Jan Meijer, Gabe Scholten, Jo Zwaan	41.9

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 4x100 metre relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-06-21.
• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.