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

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were fifteen nations competing.^[1]

Final classification

RANK	NATION	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 John Goodman	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 Mel Spence Malcolm Spence	3:11.0	DSQ
—	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	Jaroslav Jirásek Josef Trousil Václav Janeček Vilem Mandlik	3:10.6	DNQ
—	Soviet Union (URS)	Anatoliy Yulin Ardalion Ignatyev Konstantin Grachev Yuriy 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)	Frank Rivera Ismael Delgado Iván Rodríguez Ovidio de Jesús	3:13.8	DNQ
—	Kenya (KEN)	Kiptalam Keter Bartonjo Rotich Kamau George Wanyoke Kibet Boit	3:17.6	DNQ
—	Colombia (COL)	Carlos Sierra Guillermo Zapata Alfonso Muñoz Jaime Aparicio	3:27.4	DNQ
—	Ethiopia (ETH)	Ayanev Bayene Beyene Legesse Hailou Abebe Mamo Wolde	3:30.0	DNQ