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Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1961 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National StadiuminSofia, Bulgaria, in September 1961.^[1]

Results[edit]

Heats[edit]

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	1	Czechoslovakia	Josef Trousil, Josef Odložil, Milan Jílek, Tomáš Salinger	3:44.5	Q
2	1	Italy	Bruno Bianchi, Elio Catalo, Salvatore Morale, ?	3:53.5	Q
3	1	Great Britain	Ming Campbell, John Cooper, Mike Fleet, Mike Robinson	3:53.5	Q
1	2	Bulgaria	Dimitar Dimitrov, Georgi Latchev, Anton Antonov, Georgi Zapundzhiev	3:19.5	Q
2	2	West Germany	Peter Hoppe, Wolfgang Schöll, Otto Graßhoff, Albert Grawitz	3:21.1	Q
3	2	Poland	Wiesław Król, Bogusław Gierajewski, Janusz Ludka, ?	3:24.1	Q
4	2	Turkey	Aydin Onur, Özen Tuncel, Ahmet Akbaş, Hüseyin Çakmak	3:25.6

Final[edit]

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	West Germany	Peter Hoppe, Wolfgang Schöll, Otto Graßhoff, Albert Grawitz	3:10.56
	Czechoslovakia	Josef Trousil, Josef Odložil, Milan Jílek, Tomáš Salinger	3:12.93
	Great Britain	Ming Campbell, John Cooper, Mike Fleet, Mike Robinson	3:14.63
4	Poland	Wiesław Król, Bogusław Gierajewski, Janusz Ludka, Jerzy Kloze	3:16.76
5	Bulgaria	Dimitar Dimitrov, Georgi Latchev, Anton Antonov, Georgi Zapundzhiev	3:17.86
	Italy		?

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