Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 6 and August 7
Medalists
Bob Kiesel Emmett Toppino Hec Dyer Frank Wykoff  United States Helmut Körnig Fritx Hendrix Erich Borchmeyer Arthur Jonath  Germany Giuseppe Castelli Ruggero Maregatti Gabriele Salviati Edgardo Toetti  Italy

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
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 steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		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		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay relay event at the 1932 Summer Olympics took place on August 6 and August 7 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Results

Heats

Two heats were held; the fastest three times advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Helmut Körnig Fritz Hendrix Erich Borchmeyer Arthur Jonath	Germany	41.22
2	Takayoshi Yoshioka Chuhei Nanbu Izu Anno Itaro Nakajima	Japan	41.8
3	Don Finlay Stanley Fuller Stanley Engelhart Ernie Page	Great Britain	42.0
4	Angelos Lambrou Khristos Mantikas Evangelos Moiropoulos Renos Frangoudis	Greece	42.9
5	Bunoo Sutton Ronald Vernieux Mehar Chand Dhawan Dickie Carr	India	43.7

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bob Kiesel Emmett Toppino Hec Dyer Frank Wykoff	United States	40.61	WR
2	Giuseppe Castelli Ruggero Maregatti Gabriele Salviati Edgardo Toetti	Italy	42.8
3	Percy Williams Jim Brown Harold Wright Bert Pearson	23x15px Canada	45.0

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bob Kiesel Emmett Toppino Hec Dyer Frank Wykoff	United States	40.10	WR
	Helmut Körnig Fritz Hendrix Erich Borchmeyer Arthur Jonath	Germany	40.9
	Giuseppe Castelli Ruggero Maregatti Gabriele Salviati Edgardo Toetti	Italy	41.2
4	Percy Williams Jim Brown Harold Wright Bert Pearson	23x15px Canada	41.3
5	Takayoshi Yoshioka Chuhei Nanbu Izuo Anno Itaro Nakajima	Japan	41.3
6	Don Finaly Stanley Fuller Stanley Engelhart Ernie Page	Great Britain	41.4

Key: WR = world record; DNF = did not finish

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's 4x100 metre relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; Retrieved 2010-07-20