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

Men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 6, 1948 (heats) August 7, 1948 (final)
Competitors	from 15 nations
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
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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
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The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on August 6 & August 7.^[1] The United States team won the final, but was initially disqualified when officials thought the pass between Barney Ewell and Lorenzo Wright had taken place outside the zone. After further review, officials saw that the pass took place inside the zone, and restored U.S. results.

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

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+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	Haroldo 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
4	Uruguay	Hércules Azcune, Mario Fayos, Juan López, Walter Pérez	42.8
5	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, James 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

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, James O'Brien, Don Pettie	41.9
6	Netherlands	Jan Lammers, Jan Meijer, Gabe Scholten, Jo Zwaan	41.9

• 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.