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The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place on August 9. [1] The United States team of Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper and Frank Wykoff won in a world record time of 39.8.
4 × 100 metres relay details United States (USA) Jesse Owens Ralph Metcalfe Foy Draper Frank Wykoff: 39.8 Italy (ITA) Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli: 41.1 Germany (GER) Wilhelm Leichum Erich Borchmeyer Erwin Gillmeister Gerd Hornberger: 41.2 4 × 400 metres relay details Great Britain (GBR) Freddie Wolff Godfrey ...
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place between August 8 and August 9. [1] Results. Heats. The fastest two teams in each of the ...
Foy Draper – Won 1 gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay. Frank Wykoff – Won 1 gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay. Eddie O'Brien – Won 1 silver medal in the 4 × 400 m relay. Harold Cagle – Won 1 silver medal in the 4 × 400 m relay. Robert Young – Won 1 silver medal in the 4 × 400 m relay. Alfred Fitch – Won 1 silver medal in the 4 ...
At the 1932 Summer Olympics, Wykoff ran the anchor leg for the American 4 × 100 m relay team, which set a new world record of 40.0 seconds. At the 1936 Summer Olympics he again finished fourth in 100 m and again anchored the American 4 × 100 m relay team to gold with a new world record of 39.8.
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place on August 8 and August 9. [1] The American team won with a time of 46.9 s after the German team, which had been in the lead, dropped the baton on the final leg.
Meanwhile, she missed the 1932 Summer Olympics in her home country. Still unable to kneel for a normal 100 m start due to the fractures and surgeries on her left leg, [3] Robinson was a part of the US team of 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The US team was running behind the heavily favored Germans, but the Germans dropped ...
Runners carrying the Olympic Flame. The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was the first of its kind, [18] following on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games. It pioneered the modern convention of moving the flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue. Leni Riefenstahl filmed the relay for the 1938 film Olympia.