Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

These are the official results of the Men's 4 × 400 metre relay event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. There were a total number of 24 nations competing. The top two in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the final.^[1]

Final

Held on Friday 1 August 1980

RANK	NATION	FINAL	TIME
	Soviet Union (URS)	• Remigijus Valiulis • Mikhail Linge • Nikolay Chernetskiy • Viktor Markin	3:01.08
	East Germany (GDR)	• Klaus Thiele • Andreas Knebel • Frank Schaffer • Volker Beck	3:01.26
	Italy (ITA)	• Stefano Malinverni • Mauro Zuliani • Roberto Tozzi • Pietro Mennea	3:04.54
4.	France (FRA)	• Jacques Fellice • Robert Froissart • Didier Dubois • Francis Demarthon	3:04.8
5.	Brazil (BRA)	• Paulo Correia • Antônio Dias Ferreira • Agberto Guimarães • Geraldo Pegado	3:05.9
6.	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	• Joseph Coombs • Charles Joseph • Rafee Mohammed • Mike Solomon	3:06.6
7.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	• Josef Lomický • Dusan Malovec • František Břečka • Karel Kolář	3:07.0
8.	Great Britain (GBR)	• Alan Bell • Terry Whitehead • Rod Milne • Glen Cohen	DNF

Heats

Held on Thursday 31 July 1980

RANK	NATION	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	• Nikolay Chernetskiy • Mikhail Linge • Remigijus Valiulis • Viktor Burakov	3:01.8
2.	Brazil (BRA)	• Paulo Correia • Antônio Dias Ferreira • Agberto Guimarães • Geraldo Pegado	3:04.9
3.	Yugoslavia (YUG)	• Željko Knapić • Milovan Savić • Rok Kopitar • Josip Alebić	3:05.3
4.	Poland (POL)	• Jan Pawłowicz • Jerzy Pietrzyk • Adam Starostka • Andrzej Stępień	3:05.8
5.	Netherlands (NED)	• Henk Brouwer • Mario Westbroek • Marcel Klarenbeek • Harry Schulting	3:06.0
6.	Spain (ESP)	• Isidoro Hornillos • Colomán Trabado • Benjamín González • José Casabona	3:06.9
7.	Zambia (ZAM)	• Charles Lupiya • Alston Muziyo • Archfell Musango • Davison Lishebo	3:14.9
8.	Sierra Leone (SLE)	• William Akabi-Davis • Jimmy Massallay • Sahr Kendor • George Branche	3:25.0

RANK	NATION	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	East Germany (GDR)	• Klaus Thiele • Andreas Knebel • Frank Schaffer • Volker Beck	3:03.4
2.	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	• Josef Lomický • Dušan Malovec • František Břečka • Karel Kolář	3:03.5
3.	Italy (ITA)	• Stefano Malinverni • Mauro Zuliani • Roberto Tozzi • Pietro Mennea	3:03.5
4.	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	• Joseph Coombs • Mike Solomon • Rafer Mohammed • Charles Joseph	3:04.3
5.	Uganda (UGA)	• Pius Olowo • Charles Dramiga • John Akii-Bua • Silver Ayoo	3:07.0
6.	Libya (LBA)	• Bashir Al-Fellah • Salem El-Margini • Ahmed Seluma • Elmehdi Diab	3:16.7
7.	Ethiopia (ETH)	• Besha Tuffa • Kumela Fituma • Asfaw Deble • Atre Bezabeh	3:18.2
—	Belgium (BEL)	• Eddy de Leeuw • Danny Roelandt • Rik Vandenberghe • Alfons Brijdenbach	DNF

RANK	NATION	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	France (FRA)	• Jacques Fellice • Robert Froissart • Didier Dubois • Francis Demarthon	3:05.4
2.	Great Britain (GBR)	• Alan Bell • Terry Whitehead • Rod Milne • Glen Cohen	3:05.9
3.	Switzerland (SUI)	• Rolf Strittmatter • Peter Haas • Rolf Gisler • Urs Kamber	3:07.2
4.	Iraq (IRQ)	• Hussain Ali Nasayyif • Ali Hassan Kadhum • Fahim Abdul Al-Sada • Abbas Murshid Al-Aibi	3:10.5
5.	Nigeria (NGR)	• Sunday Uti • Hope Ezeigbo • Felix Imadiyi • Dele Udo	3:14.1
6.	Sri Lanka (SRI)	• Samararatne Dharmasena • Kosala Sahabandu • Newton Perera • Appunidage Premachandra	3:14.4
7.	Seychelles (SEY)	• Vincent Confait • Regis Tranquille • Marc La Rose • Casimir Pereira	3:19.2
—	Jamaica (JAM)	• Derrick Peynado • Colin Bradford • Ian Stapleton • Bert Cameron	DNF