Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 19 and 20 August.

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	2	Soviet Union	Leonid Korolyov, Valeriy Yurchenko, Valeriy Yudin, Semyon Kocher	3:06.75	Q[1]
2	2	United States	Mark Lutz, Darwin Bond, Ron Jenkins, Dennis Schultz	3:06.92	Q
3	?	France	Gilles Bertould, Patrick Salvador, Pierre Bonvin, Lionel Malingre	3:10.80	Q[2]
?	?	Italy	Daniele Giovanardi, Claudio Trachello, Giacomo Puosi, Pasqualino Abeti	3:12.2	[3]

Final

[4][5]

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	United States	Mark Lutz, Darwin Bond, Ron Jenkins, Dennis Schultz	3:04.40
	Great Britain	David Jenkins, Joe Chivers, Stephen Black, Stewart McCallum	3:05.38
	West Germany	Franz-Josef Gleen, Siegfried Götz, Wolfgang Druschky, Bernd Herrmann	3:06.11
4	France	Gilles Bertould, Patrick Salvador, Pierre Bonvin, Lionel Malingre	3:06.54
5	Poland		3:07.6
6	Italy	Daniele Giovanardi, Claudio Trachello, Giacomo Puosi, Pasqualino Abeti	3:09.17	[6]
	Soviet Union	Leonid Korolyov, Valeriy Yurchenko, Valeriy Yudin, Semyon Kocher	DQ	[lower-alpha 1][1]

Notes

1. The Soviet team originally won in 3:03.8 but was disqualified

References

1. Soviet results (p73)
2. French results
3. "L'Universiade a metà azzurri" (in Italian). La Stampa. 20 August 1973. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
4. "Final results". Chicago Tribune. 21 August 1973. p. 43. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
5. "Nur ein Finale ohne einheimische Athleten" [Only one final without local athletes]. Leichtathletik (in German). Bartels & Wernitz. 35/1973: 1250–1251. 28 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
6. "Maratona fra Italia e Bulgaria con scenimenti e contestazioni" (in Italian). La Stampa. 21 August 1973. p. 9. Retrieved 20 November 2020.