1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

1958 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
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
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 23 and 24 August 1958.^[1]

Gold	Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury  Great Britain
Silver	Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas  West Germany
Bronze	Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson  Sweden

24 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Great Britain	Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury	3:07.9	CR
	West Germany	Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:08.2
	Sweden	Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson	3:10.7	NR
4	Italy	Nereo Fossati Mario Fraschini Giovanni Scavo Renato Panciera	3:11.1
5	Soviet Union	Konstantin Grachov Abram Krivosheyev Mikhail Nikolskiy Valentin Rakhmanov	3:11.4
6	Poland	Stanisław Swatowski Jacek Jakubowski Tadeusz Kaźmierski Zbigniew Makomaski	3:13.8

23 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	West Germany	Carl Kaufmann Manfred Poerschke Johannes Kaiser Karl-Friedrich Haas	3:12.5	Q
2	Soviet Union	Konstantin Grachov Abram Krivosheyev Mikhail Nikolskiy Valentin Rakhmanov	3:13.2	Q
3	Italy	Nereo Fossati Mario Fraschini Giovanni Scavo Renato Panciera	3:13.3	Q
4	Finland	Börje Strand Pentti Rekola Jussi Rintamäki Voitto Hellstén	3:13.4

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	Ted Sampson John MacIsaac John Wrighton John Salisbury	3:13.4	Q
2	Sweden	Nils Holmberg Hans Lindgren Lennart Jonsson Alf Petersson	3:14.6	Q
3	Poland	Stanisław Swatowski Jacek Jakubowski Tadeusz Kaźmierski Zbigniew Makomaski	3:14.9	Q
4	Switzerland	Bruno Urben Bruno Galliker Christian Wägli René Weber	3:15.3

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.