1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

1962 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		women
4 × 400 m relay	men
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 × 100 metres relay at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 14 and 16 September 1962.^[1]

Gold	Klaus Ulonska Peter Gamper Joachim Bender Manfred Germar  West Germany
Silver	Jerzy Juskowiak Andrzej Zieliński Zbigniew Syka Marian Foik  Poland
Bronze	Alf Meakin Ron Jones Berwyn Jones David Jones  Great Britain

16 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	West Germany	Klaus Ulonska Peter Gamper Joachim Bender Manfred Germar	39.5	CR NR
	Poland	Jerzy Juskowiak Andrzej Zieliński Zbigniew Syka Marian Foik	39.5	CR NR
	Great Britain	Alf Meakin Ron Jones Berwyn Jones David Jones	39.8	NR
4	France	Jean-Paul Lambrot Guy Lagorce Claude Piquemal Jocelyn Delecour	40.0
5	Italy	Livio Berruti Sergio Ottolina Armando Sardi Flavio Colani	40.3
6	Hungary	Imre Babos Csaba Csutorás László Mihályfi Gyula Rábai	40.5

14 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	France	Jean-Paul Lambrot Guy Lagorce Claude Piquemal Jocelyn Delecour	40.0	CR Q
2	Hungary	Imre Babos Csaba Csutorás László Mihályfi Gyula Rábai	40.5	Q
3	Italy	Livio Berruti Sergio Ottolina Armando Sardi Flavio Colani	40.6	Q
4	Soviet Union	Amin Tuyakov Edvin Ozolin Slava Prokhorovskiy Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	40.8

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	Alf Meakin Ron Jones Berwyn Jones David Jones	39.8	CR NR Q
2	West Germany	Klaus Ulonska Peter Gamper Joachim Bender Manfred Germar	39.9	Q
3	Poland	Jerzy Juskowiak Andrzej Zieliński Zbigniew Syka Marian Foik	39.9	NR Q
4	Sweden	Sven Hortewall Bo Althoff Sven-Åke Lövgren Owe Jonsson	40.1	NR
5	Bulgaria	Yordan Glukhchov Veselin Valov Todor Stalev Mikhail Bachvarov	41.3	NR

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.