Athletics Olympic Games 1936 at Berlin (ger) Men: 4 x 100 m Relay August 9: Final: 1. USA (Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Draper, Frank Wykoff) 39.8 (WR) 2. Italy (Orazio Mariani, Gianni Caldana, Elio Ragni, Tullio Gonnelli) 41.1 3. Germany (Wilhelm Leichum, Erich Borchmeyer, Erwin Gillmeister, Gerd Hornberger) 41.2 4. Argentina (Juan Lavenas, Antonio Sande, Carlos Hofmeister, Tomas Clifford Beswick) 42.2 5. Canada (Samuel Richardson, Arthur Humber, Lee Orr, Howard McPhee) 42.7 -. Netherlands (Tjeerd Boersma, Wil van Beveren, Chris Berger, Tinus Osendarp) disqualified