Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games – Men's 4 × 110 yards relay

Athletics at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Track events
100 yd	men	women
220 yd	men	women
440 yd	men	women
880 yd	men	women
1 mile	men
3 miles	men
6 miles	men
80 m hurdles		women
120 yd hurdles	men
440 yd hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 110 yd relay	men	women
4 × 440 yd relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 miles 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
Decathlon	men
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The men's 4 × 110 yards relay event at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games was held on 13 August at the Independence Park in Kingston, Jamaica.^[1] It was the last time that the imperial distance was contested at the Games later replaced by the 4 × 100 metres relay.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ghana Ebenezer Addy Bonner Mends James Addy Stanley Allotey	Jamaica Wes Clayton Pablo McNeil Lynn Headley Michael Fray	Australia Gary Eddy Allen Crawley Gary Holdsworth Peter Norman

Qualification: First 3 teams of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	1	Canada	Bohdan Domansky, Edmund Hearne, Harry Jerome, Terrance Tomlinson	40.5	Q
2	1	Australia	Gary Eddy, Allen Crawley, Gary Holdsworth, Peter Norman	40.6	Q
3	1	England	Barrie Kelly, Dave Dear, David Jones, Mel Cheskin	41.0	Q
4	1	Trinidad and Tobago	Cipriani Phillip, Clifton Bertrand, Henry Noel, Winston Short	41.0	q
5	1	Bermuda	Colin Davey, Ewert Brown, John Morbey, Noel Simons	42.6
6	1	Sierra Leone	Abdulai Conteh, Edward Pratt, Nicholas Nicol, Raymond Kargbo	42.8
1	2	Ghana	Ebenezer Addy, Bonner Mends, James Addy, Stanley Allotey	39.9	Q, GR
2	2	Jamaica	Wes Clayton, Pablo McNeil, Lynn Headley, Michael Fray	40.5	Q
3	2	Wales	Lynn Davies, Ron Jones, Terry Davies, William Jones	40.6	Q
4	2	Nigeria	David Ejoke, Folu Erinle, Omubo Peters, Sydney Asiodu	41.0	q
	2	Bahamas	Bernard Nottage, Kevin Johnson, George Collie, Tom Robinson	DQ

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Ghana	Ebenezer Addy, Bonner Mends, James Addy, Stanley Allotey	39.8	GR
	Jamaica	Wes Clayton, Pablo McNeil, Lynn Headley, Michael Fray	40.0
	Australia	Gary Eddy, Allen Crawley, Gary Holdsworth, Peter Norman	40.0
4	Wales	Lynn Davies, Ron Jones, Terry Davies, William Jones	40.2
5	Canada	Bohdan Domansky, Edmund Hearne, Harry Jerome, Terrance Tomlinson	40.4
6	Nigeria	David Ejoke, Folu Erinle, Omubo Peters, Sydney Asiodu	40.4
7	England	Barrie Kelly, Dave Dear, David Jones, Mel Cheskin	40.9
8	Trinidad and Tobago	Cipriani Phillip, Clifton Bertrand, Henry Noel, Winston Short	41.3

^ "Results". thecgf.com. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
^ "Heats results". The Observer. 14 August 1966. p. 14. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
^ "Final results". The Guardian. 15 August 1966. p. 4. Retrieved 22 July 2020.

4 x 110 yards
(1930–1966)

4 x 100 metres
(1970–present)

Men's

4 × 110 yards	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966
4 × 100 metres	1930 1934 1938 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Women's

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