Tags: Olympic Event, Olympics.
The men’s 4×100 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place on August 9. The United States team of Jesse Owens Ralph Metcalfe Foy Draper and Frank Wykoff won in a world record time of 39.8. Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller both Jewish were originally slated to compete in the American relay team but were unexpectedly replaced by Owens and Metcalfe.