title: Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
text: # Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
  
  The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow on 19 and 20 August.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Heats
  
  | Rank | Heat | Nation | Athletes | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 1 | United States | Thomas Whatley, Wardell Gilbreath, Larry Brown, Steve Riddick | 39.63 | Q |
  | 2 | 1 | Poland | | 40.4 | Q |
  | 3 | 1 | East Germany | | 40.4 | q |
  | 4 | 1 | Japan | | 40.9 | |
  | 5 | 1 | Belgium | | 41.0 | |
  | 1 | 2 | West Germany | | 39.9 | Q |
  | 2 | 2 | Italy | Vincenzo Guerini, Luigi Benedetti, Sergio Morselli, Pietro Mennea | 40.1 | Q |
  | 3 | 2 | Cuba | | 40.4 | q |
  | 4 | 2 | Kuwait | | 43.7 | |
  | | 2 | Romania | | DNF | |
  | 1 | 3 | Soviet Union | Aleksandr Zhidkikh, Vladimir Lovetskiy, Juris Silovs, Vladimir Atamas | 39.63 | Q |
  | 2 | 3 | France | Philippe Leroux, Marc Davidovici, Charles Ducasse, Jean-Pierre Grès | 39.98 | Q |
  | 3 | 3 | Great Britain | | 40.7 | |
  | 4 | 3 | Mongolia | | 42.6 | |
  | | 3 | Puerto Rico | | DNF | |
  
  ### Final
  
  | Rank | Nation | Athletes | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | United States | Thomas Whatley, Wardell Gilbreath, Larry Brown, Steve Riddick | 39.10 | UR |
  | | Soviet Union | Aleksandr Zhidkikh, Vladimir Lovetskiy, Juris Silovs, Vladimir Atamas | 39.46 | |
  | | Italy | Vincenzo Guerini, Luigi Benedetti, Sergio Morselli, Pietro Mennea | 39.55 | |
  | 4 | France | Philippe Leroux, Marc Davidovici, Charles Ducasse, Jean-Pierre Grès | 39.83 | |
  | 5 | West Germany | Klaus-Dieter Bieler, Günther Wessing, Uwe Schläfer, Klaus Ehl | 39.91 | |
  | 6 | Poland | | 40.3 | |
  | 7 | East Germany | Thomas Munkelt, Bernd Borth, Wolfgang Rabe, Raimund Bethge | 40.61 | |
  | | Cuba | | DNF | |
  