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The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 11 and 12 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kenya Washington Njiri Daniel Kimaiyo Bill Koskei Joel Ngetich	Jamaica Clive Barriffe Bertland Cameron Colin Bradford Floyd Brown Seymour Newman*	Australia John Higham Chum Darvall Garry Brown Rick Mitchell

*Athletes who competed in heats only

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

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	2	Canada	Frank Van Doorn, Brian Saunders, Dacre Bowen, Glenn Bogue	3:06.75	Q
2	2	Kenya	Washington Njiri, Daniel Kimaiyo, Bill Koskei, Joel Ngetich	3:06.82	Q
3	2	England	Terry Whitehead, Alan Pascoe, Richard Ashton, Glen Cohen	3:06.88	Q
4	2	Scotland	Roger Jenkins, Paul Forbes, Peter Hoffman, David Jenkins	3:06.90	q
5	1	Jamaica	Clive Barriffe, Bertland Cameron, Colin Bradford, Floyd Brown, Seymour Newman^[2]	3:09.17	Q
6	1	Trinidad and Tobago	Joseph Coombs, Mike Solomon, Mike Paul, Roy Astor	3:09.31	Q
7	1	Australia	John Higham, Chum Darvall, Garry Brown, Rick Mitchell	3:09.32	Q
8	1	Antigua and Barbuda	Elroy Turner, Cuthbert Jacobs, Lester Flax, Fred Sowerby	3:11.72	q
9	1	Wales	Berwyn Price, Jeff Griffiths, Michael Delaney, Steve James	3:11.89
10	1	Saint Lucia	Genevieve Nestor, Heligar Calderon, John Erysthee, Linus Ambrose	3:22.96
	2	Bermuda		DNS

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Kenya	Washington Njiri, Daniel Kimaiyo, Bill Koskei, Joel Ngetich	3:03.54
	Jamaica	Clive Barriffe, Bertland Cameron, Colin Bradford, Floyd Brown	3:04.00
	Australia	John Higham, Chum Darvall, Garry Brown, Rick Mitchell	3:04.23
4	Canada	Frank Van Doorn, Brian Saunders, Dacre Bowen, Glenn Bogue	3:05.94
5	Trinidad and Tobago	Joseph Coombs, Mike Solomon, Mike Paul, Roy Astor	3:06.73
6	Scotland	Roger Jenkins, Paul Forbes, Peter Hoffman, David Jenkins	3:07.73
7	Antigua and Barbuda	Elroy Turner, Cuthbert Jacobs, Lester Flax, Fred Sowerby	3:10.45
	England	Terry Whitehead, Alan Pascoe, Glen Cohen, Richard Ashton	DQ	^[3]

^ "Results". Archived from the original on 2012-09-14. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
^ Exact composition of the team unknown
^ England had originally finished first in the same time as Kenya but were disqualified for jostling with the Kenyan team on the third leg