1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.
Medals
Records
Existing records at the start of the event.
Results
Heats
All times shown are in seconds.
WR world record |AR Area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season)
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DNF = did not finish | DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) | Q = qualification by place in heat | q = qualification by overall place
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Heat 1
- United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Dennis Mitchell) 38.80 Q
- Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 39.11 Q
- Japan (Kaoru Matsubara, Hirohisa Ota, Masahiro Nagura, Hiroki Fuwa) 39.49 Q
- China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.63 Q
- Spain (Enrique Talavera, Juan José Prado, Miguel Ángel García, José Javier Arqués) 40.20 q
- Uganda (Moses Musonge, Joseph Ssali, Sunday Olweny, Edward Bitoga) 40.22
Heat 2
- Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Andrey Fedoriv) 38.98 Q
- West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 39.10 Q
- Brazil (Joilto Bonfim, Carlos de Oliveira, Arnaldo de Oliveira Silva, Robson da Silva) 39.57 Q
- Italy (Ezio Madonia, Stefano Tilli, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.58 Q
- Ghana (John Myles-Mills, Emmanuel Tuffour, Salaam Gariba, Eric Akogyiram) 39.77 q
- Chinese Taipei (Lai Cheng-Chuan, Lee Shiun-Long, Chang Yih-Yuan, Cheng Hsin-Fu) 40.05 q
Heat 3
- Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.76 Q
- Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.88 Q
- Cuba (Ricardo Chacon, Leandro Peñalver, Sergio Querol, Andrés Simón) 39.44 Q
- Senegal (Charles-Louis Seck, Hamidou Diawara, Joseph Dias, Amadou Mbaye) 39.83 Q
- Portugal (Arnaldo Abrantes, Pedro Curvelo, Luís Cunha, Luís Barroso) 40.10 q
Semi-finals
Heat 1
- Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Vladimir Krylov) 38.29 Q
- Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.50 Q
- West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 38.84 Q
- Italy (Ezio Madonia, Stefano Tilli, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.52 Q
- Japan (Kaoru Matsubara, Hirohisa Ota, Masahiro Nagura, Hiroki Fuwa) 39.71
- Spain (Miguel Ángel García, Juan José Prado, Angel Heras, José Javier Arqués) 39.74
- Ghana (John Myles-Mills, Emmanuel Tuffour, Salaam Gariba, Eric Akogyiram) 39.94
- Senegal (Charles-Louis Seck, Hamidou Diawara, Joseph Dias, Amadou Mbaye) 40.22
Heat 2
- United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Dennis Mitchell) 38.33 Q
- Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.66 Q
- Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 38.78 Q
- China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.05 (AR) Q
- Cuba (Ricardo Chacon, Leandro Peñalver, Sergio Querol, Andrés Simón) 39.08
- Brazil (Joilto Bonfim, Carlos De Oliveira, Arnaldo de Oliveira Silva, Robson da Silva) 39.22
- Chinese Taipei (Lai Cheng-Chuan, Lee Shiun-Long, Chang Yih-Yuan, Cheng Hsin-Fu) 39.90
- Portugal (Arnaldo Abrantes, Pedro Curvelo, Luís Cunha, Luís Barroso) 40.24
Final
- United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Carl Lewis) 37.90
- Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Vladimir Krylov) 38.02 (AR)
- Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.41
- Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.47
- West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 38.73
- Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 39.04
- Italy (Ezio Madonia, Domenico Gorla, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.62
- China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.93
References