Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 x 100 metres relay

The 4 x 100 metres relay races at the 1984 Summer Olympics was contested as part of the athletics program.

Medalists

Abbreviations

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

The United States set a new world record in the final.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

1.  United States (USA) (Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis) 38.89
2.  West Germany (FRG) (Christian Zirkelbach, Peter Klein, Jürgen Evers, Ralf Lübke) 39.04
3.  France (FRA) (Antoine Richard, Jean-Jacques Boussemart, Marc Gasparoni, Bruno Marie-Rose) 40.04
4.  Senegal (SEN) (Mamadou Sene, Hamidou Diawara, Saliou Seck, Charles-Louis Seck) 40.15
5.  Thailand (THA) (Vichan Choocherd, Rangsarn Inthachai, Prasit Boonprasert, Sumet Promna) 40.58
6.  Qatar (QAT) (Wahed Salem, Faraj Abdulla, Jamal Al-Abdulla, Talal Al Rahim) 40.60
7.  Gambia (GAM) (Bakary Jarju, Dawda Jallow, Abdurahman Jallow, Omar Fye) 40.73

Heat 2

1.  Canada (CAN) (Ben Johnson, Tony Sharpe, Desai Williams, Sterling Hinds) 39.20
2.  Brazil (BRA) (Arnaldo da Silva, Robson da Silva, Katsuiko Nakaia, Paulo Correia) 39.27
3.  Italy (ITA) (Antonio Ullo, Giovanni Bongiorni, Stefano Tilli, Pietro Mennea) 39.87
4.  Nigeria (NGR) (Iziaq Adeyanju, Eseme Ikpoto, Lawrence Adegbeingbe, Chidi Imoh) 39.94
5.  Ghana (GHA) (Philip Attipoe, Makarios Djan, Collins Mensah, Rex Brobby) 40.20
6.  Sierra Leone (SLE) (Abdul Mansaray, David Peter Sawyerr, Felix Sandy, Ivan Benjamin) 40.77

Heat 3

1.  Jamaica (JAM) (Norman Edwards, Greg Meghoo, Don Quarrie, Albert Lawrence) 38.93
2.  Great Britain (GBR) (Daley Thompson, Donovan Reid, Mike McFarlane, Allan Wells) 39.00
3.  Indonesia (INA) (Johanes Kardiono, Purnomo, Christian Nenepath, Ernawan Witarsa) 40.43
4.  Barbados (BAR) (John Mayers, Hamil Grimes, Clyde Edwards, Anthony Jones) 40.47
5.  Antigua and Barbuda (ANT) (Anthony Henry, Lester Benjamin, Alfred Browne, Larry Miller) 40.70
6.  Congo (CGO) (Théophile Nkounkou, Henri Nding, Antoine Kiakouama, Jean-Didace Bemou) 40.74
7.  Liberia (LBR) (Wallace O. Obey, Hassan Tall, Oliver Daniels, Augustus Moulton) 42.05

Semi-final

Heat 1

1.  United States (USA) (Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis) 38.44
2.  Italy (ITA) (Antonio Ullo, Giovanni Bongiorni, Stefano Tilli, Pietro Mennea) 39.32
3.  Canada (CAN) (Ben Johnson, Tony Sharpe, Desai Williams, Sterling Hinds) 39.39
4.  Brazil (BRA) (Arnaldo da Silva, Nelson Rocha Santos, Katsuiko Nakaia, Paulo Correia) 39.52
5.  Ghana (GHA) (Philip Attipoe, Makarios Djan, Collins Mensah, Rex Brobby) 40.19
6.  Indonesia (INA) (Johanes Kardiono, Purnomo, Christian Nenepath, Ernawan Witarsa) 40.37
7.  Senegal (SEN) (Mamadou Sene, Hamidou Diawara, Ibrahima Fall, Charles-Louis Seck) 40.63
8.  Thailand (THA) (Vichan Choocherd, Rangsarn Inthachai, Prasit Boonprasert, Sumet Promna) 40.83

Heat 2

1.  Jamaica (JAM) (Albert Lawrence, Greg Meghoo, Don Quarrie, Ray Stewart) 38.67
2.  Great Britain (GBR) (Daley Thompson, Donovan Reid, Mike McFarlane, Allan Wells) 38.67
3.  West Germany (FRG) (Jürgen Koffler, Peter Klein, Jürgen Evers, Ralf Lübke) 38.70
4.  France (FRA) (Antoine Richard, Jean-Jacques Boussemart, Marc Gasparoni, Bruno Marie-Rose) 38.91
5.  Nigeria (NGR) (Iziaq Adeyanju, Eseme Ikpoto, Samson Oyeledun, Chidi Imoh) 38.98
6.  Antigua and Barbuda (ANT) (Anthony Henry, Lester Benjamin, Alfred Browne, Larry Miller) 40.14
7.  Barbados (BAR) (John Mayers, Hamil Grimes, Clyde Edwards, Anthony Jones) 40.18
8.  Qatar (QAT) (Wahed Salem, Faraj Abdulla, Jamal Al-Abdulla, Talal Al Rahim) 40.43

Final

1.  United States (USA) (Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis) 37.83 (WR)
2.  Jamaica (JAM) (Albert Lawrence, Greg Meghoo, Don Quarrie, Ray Stewart) 38.62
3.  Canada (CAN) (Ben Johnson, Tony Sharpe, Desai Williams, Sterling Hinds) 38.70
4.  Italy (ITA) (Antonio Ullo, Giovanni Bongiorni, Stefano Tilli, Pietro Mennea) 38.87
5.  West Germany (FRG) (Jürgen Koffler, Peter Klein, Jürgen Evers, Ralf Lübke) 38.99
6.  France (FRA) (Antoine Richard, Jean-Jacques Boussemart, Marc Gasparoni, Bruno Marie-Rose) 39.10
7.  Great Britain (GBR) (Daley Thompson, Donovan Reid, Mike McFarlane, Allan Wells) 39.13
8.  Brazil (BRA) (Arnaldo da Silva, Nelson Rocha Santos, Katsuiko Nakaia, Paulo Correia) 39.40

External links

• Results