Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 x 100 metres relay

The men's 4×100 metres relay was one of 23 track events of the athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics, in Athens. It was contested at the Athens Olympic Stadium, from August 27 and August 28, by a total of sixteen national teams comprising 64 athletes.

The sixteen teams competed in a two-heat qualifying round in which the first three teams from each heat, together with the next two fastest teams, were given a place in the final race. The final was won by the team of Great Britain in a time of 38.07 seconds.^[1]

Medalists

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Qualification

The Olympic qualification period for the athletics' relay events ran from January 1, 2003 to July 21, 2004. A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter a maximum of one qualified relay team per relay event, with a maximum of six qualified athletes. For this event, an NOC would be invited to participate with a relay team if the average of the team's two best times — obtained in IAAF-sanctioned meetings or tournaments — would be among the best sixteen, at the end of this period.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Results

Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

• Q denotes automatic qualification.
• q denotes fastest losers.
• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• AR denotes area record.
• NR denotes national record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season's best.

Heat 1

1. Nigeria (Olusoji Fasuba, Uchenna Emedolu, Aaron Egbele, Deji Aliu) 38.27s Q SB
2. Poland (Zbigniew Tulin, Łukasz Chyła, Marcin Jędrusiński, Marcin Urbaś) 38.47s Q SB
3. Australia (Adam Basil, Paul di Bella, Patrick Johnson, Joshua Ross) 38.49s Q SB
4. Trinidad and Tobago (Nicconnor Alexander, Marc Burns, Ato Boldon, Darrel Brown) 38.53s q =NR
5. Japan (Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.53s q
6. Germany (Ronny Ostwald, Tobias Unger, Alexander Kosenkow, Till Helmke) 38.64s
7. Canada (Nicolas Macrozonaris, Anson Henry, Charles Allen, Pierre Browne) 38.64s SB
8. Russia (Aleksandr Ryabov, Oleg Sergeyev, Sergey Bychkov, Andrey Yepishin) 39.19s

Heat 2

1. United States (Shawn Crawford, Darvis Patton, Coby Miller, Maurice Greene) 38.02s Q
2. Great Britain (Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis) 38.53s Q SB
3. Brazil (Cláudio Roberto Souza, Édson Luciano Ribeiro, Andre Domingos, Vicente de Lima) 38.64s Q
4. Jamaica (Dwight Thomas, Patrick Jarrett, Winston Smith, Michael Frater) 38.71s SB
5. Italy (Marco Torrieri, Simone Collio, Massimiliano Donati, Maurizio Checcucci) 38.79s
6. Ghana (Christian Nsiah, Tanko Braimah, Aziz Zakari, Leonard Myles-Mills) 38.88s SB
7. France (Issa Aime Nthepe, Ronald Pognon, Frederic Krantz, David Alerte) 38.93s
8. Netherlands (Timothy Beck, Troy Douglas, Patrick van Balkom, Caimin Douglas) DNF

Final

1. Great Britain (Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis) 38.07s SB
2. United States (Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin, Coby Miller, Maurice Greene) 38.08s
3. Nigeria (Olusoji Fasuba, Uchenna Emedolu, Aaron Egbele, Deji Aliu) 38.23s SB
4. Japan (Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.49s
5. Poland (Zbigniew Tulin, Łukasz Chyła, Marcin Jędrusiński, Marcin Urbaś) 38.54s
6. Australia (Adam Basil, Paul di Bella, Patrick Johnson, Joshua Ross) 38.56s
7. Trinidad and Tobago (Nicconnor Alexander, Marc Burns, Ato Boldon, Darrel Brown) 38.60s
8. Brazil (Cláudio Roberto Souza, Édson Luciano Ribeiro, Andre Domingos, Vicente de Lima) 38.67s

References