2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 4x100 metres relay

__NOTOC__The 4 x 100 metre relay at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on 31 August and 1 September.

Medals

Qualifying

From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.

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.
*SB denotes season's best.

Heat 1

#flag|Brazil (Vicente de Lima; Rafael Ribeiro; Basílio de Moraes; Sandro Viana) 38.27 s Q (WL)
#flag|United Kingdom|name=Great Britain (Christian Malcolm; Craig Pickering; Marlon Devonish; Mark Lewis-Francis) 38.33 s Q
#flag|Poland (Michal Bielczyk; Lukasz Chyla; Marcin Jedrusinski; Dariusz Kuc) 38.70 s Q
#flag|Italy (Rosario La Mastra; Simone Collio; Maurizio Checcucci; Jacques Riparelli) 38.81 s
#flag|South Africa (Christian Krone; Leigh Julius; Snyman Prinsloo; Sherwin Vries) 39.05 s (SB)
#flag|Russia (Aleksandr Volkov; Mikhail Egorychev; Roman Smirnov; Ivan Teplykh) 39.08 s (SB)
#flag|Canada (Richard Adu-Bobie; Anson Henry; Jared Connaughton; Neville Wright) 39.43

Heat 2

#flag|Jamaica (Dwight Thomas; Steve Mullings; Nesta Carter; Asafa Powell) 38.02 s Q (WL)
#flag|United States (Rodney Martin; Wallace Spearmon; Darvis Patton; Leroy Dixon) 38.10 s Q (SB)
#flag|Japan (Naoki Tsukahara; Shingo Suetsugu; Shinji Takahira; Nobuharu Asahara) 38.21 s Q (AR)
#flag|Nigeria (Obinna Metu; Chukwu Uche Isaac; Chinedu Oriala; Olusoji A. Fasuba) 38.43 s q (SB)
#flag|Germany (Ronny Ostwald; Tobias Unger; Alexander Kosenkow; Julian Reus) 38.56 s q (SB)
#flag|Australia (Matthew Shirvington; Adam Miller; Tim Williams; Aaron Rouge-Serret) 38.73 s (SB)

Final

#flag|United States (Darvis Patton; Wallace Spearmon; Tyson Gay; Leroy Dixon) 37.78 s (WL)
#flag|Jamaica (Marvin Anderson; Usain Bolt; Nesta Carter; Asafa Powell) 37.89 s (NR)
#flag|United Kingdom|name=Great Britain (Christian Malcolm; Craig Pickering; Marlon Devonish; Mark Lewis-Francis) 37.90 s (SB)
#flag|Brazil (Vicente de Lima; Rafael Ribeiro; Basílio de Moraes; Sandro Viana) 37.99 (SB)
#flag|Japan (Naoki Tsukahara; Shingo Suetsugu; Shinji Takahira; Nobuharu Asahara) 38.03 s (AR)
#flag|Germany (Ronny Ostwald; Tobias Unger; Alexander Kosenkow; Julian Reus) 38.62 s:*flag|Poland (Michal Bielczyk; Lukasz Chyla; Marcin Jedrusinski; Dariusz Kuc) DNF:*flag|Nigeria (Obinna Metu; Chukwu Uche Isaac; Chinedu Oriala; Olusoji A. Fasuba) DNF

References

* [http://osaka2007.iaaf.org/results/gender=M/discipline=4X1/combCode=hash/roundCode=h/result.html IAAF results, heats]
* [http://osaka2007.iaaf.org/results/gender=M/discipline=4X1/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/result.html IAAF results, final]