2005 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 4 x 100 metres relay

__NOTOC__The 4 x 100 metre relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 12 and August 13. The United Kingdom just beat Jamaica (38.28, SB) and Australia (38.32, SB) to bronze medal position. The United States' team did not participate in the final, having bungled their first relay stick handoff in their qualification heat the previous day.

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

#) 38.34s Q (WL)
#) 38.37s Q (SB)
#) 38.58 Q (SB)
#) 38.65s q (SB)
#) 38.92s (SB)
#) 39.30s (NR)
*) DNF

Heat 2

#) 38.28s Q (WL)
#) 38.32s Q (SB)
#) 38.46s Q (SB)
#) 38.60 q (NR)
#) 38.67s (SB)
#) 39.29s (SB)
*) DQ
*) DNF

Final

#, Ronald Pognon, Eddy De Lépine, Lueyi Dovy) 38.08s (WL)
# (Kevon Pierre, Marc Burns, Jacey Harper, Darrel Brown) 38.10s (NR)
# (Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Christian Malcolm, Mark Lewis-Francis) 38.27s (SB)
# (Lerone Clarke, Dwight Thomas, Ainsley Waugh, Michael Frater) 38.28s (SB)
#, Patrick Johnson) 38.32s (SB)
# (Geronimo Goeloe, Charlton Rafaela, Jairo Duzant, Churandy Martina) 38.45 (NR)
# (Alexander Kosenkow, Marc Blume, Tobias Unger, Marius Broening) 38.48 (SB)
# (Shingo Suetsugu, Shinji Takahira, Tatsuro Yoshino, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.77s (SB)

External references

* [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH05/results/gender=M/discipline=4X1/combCode=hash/roundCode=h/index.html IAAF results, heats]
* [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH05/results/gender=M/discipline=4X1/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/index.html IAAF results, final]