1997 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 4 x 100 metres relay

__NOTOC__The 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 9 and August 10.

Medals

Results

Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

Heat 1

#flagcountry|Ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.41 Q (NR)
#flagcountry|Sweden (Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 39.04 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Ukraine (Aleksey Chikhachov, Sergiy Osovych, Oleg Kramarenko, Vladislav Dologodin) 39.32 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Mexico (Carlos Villaseñor, Alejandro Banda, Jaime de Jesus Lopez, Juan Pedro Toledo) 39.93:*flagcountry|United States (Brian Lewis, Tim Montgomery, Dennis Mitchell, Maurice Greene) DNF:*flagcountry|Jamaica (Donovan Powell, Dennis Mowatt, Garth Robinson, Cawley Elston) DNS:*flagcountry|Cyprus DNS

Heat 2

#flagcountry|Brazil (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.31 Q (AR)
#flagcountry|Canada (Carlton Chambers, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.36 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Japan (Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.44 Q (AR)
#flagcountry|Nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.46 q
#flagcountry|Portugal (Paulo Neves, Mário Barbosa, Paulo Figueiredo, Carlos Calado) 39.37 (SB)
#flagcountry|Slovenia (Marko Štor, Urban Acman, Tomaz Božic, Gregor Breznik) 39.62 (NR)
#flagcountry|New Zealand (Augustine Nketia, Chris Donaldson, Paul Gibbons, Donald MacDonald) 39.66
#flagcountry|Liberia (Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Robert M. Dennis, Edward Neufville) 39.90 (NR)

Heat 3

#flagcountry|Great Britain (Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Darren Braithwaite, Julian Golding) 38.47 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|France (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.80 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Spain (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Francisco Javier Navarro) 38.87 Q
#flagcountry|Poland (Marcin Krzywanski, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 39.00 q (SB)
#flagcountry|Bahamas (Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.09 q (NR)
#flagcountry|Ireland (Kevin Cogley, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Neil Ryan) 39.46 (NR)
#flagcountry|Cameroon (Alfred Moussambani, Issa-Aimé Nthépé, Serge Bengono, Claude Toukene) 39.73:*flagcountry|Ivory Coast (Eric Pacome N'Dri, Jean-Olivier Zirignon, Ahmed Douhou, Ibrahim Meité) DQ

Heat 4

#flagcountry|Cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.64 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Greece (Alexandros Yenovelis, Thomas Sbokos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis) 38.74 Q (NR)
#flagcountry|Italy (Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.97 Q
#flagcountry|Qatar (Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.05 q (NR)
#flagcountry|Hungary (Viktor Kovács, Miklós Gyulai, Szabolcs Alexa, Gábor Dobos) 39.38 (SB)
#flagcountry|Australia (Ryan Witnish, Damien Marsh, Steve Brimacombe, Rod Mapstone) 39.39 (SB):*flagcountry|Fiji DNS

emi-finals

Heat 1

#flagcountry|Ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.12 Q (NR)
#flagcountry|Great Britain (Dwain Chambers, Darren Campbell, Darren Braithwaite, Julian Golding) 38.25 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Spain (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.60 Q (NR)
#flagcountry|France (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.71 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Italy (Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.77
#flagcountry|Poland (Marcin Krzywanski, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 38.79 (SB)
#flagcountry|Qatar (Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.53:*flagcountry|Greece (Alexandros Yenovelis, Thomas Sbokos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis) DNF

Heat 2

#flagcountry|Nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 37.94 Q (WL)
#flagcountry|Cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.06 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Canada (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.15 Q (SB)
#flagcountry|Brazil (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.17 Q (AR)
#flagcountry|Japan (Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.89 (AR)
#flagcountry|Sweden (Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 39.04 (SB)
#flagcountry|Bahamas (Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.12:*flagcountry|Ukraine (Aleksey Chikhachov, Sergiy Osovych, Igor Strakh, Vladislav Dologodin) DNF

Final

#flagcountry|Canada (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 37.86 (WL)
#flagcountry|Nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.07
#flagcountry|Great Britain (Darren Braithwaite, Darren Campbell, Douglas Walker, Julian Golding) 38.14 (SB)
#flagcountry|Cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.15
#flagcountry|Ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.26
#flagcountry|Brazil (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.48
#flagcountry|Spain (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.72:*flagcountry|France (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) DQ

References

* [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH05/history/Year=1997/EventCode=1274/gender=M/discipline=4X1/combCode=hash/roundCode=h/index.html Official results, heats] - IAAF.org
* [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH05/history/Year=1997/EventCode=1274/gender=M/discipline=4X1/combCode=hash/roundCode=sf/index.html Official results, semi-finals] - IAAF.org
* [http://www.iaaf.org/WCH05/history/Year=1997/EventCode=1274/gender=M/discipline=4X1/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/index.html Official results, final] - IAAF.org