Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 x 100 metre relay

Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Men's 4 x 100 metres relay races at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held on Friday September 29 and Saturday September 30.

The top two teams in each of the initial five heats automatically qualified for the semi-final. The next six fastest team from across the heats also qualified. The top three teams in each of the semi-finals automatically qualified for the final. The next two fastest team from the semi-finals also qualified.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

World Record	37.40	Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	Barcelona (ESP)	August 8, 1992
	37.40	Jon Drummond Andre Cason Dennis Mitchell Leroy Burrell	Stuttgart (GER)	August 21, 1993
Olympic Record	37.40	Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	Barcelona (ESP)	August 8, 1992

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Kenneth Brokenburr* Jon Drummond Maurice Greene Brian Lewis Tim Montgomery* Bernard Williams	Brazil André da Silva Claudinei da Silva Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro Cláudio Roberto Souza*	Cuba (CUB) José Angel Cesar Iván García Freddy Mayola Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda

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

Results

All times shown are in seconds.

• Q denotes qualification by place in heat.
• q denotes qualification by overall place.
• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• AR denotes area/continental record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best.

Heats

Heat 1 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	11	Côte d'Ivoire	Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité	7	0.342 s	39.06 s	Q
2	13	Thailand	Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep	3	0.196 s	39.13 s	Q
3	19	Guatemala	Nolberto Rolando Blanco, Oscar Meneses, Jose Haroldo Meneses Gonzalez, J. Tinoco	6	0.181 s	39.34 s
4	23	Bahamas	Renward Wells, Dominic Demeritte, Iram Lewis, Wellington Saunders Whymms	2	0.139 s	39.57 s
5	25	Cyprus	Anthimos Rotos, Anninos Marcoullides, Prodromos Katsantonis, Yiannakis Zisimides	4	0.460 s	39.75 s
6	31	Yugoslavia	Slobodan Spasic, Predrag Momirovic, Milos Sakic, Milan Petakovic	8	0.245 s	39.99 s
7	35	India	Anna Durai, Rajeev Balakrishnan, Ajay Raj Singh, Anil Kumar Prakash	5	0.151 s	40.23 s
8		Great Britain	Allyn Condon, Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers	1	0.175 s	DQ

Heat 2 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	2	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Cláudio Roberto Souza	8	0.153 s	38.32 s	Q
2	7	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	5	0.429 s	38.84 s	Q	SB
3	8	Nigeria	Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu	4	0.175 s	38.35 s	q	SB
4	9	Jamaica	Donovan Powell, Dwight Thomas, Lindel Frater, Llewellyn Bredwood	3	0.220 s	38.97 s	q
5	15	Slovenia	Matic Šušteršic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	6	0.146 s	39.25 s	q	NR
6	27	Liberia	Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Andrew Reyes, Koiyan Morlu	7	0.175 s	39.77 s		NR
7	33	Hong Kong, China	Wai Lok To, Kwan Lung Ho, Hon Sing Tang, Wai Hung Chiang	2	0.182 s	40.15 s
8	34	Chile	Diego Valdés, Ricardo Roach, Rodrigo Roach, Juan Pablo Faúndez	1	0.161 s	40.20

Heat 3 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	10	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Jérôme Eyana	5	0.163 s	39.00 s	Q
2	14	Greece	Yeoryios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis	2	0.236 s	39.21 s	Q
3	16T	Canada	Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Nicolas Macrozonaris	6	0.458 s	39.26 s	q	SB
3	16T	Ireland	John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Paul Brizzell	4	0.226 s	39.26 s		NR
5	22	Mauritius	Jonathan Chimier, Eric Milazar, Stéphan Buckland, Fernando Augustin	8	0.419 s	39.55 s
6	26	Israel	Kfir Golan, Gidon Yablonka, Tommy Kafri, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	7	0.237 s	39.76 s
7	30	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed M M Alyami, Mubarak Ata Mubarak, Salem Mubarak Al-Yami, Jamal Al-Saffar	7	0.193 s	39.94 s
		Ghana	Christian Nsiah, Kenneth Andam, Aziz Zakari, Leonard Myles-Mills	1	0.250 s	DNF

Heat 4 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	4T	Cuba	José Angel Cesar, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	8	0.414 s	38.74 s	Q
2	6	Australia	Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson	2	0.167 s	38.76 s	Q
3	12	Trinidad and Tobago	Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Jacey Harper, Marc Burns	7	0.176 s	39.12 s	q	SB
4	21	Hungary	Viktor Kovács, Géza Pauer, László Babály, Miklós Gyulai	6	0.474 s	39.52 s
5	24	Cameroon	Samuel Nchinda, Serge Bengono, Joseph Batangdon, Benjamin Sirimou	5	0.165 s	39.62 s
6	28	Oman	Mohammed Said Al Maskari, Hamood Al Dalhami, Mohamed Amer Al-Malky, Jihad Al Sheikh	1	0.125 s	39.82 s		SB
7	32	Puerto Rico	Osvaldo Nieves, Rogelio Pizarro, Jorge Richardson, Félix Omar Fernández	3	0.233 s	40.12 s
8	38	Uzbekistan	Oleg Juravlyov, Konstantin Zhuravlyov, Anvar Kuchmuradov, Nikolay Eroshenko	4	0.423 s	41.20 s

Heat 5 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	1	United States	Kenny Brokenburr, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	6	0.216 s	38.15 s	Q
2	3	Japan	Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	3	0.222 s	38.52 s	Q	SB
3	4T	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbas, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	7	0.215 s	38.74 s	q	SB
4	18	Russia	Dmitri Vasilyev, Aleksandr Ryabov, Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Bychkov	4	0.152 s	39.29 s		SB
5	20	Venezuela	Juan Alberto Morillo, José Peña Quevedo, José Carabalí, Hely Ollarves	2	0.214 s	39.45 s		NR
6	29	Croatia	Slaven Krajacic, Dejan Vojnovic, Siniša Ergotic, Tihomir Buinjac	5	0.129 s	39.87 s
7	36	Indonesia	Sukari, Erwin Heru Susanto, Janis Roubaba, John Muray	1	0.232 s	40.35 s
8	37	Barbados	Wilan Louis, Victor Houston, Gabriel Burnett, Fabian Rollins	8	40.38 s

Round 1- Overall

Round 1 Overall Results
Place	Nation	Athletes	Heat	Lane	Place	Time	Qual.	Record
1	United States	Kenny Brokenburr, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	5	6	1	38.15 s	Q
2	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Cláudio Roberto Souza	2	8	1	38.32 s	Q
3	Japan	Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	5	3	2	38.52 s	Q	SB
4	Cuba	José Angel Cesar, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	4	8	1	38.74 s	Q
	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbas, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	5	7	3	38.74 s	q	SB
6	Australia	Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson	4	2	2	38.76 s	Q
7	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	2	5	2	38.84 s	Q	SB
8	Nigeria	Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu	2	4	3	38.97 s	q	SB
9	Jamaica	Donovan Powell, Dwight Thomas, Lindel Frater, Llewellyn Bredwood	2	3	4	38.97 s	q
10	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Jérôme Eyana	3	5	1	39.00 s	Q
11	Côte d'Ivoire	Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité	1	7	1	39.06 s	Q
12	Trinidad and Tobago	Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Jacey Harper, Marc Burns	4	7	3	39.12 s	q	SB
13	Thailand	Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep	1	3	2	39.13 s	Q
14	Greece	Yeoryios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis	3	2	2	39.21 s	Q
15	Slovenia	Matic Šušteršic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	2	6	5	39.25 s	q	NR
16	Canada	Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Nicolas Macrozonaris	3	6	3	39.26 s	q	SB
	Ireland	John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Paul Brizzell	3	4	4	39.26 s		NR
18	Russia	Dmitri Vasilyev, Aleksandr Ryabov, Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Bychkov	5	4	4	39.29 s		SB
19	Guatemala	Nolberto Rolando Blanco, Oscar Meneses, Jose Haroldo Meneses Gonzalez, J. Tinoco	1	6	3	39.34 s		NR
20	Venezuela	Juan Alberto Morillo, José Peña Quevedo, José Carabalí, Hely Ollarves	5	2	5	39.45 s		NR
21	Hungary	Viktor Kovács, Géza Pauer, László Babály, Miklós Gyulai	4	6	4	39.52 s
22	Mauritius	Jonathan Chimier, Eric Milazar, Stéphan Buckland, Fernando Augustin	3	8	5	39.55 s
23	Bahamas	Renward Wells, Dominic Demeritte, Iram Lewis, Wellington Saunders Whymms	1	2	4	39.57 s
24	Cameroon	Samuel Nchinda, Serge Bengono, Joseph Batangdon, Benjamin Sirimou	4	5	5	39.62 s
25	Cyprus	Anthimos Rotos, Anninos Marcoullides, Prodromos Katsantonis, Yiannakis Zisimides	1	4	5	39.75 s
26	Israel	Kfir Golan, Gidon Yablonka, Tommy Kafri, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	3	3	6	39.76 s
27	Liberia	Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Andrew Reyes, Koiyan Morlu	2	7	6	39.77 s		NR
28	Oman	Mohammed Said Al Maskari, Hamood Al Dalhami, Mohamed Amer Al-Malky, Jihad Al Sheikh	4	1	6	39.82 s		SB
29	Croatia	Slaven Krajacic, Dejan Vojnovic, Siniša Ergotic, Tihomir Buinjac	5	5	6	39.87 s
30	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed M M Alyami, Mubarak Ata Mubarak, Salem Mubarak Al-Yami, Jamal Al-Saffar	3	7	7	39.94 s
31	Yugoslavia	Slobodan Spasic, Predrag Momirovic, Milos Sakic, Milan Petakovic	1	8	6	39.99 s
32	Puerto Rico	Osvaldo Nieves, Rogelio Pizarro, Jorge Richardson, Félix Omar Fernández	4	3	7	40.12 s
33	Hong Kong, China	Wai Lok To, Kwan Lung Ho, Hon Sing Tang, Wai Hung Chiang	2	2	7	40.15 s
34	Chile	Diego Valdés, Ricardo Roach, Rodrigo Roach, Juan Pablo Faúndez	2	1	8	40.20 s
35	India	Anna Durai, Rajeev Balakrishnan, Ajay Raj Singh, Anil Kumar Prakash	1	5	7	40.23 s
36	Indonesia	Sukari, Erwin Heru Susanto, Janis Roubaba, John Muray	5	1	7	40.35 s
37	Barbados	Wilan Louis, Victor Houston, Gabriel Burnett, Fabian Rollins	5	8	8	40.38 s
38	Uzbekistan	Oleg Juravlyov, Konstantin Zhuravlyov, Anvar Kuchmuradov, Nikolay Eroshenko	4	4	8	41.20 s
	Great Britain	Allyn Condon, Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers	1	1		DQ
	Ghana	Christian Nsiah, Kenneth Andam, Aziz Zakari, Leonard Myles-Mills	3	1		DNF

Semi-finals

Heat 1 of 2 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	1	United States	Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	6	0.142 s	37.82 s	Q
2	3T	Jamaica	Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood	1	0.154 s	38.27 s	Q	NR
3	7	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims	5	0.158 s	38.64 s	Q
4	8	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	3	0.146 s	38.67 s	q	SB
5	10	Côte d'Ivoire	Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité	4	0.435 s	38.82 s		SB
6	11T	Canada	Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Adrian Woodley	2	0.172 s	38.92 s		SB
7	13	Thailand	Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep	7	0.150 s	39.05 s
8		Nigeria	Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu	8	0.194 s	DNF

Heat 2 of 2 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	2	Cuba	José Angel Cesar, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	5	0.481 s	38.16 s	Q
2	3T	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva	4	0.394 s	38.27 s	Q
3	5	Japan	Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	6	0.481 s	38.31 s	Q	=AR
4	6	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbas, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	7	0.224 s	38.60 s	q	SB
5	9	Greece	Yeoryios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis	2	0.211 s	38.80 s
6	11T	Trinidad and Tobago	Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Marc Burns, Ato Boldon	8	0.210 s	38.92 s		NR
		Australia	Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson	3	0.215 s	DQ
		Slovenia	Matic Šušteršic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	1	0.165 s	DQ

Semi-Finals overall

Semi-finals Overall Results
Place	Nation	Athletes	Heat	Lane	Place	Time	Qual.	Record
1	United States	Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	1	6	1	37.82 s	Q
2	Cuba	José Angel Cesar, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	2	5	1	38.16 s	Q
3	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva	2	4	2	38.27 s	Q
	Jamaica	Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood	1	1	2	38.27 s	Q	NR
5	Japan	Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	2	6	3	38.31 s	Q	=AR
6	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbas, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	2	7	4	38.60 s	q	SB
7	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims	1	5	3	38.64 s	Q
8	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	1	3	4	38.67 s	q	SB
9	Greece	Yeoryios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis	2	2	5	38.80 s
10	Côte d'Ivoire	Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité	1	4	5	38.82 s		SB
11	Canada	Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Adrian Woodley	1	2	6	38.92 s		SB
	Trinidad and Tobago	Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Marc Burns, Ato Boldon	2	8	6	38.92 s		NR
13	Thailand	Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep	1	7	7	39.05 s
	Australia	Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson	2	3		DQ
	Slovenia	Matic Šušteršic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	2	1		DQ
	Nigeria	Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu	1	8		DNF

Final

Final
Place	Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Record
1	United States	Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	5	0.126 s	37.61 s	SB
2	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva	4	0.188 s	37.90 s	NR
3	Cuba	José Angel Cesar, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	3	0.238 s	38.04 s	SB
4	Jamaica	Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood	6	0.315 s	38.20 s	NR
5	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims	7	0.153s	38.49 s	SB
6	Japan	Shigeyuki Kojima, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	2	0.221 s	38.66 s
7	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	8	0.146s	38.67 s
8	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbas, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	1	0.196 s	38.96 s

References

• Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics

External links

• Results, round 1 - IAAF
• Results, semi-final - IAAF
• Results, final - IAAF