European Athletics Championships 2014/4 × 100 m men

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay
gender	Men
Attendees	16 relays with 66 athletes
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 16 (preliminary) August 17 (final)
Medalist  Great Britain  Germany  France

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

The 4-by-100-meter relay team of men in the 2014 European Athletics Championships was on 16 and 17 August 2014 in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich held.

European champion was Great Britain in the occupation James Ellington , Harry Aikines-Aryeetey , Richard Kilty and Adam Gemili ( in the final ) and in the flow also Danny Talbot . Second place went to Germany with Julian Reus , Sven Knipphals , Alexander Kosenkow and Lucas Jakubczyk . Bronze went to France ( Pierre Vincent , Christophe Lemaitre , Teddy Tinmar , Ben Bassaw ).

The British runner, who was only used in the preliminary run, also received a gold medal.

Existing records

World record	36.84 s	Jamaica ( Nesta Carter , Michael Frater , Yohan Blake , Usain Bolt )	OS London UK	August 11, 2012
European record	37.73 s	Great Britain ( Jason Gardener , Darren Campbell , Marlon Devonish , Dwain Chambers )	Seville Spain	August 29, 1999
EM record	37.79 s	France ( Max Morinière , Daniel Sangouma , Jean-Charles Trouabal and Bruno Marie-Rose )	EM Split Yugoslavia	August 31, 1990

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 16, 2014, 4:48 pm

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest teams - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Great Britain	James Ellington Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Richard Kilty Danny Talbot	38.26
2	Switzerland	Pascal Mancini Amaru Reto Schenkel Suganthan Somasundaram Alex Wilson	38.54 NO
3	Netherlands	Giovanni Codrington Churandy Martina Hensley Paulina Wouter Brus	38.90
4th	Ukraine	Roman Kravtsov Serhiy Smelyk Vitaliy Korzh Emil Ibrahimow	39.03
5	Sweden	Tom Kling-Baptiste Stefan Tärnhuvud Alexander Brorsson Erik Hagberg	39.27
6th	Finland	Eetu Rantala Ville Myllymäki Jonathan Åstrand Hannu Hämäläinen	39.47
7th	Estonia	Mart Muru Rait Veesalu Markus Ellisaar Marek Niit	39.52 NO
8th	Turkey	Umutcan Emektaş İzzet Safer Aykut Ay Ramil Guliyev	39.83

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Germany	Julian Reus Sven Knipphals Alexander Kosenkow Lucas Jakubczyk	38.15
2	France	Pierre Vincent Christophe Lemaitre Teddy Tinmar Ben Bassaw	38.55
3	Italy	Fabio Cerutti Eseosa Desalu DIego Marani Delmas Obou	38.71
4th	Poland	Robert Kubaczyk Dariusz Kuć Kamil Masztak Karl Zalewski	38.75
5	Portugal	Diogo Antunes Francis Obikwelu Arnaldo Abrantes Yazaldes Nascimento	38.79 NO
6th	Romania	Stefan Alexandru Codreanu Doru Teofilescu Alexandru Terpezan Catalin Campeanu	39.67
7th	Lithuania	Laurynas Gendvilas Žilvinas Adomavičius Ugnius Savickas Rytis Sakalauskas	40.15
DNF	Spain	Eduard Viles Sergio Ruiz Iván Jesús Ramos Adrià Burriel

final

August 17, 5:05 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Great Britain	James Ellington Harry Aikines-Aryeetey Richard Kilty Adam Gemili ( in the final ) in the run-up also: Danny Talbot	37.93 EL
2	Germany	Julian Reus Sven Knipphals Alexander Kosenkow Lucas Jakubczyk	38.09
3	France	Pierre Vincent Christophe Lemaitre Teddy Tinmar Ben Bassaw	38.46
4th	Switzerland	Pascal Mancini Amaru Reto Schenkel Suganthan Somasundaram Alex Wilson	38.56
5	Netherlands	Giovanni Codrington Churandy Martina Hensley Paulina Wouter Brus	38.60
6th	Poland	Adam Pawlowski ( in the final ) Dariusz Kuć Robert Kubaczyk Karl Zalewski in the preliminary also: Kamil Masztak	38.85
DNF	Italy	Fabio Cerutti Eseosa Desalu DIego Marani Delmas Obou
	Portugal	Diogo Antunes Francis Obikwelu Arnaldo Abrantes Yazaldes Nascimento

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 4, 2020
• Men 4x100m Relay European Championship 2014 Zurich on todor66.com, accessed on February 4, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 4, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, 4 × 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on February 4, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 4, 2020

Video

• European Championships Zurich 2014 4x100m Estonian Record on youtube.com, accessed on February 4, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m , accessed on February 4, 2020
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 4 × 100 m on rfea.es, p. 36 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on February 4, 2020