European Athletics Championships 2018/4 × 100 m men

discipline	4 × 100 m relay of men
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	16 relays with 65 athletes
Competition phase	August 12, 2018 (heats / finals)
Medalist
gold	Great Britain
silver	Turkey
bronze	Netherlands

The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 12 in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

Great Britain became European champions with Chijindu Ujah , Zharnel Hughes , Adam Gemili , Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, who was also used in the run-up . The season from Turkey won the silver medal in the cast Emre Zafer Barnes , Jak Ali Harvey , Yiğitcan Hekimoğlu and Ramil Guliyev . Bronze went to the Netherlands (Christopher Garia, Churandy Martina , Hensley Paulina, Taymir Burnet).

The runner from Great Britain used here in the preliminary run also received the corresponding precious metal.

Records

WR	Jamaica ( Nesta Carter , Michael Frater , Yohan Blake , Usain Bolt )	36.84 s	OS in London , UK	August 11, 2012
HE	Great Britain ( Chijindu Ujah , Adam Gemili , Daniel Talbot , Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake )	37.47 s	OS in London , UK	August 11, 2012
CR	France ( Max Morinière , Daniel Sangouma , Jean-Charles Trouabal , Bruno Marie-Rose )	37.79 s	EM in Split , Yugoslavia (today Croatia )	September 1, 1990

Last change of the 4 × 100 m relay

Prelims

From the two preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 12, 2018, 7:40 p.m. CEST

space	train	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	6th	Great Britain	Chijindu Ujah Zharnel Hughes Adam Gemili Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	37.84
2	3	Netherlands	Christopher Garia Churandy Martina Hensley Paulina Taymir Burnet	38.30
3	7th	Turkey	Emre Zafer Barnes Jak Ali Harvey Yiğitcan Hekimoğlu Ramil Guliyev	38.30 NRe
4th	4th	Czech Republic	Zdeněk Stromšík Jan Veleba Jan Jirka Pavel Maslák	38.94 SB
5	8th	Portugal	José Lopes Diogo Antunes Frederico Curvelo Carlos Nascimento	39.09 SB
6th	1	Greece	Efthymios Stergioulis Ioannis Nifadopoulos Panagiotis Trivyzas Likourgos-Stefanos Tsakonas	39.49 SB
7th	2	Romania	Costin Florian Homiuc Alexandru Terpezan Ionuț Andrei Neagoe Petre Rezmives	39.63
DNF	5	Sweden	Dennis Leal Stefan Tärnhuvud Felix Svensson Tony Darkwah

Run 2

August 12, 2018, 7:48 p.m. CEST

space	train	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	7th	France	Méba-Mickaël Zézé Marvin René Stuart Dutamby Mouhamadou case	38.62
2	8th	Ukraine	Oleksandr Sokolov Emil Ibrahimov Volodymyr Suprun Serhiy Smelyk	38.86 SB
3	3	Finland	Eetu Rantala Otto Ahlfors Oskari Lehtonen Samuel Purola	39.11 NO
4th	2	Spain	Patrick Chinedu Ike Pol Retamal Daniel Rodríguez Ángel David Rodríguez	39.12 SB
5	6th	Switzerland	Suganthan Somasundaram Silvan Wicki Florian Clivaz Alex Wilson	39.13 SB
DNF	1	Germany	Kevin Kranz Patrick Domogala Julian Reus Lucas Jakubczyk
DSQ	5	Poland	Eryk Hampel Remigiusz Olszewski Dominik Kopeć Przemysław Słowikowski	IAAF Rule 170.7 - Change error
	4th	Italy	Federico Cattaneo Eseosa Desalu Davide Manenti Filippo Tortu	IAAF Rule 163.3a - Rail violation

final

August 12, 2018, 9:35 p.m. CEST

In the final there was only one line-up change in only one team:
Great Britain - Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake was replaced by Harry Aikines-Aryeetey

The British went into this final as the clear favorites. They were the reigning world champions , had won the last two European championship titles and were the fastest team in the heats. France, Turkey and the Netherlands were among the strongest competitors for Great Britain.

The race was still open until the second change. Churandy Martina had shown a strong performance as the second runner for the Netherlands, his team was at the front together with Turkey and Great Britain. At the last change, the British had already moved away a little at the top. The Netherlands followed ahead of the seasons from Turkey and France, which are now almost tied. The fastest final runner was the Turkish 200-meter European champion Ramil Guliyev, who even brought his team to second place. Great Britain, however, was no longer to be endangered. The Dutch won bronze. France was fourth, ahead of Ukraine and Finland.

Taymir Burnet for the Netherlands and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey for Great Britain on their final straight

Bronze medalists Netherlands ( from left to right ):
Taymir Burnet, Hensley Paulina, Churandy Martina, Chris Garia

space	train	country	Athletes	Time (s)
	5	Great Britain	Chijindu Ujah Zharnel Hughes Adam Gemili Harry Aikines-Aryeetey in advance also: Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake	37.80
	8th	Turkey	Emre Zafer Barnes Jak Ali Harvey Yiğitcan Hekimoğlu Ramil Guliyev	37.98 NO
	6th	Netherlands	Christopher Garia Churandy Martina Hensley Paulina Taymir Burnet	38.03 NO
4th	3	France	Méba-Mickaël Zézé Marvin René Stuart Dutamby Mouhamadou case	38.51 SB
5	4th	Ukraine	Oleksandr Sokolov Emil Ibrahimov Volodymyr Suprun Serhiy Smelyk	38.71 SB
6th	7th	Finland	Eetu Rantala Otto Ahlfors Oskari Lehtonen Samuel Purola	38.92 NO
7th	1	Portugal	José Lopes Diogo Antunes Frederico Curvelo Carlos Nascimento	39.07 SB
DNS	2	Czech Republic	Zdeněk Stromšík Jan Veleba Jan Jirka Pavel Maslák

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 4, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 4, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 4, 2019

Videos

• 4x100 m: British gold - Guliyev saves silver, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published on August 12, 2018, accessed on January 4, 2019
• The fall drama of the men's sprint relay, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published on August 12, 2018, accessed on January 4, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 99 (PDF), accessed on January 4, 2019
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on January 4, 2019