World Athletics Championships 1997/4 × 100 m men

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6th World Athletics Championships
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discipline 4 × 100 m relay
gender Men
Attendees 29 relays with 120 athletes
venue GreeceGreece Athens
Competition location Olympic Stadium
Competition phase August 9th (preliminary / semi-finals)
August 10th (final)
Medalist
gold medal CanadaCanada Canada
Silver medal NigeriaNigeria Nigeria
Bronze medal United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain

The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 9 and 10, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

Canada became world champion in the line-up of Robert Esmie (semifinals / final), Glenroy Gilbert , Bruny Surin and Donovan Bailey as well as Carlton Chambers, who were also used in the preliminary stages .
Second place went to Nigeria ( Osmond Ezinwa , Olapade Adeniken , Francis Obikwelu , Davidson Ezinwa ).
Bronze went to Great Britain with Darren Braithwaite , Darren Campbell , Douglas Walker (final) and Julian Golding as well as Dwain Chambers , who was also used in the semifinals, and Marlon Devonish, who was also used in the preliminary run .

The runners only used in the run-up were given corresponding precious metal. On the other hand, records and top performances were only available to the athletes who actually ran.

Existing records

World record 37.40 s United StatesUnited States USA
( Carl Lewis , Dennis Mitchell , Leroy Burrell , Michael Marsh )
OS in Barcelona , Spain August 8, 1992
United StatesUnited States USA
( Jon Drummond , Andre Cason , Dennis Mitchell and Leroy Burrell )
World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany August 21, 1993
World Cup record United StatesUnited States USA
( Jon Drummond , Andre Cason , Dennis Mitchell and Leroy Burrell )
World Cup 1993 in Stuttgart , Germany August 21, 1993

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three relays per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest teams - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

August 9, 1997, 6:30 p.m.

space Season occupation Time (s)
1 GhanaGhana Ghana Abu Dua
Eric Nkansah
Aziz Zakari
Emmanuel Tuffour
38.46 NO
2 SwedenSweden Sweden Patrik Lövgren
Torbjörn Mårtensson
Torbjörn Eriksson
Peter Karlsson
39.04
3 UkraineUkraine Ukraine Aleksey Chikhachov
Sergey Osovich
Oleg Kramarenko
Wladyslaw Dolohodin
39.32
4th MexicoMexico Mexico Carlos Villaseñor
Alejandro Banda
Jaime López
Juan Pedro Toledo
39.93
DNF United StatesUnited States United States Brian Lewis
Tim Montgomery
Dennis Mitchell
Maurice Greene
DNS JamaicaJamaica Jamaica Donovan Powell
Dennis Mowatt
Garth Robinson
Elston Cawley
Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Cyprus No naming of
the squadron cast

Forward 2

August 9, 1997, 6:38 pm

space Season occupation Time (s)
1 BrazilBrazil Brazil Vicente de Lima
Claudinei da Silva
Robson da Silva
Édson Ribeiro
38.31 SR
2 CanadaCanada Canada Carlton Chambers (preliminary)
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin
Donovan Bailey
38.36
3 JapanJapan Japan Satoru Inoue
Kôji Itô
Hiroyasu Tsuchie
Nobuharu Asahara
38.44 AS
4th NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Osmond Ezinwa
Olapade Adeniken
Francis Obikwelu
Davidson Ezinwa
38.46
5 PortugalPortugal Portugal Paulo Neves
Mario Barbosa
Paulo Figeiredo
Carlos Calado
39.37
6th SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia Marko Stor
Urban Acman
Tomaz Bozic
Gregor Breznik
39.62 NO
7th New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand Gus Nketia
Chris Donaldson
Paul Gibbons
Donald MacDonald
39.66
8th LiberiaLiberia Liberia Kouty Mawenh
Sayon Cooper
Robert M. Dennis
Edward Neufville
39.90 NO

Forward 3

August 9, 1997, 6:46 p.m.

space Season occupation Time (s)
1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain Darren Campbell
Marlon Devonish (forward)
Darren Braithwaite
Julian Golding
38.47
2 FranceFrance France Emmanuel Bangué
Frederic Krantz
Olivier Theophile (preliminary / semifinals)
Stéphane Cali
38.80
3 SpainSpain Spain Frutos Feo
Venancio José
Jordi Mayoral
Carlos Berlanga
38.87
4th PolandPoland Poland Marcin Krzywański
Dariusz Adamczyk
Piotr Balcerzak
Ryszard Pilarczyk
39.00
5 BahamasBahamas Bahamas Renward Wells
Andrew Tynes
Dennis Darling
Joseph Styles
39.09 NO
6th IrelandIreland Ireland Kevin Cogley
Gary Ryan
Dennis Darling
Neil Ryan
39.46 NO
7th CameroonCameroon Cameroon Alfred Moussambani
Issa Ntheppe
Serge Bengono
Claude Toukene
39.73
DSQ Ivory CoastIvory Coast Ivory Coast N'Dri Pacome
Jean-Olivier Zirignon
Ahmed Douhou
Ibrahim Meité
IAAF Rule 170.7
faulty substitution

Forward 4

August 9, 1997, 6:54 p.m.

space Season occupation Time (s)
1 CubaCuba Cuba Alfredo García-Baró
Misael Ortíz
Iván García
Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda
38.64
2 GreeceGreece Greece Alexandros Genovelis
Thomas Sbokos
Georgios Panagiotopoulos
Angelos Pavlakakis
38.74 NO
3 ItalyItaly Italy Andrea Amici
Giovanni Puggioni
Carlo Occhiena
Sandro Floris
38.97
4th QatarQatar Qatar Jassim Abbas
Sultan Al-Sheeb
Sulaiman Jama Yusuf
Saad Al-Kuwari
39.05 NO
5 HungaryHungary Hungary Viktor Kovács
Miklós Gyulai
Szabolcs Alexa
Gábor Dobos
39.38
6th AustraliaAustralia Australia Ryan Witnish
Damien Marsh
Steve Brimacombe
Rod Mapstone
39.39
DNS FijiFiji Fiji No naming of
the squadron cast

Semifinals

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four seasons - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

August 9, 1997, 8:50 pm

space Season occupation Time (s)
1 GhanaGhana Ghana Abu Dua
Eric Nkansah
Aziz Zakari
Emmanuel Tuffour
38.12 NO
2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain Dwain Chambers (semifinals)
Darren Campbell
Darren Braithwaite
Julian Golding
38.25
3 SpainSpain Spain Frutos Feo
Venancio José
Jordi Mayoral
Carlos Berlanga
38.60 NO
4th FranceFrance France Emmanuel Bangué
Frederic Krantz
Olivier Theophile (preliminary / semifinals)
Stéphane Cali
38.71
5 ItalyItaly Italy Andrea Amici
Giovanni Puggioni
Carlo Occhiena
Sandro Floris
38.77
6th PolandPoland Poland Marcin Krzywański
Dariusz Adamczyk
Piotr Balcerzak
Ryszard Pilarczyk
38.79
7th QatarQatar Qatar Jassim Abbas
Sultan Al-Sheeb
Sulaiman Jama Yusuf
Saad Al-Kuwari
39.53
DNF GreeceGreece Greece Alexandros Genovelis
Thomas Sbokos
Georgios Panagiotopoulos
Angelos Pavlakakis

Semi-final run 2

August 9, 1997, 8:58 pm

space Season occupation Time (s)
1 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Osmond Ezinwa
Olapade Adeniken
Francis Obikwelu
Davidson Ezinwa
37.94 WL
2 CubaCuba Cuba Alfredo García-Baró
Misael Ortíz
Iván García
Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda
38.06
3 CanadaCanada Canada Robert Esmie
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin
Donovan Bailey
38.15
4th BrazilBrazil Brazil Vicente de Lima
Claudinei da Silva
Robson da Silva
Édson Ribeiro
38.17 SR
5 JapanJapan Japan Satoru Inoue
Kôji Itô
Hiroyasu Tsuchie
Nobuharu Asahara
38.31 AS
6th SwedenSweden Sweden Patrik Lövgren
Torbjörn Mårtensson
Torbjörn Eriksson
Peter Karlsson
38.89
7th BahamasBahamas Bahamas Renward Wells
Andrew Tynes
Dennis Darling
Joseph Styles
39.12
DNF UkraineUkraine Ukraine Aleksey Chikhachov
Sergey Osovich
Oleg Kramarenko
Wladyslaw Dolohodin

final

August 10, 1997, 7:55 pm

space Season occupation Time (s)
1 CanadaCanada Canada Robert Esmie (semifinals / final)
Glenroy Gilbert
Bruny Surin
Donovan Bailey
in the run-up also:
Carlton Chambers
37.86 WL
2 NigeriaNigeria Nigeria Osmond Ezinwa
Olapade Adeniken
Francis Obikwelu
Davidson Ezinwa
38.07
3 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain Darren Braithwaite
Darren Campbell
Douglas Walker (final)
Julian Golding
in the semifinals and:
Dwain Chambers
in the preliminary also:
Marlon Devonish
38.14
4th CubaCuba Cuba Alfredo García-Baró
Misael Ortíz
Iván García
Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda
38.15
5 GhanaGhana Ghana Abu Dua
Eric Nkansah
Aziz Zakari
Emmanuel Tuffour
38.26
6th BrazilBrazil Brazil Vicente de Lima
Claudinei da Silva
Robson da Silva
Édson Ribeiro
38.48
7th SpainSpain Spain Frutos Feo
Venancio José
Jordi Mayoral
Carlos Berlanga
38.72
DSQ FranceFrance France Emmanuel Bangué
Frederic Krantz
Gilles Quénéhervé (final)
Stéphane Cali
in the preliminary / semi-final also:
Olivier Theophile
IAAF Rule 170.7
faulty substitution

Video

Web links

References and comments

  1. IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m men , accessed June 19, 2020
  2. a b IAAF competition rules, page 120 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on June 19, 2020