1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Men
Attendees	85 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 10, 1984 (preliminary) August 11, 1984 (semi-finals and finals)
Medalist  United States  JAM  CAN

The men's 4-by-100-meter relay at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 10 and 11, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 85 athletes took part in twenty seasons.

The US season became Olympic champion in a new world record time with the cast of Sam Graddy , Ron Brown , Calvin Smith and Carl Lewis . The silver medal went to Jamaica ( Albert Lawrence , Greg Meghoo , Donald Quarrie , Raymond Stewart ), bronze to Canada with Ben Johnson , Tony Sharpe , Desai Williams and Sterling Hinds .

The season of the BR Germany reached the finals and finished fifth.
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. The GDR season was also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Soviet Union ( Vladimir Muravyov , Nikolai Sidorov , Alexander Aksinin , Andrei Prokofiev )	38.26 s	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	USA ( Emmit King , Willie Gault , Calvin Smith , Carl Lewis )	37.86 s	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Soviet Union (Sergei Sokolow, Alexander Aksinin , Andrei Prokofjew , Nikolai Sidorow )	38.60 s	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	USA ( Bernie Jackson , Ken Robinson , Elliott Quow , Sam Graddy )	38.49 s	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Cuba	39.81 s	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Brazil (Marcus Barros, Nelson dos Santos , Paulo Correia, Sérgio Menezes)	40.7 s	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	People's Republic of China	40.16 s	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Ivory Coast	40.3 s	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	37.86 s	USA ( Emmit King , Willie Gault , Calvin Smith , Carl Lewis )	Helsinki , Finland	August 10, 1983
Olympic record	38.19 s	USA ( Larry Black , Robert Taylor , Gerald Tinker , Eddie Hart )	Final of Munich , FR Germany (today Germany )	September 10, 1972

Preliminary round

Date: August 10, 1984

In the preliminary round, the twenty relays were drawn in three runs. The first four seasons of each run qualified for the semifinals. Furthermore, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified relays are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

The USA relay achieved the fastest lead time with 38.89 s in run 1. The slowest directly qualified team was the team from Barbados in run 3 with 40.47 s. The fastest relay that could not qualify was the Gambia team with 40.73 s in run 1.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Sam Graddy Ron Brown Calvin Smith Carl Lewis	38.89 s
2	BR Germany	Christian Zirkelbach Peter Klein Jürgen Evers Ralf Lübke	39.04 s
3	France	Antoine Richard Jean-Jacques Boussemart Marc Gasparoni Bruno Marie-Rose	40.04 s
4th	Senegal	Mamadou Sène Hamidou Diawara Saliou Seck Charles-Louis Seck	40.15 s
5	Thailand	Vichan Choocherd Rangsam Intharachai Prasit Boonprasert Sumet Promna	40.58 s
6th	Qatar	Waheed Khamis Al-Salem Faraj Saad Marzouk Jamal Al-Abdullah Talal Mansour	40.60 s
7th	Gambia	Bakary Jarju Dawda Jallow Abdurahman Jallow Sheikh Omar Fye	40.73 s

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Canada	Ben Johnson Tony Sharpe Desai Williams Sterling Hinds	39.20 s
2	Brazil	Arnaldo da Silva Robson da Silva Katsuhiko Nakaya Paulo Correia	39.27 s
3	Italy	Antonio Ullo Giovanni Bongiorni Stefano Tilli Pietro Mennea	39.87 s
4th	Nigeria	Iziaq Adeyanju Ikpoto Eseme Lawrence Adegbeingbe Chidi Imoh	39.94 s
5	Ghana	Philip Attipoe Makarios Djan Collins Mensah Rex Brobby	40.20 s
6th	Sierra Leone	Abdul Mansaray David Sawyerr Felix Sandy Iván Benjamin	40.77 s
DNS	Paraguay

Forward 3

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Jamaica	Norman Edwards Greg Meghoo Donald Quarrie Albert Lawrence	38.93 s
2	Great Britain	Daley Thompson Donovan Reid Mike McFarlane Allan Wells	39.00 s
3	Indonesia	Johanes Kardiono Mohamed Purnomo Christian Nenepath Ernawan Witarsa	40.43 s
4th	Barbados	John Mayers Hamil Grimes Clyde Edwards Anthony Jones	40.47 s
5	Antigua and Barbuda	Anthony Henry Lester Benjamin Alfred Browne Larry Miller	40.70 s
6th	People's Republic of the Congo	Théophile Nkounkou Henri Nding Antoine Kiakouama Jean-Didace Bernou	40.74 s
7th	Liberia	Wallace Obey Hassan Tall Oliver Daniels Augustus Moulton	42.05 s

Semifinals

Date: August 11, 1984

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

Five teams switched their squadrons to the semi-finals. In run 1, Nelson dos Santos was used instead of Robson da Silva in the Brazilian team . Senegal also exchanged a runner. Ibrahima Fall started for Saliou Seck. In run 2, the starting runner Norman Edwards was replaced by Ray Stewart, who took over the part of the final runner in Jamaica. In the German relay, Jürgen Koffler replaced the starting runner Christian Zirkelbach and in Nigeria, Samson Oyeledun replaced Lawrence Adegbeingbe.

The best time of the semi-finals was achieved by Jamaica with 38.67 s in run 2.

Run 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Sam Graddy Ron Brown Calvin Smith Carl Lewis	38.44 s
2	Italy	Antonio Ullo Giovanni Bongiorni Stefano Tilli Pietro Mennea	39.32 s
3	Canada	Ben Johnson Tony Sharpe Desai Williams Sterling Hinds	39.39 s
4th	Brazil	Arnaldo da Silva Nelson dos Santos Katsuhiko Nakaya Paulo Correia	40.15 s
5	Ghana	Philip Attipoe Makarios Djan Collins Mensah Rex Brobby	40.19 s
6th	Senegal	Mamadou Sène Hamidou Diawara Ibrahima Case Charles-Louis Seck	40.63 s
7th	Thailand	Vichan Choocherd Rangsam Intharachai Prasit Boonprasert Sumet Promna	40.83 s

Run 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Jamaica	Albert Lawrence Greg Meghoo Donald Quarrie Raymond Stewart	38.67 s
2	Great Britain	Daley Thompson Donovan Reid Mike McFarlane Allan Wells	38.68 s
3	BR Germany	Jürgen Koffler Peter Klein Jürgen Evers Ralf Lübke	40.43 s
4th	France	Antoine Richard Jean-Jacques Boussemart Marc Gasparoni Bruno Marie-Rose	38.91 s
5	Nigeria	Iziaq Adeyanju Ikpoto Eseme Samson Oyeledun Chidi Imoh	38.98 s
6th	Antigua and Barbuda	Anthony Henry Lester Benjamin Alfred Browne Larry Miller	40.14 s
7th	Barbados	John Mayers Hamil Grimes Clyde Edwards Anthony Jones	40.18 s
8th	Qatar	Waheed Khamis Al-Salem Faraj Saad Marzouk Jamal Al-Abdullah Talal Mansour	40.43 s

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Sam Graddy Ron Brown Calvin Smith Carl Lewis	37.83 s	WR
2	Jamaica	Albert Lawrence Greg Meghoo Donald Quarrie Raymond Stewart	38.62 s
3	Canada	Ben Johnson Tony Sharpe Desai Williams Sterling Hinds	38.70 s
4th	Italy	Antonio Ullo Giovanni Bongiorni Stefano Tilli Pietro Mennea	38.62 s
5	BR Germany	Jürgen Koffler Peter Klein Jürgen Evers Ralf Lübke	38.99 s
6th	France	Antoine Richard Jean-Jacques Boussemart Marc Gasparoni Bruno Marie-Rose	39.10 s
7th	Great Britain	Daley Thompson Donovan Reid Mike McFarlane Allan Wells	39.13 s
8th	Brazil	Arnaldo da Silva Nelson dos Santos Katsuhiko Nakaya Paulo Correia	39.40 s

Date: August 11, 1984

In the final, no changes were made to the squadron line-ups compared to the semi-finals. The US team was a huge favorite in front of their home crowd. Particular attention was paid to Carl Lewis. His endeavor was to imitate his role model Jesse Owens and win four gold medals. He had already won gold in the 100 and 200-meter run and in the long jump in Los Angeles .

After the first change, Canada was in the front. But the second US runner Ron Brown brought his team to the top and switched to the 100-meter world record holder Calvin Smith. This extended the lead of the US team and Lewis, as the final runner, made the victory in a new world record time perfect. Behind the USA, Jamaica won the silver medal. Her final runner, Ray Stewart, caught Sterling Hinds, who ran for the Canadians who had been second up to that point, on the home straight. Despite a strong Pietro Mennea, Italy remained fourth as the last runner, ahead of Germany and France. The British finished in seventh place. In their ranks, decathlon Olympic champion Daley Thompson was the starting runner, with Brazil following in eighth place.

Carl Lewis was his third victory in a track and field athlete to Jesse Owens in 1936 in Berlin and the Finn Ville Ritola 1924 in Paris , who won four gold medals at the Olympic Games in the same year. Owens, Ritola and Lewis were only surpassed by the Finn Paavo Nurmi , who clinched five Olympic victories in Paris in 1924.

Jamaica and Canada won the first medals in this discipline.

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 24f

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on January 9, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 282f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 9, 2018

Video

• Olympics - 1984 Los Angeles - Track - Mens 4x100m Relay Finals - USA Gold 2 imasportsphile , published April 26, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on January 9, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 683 , accessed on January 9, 2018
2. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 282f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 9, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 283, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 9, 2018