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