1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Men
Attendees	104 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 7, 1992 (preliminary round / semi-finals) August 8, 1992 (final)
Medalist  United States  NGR  CUB

The men's 4-by-100-meter relay at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was played in three rounds on August 7th and 8th, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 104 athletes took part in 25 relays.

The US season won the gold medal in a new world record time with Michael Marsh , Leroy Burrell , Dennis Mitchell and Carl Lewis as well as James Jett . Silver went to Nigeria with Oluyemi Kayode , Chidi Imoh , Olapade Adeniken and Davidson Ezinwa as well as Osmond Ezinwa , who was used in the preliminary run, and bronze to Cuba ( Andrés Simón , Joel Lamela , Joel Isasi , Jorge Aguilera ).

The runners used in the heats for the medal winners also received corresponding precious metal. The world record, on the other hand, belonged solely to the runners used in the final.

The Austrian relay qualified for the final and finished seventh there. Relays from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion in 1988	Soviet Union	38.19 s	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	United States	37.50 s	Tokyo 1991
European champion 1990	France	37.79 s	Split 1990
Pan American champion 1991	Cuba	39.08 s	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991	Mexico	39.99 s	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	Brazil	39.90 s	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	People's Republic of China	39.20 s	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African Champion 1992	South Africa	39.57 s	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Fiji Tonga	41.97 s	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	37.50 s	USA ( Andre Cason , Leroy Burrell , Dennis Mitchell , Carl Lewis )	Tokyo , Japan	September 1, 1991
Olympic record	37.83 s	USA ( Sam Graddy , Ron Brown , Calvin Smith , Carl Lewis )	Los Angeles final , USA	August 11, 1984

Preliminary round

Date: August 7, 1992

In the preliminary round, the 25 relays were drawn in four runs. The first three teams per run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified relays are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Cuba	Andrés Simón Joel Lamela Joel Isasi Jorge Aguilera	38.81 s
2	United States	Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell James Jett	38.95 s
3	Japan	Shinji Aoto Hisatsugu Suzuki Satoru Inoue Tatsuo Sugimoto	39.16 s
4th	Mexico	Genaro Rojas Eduardo Nava Raymundo Escalante Alejandro Cárdenas	39.77 s
5	Togo	Kouame Aholou Boeviyoulou Lawson Koukou Franck Amégnigan Kossi Akoto	39.77 s
6th	Ivory Coast	Frank Waota Jean-Olivier Zirignon Gilles Bogui Ouattara Lagazane	40.02 s
DSQ	Belize	Emery Gill Elston Shaw Michael Joseph John Palacio

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	France	Max Morinière Daniel Sangouma Gilles Quenéhervé Bruno Marie-Rose	39.49 s
2	EUN	Pawel Galkin Edwin Ivanov Andrei Fedoriw Vitali Sawin	40.07 s
3	Sierra Leone	Francis Keita Denton Guy-Williams Paul Parkinson Sanusi Turay	40.11 s
4th	Senegal	Charles-Louis Seck Amadou M'Baye Seynou Loum Oumar Loum	40.13 s
5	Portugal	Luís Filipe Cunha Pedro Miguel Curvelo Luís Barroso Pedro Agostinho	40.30 s
DSQ	Republic of the Congo	Médard Makanga Michael Dzong Armand Biniakounou David Nkoua

Forward 3

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Canada	Ben Johnson Glenroy Gilbert Peter Ogilvie Bruny Surin	39.34 s
2	Great Britain	Tony Jarrett Jason John Marcus Adam Linford Christie	39.73 s
3	Austria	Christoph Pöstinger Thomas Renner Andreas Berger Franz Ratzenberger	39.86 s
4th	Ghana	John Myles-Mills Eric Akogyiram Emmanuel Tuffour Nelson Boateng	40.11 s
5	American Virgin Islands	Derry Pemberton Neville Hodge Mitchell Peters Wendell Dickerson	40.48 s
6th	Gambia	Dawda Jallow Momodou Sarr Abdoulie Janneh Lamin Marikong	40.98 s

Forward 4

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Nigeria	Osmond Ezinwa Chidi Imoh Olapade Adeniken Davidson Ezinwa	38.98 s
2	Spain	José Javier Arqués Enrique Talavera Juan Jesús Trapero Sergio López Alpáñez	39.60 s
3	Thailand	Kriengkrai Narom Seaksarn Boonrat Niti Piyapan Visut Watanasin	39.91 s
4th	San Marino	Nicola Selva Manlio Molinari Dominique Canti Aldo Canti	42.08 s
5	Bangladesh	Golam Ambia Mohamed Mehdi Hasan Shahanuddin Choudhury Mohamed Shah Jalal	41.52 s
DNF	Jamaica	Michael Green Rudolph Mighty Anthony Wallace Raymond Stewart

Semifinals

Date: August 7, 1992

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

Run 1

There was a cast change in the US season: Carl Lewis was running instead of James Jett .

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	38.14 s
2	Cuba	Andrés Simón Joel Lamela Joel Isasi Jorge Aguilera	38.49 s
3	EUN	Pawel Galkin Edwin Ivanov Andrei Fedoriw Vitali Sawin	38.69 s
4th	Japan	Shinji Aoto Hisatsugu Suzuki Satoru Inoue Tatsuo Sugimoto	38.81 s
5	France	Max Morinière Daniel Sangouma Gilles Quenéhervé Bruno Marie-Rose	39.02 s
6th	Ghana	John Myles-Mills Eric Akogyiram Emmanuel Tuffour Nelson Boateng	40.11 s
7th	Sierra Leone	Francis Keita Denton Guy-Williams Paul Parkinson Sanusi Turay	40.46 s
DSQ	Mexico	Genaro Rojas Eduardo Nava Raymundo Escalante Alejandro Cárdenas

Run 2

The following changes were made to the cast:

• Nigeria: Oluyemi Kayode competed for Osmond Ezinwa .
• Great Britain: John Regis ran for Jason John .
• Canada: Peter Ogilvie has been replaced by Atlee Mahorn .

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Nigeria	Oluyemi Kayode Chidi Imoh Olapade Adeniken Davidson Ezinwa	38.21 s
2	Great Britain	Tony Jarrett John Regis Marcus Adam Linford Christie	38.64 s
3	Austria	Christoph Pöstinger Thomas Renner Andreas Berger Franz Ratzenberger	39.34 s
4th	Ivory Coast	Frank Waota Jean-Olivier Zirignon Gilles Bogui Ouattara Lagazane	39.46 s
5	Spain	José Javier Arqués Enrique Talavera Juan Jesús Trapero Sergio López Alpáñez	39.62 s
6th	Thailand	Kriengkrai Narom Seaksarn Boonrat Niti Piyapan Visut Watanasin	39.73 s
7th	Togo	Kouame Aholou Boeviyoulou Lawson Koukou Franck Amégnigan Kossi Akoto	39.84 s
DNF	Canada	Ben Johnson Glenroy Gilbert Atlee Mahorn Bruny Surin

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis in the heats also: James Jett	37.40 s	WR
2	Nigeria	Oluyemi Kayode Chidi Imoh Olapade Adeniken Davidson Ezinwa in the preliminary also: Osmond Ezinwa	37.98 s
3	Cuba	Andrés Simón Joel Lamela Joel Isasi Jorge Aguilera	38.00 s
4th	Great Britain	Marcus Adam Tony Jarrett John Regis Linford Christie	38.08 s
5	EUN	Pawel Galkin Edwin Ivanov Andrei Fedoriw Vitali Sawin	38.17 s
6th	Japan	Shinji Aoto Hisatsugu Suzuki Satoru Inoue Tatsuo Sugimoto	38.77 s
7th	Austria	Christoph Pöstinger Thomas Renner Andreas Berger Franz Ratzenberger	39.30 s
8th	Ivory Coast	Frank Waota Jean-Olivier Zirignon Gilles Bogui Ouattara Lagazane	39.31 s

Date: August 8, 1992

In the final race there were no line-up changes apart from changes in position in the British relay.

The United States team, the reigning world champion and world record holder, was the clear favorite . In the relay, Carl Lewis was also used, who had not been able to qualify for the 100-meter individual run at the US trials due to injury . In the semi-finals over 100 meters, Mark Witherspoon sustained an injury to his Achilles tendon and could not be used in the relay. After James Jett had run in the preliminary run, Carl Lewis was used in his place in the semifinals and finals.

In the final, the US relay took the lead in front of the strong Nigerians. In the final corner, the Cuban team got off to a particularly good start and only changed slightly behind the Americans. Nigeria was a little further behind, followed by Great Britain and the United Team. The final runner of the USA Lewis was clearly the fastest sprinter on the home straight and had a lead of almost five meters at the finish. The Nigerian runner Davidson Ezinwa also ran a very strong part. He passed Cuba's representative Jorge Aguilera and was able to keep the British 100-meter Olympic champion Linford Christie in check. That brought Nigeria the silver and Cuba the bronze medal. Great Britain finished fourth, ahead of United, Japan, Austria and Ivory Coast. The US relay set a new world record for their Olympic victory.

In the eighteenth Olympic final, the USA won the fourteenth gold medal.

Nigeria won a medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay for the first time .

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on February 9, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 53f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 9, 2018

Video

• Men's 4x100m Relay Final at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics , published November 29, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed February 9, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 683 , accessed on February 9, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 53, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 9, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 54, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 9, 2018