2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 4 x 100 meter relay | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 65 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 27, 2004 (preliminary round) August 28, 2004 (final) |
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The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens took place on August 27 and 28, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 65 athletes took part in sixteen relays.
The British relay with Jason Gardener , Darren Campbell , Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis was Olympic champion . She won ahead of the United States in the cast Shawn Crawford , Justin Gatlin , Coby Miller and Maurice Greene and Darvis Patton used in the run-up . Third place went to Nigeria ( Olusoji Fasuba , Uchenna Emedolu , Aaron Egbele , Deji Aliu ).
The US runner used here in the preliminary stage also received a silver medal.
The German season was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic Champion 2000 | United States | 38.15 s | Sydney 2000 |
World Champion 2003 | 38.06 s | Paris 2003 | |
European Champion 2002 | Ukraine | 38.53 s | Munich 2002 |
Pan American Champion 2003 | Brazil | 38.44 s | Santo Domingo 2003 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003 | Trinidad and Tobago | 39.05 s | St. George’s 2003 |
South American Champion 2003 | Brazil | 38.96 s | Barquisimeto 2003 |
Asian champion 2003 | People's Republic of China | 39.22 s | Manila 2003 |
African champion 2004 | Nigeria | 38.91 s | Brazzaville 2004 |
Oceania Champion 2002 | New Zealand | 42.14 s | Christchurch 2002 |
Existing records
World record | 37.40 s |
USA ( Michael Marsh , Leroy Burrell , Dennis Mitchell , Carl Lewis ) |
Barcelona , Spain | August 8, 1992 |
Olympic record | Final of Barcelona , Spain |
Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
Preliminary round
A total of two preliminary runs were completed. The first three seasons of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified teams are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
August 27, 2004, 8:10 p.m.
space | Season | occupation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Nigeria |
Olusoji Fasuba Uchenna Emedolu Aaron Egbele Deji Aliu |
38.27 | |
2 | Poland |
Zbigniew Tulin Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Marcin Urbaś |
38.47 | |
3 | Australia |
Adam Basil Paul Di Bella Patrick Johnson Joshua Ross |
38.49 | |
4th | Trinidad and Tobago |
Niconnor Alexander Marc Burns Ato Boldon Darrel Brown |
38.53 | NRe |
5 | Japan |
Hiroyasu Tsuchie Shingo Suetsugu Shinji Takahira Nobuharu Asahara |
38.53 | |
6th | Germany |
Ronny Ostwald Tobias Unger Alexander Kosenkow Till Helmke |
38.64 | |
7th | Canada |
Nicolas Macrozonaris Anson Henry Charles Allen Pierre Brown |
38.64 | |
8th | Russia |
Alexander Ryabov Oleg Sergejew Sergej Bychkov Andrei Jepischin |
39.19 |
Forward 2
August 27, 2004, 8:19 pm
space | Season | occupation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | United States |
Shawn Crawford Darvis Patton Coby Miller Maurice Greene |
38.02 | |
2 | Great Britain |
Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis |
38.53 | |
3 | Brazil |
Cláudio Roberto Souza Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Vicente de Lima |
38.64 | |
4th | Jamaica |
Dwight Thomas Patrick Jarrett Winston Smith Michael Frater |
38.71 | |
5 | Italy |
Marco Torrieri Simone Collio Massimiliano Donati Maurizio Checcucci |
38.79 | |
6th | Ghana |
Christian Nsiah Tanko Braimah Aziz Zakari Leonard Myles-Mills |
38.88 | |
7th | France |
Issa-Aimé Nthépé Ronald Pognon Frédéric Krantz David Alerte |
38.93 | |
DNF | Netherlands |
Timothy Beck Troy Douglas Patrick van Balkom Caimin Douglas |
final
space | Season | occupation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Great Britain |
Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis |
38.07 | |
2 | United States |
Shawn Crawford Justin Gatlin Coby Miller Maurice Greene in the lead also: Darvis Patton |
38.08 | |
3 | Nigeria |
Olusoji Fasuba Uchenna Emedolu Aaron Egbele Deji Aliu |
38.23 | |
4th | Japan | Hiroyasu Tsuchie Shingo Suetsugu Shinji Takahira Nobuharu Asahara |
38.49 | |
5 | Poland | Zbigniew Tulin Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Marcin Urbaś |
38.54 | |
6th | Australia |
Adam Basil Paul Di Bella Patrick Johnson Joshua Ross |
38.56 | |
7th | Trinidad and Tobago | Niconnor Alexander Marc Burns Ato Boldon Darrel Brown |
38.60 | |
8th | Brazil |
Cláudio Roberto Souza Édson Ribeiro André da Silva Vicente de Lima |
38.67 |
August 28, 2004, 9:45 p.m.
The USA relay was clearly favored for the Olympic victory. In their team, the gold medalists ran the 100 and 200 meters . In the 100-meter individual race, the US runners had finished first, third and fourth, something no other team could even come close to. The contenders for the other medals were actually all other teams, but especially vice world champions Brazil and Nigeria as fourth place in the World Cup . The Dutch, who were strong in the team and who were third in the World Cup last year , were eliminated in the run-up.
There was only one cast change in the finale: Justin Gatlin ran for Darvis Patton in the US season.
First of all, the Americans switched to leading positions. But her second handover did not go well at all. The team stayed in the race but lost a lot of ground. After the last change, the British season led, quite surprisingly. But it was close, with Nigeria in second place and the USA in third place. The US final runner Maurice Greene was then able to catch up, but it was no longer quite enough. Great Britain won by a hundredth of a second. Nigeria followed in third place ahead of Japan, Poland and Australia.
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed April 25, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 25, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 25, 2018
Video
- Team GB Win 4x100m Men's Relay Gold - Athens 2004 Olympics , published July 4, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed April 25, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 683 , accessed on April 25, 2018