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)
Medalist  GBR  United States  NGR

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
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
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
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

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 683 , accessed on April 25, 2018