2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 400 meter relay
gender	Men
Attendees	68 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 27, 2004 (preliminary round) August 28, 2004 (final)
Medalist  United States  OUT  NGR

The men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens took place on August 27 and 28, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 68 athletes took part in sixteen relays.

Olympic champion was the US season with Otis Harris , Derrick Brew , Jeremy Wariner and Darold Williamson as well as Kelly Willie and Andrew Rock used in the run-up . She won ahead of Australia's season with the cast of John Steffensen , Mark Ormrod , Patrick Dwyer and Clinton Hill . Bronze went to the team from Nigeria ( James Godday , Musa Audu , Saul Weigopwa , Enefiok Udo-Obong ).
The US runners used here in the preliminary run also each received a gold medal.

The German relay reached the final and finished seventh.
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic Champion 2000	Nigeria	2: 58.68 min	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	France	2: 58.96 min	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Great Britain	3: 01.25 min	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Jamaica	3: 01.81 min	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Bahamas	3: 02.56 min	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Brazil	3: 05.28 min	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champion 2003	Sri Lanka	3: 03.05 min	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Zimbabwe	3: 02.38 min	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Australia	3: 27.34 min	Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record	2: 54.29 min	USA ( Andrew Valmon , Quincy Watts , Harry Reynolds , Michael Johnson )	Stuttgart , Germany	22nd August 1993
Olympic record	2: 55.74 min	USA ( Andrew Valmon , Quincy Watts , Michael Johnson , Steve Lewis )	Final of Barcelona , Spain	August 8, 1992

The world record set on July 22, 1998 in Uniondale , USA , by the Americans in the line-up of Jerome Young , Antonio Pettigrew , Tyree Washington and Michael Johnson of 2: 54.20 minutes was not recognized due to Pettigrew's doping offense.

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 quarter-finals. 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, 9:00 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Great Britain	Timothy Benjamin Sean Baldock Malachi Davis Matthew Elias	3: 02.40
2	Japan	Yuki Yamaguchi Jun Osakada Tomohiro Itō Matsuhiro Satō	3: 02.71
3	Germany	Ingo Schultz Kamghe Gaba Ruwen Faller Bastian Swillims	3: 02.77
4th	Australia	John Steffensen Clinton Hill Patrick Dwyer Mark Ormrod	3: 03.06
5	Botswana	Oganeditse Moseki Johnson Kubisa California Molefe Kagiso Kilego	3: 03.32
6th	Greece	Stelios Dimotsios Anastasios Gousis Panagiotis Sarris Periklis Iakovakis	3: 04.27
7th	France	Ahmed Douhou Ibrahima Wade Abderrahim El Haouzy Leslie Djhone	3: 04.39
DSQ	Jamaica	Michael Campbell Michael Blackwood Jermaine Gonzales Davian Clarke

Forward 2

August 27, 2004, 9:09 pm

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)	annotation
1	United States	Kelly Willie Derrick Brew Andrew Rock Darold Williamson	2: 59.30
2	Nigeria	James Godday Musa Audu Saul Weigopwa Enefiok Udo-Obong	3: 01.60
3	Bahamas	Andrae Williams Dennis Darling Nathaniel McKinney Chris Brown	3: 01.74
4th	Russia	Alexander Larin Andrei Rudnitski Oleg Mishukov Ruslan Mashchenko	3: 03.35
5	Poland	Piotr Rysiukiewicz Piotr Klimczak Marcin Marciniszyn Marek Plawgo	3: 03.69
6th	Ukraine	Volodymyr Demchenko Yevhen Zyukov Myhaylo Knysch Andrij Twerdostup	3: 04.01
7th	Spain	Eduardo Iván Rodríguez David Canal Luis María Flores Martínez Antonio Manuel Reina	3: 05.03
DNF	South Africa	Marcus La Grange Hendrick Mokganyetsi Ockert Cilliers Arnaud Malherbe

final

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)	annotation
1	United States	Otis Harris Derrick Brew Jeremy Wariner Darold Williamson in advance also: Kelly Willie Andrew Rock	2: 55.91
2	Australia	John Steffensen Mark Ormrod Patrick Dwyer Clinton Hill	3: 00.60
3	Nigeria	James Godday Musa Audu Saul Weigopwa Enefiok Udo-Obong	3: 00.90
4th	Japan	Yuki Yamaguchi Jun Osakada Tomohiro Itō Matsuhiro Satō	3: 00.99
5	Great Britain	Timothy Benjamin Sean Baldock Malachi Davis Matthew Elias	3: 01.07
6th	Bahamas	Nathaniel McKinney Dennis Darling Andrae Williams Chris Brown in advance also: Dennis Darling	3: 01.88
7th	Germany	Ingo Schultz Kamghe Gaba Ruwen Faller Bastian Swillims	3: 02.22
8th	Botswana	Johnson Kubisa California Molefe Gaolesiela Salang Kagiso Kilego in the run-up also: Oganeditse Moseki	3: 02.49

September 28, 2000, 10:25 p.m.

After triple success in the 400 meter individual competition, the USA relay was the clear favorite for this competition. For the other teams, the vice world champion in particular would have come into question for another medal place. But the team was not in the final because they had been disqualified in their preliminary run. World champion France was also eliminated in the preliminary run. The race for placements behind the United States was pretty open and several of the seasons involved in the finals started with good prospects in this regard. There were B. the World Cup third Bahamas, Nigeria and Japan, who had made a good impression in the run-up.

In three seasons there were a total of four line-up changes compared to the preliminary stages:

• USA - Otis Harris ran for Kelly Willie, Jeremy Wariner for Andrew Rock.
• Bahamas - Dennis Darling has been replaced by Aaron Cleare.
• Botswana - Gaolesiela Salang ran instead of Oganeditse Moseki.

Starting runner Otis Harris brought the US season into a clear leadership position. All other teams, on the other hand, were still closely packed with Nigeria in second place. In the second round, the United States increased its lead. Great Britain improved to second place, followed by Nigeria and Japan. Then there was already a gap to the next teams. which Australia was able to close until the last change. The Americans did not give up their clear lead until the end. Australia's relay came in second, 4.69 seconds behind. Their final runner, Clinton Hill, clearly prevailed against the third-placed Nigerians, the Japanese in fourth and the British in fifth. The Bahamas came in sixth ahead of Germany and Botswana. The US relay won the four-by-400-meter relay with the largest lead in Olympic history .

In the 21st Olympic final there was the 15th victory of a US team in this discipline.

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 400 m , accessed on April 26, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 26, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 26, 2018

Video

• Athens 2004 Mens 4x400m relay final , published January 18, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed April 26, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 684 , accessed on April 26, 2018
2. ↑ iaaf.org: IAAF Council cancels 4x400m World record ( Memento of August 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 26, 2018