Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Men
Attendees	67 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 10, 2012 (preliminary round) August 11, 2012 (final)
Medalist  JAM  TTO  FRA

The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on August 10 and 11, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 67 athletes took part in sixteen relays.

The Olympic champion was the relay of Jamaica with Nesta Carter , Michael Frater , Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt . In the run also was Kemar Bailey-Cole used. The team set a new world record in the final . Silver went to Trinidad and Tobago ( Keston Bledman , Marc Burns , Emmanuel Callender , Richard Thompson ). France won bronze with Jimmy Vicaut , Christophe Lemaitre , Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux and Ronald Pognon .

The runner from Jamaica, who was used here in the preliminary run, also received a gold medal, but is not one of the world record holders.

The season of Germany was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Teams from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Trinidad and Tobago	38.06 s	Beijing 2008
World Champion	Jamaica	37.04 s	Daegu 2011
European champion	Netherlands	38.34 s	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Jamaica	38.81 s	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Brazil	39.87 s	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Japan	39.18 s	Kobe 2011
African champions	South Africa	39.26 s	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	New Zealand	41.91 s	Cairns 2012

The team from Trinidad and Tobago was subsequently awarded the 2008 Olympic victory in Beijing in 2017, while the team from Jamaica was disqualified for Nesta Carter's doping offense .

Existing records

World record	Jamaica ( Nesta Carter , Michael Frater , Yohan Blake , Usain Bolt )	37.04 s	Daegu , South Korea	4th September 2011
Olympic record	USA ( Michael Marsh , Leroy Burrell , Dennis Mitchell , Carl Lewis )	37.40 s	Final of Barcelona , Spain	August 8, 1992

Remarks:

• The relay from Jamaica had set a new Olympic record in 2008 in Beijing when they first achieved victory. But with the withdrawal of the gold medal already mentioned above due to doping, this record also became obsolete.
• All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

doping

In May 2014, US runner Tyson Gay was convicted of doping with anabolic steroids . All results since July 2012 were canceled, the relay was subsequently disqualified . In July 2015, the IOC declared the relays of Trinidad and Tobago and France to be the new winners of the silver and bronze medals.

The runners of the relay from Poland, among others, suffered here. Due to their time, they should have been in the finals if the later disqualified US relay had not illegally taken their place here. The squadrons of the finals, which were only allowed to receive their medals or better medals much later, were also affected. The issue of lost funding always plays a role in such doping fraud.

leader

Two preliminary runs were carried out. 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 relays are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

August 10, 2012, 7:45 p.m.

space	nation	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Jamaica	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Kemar Bailey-Cole	37.39
2	Canada	Gavin Smellie Oluseyi Smith Jared Connaughton Justyn Warner	38.05
3	Netherlands	Brian Mariano Churandy Martina Giovanni Codrington Patrick van Luijk	38.29	NO
4th	Brazil	Aldemir da Silva Junior Sandro Viana Nilson André Bruno de Barros	38.35
5	People's Republic of China	Guo Fan Liang Jiahong Su Bingtian Zhang Peimeng	38.38	NO
6th	St. Kitts and Nevis	Lestrod Roland Jason Rogers Antoine Adams Brijesh Lawrence	38.41	NO
7th	Italy	Simone Collio Jacques Riparelli Davide Manenti Fabio Cerutti	38.58
DSQ	Great Britain	Christian Malcolm Dwain Chambers Daniel Talbot Adam Gemili		IAAF Rule 170.7 trespassing the transition area

Forward 2

August 10, 2012, 7:53 p.m.

space	nation	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Japan	Ryōta Yamagata Masashi Eriguchi Shinji Takahira Shōta Iizuka	38.07
2	Trinidad and Tobago	Richard Thompson Marc Burns Emmanuel Callender Keston Bledman	38.10
3	France	Jimmy Vicaut Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Ronald Pognon	38.15
4th	Australia	Anthony Alozie Isaac Ntiamoah Andrew McCabe Josh Ross	38.17	OZ
5	Poland	Kamil Masztak Dariusz Kuć Robert Kubaczyk Kamil Kryński	38.31	NR actually qualified for the final
6th	Germany	Julian Reus Tobias Unger Alexander Kosenkow Lucas Jakubczyk	38.37
7th	Hong Kong	Tang Yik Chun Lai Chun Ho Ng Ka Fung Tsui Chi Ho	38.61
DOP	United States	Jeffery Demps Darvis Patton Trell Kimmons Justin Gatlin	37.38	in the final, later disqualified

final

Silver medal:
The relay from Trinidad and Tobago (from left to right): Burns, Bledman, Callender, Thompson

The US team later disqualified for violating the doping regulations (from left to right):
Kimmons, Gatlin, Gay, Bailey

August 11, 2012, 9:00 p.m.

The top favorite was the season of Jamaica, which competed as the reigning world champion , 2008 Olympic champion and world record holder . The US season was the fiercest competitor.

The following line-up changes were made for the finale:

• Jamaica - Usain Bolt ran in place of Kemar Bailey-Cole.
• USA - Tyson Gay replaced Jeffery Demps with Ryan Bailey replacing Darvis Patton.

Starting runner Nesta Carter put Jamaica in the front, closely followed by the Americans with Trell Kimmons. The race remained close until the final runners. Usain Bolt, double winner over 100 and 200 meters as in Beijing in 2008 , took the lead against US runner-up Ryan Bailey. expand even further. The Jamaican relay crossed the finish line with 36.84 seconds. It was the first season that stayed under 37 seconds. The US season reached exactly the world record time that had been in effect until then with 37.04 s. The Canadian relay finished third, followed by Trinidad and Tobago and France.

But this result did not last. Initially, Canada was disqualified for exceeding the lane limit. In May 2015, the entire US season was stripped of the silver medal because of the participation of the doped Tyson Gay.

space	nation	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Jamaica	Nesta Carter Michael Frater Yohan Blake Usain Bolt in the lead also: Kemar Bailey-Cole	36.84 s	WR
2	Trinidad and Tobago	Keston Bledman Marc Burns Emmanuel Callender Richard Thompson	38.12
3	France	Jimmy Vicaut Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Ronald Pognon	38.16
4th	Japan	Ryōta Yamagata Masashi Eriguchi Shinji Takahira Shota Iizuka	38.35
5	Netherlands	Brian Mariano Churandy Martina Giovanni Codrington Patrick van Luijk	38.39
6th	Australia	Anthony Alozie Isaac Ntiamoah Andrew McCabe Joshua Ross	38.43
DSQ	Canada	Gavin Smellie Oluseyi Smith Jared Connaughton Justyn Warner		IAAF Rule 163.3 a transgression of the boundary line
DOP	United States	Trell Kimmons Justin Gatlin Tyson Gay ( DOP ) Ryan Bailey in the lead also: Jeffery Demps Darvis Patton

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 meters (English), accessed September 12, 2018
• Official report , accessed September 12, 2018

Videos

• Prelims on youtube.com, published August 10, 2012, accessed September 12, 2018
• Finale on youtube.com, published August 11, 2012, accessed September 12, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , January 25, 2017, accessed on September 12, 2018 . 
2. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 683 , accessed on September 12, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b} USA men's 4 x 100m relay team disqualified from the 2012 London Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee , May 20, 2015, accessed September 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} report on NBC Sports of July 4, 2015 (English), accessed on September 12, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 99 , accessed on September 12, 2018
6. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 , accessed on September 12, 2018