2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 4 x 100 meter relay | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 60 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 18, 2016 (preliminary) August 19, 2016 (final) |
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The men's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place on August 18 and 19, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . Sixty athletes took part in sixteen relays.
The gold medal won the season of Jamaica in the cast Asafa Powell , Yohan Blake , Nickel Ashmeade and Usain Bolt as well as Jevaughn Minzie and Kemar Bailey-Cole also used in the run-up . Silver went to Japan ( Ryōta Yamagata , Shōta Iizuka, Yoshihide Kiryū, Asuka Cambridge). Team Canada won bronze with Akeem Haynes, Aaron Brown , Brendon Rodney and Andre De Grasse as well as Mobolade Ajomale, who was also used in the preliminary run.
The runners from Jamaica and Canada used in the heats also received corresponding precious metals.
The German season was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion | Jamaica | 36.84 s | London 2012 |
World Champion | 37.36 s | Beijing 2015 | |
European champion | Great Britain | 38.17 s | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean champions | United States | 38.07 s | San José 2015 |
South America champion | Ecuador | 39.94 s | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion | People's Republic of China | 39.04 s | Wuhan 2015 |
African champions | South Africa | 38.84 s | Durban 2016 |
Oceania Champion | Fiji | 40.98 s | Cairns 2015 |
Existing records
World record |
Jamaica ( Nesta Carter , Michael Frater , Yohan Blake , Usain Bolt ) |
36.84 s | London , UK | August 11, 2012 |
Olympic record | London finals , Great Britain |
Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three seasons of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest teams below, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified teams are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
August 18, 2016, 11:40 a.m.
space | nation | occupation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | United States |
Mike Rodgers Christian Coleman Tyson Gay Jarrison Lawson |
37.65 | |
2 | People's Republic of China |
Tang Xingqiang Xie Zhenye Su Bingtian Zhang Peimeng |
37.82 | AS |
3 | Canada |
Akeem Haynes Aaron Brown Brendon Rodney Mobolade Ajomale |
37.89 | |
4th | Turkey |
İzzet Safer Jak Ali Harvey Emre Zafer Barnes Ramil Guliyev |
38.30 | NO |
5 | France |
Marvin René Stuart Dutamby Méba-Mickaël Zézé Jimmy Vicaut |
38.35 | |
6th | Antigua and Barbuda |
Chavaughn Walsh Cejhae Greene Jared Jarvis Tahir Walsh |
38.44 | |
7th | St. Kitts and Nevis |
Jason Rogers Kim Collins Allistar Clarke Antoine Adams |
39.81 | |
DSQ | Dominican Republic |
Mayobanex de Óleo Yohandris Andújar Stanly del Carmen Yancarlos Martínez |
IAAF Rule 162.7 false start |
Run 2
August 18, 2016, 11:48 a.m.
space | nation | occupation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Japan |
Ryōta Yamagata Shōta Iizuka Yoshihide Kiryū Asuka Cambridge |
37.68 | AS |
2 | Jamaica |
Jevaughn Minzie Asafa Powell Nickel Ashmeade Kemar Bailey-Cole |
37.94 | |
3 | Trinidad and Tobago |
Keston Bledman Rondel Sorrillo Emmanuel Callender Richard Thompson |
37.96 | |
4th | Great Britain |
Richard Kilty Harry Aikines-Aryeetey James Ellington Chijindu Ujah |
38.06 | |
5 | Brazil |
Ricardo de Souza Vitor Hugo dos Santos Bruno de Barros Jorge Vides |
38.19 | |
6th | Germany |
Julian Reus Sven Knipphals Robert Hering Lucas Jakubczyk |
38.26 | |
7th | Cuba |
César Ruiz Roberto Skyers Reynier Mena Yaniel Carrero |
38.47 | |
8th | Netherlands |
Solomon Bockarie Hensley Paulina Liemarvin Bonevacia Giovanni Codrington |
38.53 |
final
August 19, 2016, 10:35 p.m.
Jamaica's relay was the favorite team as the 2012 Olympic champion , reigning world champion and world record holder . The Americans were seen as challengers. The team from Great Britain started as the holder of the annual world record with good prospects for a medal.
The following changes were made to the line-up compared to the preliminary stages:
- Jamaica - Yohan Blake for Jevaughn Minzie and Usain Bolt for Kemar Bailey-Cole
- Great Britain - Adam Gemili for Chijindu Ujah
- Canada - Andre De Grasse for Mobolade Ajomale
- USA - Justin Gatlin for Christian Coleman and Trayvon Bromell for Jarrison Lawson
In the final, the USA and Jamaica got off to a good start. The Japanese got off the blocks well too. Jamaica and USA were leading in the first exchange, in the second Jamaica was alone ahead, while the USA and Japan were level behind. In the corner it seemed as if the Japanese runner was making up ground against the USA and Jamaica. Before the last move, Jamaica continued to lead ahead of the USA and Japan, followed by China, Canada, Great Britain and Trinidad and Tobago. Subsequently, final runner Usain Bolt increased the Jamaicans' lead to two meters. The Japanese Asuka Cambridge was able to pass the American Trayvon Bromell. Jamaica finally won unchallenged with 33 hundredths of a second ahead of Japan. Even Bromell's desperate last jump over the finish line brought nothing to the US relay team, they stayed third ahead of the Canadians, the Chinese and the British team. But it did not stop at this result.
After the race, two teams were disqualified:
- Trinidad and Tobago - Reason: Railway violation
- USA - reason: substitution error
Canada slipped to bronze with a new national record, and the other affected seasons moved forward accordingly.
Jamaica won the third consecutive gold medal. For final runner Usain Bolt it was the eighth gold medal in three Olympic Games. This put him together with the American Ray Ewry in third place among the most successful athletes. Only the Finn Paavo Nurmi with nine gold and three silver medals and the US athlete Carl Lewis with nine gold and one silver medal were even more successful. In addition, Bolt achieved two triple successes in two different disciplines in series - 100 and 200 meters in his participation in the 2008 , 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games . In addition, he was involved in two successes in the Jamaican 4 x 100 meter relay .
Japan won the first ever medal in a sprint relay.
space | nation | occupation | Time (s) | annotation |
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1 | Jamaica |
Asafa Powell Yohan Blake Nickel Ashmeade Usain Bolt in the lead also: Jevaughn Minzie Kemar Bailey-Cole |
37.27 | |
2 | Japan |
Ryōta Yamagata Shōta Iizuka Yoshihide Kiryū Asuka Cambridge |
37.60 | AS |
3 | Canada | Akeem Haynes Aaron Brown Brendon Rodney Andre De Grasse in the lead also: Mobolade Ajomale |
37.64 | NO |
4th | People's Republic of China |
Tang Xingqiang Xie Zhenye Su Bingtian Zhang Peimeng |
37.90 | |
5 | Great Britain |
Richard Kilty Harry Aikines-Aryeetey James Ellington Adam Gemili in the lead also: Chijindu Ujah |
37.98 | |
6th | Brazil | Ricardo de Souza Vitor Hugo dos Santos Bruno de Barros Jorge Vides |
38.41 | |
DSQ | Trinidad and Tobago |
Keston Bledman Rondel Sorrillo Emmanuel Callender Richard Thompson |
IAAF Rule 163.3 railway transgression |
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United States |
Mike Rodgers Justin Gatlin Tyson Gay Tray from Bromell in the lead also: Christian Coleman Jarrison Lawson |
IAAF Rule 170.7 Crossing the transition area |
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 4, 2018
- Results on the website of the World Athletics Federation IAAF (English), accessed on October 4, 2018
- Sports Reference, result 4 × 100 m men (English), accessed on October 4, 2018
Video
- Usain Bolt Final 4 × 100 at Rio Olympics 2016 on youtube.com, published August 27, 2016, accessed October 4, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 683 , accessed on October 4, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 99 (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2018