2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (men)

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Olympic rings
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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)
Medalist
gold medal JamaicaJamaica Jamaica
Silver medal JapanJapan Japan
Bronze medal CanadaCanada Canada

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 JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 36.84 s London 2012
World Champion 37.36 s Beijing 2015
European champion United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 38.17 s Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean champions United StatesUnited States United States 38.07 s San José 2015
South America champion EcuadorEcuador Ecuador 39.94 s Lima 2015
Asian champion China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 39.04 s Wuhan 2015
African champions South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 38.84 s Durban 2016
Oceania Champion FijiFiji Fiji 40.98 s Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record JamaicaJamaica 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
1 United StatesUnited States United States Mike Rodgers
Christian Coleman
Tyson Gay
Jarrison Lawson
37.65
2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China Tang Xingqiang
Xie Zhenye
Su Bingtian
Zhang Peimeng
37.82 AS
3 CanadaCanada Canada Akeem Haynes
Aaron Brown
Brendon Rodney
Mobolade Ajomale
37.89
4th TurkeyTurkey Turkey İzzet Safer
Jak Ali Harvey
Emre Zafer Barnes
Ramil Guliyev
38.30 NO
5 FranceFrance France Marvin René
Stuart Dutamby
Méba-Mickaël Zézé
Jimmy Vicaut
38.35
6th Antigua and BarbudaAntigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda Chavaughn Walsh
Cejhae Greene
Jared Jarvis
Tahir Walsh
38.44
7th Saint Kitts NevisSt. Kitts and Nevis St. Kitts and Nevis Jason Rogers
Kim Collins
Allistar Clarke
Antoine Adams
39.81
DSQ Dominican RepublicDominican Republic 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
1 JapanJapan Japan Ryōta Yamagata
Shōta Iizuka
Yoshihide Kiryū
Asuka Cambridge
37.68 AS
2 JamaicaJamaica Jamaica Jevaughn Minzie
Asafa Powell
Nickel Ashmeade
Kemar Bailey-Cole
37.94
3 Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Keston Bledman
Rondel Sorrillo
Emmanuel Callender
Richard Thompson
37.96
4th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain Richard Kilty
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
James Ellington
Chijindu Ujah
38.06
5 BrazilBrazil Brazil Ricardo de Souza
Vitor Hugo dos Santos
Bruno de Barros
Jorge Vides
38.19
6th GermanyGermany Germany Julian Reus
Sven Knipphals
Robert Hering
Lucas Jakubczyk
38.26
7th CubaCuba Cuba César Ruiz
Roberto Skyers
Reynier Mena
Yaniel Carrero
38.47
8th NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands Solomon Bockarie
Hensley Paulina
Liemarvin Bonevacia
Giovanni Codrington
38.53

final

Finish: in
front Bolt (JAM), behind Cambridge (JPN) and Bromell (USA), left Zhang (CHN)
Jamaica's victorious season (from left to right):
Blake, Ashmeade, Bolt and Powell

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
1 JamaicaJamaica Jamaica Asafa Powell
Yohan Blake
Nickel Ashmeade
Usain Bolt
in the lead also:
Jevaughn Minzie
Kemar Bailey-Cole
37.27
2 JapanJapan Japan Ryōta Yamagata
Shōta Iizuka
Yoshihide Kiryū
Asuka Cambridge
37.60 AS
3 CanadaCanada Canada Akeem Haynes
Aaron Brown
Brendon Rodney
Andre De Grasse
in the lead also:
Mobolade Ajomale
37.64 NO
4th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China Tang Xingqiang
Xie Zhenye
Su Bingtian
Zhang Peimeng
37.90
5 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain Richard Kilty
Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
James Ellington
Adam Gemili
in the lead also:
Chijindu Ujah
37.98
6th BrazilBrazil Brazil Ricardo de Souza
Vitor Hugo dos Santos
Bruno de Barros
Jorge Vides
38.41
DSQ Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Keston Bledman
Rondel Sorrillo
Emmanuel Callender
Richard Thompson
IAAF Rule 163.3
railway transgression
United StatesUnited States 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

Video

Individual evidence

  1. IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 683 , accessed on October 4, 2018
  2. IAAF competition rules, page 71 (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2018
  3. IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2018
  4. IAAF competition rules, page 99 (PDF), accessed on October 4, 2018