Olympic Summer Games 2020 / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (men)

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Olympic rings
sport athletics
discipline 4 x 400 meter relay
gender Men
Attendees ?? Athletes from 16 countries
Competition location Olympic Stadium
Competition phase August 7, 2020 (preliminary)
August 8, 2020 (final)

The 4 x 400 meters relay men in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo will be from 7 to 8 August in the Olympic Stadium held.

Current title holders

Olympic champion United StatesUnited States United States 2: 57.30 min Rio de Janeiro 2016
World Champion United StatesUnited States United States 2: 56.69 min Doha 2019
European champion BelgiumBelgium Belgium 2: 59.47 min Berlin 2018
North / Central America / Caribbean champions United StatesUnited States United States 3: 00.60 min Toronto 2018
South American champions ColombiaColombia Colombia 3: 04.04 min Lima 2019
Asian champion JapanJapan Japan 3: 02.94 min Doha 2019
African champions Algiers 2020
Oceania Champion AustraliaAustralia Australia 3: 08.67 min Townsville 2019

Existing records

World record United StatesUnited States United States ( Andrew Valmon , Quincy Watts , Harry Reynolds , Michael Johnson ) 2: 54.29 min Stuttgart , Germany 22nd August 1993
Olympic record United StatesUnited States United States ( LaShawn Merritt , Angelo Taylor , David Neville , Jeremy Wariner ) 2: 55.39 min Beijing Final , People's Republic of China August 23, 2008


Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 684 , accessed on October 4, 2018