Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

The men's 4 × 100 metres relay races at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held on Friday 29 September and Saturday 30 September.[1]

The top two teams in each of the initial five heats automatically qualified for the semi-final. The next six fastest team from across the heats also qualified. The top three teams in each of the semi-finals automatically qualified for the final. The next two fastest team from the semi-finals also qualified.

As of 2028, this is the last time the U.S. team won the men's 4 x 100 meters relay in track & field.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

World Record	37.40	Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	Barcelona (ESP)	8 August 1992
	37.40	Jon Drummond Andre Cason Dennis Mitchell Leroy Burrell	Stuttgart (GER)	21 August 1993
Olympic Record	37.40	Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	Barcelona (ESP)	8 August 1992

Medalists

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Kenneth Brokenburr* Jon Drummond Maurice Greene Brian Lewis Tim Montgomery* Bernard Williams	Brazil André da Silva Claudinei da Silva Vicente de Lima Édson Ribeiro Cláudio Roberto Souza*	Cuba (CUB) José Ángel César Iván García Freddy Mayola Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Results

All times shown are in seconds.

• Q denotes qualification by place in heat.
• q denotes qualification by overall place.
• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• DQ denotes disqualification.
• NR denotes national record.
• AR denotes area/continental record.
• OR denotes Olympic record.
• WR denotes world record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season best.

Heats

Heat 1 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	11	Ivory Coast	Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité	7	0.342 s	39.06 s	Q
2	13	Thailand	Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep	3	0.196 s	39.13 s	Q
3	19	Guatemala	Rolando Blanco, Oscar Meneses, José Meneses, José Tinoco	6	0.181 s	39.34 s
4	23	Bahamas	Renward Wells, Dominic Demeritte, Iram Lewis, Wellington Saunders Whymms	2	0.139 s	39.57 s
5	25	Cyprus	Anthimos Rotos, Anninos Marcoullides, Prodromos Katsantonis, Yiannakis Zisimides	4	0.460 s	39.75 s
6	31	FR Yugoslavia	Slobodan Spasić, Predrag Momirović, Miloš Šakić, Milan Petaković	8	0.245 s	39.99 s
7	35	India	Thirugnan Durai, Rajeev Bala Krishnan, Ajay Raj Singh, Anil Kumar Prakash	5	0.151 s	40.23 s
8		Great Britain	Allyn Condon, Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers	1	0.175 s	DQ

Heat 2 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	2	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Cláudio Roberto Souza	8	0.153 s	38.32 s	Q
2	7	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	5	0.429 s	38.84 s	Q	SB
3	8	Nigeria	Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu	4	0.175 s	38.85 s	q	SB
4	9	Jamaica	Donovan Powell, Dwight Thomas, Lindel Frater, Llewellyn Bredwood	3	0.220 s	38.97 s	q
5	15	Slovenia	Matic Šušteršič, Matic Osovnikar, Boštjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	6	0.146 s	39.25 s	q	NR
6	27	Liberia	Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Andrew Reyes, Koiyan Morlu	7	0.175 s	39.77 s		NR
7	33	Hong Kong	William To, Ho Kwan Lung, Tang Hon Sing, Chiang Wai Hung	2	0.182 s	40.15 s
8	34	Chile	Diego Valdés, Ricardo Roach, Rodrigo Roach, Juan Pablo Faúndez	1	0.161 s	40.20 s

Heat 3 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	10	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Jérôme Eyana	5	0.163 s	39.00 s	Q
2	14	Greece	Georgios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis	2	0.236 s	39.21 s	Q
3	16T	Canada	Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Nicolas Macrozonaris	6	0.458 s	39.26 s	q	SB
3	16T	Ireland	John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Paul Brizzell	4	0.226 s	39.26 s		NR
5	22	Mauritius	Jonathan Chimier, Eric Milazar, Stéphan Buckland, Fernando Augustin	8	0.419 s	39.55 s
6	26	Israel	Kfir Golan, Gidon Yablonka, Tommy Kafri, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	7	0.237 s	39.76 s
7	30	Saudi Arabia	Mohamed Al-Yami, Mubarak Ata Mubarak, Salem Mubarak Al-Yami, Jamal Al-Saffar	7	0.193 s	39.94 s
		Ghana	Christian Nsiah, Kenneth Andam, Aziz Zakari, Leonard Myles-Mills	1	0.250 s	DNF

Heat 4 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	4T	Cuba	José Ángel César, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	8	0.414 s	38.74 s	Q
2	6	Australia	Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson	2	0.167 s	38.76 s	Q
3	12	Trinidad and Tobago	Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Jacey Harper, Marc Burns	7	0.176 s	39.12 s	q	SB
4	21	Hungary	Viktor Kovács, Géza Pauer, László Babály, Miklós Gyulai	6	0.474 s	39.52 s
5	24	Cameroon	Alfred Moussambani, Serge Bengono, Joseph Batangdon, Benjamin Sirimou	5	0.165 s	39.62 s
6	28	Oman	Mohamed Said Al-Maskary, Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami, Mohamed Al-Houti, Jahad Abdullah Al-Sheikh	1	0.125 s	39.82 s		SB
7	32	Puerto Rico	Osvaldo Nieves, Rogelio Pizarro, Jorge Richardson, Félix Omar Fernández	3	0.233 s	40.12 s
8	38	Uzbekistan	Oleg Juravlyov, Konstantin Zhuravlyov, Anvar Kuchmuradov, Nikolay Yeroshenko	4	0.423 s	41.20 s

Heat 5 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	1	United States	Kenneth Brokenburr, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	6	0.216 s	38.15 s	Q
2	3	Japan	Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	3	0.222 s	38.52 s	Q	SB
3	4T	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	7	0.215 s	38.74 s	q	SB
4	18	Russia	Dmitri Vasilyev, Aleksandr Ryabov, Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Bychkov	4	0.152 s	39.29 s		SB
5	20	Venezuela	Juan Morillo, José Peña, José Carabalí, Hely Ollarves	2	0.214 s	39.45 s		NR
6	29	Croatia	Slaven Krajacic, Dejan Vojnovic, Siniša Ergotic, Tihomir Buinjac	5	0.129 s	39.87 s
7	36	Indonesia	Sukari, Erwin Heru Susanto, Yanes Raubaba, John Muray	1	0.232 s	40.35 s
8	37	Barbados	Wilan Louis, Victor Houston, Gabriel Burnett, Fabian Rollins	8	40.38 s

Round 1- Overall

Round 1 Overall Results
Place	Nation	Athletes	Heat	Lane	Place	Time	Qual.	Record
1	United States	Kenneth Brokenburr, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	5	6	1	38.15 s	Q
2	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Cláudio Roberto Souza	2	8	1	38.32 s	Q
3	Japan	Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	5	3	2	38.52 s	Q	SB
4	Cuba	José Ángel César, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	4	8	1	38.74 s	Q
	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	5	7	3	38.74 s	q	SB
6	Australia	Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson	4	2	2	38.76 s	Q
7	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	2	5	2	38.84 s	Q	SB
8	Nigeria	Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu	2	4	3	38.97 s	q	SB
9	Jamaica	Donovan Powell, Dwight Thomas, Lindel Frater, Llewellyn Bredwood	2	3	4	38.97 s	q
10	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Jérôme Eyana	3	5	1	39.00 s	Q
11	Ivory Coast	Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité	1	7	1	39.06 s	Q
12	Trinidad and Tobago	Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Jacey Harper, Marc Burns	4	7	3	39.12 s	q	SB
13	Thailand	Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep	1	3	2	39.13 s	Q
14	Greece	Georgios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis	3	2	2	39.21 s	Q
15	Slovenia	Matic Šušteršic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	2	6	5	39.25 s	q	NR
16	Canada	Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Nicolas Macrozonaris	3	6	3	39.26 s	q	SB
	Ireland	John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Paul Brizzell	3	4	4	39.26 s		NR
18	Russia	Dmitri Vasilyev, Aleksandr Ryabov, Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Bychkov	5	4	4	39.29 s		SB
19	Guatemala	Rolando Blanco, Oscar Meneses, José Meneses, Jose Tinoco	1	6	3	39.34 s		NR
20	Venezuela	Juan Morillo, José Peña, José Carabalí, Hely Ollarves	5	2	5	39.45 s		NR
21	Hungary	Viktor Kovács, Géza Pauer, László Babály, Miklós Gyulai	4	6	4	39.52 s
22	Mauritius	Jonathan Chimier, Eric Milazar, Stéphan Buckland, Fernando Augustin	3	8	5	39.55 s
23	Bahamas	Renward Wells, Dominic Demeritte, Iram Lewis, Wellington Saunders Whymms	1	2	4	39.57 s
24	Cameroon	Alfred Moussambani, Serge Bengono, Joseph Batangdon, Benjamin Sirimou	4	5	5	39.62 s
25	Cyprus	Anthimos Rotos, Anninos Marcoullides, Prodromos Katsantonis, Yiannakis Zisimides	1	4	5	39.75 s
26	Israel	Kfir Golan, Gidon Yablonka, Tommy Kafri, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	3	3	6	39.76 s
27	Liberia	Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Andrew Reyes, Koiyan Morlu	2	7	6	39.77 s		NR
28	Oman	Mohammed Said Al Maskari, Hamoud Al-Dalhami, Mohamed Said Al-Maskary, Jihad Al Sheikh	4	1	6	39.82 s		SB
29	Croatia	Slaven Krajacic, Dejan Vojnovic, Siniša Ergotic, Tihomir Buinjac	5	5	6	39.87 s
30	Saudi Arabia	Mohammed M M Alyami, Mubarak Ata Mubarak, Salem Mubarak Al-Yami, Jamal Al-Saffar	3	7	7	39.94 s
31	FR Yugoslavia	Slobodan Spasić, Predrag Momirović, Milos Sakić, Milan Petaković	1	8	6	39.99 s
32	Puerto Rico	Osvaldo Nieves, Rogelio Pizarro, Jorge Richardson, Félix Omar Fernández	4	3	7	40.12 s
33	Hong Kong	Wai Lok To, Kwan Lung Ho, Hon Sing Tang, Wai Hung Chiang	2	2	7	40.15 s
34	Chile	Diego Valdés, Ricardo Roach, Rodrigo Roach, Juan Pablo Faúndez	2	1	8	40.20 s
35	India	Thirugnan Durai, Rajeev Balakrishnan, Ajay Raj Singh, Anil Kumar Prakash	1	5	7	40.23 s
36	Indonesia	Sukari, Erwin Heru Susanto, Janis Roubaba, John Muray	5	1	7	40.35 s
37	Barbados	Wilan Louis, Victor Houston, Gabriel Burnett, Fabian Rollins	5	8	8	40.38 s
38	Uzbekistan	Oleg Juravlyov, Konstantin Zhuravlyov, Anvar Kuchmuradov, Nikolay Eroshenko	4	4	8	41.20 s
	Great Britain	Allyn Condon, Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers	1	1		DQ
	Ghana	Christian Nsiah, Kenneth Andam, Aziz Zakari, Leonard Myles-Mills	3	1		DNF

Semi-finals

Heat 1 of 2 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	1	United States	Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	6	0.142 s	37.82 s	Q
2	3T	Jamaica	Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood	1	0.154 s	38.27 s	Q	NR
3	7	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims	5	0.158 s	38.64 s	Q
4	8	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	3	0.146 s	38.67 s	q	SB
5	10	Ivory Coast	Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité	4	0.435 s	38.82 s		SB
6	11T	Canada	Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Adrian Woodley	2	0.172 s	38.92 s		SB
7	13	Thailand	Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep	7	0.150 s	39.05 s
8		Nigeria	Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu	8	0.194 s	DNF

Heat 2 of 2 Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place		Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Qual.	Record
Heat	Overall
1	2	Cuba	José Ángel César, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	5	0.481 s	38.16 s	Q
2	3T	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva	4	0.394 s	38.27 s	Q
3	5	Japan	Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	6	0.481 s	38.31 s	Q	=AR
4	6	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	7	0.224 s	38.60 s	q	SB
5	9	Greece	Georgios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis	2	0.211 s	38.80 s
6	11T	Trinidad and Tobago	Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Marc Burns, Ato Boldon	8	0.210 s	38.92 s		NR
		Australia	Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson	3	0.215 s	DQ
		Slovenia	Matic Šušteršic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	1	0.165 s	DQ

Semi-Finals overall

Semi-finals Overall Results
Place	Nation	Athletes	Heat	Lane	Place	Time	Qual.	Record
1	United States	Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	1	6	1	37.82 s	Q
2	Cuba	José Ángel César, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	2	5	1	38.16 s	Q
3	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva	2	4	2	38.27 s	Q
	Jamaica	Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood	1	1	2	38.27 s	Q	NR
5	Japan	Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	2	6	3	38.31 s	Q	=AR
6	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	2	7	4	38.60 s	q	SB
7	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims	1	5	3	38.64 s	Q
8	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	1	3	4	38.67 s	q	SB
9	Greece	Georgios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis	2	2	5	38.80 s
10	Ivory Coast	Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité	1	4	5	38.82 s		SB
11	Canada	Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Adrian Woodley	1	2	6	38.92 s		SB
	Trinidad and Tobago	Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Marc Burns, Ato Boldon	2	8	6	38.92 s		NR
13	Thailand	Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep	1	7	7	39.05 s
	Australia	Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson	2	3		DQ
	Slovenia	Matic Šušteršic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	2	1		DQ
	Nigeria	Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu	1	8		DNF

Final

Final
Place	Nation	Athletes	Lane	Reaction	Time	Record
1	United States	Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene	5	0.126 s	37.61 s	SB
2	Brazil	Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva	4	0.188 s	37.90 s	NR
3	Cuba	José Ángel César, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola	3	0.238 s	38.04 s	SB
4	Jamaica	Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood	6	0.315 s	38.20 s	NR
5	France	Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims	7	0.153s	38.49 s	SB
6	Japan	Shigeyuki Kojima, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara	2	0.221 s	38.66 s
7	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo	8	0.146s	38.67 s
8	Poland	Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk	1	0.196 s	38.96 s

References

1. "Athletics at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

External links

• Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics
• Results, round 1 – IAAF
• Results, semi-final – IAAF
• Results, final – IAAF