1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.

Medals

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
 United States
Danny Everett
Roddie Haley
Antonio McKay
Harry Reynolds
Michael Franks*
Raymond Pierre*		  Great Britain
Derek Redmond
Kriss Akabusi
Roger Black
Philip Brown
Todd Bennett*
Mark Thomas*		  Cuba
Leandro Peñalver
Agustin Pavó
Lázaro Martínez
Roberto Hernández

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record  United States (USA) 2:56.16 Mexico City, Mexico October 20, 1968
Championship Record  Soviet Union (URS) 3:00.79 Helsinki, Finland August 14, 1983

Results

Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

DNF = did not finish | DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) | Q = qualification by place in heat | q = qualification by overall place

Heat 1

  1.  United States (Danny Everett, Michael Franks, Raymond Pierre, Antonio McKay) 3:03.00 Q
  2.  East Germany (Mathias Schersing, Michael Schimmer, Jens Carlowitz, Thomas Schönlebe) 3:03.57 Q
  3.  Yugoslavia (Branislav Karaulić, Slobodan Popović, Slobodan Branković, Ismail Mačev) 3:03.89 Q
  4.  Nigeria (Moses Ugbisie, Joseph Falaye, Henry Amike, Innocent Egbunike) 3:03.90 Q
  5.  Canada (Andre Smith, Courtney Brown, John Graham, Anton Skerritt) 3:04.08 q
  6.  Spain (Cayetano Cornet, Antonio Sánchez, José Alonso, Angel Heras) 3:05.02 q
  7.  Ivory Coast (Akissi Kpidi, Zongo Kuyo, Djedjemel Anatole, René Mélédjé) 3:05.34
  8.  Ireland (Kieran Finn, Gerry Delaney, John Barry, Peter Sinclair) 3:07.18

Heat 2

  1.  Kenya (Joseph Sainah, Elijah Bitok, Tito Sawe, John Anzrah) 3:02.32 Q
  2.  Cuba (Leandro Peñalver, Agustin Pavó, Lázaro Martínez, Roberto Hernández) 3:02.62 Q
  3.  Soviet Union (Arkadiy Kornilov, Yevgeniy Lomtyev, Vladimir Prosin, Aleksandr Kurochkin) 3:02.79 Q
  4.  Jamaica (Mark Senior, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Bert Cameron) 3:05.11 Q
  5.  Czechoslovakia (Jindrich Roun, Stanislav Navesnak, Jozef Kucej, Lubos Balosak) 3:05.44
  6.  Brazil (Washington Rodrigues, Sérgio Menezes, Gerson A. Souza, José Luíz Barbosa) 3:05.64

Heat 3

  1.  Great Britain (Mark Thomas, Kriss Akabusi, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.75 Q
  2.  Japan (Koichi Konakatomi, Kenji Yamauchi, Hiromi Kawasumi, Susumu Takano) 3:03.86 Q
  3.  West Germany (Peter Schwelm, Mark Henrich, Klaus Just, Edgar Itt) 3:03.87 Q
  4.  Australia (Robert Stone, Gary Minihan, Peter Stubbs, Darren Clark) 3:04.22 Q
  5.  Italy (Marcello Pantone, Vito Petrella, Andrea Montanari, Roberto Ribaud) 3:04.64 q
  6.  France (Aldo Canti, Jean-Jacques Boussemart, Patrick Barré, Yann Quentrec) 3:04.64 q
  7.  Chinese Taipei (Kuang-Liang Lin, Ruo-Ta Hsu, Shiun-Long Lee, Tsai-Tien Lin) 3:11.45

Semi-finals

Heat 1

  1.  Cuba (Leandro Peñalver, Agustin Pavó, Lázaro Martínez, Roberto Hernández) 3:00.99 Q
  2.  Great Britain (Mark Thomas, Kriss Akabusi, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:01.47 Q
  3.  Soviet Union (Arkadiy Kornilov, Yevgeniy Lomtyev, Vladimir Prosin, Aleksandr Kurochkin) 3:01.61 Q
  4.  Nigeria (Moses Ugbisie, Joseph Falaye, Henry Amike, Innocent Egbunike) 3:01.92 Q
  5.  Canada (Andre Smith, Courtney Brown, John Graham, Anton Skerritt) 3:02.90
  6.  France (Aldo Canti, Jean-Jacques Boussemart, Patrick Barré, Yann Quentrec) 3:03.41
  7.  Japan (Koichi Konakatomi, Kenji Yamauchi, Hiromi Kawasumi, Susumu Takano) 3:04.86
  8.  Spain (Cayetano Cornet, Antonio Sánchez, José Alonso, Angel Heras) 3:06.41

Heat 2

  1.  United States (Danny Everett, Michael Franks, Raymond Pierre, Antonio McKay) 2:59.06 (CR) Q
  2.  Kenya (Joseph Sainah, Elijah Bitok, David Kitur, John Anzrah) 3:00.73 Q
  3.  Jamaica (Mark Senior, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Bert Cameron) 3:01.08 (NR) Q
  4.  West Germany (Peter Schwelm, Edgar Itt, Klaus Just, Mark Henrich) 3:01.18 Q
  5.  Yugoslavia (Branislav Karaulić, Slobodan Popović, Slobodan Branković, Ismail Mačev) 3:03.30 (NR)
  6.  Italy (Marcello Pantone, Vito Petrella, Tiziano Gemelli, Roberto Ribaud) 3:03.91
  7.  Australia (Robert Stone, Gary Minihan, Peter Stubbs, Darren Clark) 3:04.59

 East Germany (Jens Carlowitz, Frank Möller, Mathias Schersing, Thomas Schönlebe) DNF

Final

  1.  United States (Danny Everett, Roddie Haley, Antonio McKay, Harry Reynolds) 2:57.29 (CR)
  2.  Great Britain (Derek Redmond, Kriss Akabusi, Roger Black, Philip Brown) 2:58.86 (AR)
  3.  Cuba (Leandro Peñalver, Agustin Pavó, Lázaro Martínez, Roberto Hernández) 2:59.16 (NR)
  4.  West Germany (Norbert Dobeleit, Mark Henrich, Edgar Itt, Harald Schmid) 2:59.96 (NR)
  5.  Kenya (Joseph Sainah, John Anzrah, Elijah Bitok, David Kitur) 3:01.67
  6.  Jamaica (Mark Senior, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Bert Cameron) 3:04.53

 Soviet Union (Yevgeniy Lomtyev, Vladimir Prosin, Aleksandr Kurochkin, Vladimir Krylov) DNF
 Nigeria (Moses Ugbisie, Joseph Falaye, Henry Amike, Innocent Egbunike) DNS

References

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