2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 14 and 15 July.[1][2][3]

Medalists

GoldSilverBronze
 United States
Quincy Downing
Aldrich Bailey
Chidi Okezie
Arman Hall
 Poland
Karol Zalewski
Rafał Smoleń
Piotr Kuśnierz
Patryk Dobek
 Trinidad and Tobago
Asa Guevara
Jereem Richards
Brandon Benjamin
Machel Cedenio

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record &
Championship Record
 United States
(Brandon Johnson, LaShawn Merritt, Jason Craig, Kerron Clement)
3:01.09 Grosseto, Italy 18 July 2004
World Junior Leading  Trinidad and Tobago
(Asa Guevara, Brandon Benjamin, Theon Lewis, Machel Cedenio)
3:05.95 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 24 June 2012
Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
World Junior Leading  United States
(Quincy Downing, Aldrich Bailey, Chidi Okezie, Arman Hall)
3:03.99 Barcelona, Spain 15 July 2012

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified

RankHeatLaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
123 United StatesQuincy Downing, Eric Futch, Chidi Okezie, Arman Hall3:06.26Q, SB
227 AustraliaJarryd Buchan, Jay Meaney, Max Waldron, Steven Solomon3:07.49Q, SB
324 PolandPiotr Kuśnierz, Rafał Smoleń, Paweł Walczuk, Patryk Dobek3:07.85q, SB
426 Saudi ArabiaIbrahim Mohammed Saleh, Abdullah Ahmed Abkar, Bandar Atiyah Kaabi, Basheer Atiah Al Barakati3:07.88q, NJ
535 JapanNaohiro Yokoyama, Kenta Kimura, Shota Kozuma, Kazushi Kimura3:08.16Q, SB
534 Trinidad and TobagoAsa Guevara, Jereem Richards, Brandon Benjamin, Machel Cedenio3:08.16Q
733 RussiaTimofey Chalyy, Roman Semakin, Radel Kashefrazov, Nikita Vesnin3:08.58SB
836 GermanyTobias Lange, Lukas Schmitz, Bennet Steudel, David Brücher3:08.82SB
913 JamaicaShavon Barnes, Omar McLeod, Jermaine Fyffe, Lennox Williams3:08.83Q, SB
1017 ItalyVito Incantalupo, Alberto Rontini, Davide Re, Michele Tricca3:08.87Q, SB
1114 BahamasJulian Munroe, Stephen Newbold, Elroy McBride, O'Jay Ferguson3:08.96SB
1237 GhanaShadrack Adu-Gyamfi, Daniel Gyasi, Solomon Afful, Kwame Ankomah-Donyina3:11.46PB
1338 NorwaySondre Nyvold Lid, Andreas Roth, Marius Bakken Støle, Markus Loftås3:12.27NJ
1425 CanadaBenjamin Ayesu-Attah, Christopher Green, Marc-André Alexandre, Drelan Bramwell3:13.68SB
1516 SpainJulio Arenas, Lucas Bua, David Jiménez, Sergi Torres3:14.85SB
1639 FinlandJussi Kanervo, Joni Vainio-Kaila, Ville Lampinen, Jani Koskela3:15.48PB
1718 IndiaSandeep Sandeep, Sanjeev Sheokand, Jeevan Karekoppa Suresh, Sumit Malik3:20.12
15 South AfricaTaariq Solomons, Pieter Conradie, Bernardus Pretorius, Ruan GreylingDQ
28 NigeriaDNS

Final

RankLaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)6 United StatesQuincy Downing, Aldrich Bailey, Chidi Okezie, Arman Hall3:03.99WJL
2nd, silver medalist(s)5 PolandKarol Zalewski, Rafał Smoleń, Piotr Kuśnierz, Patryk Dobek3:05.05NJ
3rd, bronze medalist(s)4 Trinidad and TobagoAsa Guevara, Jereem Richards, Brandon Benjamin, Machel Cedenio3:06.32
42 AustraliaJarryd Buchan, Jay Meaney, Max Waldron, Steven Solomon3:06.58SB
53 JamaicaShavon Barnes, Javon Francis, Lennox Williams, Jermaine Fyffe3:07.31SB
68 Saudi ArabiaIbrahim Mohammed Saleh, Abdullah Ahmed Abkar, Bandar Atiyah Kaabi, Basheer Atiah Al Barakati3:09.26
79 JapanNaohiro Yokoyama, Kenta Kimura, Shota Kozuma, Kazushi Kimura3:09.67
7 ItalyVito Incantalupo, Marco Lorenzi, Davide Re, Michele TriccaDSQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 76 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=M/discCode=4X4/combCode=hash/timetable.html
  2. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  3. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015
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