2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 15–16 August.

Men's 4 x 400 metres relay
at the 2013 World Championships
Gold medal winners
VenueLuzhniki Stadium
Dates15 (heats) & 16 August (final)
Competitors96 from 24 nations
Winning time2:58.71
Medalists
 
 
 

The United States dominated, taking the lead from the start and never looking back, but not with the overwhelming show of force of some past championships. David Verburg passed first to silver medalist Tony McQuay who broke first and stayed out of traffic. Behind them, the race was quite competitive, with Russia's Maksim Dyldin closing the first lap in a rush then Lev Mosin running a strong curve to close off the break. Great Britain's Martyn Rooney had to go wide around the turn to pass the Russians, only to be passed himself by Belgium's Kevin Borlée. After Jonathan had led off, he passed to a third Borlée, Dylan. The team of brothers pulled to within two meters of the leading Americans with 500 meters to go, but then the gap widened to five meters. With gold medalist LaShawn Merritt pulling away, Russia's Vladimir Krasnov quickly passed Belgium's Will Owoye at the handoff. Down the backstretch Jamaica's Javon Francis passed Great Britain, Belgium and Russia to move into second. Krasnov came back but Francis held him off at the line to take silver.

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record  United States
(Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds, Michael Johnson)
2:54.29 Stuttgart, Germany 22 August 1993
Championship record  United States
(Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds, Michael Johnson)
2:54.29 Stuttgart, Germany 22 August 1993
World Leading  United States
(Torrin Lawrence, Manteo Mitchell, Bershawn Jackson, Tony McQuay)
3:00.91 Philadelphia, PA, United States 27 April 2013
African Record  Nigeria
(Clement Chukwu, Jude Monye, Sunday Bada, Enefiok Udo-Obong)
2:58.68 Sydney, Australia 30 September 2000
Asian Record  Japan
(Shunji Karube, Koji Ito, Jun Osakada, Shigekazu Omori)
3:00.76 Atlanta, GA, United States 3 August 1996
North, Central American and Caribbean record  United States
(Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Harry Reynolds, Michael Johnson)
2:54.29 Stuttgart, Germany 22 August 1993
South American Record  Brazil
(Eronilde de Araújo, Cleverson da Silva, Claudinei da Silva, Sanderlei Parrela)
2:58.56 Winnipeg, Canada 30 July 1999
European Record  Great Britain
(Iwan Thomas, Mark Richardson, Jamie Baulch, Roger Black)
2:56.60 Atlanta, GA, United States 3 August 1996
Oceanian record  Australia
(Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, Richard Mitchell, Darren Clark)
2:59.70 Los Angeles, CA, United States 11 August 1984

Qualification standards

A time B time
3:05.00

Schedule

Date Time Round
15 August 201319:05Heats
16 August 201321:30Final

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Results

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advanced to the final.[1]

RankHeatLaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
124 United States (USA)James Harris, David Verburg, Joshua Mance, Arman Hall2:59.85Q, WL
215 Jamaica (JAM)Rusheen McDonald, Javere Bell, Edino Steele, Javon Francis3:00.41Q
327 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)Renny Quow, Jarrin Solomon, Lalonde Gordon, Deon Lendore3:00.48Q, SB
412 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)Conrad Williams, Michael Bingham, Jamie Bowie, Martyn Rooney3:00.50Q, SB
525 Belgium (BEL)Antoine Gillet, Jonathan Borlée, Dylan Borlée, Kevin Borlée3:00.81q, SB
628 Brazil (BRA)Pedro Luiz de Oliveira, Wagner Cardoso, Anderson Henriques, Hugo de Sousa3:01.09q, SB
723 Poland (POL)Kacper Kozłowski, Rafał Omelko, Łukasz Krawczuk, Marcin Marciniszyn3:01.73SB
836 Russia (RUS)Maksim Dyldin, Lev Mosin, Sergey Petukhov, Vladimir Krasnov3:01.81Q, SB
916 Venezuela (VEN)Arturo Ramírez, Alberto Aguilar, José Meléndez, Freddy Mezones3:02.04SB
1017 Japan (JPN)Kengo Yamazaki, Yuzo Kanemaru, Hideyuki Hirose, Hiroyuki Nakano3:02.43SB
1133 Australia (AUS)Steven Solomon, Craig Burns, Alexander Beck, Tristan Thomas3:02.48Q, SB
1232 Germany (GER)David Gollnow, Eric Krüger, Thomas Schneider, Jonas Plass3:02.62SB
1337 Bahamas (BAH)Chris Brown, Wesley Neymour, LaToy Williams, O'Jay Ferguson3:02.67
1418 Dominican Republic (DOM)Arismendy Peguero, Gustavo Cuesta, Yon Soriano, Luguelín Santos3:03.61
1531 Italy (ITA)Marco Lorenzi, Isalbet Juarez, Eusebio Haliti, Matteo Galvan3:03.88SB
1613 Spain (ESP)Roberto Briones, Samuel García, Mark Ujakpor, Pau Fradera3:04.07SB
1734 Cuba (CUB)Yoandys Lescay, Raidel Acea, Orestes Rodríguez, Osmaidel Pellicier3:04.26
1811 Nigeria (NGR)Noah Akwu, Abiola Onakoya, Tobi Ogunmola, Isah Salihu3:04.52
1935 Czech Republic (CZE)Daniel Němeček, Pavel Maslák, Petr Lichý, Jan Tesař3:04.54SB
2038 Saudi Arabia (KSA)Ismail Al-Sabani, Yousef Masrahi, Mohamed Ali Al-Bishi, Mohammed Al-Salhi3:04.55
2126 Ukraine (UKR)Vitaliy Butrym, Myhaylo Knysh, Yevhen Hutsol, Volodymyr Burakov3:04.98SB
2214 Botswana (BOT)Pako Seribe, Obakeng Ngwigwa, Isaac Makwala, Thapelo Ketlogetswe3:05.74SB
2321 Kenya (KEN)Mike Mokamba Nyang'Au, Alphas Kishoyian, Anthony Chemut, Moses Kipkorir Kertich3:06.29SB
2422 Sri Lanka (SRI)Priyashantha Dulan, Dilhan Aloka, Chanaka Kalawala, Kasun Kalhar Seneviratne3:06.59

Final

The final was started at 21:30.[2]

RankLaneNationAthletesTimeNotes
5 United States (USA)David Verburg, Tony McQuay, Arman Hall, LaShawn Merritt2:58.71WL
4 Jamaica (JAM)Rusheen McDonald, Edino Steele, Omar Johnson, Javon Francis2:59.88SB
DQ6 Russia (RUS)Maksim Dyldin, Lev Mosin, Sergey Petukhov, Vladimir Krasnov2:59.90SB
37 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)Conrad Williams, Martyn Rooney, Michael Bingham, Nigel Levine3:00.88
41 Belgium (BEL)Jonathan Borlée, Kevin Borlée, Dylan Borlée, Will Owoye3:01.02
53 Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)Renny Quow, Lalonde Gordon, Jehue Gordon, Jarrin Solomon3:01.74
62 Brazil (BRA)Pedro Luiz de Oliveira, Wagner Cardoso, Anderson Henriques, Hugo de Sousa3:02.19
78 Australia (AUS)Steven Solomon, Alexander Beck, Craig Burns, Tristan Thomas3:02.26SB

References

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