1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Events at the 1997 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 9 and August 10.

Medals

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Canada Robert Esmie Glenroy Gilbert Bruny Surin Donovan Bailey	Nigeria Osmond Ezinwa Olapade Adeniken Francis Obikwelu Davidson Ezinwa	Douglas Walker Julian Golding

Results

Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

Heat 1

1.  Ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.41 Q (NR)
2.  Sweden (Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 39.04 Q (SB)
3.  Ukraine (Aleksey Chikhachov, Serhiy Osovych, Oleh Kramarenko, Vladyslav Dolohodin) 39.32 Q (SB)
4.  Mexico (Carlos Villaseñor, Alejandro Banda, Jaime de Jesus Lopez, Juan Pedro Toledo) 39.93

• •  
    Maurice Greene
    ) DNF
  •  Jamaica (Donovan Powell, Dennis Mowatt, Garth Robinson, Cawley Elston) DNS
  •  Cyprus DNS

Heat 2

1.  
   Édson Luciano Ribeiro
   ) 38.31 Q (AR)
2.  Canada (Carlton Chambers, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.36 Q (SB)
3.  Japan (Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.44 Q (AR)
4.  Nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.46 q
5.  Portugal (Paulo Neves, Mário Barbosa, Paulo Figueiredo, Carlos Calado) 39.37 (SB)
6.  Slovenia (Marko Štor, Urban Acman, Tomaz Božic, Gregor Breznik) 39.62 (NR)
7.  
   Augustine Nketia, Chris Donaldson, Paul Gibbons, Donald MacDonald
   ) 39.66
8.  Liberia (Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Robert M. Dennis, Edward Neufville) 39.90 (NR)

Heat 3

1.  Great Britain (Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Darren Braithwaite, Julian Golding) 38.47 Q (SB)
2.  France (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.80 Q (SB)
3.  
   Francisco Javier Navarro
   ) 38.87 Q
4.  Poland (Marcin Krzywański, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 39.00 q (SB)
5.  Bahamas (Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.09 q (NR)
6.  Ireland (Kevin Cogley, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Neil Ryan) 39.46 (NR)
7.  
   Claude Toukene
   ) 39.73

• •  
    Eric Pacome N'Dri, Jean-Olivier Zirignon, Ahmed Douhou, Ibrahim Meité
    ) DQ

1.  
   Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda
   ) 38.64 Q (SB)
2.  
   Aggelos Pavlakakis
   ) 38.74 Q (NR)
3.  Italy (Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.97 Q
4.  
   Saad Al-Kuwari
   ) 39.05 q (NR)
5.  Hungary (Viktor Kovács, Miklós Gyulai, Szabolcs Alexa, Gábor Dobos) 39.38 (SB)
6.  Australia (Ryan Witnish, Damien Marsh, Steve Brimacombe, Rod Mapstone) 39.39 (SB)

• •  Fiji DNS

Semi-finals

Heat 1

1.  Ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.12 Q (NR)
2.  Great Britain (Dwain Chambers, Darren Campbell, Darren Braithwaite, Julian Golding) 38.25 Q (SB)
3.  Spain (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.60 Q (NR)
4.  France (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.71 Q (SB)
5.  Italy (Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.77
6.  Poland (Marcin Krzywański, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 38.79 (SB)
7.  Qatar (Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.53

• •  Greece (Alexandros Yenovelis, Thomas Sbokos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis) DNF

Heat 2

1.  Nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 37.94 Q (WL)
2.  Cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.06 Q (SB)
3.  Canada (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.15 Q (SB)
4.  Brazil (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.17 Q (AR)
5.  Japan (Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.31 (AR)
6.  Sweden (Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 38.89 (SB)
7.  Bahamas (Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.12

• •  Ukraine (Aleksey Chikhachov, Serhiy Osovych, Igor Strakh, Vladyslav Dolohodin) DNF

Final

1.  Canada (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 37.86 (WL)
2.  Nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.07
3.  
   Douglas Walker
   , Julian Golding) 38.14 (SB)
4.  Cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.15
5.  Ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.26
6.  Brazil (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.48
7.  Spain (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.72

• •  France (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Gilles Quénéhervé, Stéphane Cali) DQ

References

• Official results - IAAF.org