1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

After Antonio Pettigrew later admitted to taking banned substances, the winning US team was retrospectively disqualified.

Medals

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Poland Tomasz Czubak Robert Maćkowiak Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek	Gregory Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke	South Africa Jopie van Oudtshoorn Hendrick Mokganyetsi Adriaan Botha Arnaud Malherbe

Results

Heats

All times shown are in minutes.

Heat 1

1.  
   Chris Brown
   ) 3:01.17 Q
2.  France (Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Marc Foucan, Marc Raquil, Fred Mango) 3:01.31 Q (SB)
3.  Great Britain (
   Mark Hylton, Jared Deacon, Jamie Baulch
   ) 3:02.21
4.  Japan (Jun Osakada, Koji Ito, Kenji Tabata, Kazuhiko Yamazaki) 3:02.50 (SB)
5.  Spain (Antonio Andrés, Juan Vicente Trull, Andrés Martínez, David Canal) 3:02.85 (SB)
6.  Australia (
   Patrick Dwyer, Brad Jamieson, Scott Thom, Mark Moresi
   ) 3:04.78
7.  Canada (Shane Niemi, Alexandre Marchand, Byron Goodwin, Monte Raymond) 3:05.60

• •  
    Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi, Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily
    ) DQ

1.  United States (
   Danny McCray, Angelo Taylor
   ) 3:00.79 Q (SB)
2.  Senegal (Ousmane Niang, Ibou Faye, Alpha Babacar Sall, Ibrahima Wade) 3:02.53 Q (SB)
3.  Germany (Maik Liebe, Marco Krause, Ruwen Faller, Thomas Goller) 3:02.68 (SB)
4.  
   Sanderlei Claro Parrela
   ) 3:05.70
5.  
   Paul McKee
   ) 3:05.81

 Botswana (Rampa Mosweu, Lulu Basinyi, California Molefe, Johnson Kubisa) DQ
 Nigeria (Udeme Ekpeyong, Jude Monye, Fidelis Gadzama, Sunday Bada) DQ
 Hungary (Péter Nyilasi, Balázs Korányi, Zsolt Szeglet, Tibor Bédi) DNF

Heat 3

1.  South Africa (Jopie van Oudtshoorn, Hendrick Mokganyetsi, Adriaan Botha, Arnaud Malherbe) 3:00.77 Q (SB)
2.  Poland (Robert Maćkowiak, Jacek Bocian, Piotr Długosielski, Piotr Haczek) 3:00.86 Q (SB)
3.  
   Michael McDonald
   ) 3:01.38 q
4.  Russia (
   Dmitriy Golovastov
   ) 3:01.51 q (SB)
5.   Switzerland (Laurent Clerc, Mathias Rusterholz, Alain Rohr, Marcel Schelbert) 3:02.46 (NR)
6.  
   Joze Vrtačič, Matija Šestak
   ) 3:02.70 (NR)
7.  
   Panayiotis Sarris, Anastasios Gousis, Yeoryios Doupis, Periklis Iakovakis
   ) 3:04.07 (NR)
8.  Zimbabwe (Temba Ncube, Philip Mukomana, Savieri Ngidhi, Ken Harnden) 3:07.69

Final

1.  Poland (Tomasz Czubak, Robert Maćkowiak, Jacek Bocian, Piotr Haczek) 2:58.91 (SB)
2.  
   Gregory Haughton, Danny McFarlane
   , Davian Clarke) 2:59.34
3.  South Africa (Jopie van Oudtshoorn, Hendrick Mokganyetsi, Adriaan Botha, Arnaud Malherbe) 3:00.20 (NR)
4.  France (Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Marc Foucan, Marc Raquil, Fred Mango) 3:00.59 (SB)
5.  Russia (Daniyil Shekin, Andrey Semyonov, Valentine Koulbatskiy, Dmitriy Golovastov) 3:00.98 (SB)
6.  Bahamas (Timothy Munnings, Troy McIntosh, Carl Oliver, Chris Brown) 3:02.74
7.  Senegal (Ousmane Niang, Assane Diallo, Ibou Faye, Ibrahima Wade) 3:03.80

 United States (Jerome Davis,

References

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