2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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The

4 × 400 metre relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium
on August 13 and August 14.

Medals

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
United States

Andrew Rock
Derrick Brew
Darold Williamson
Jeremy Wariner
Miles Smith*
LaShawn Merritt*

  • *Received Medal For Running in Prelim
Bahamas

Nathaniel McKinney
Avard Moncur
Andrae Williams

Chris Brown

Jamaica

Sanjay Ayre
Brandon Simpson
Lansford Spence
Davian Clarke

Qualifying

From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.

All times shown are in seconds.

  • Q denotes automatic qualification.
  • q denotes fastest losers.
  • DNS denotes did not start.
  • DNF denotes did not finish.
  • AR denotes area record.
  • NR denotes national record.
  • PB denotes personal best.
  • SB denotes season's best.

Heat 1

  1. ) 2:59.73 Q (WL)
  2. ) 2:59.75 Q (SB)
  3. Poland (Piotr Klimczak, Marcin Marciniszyn, Robert Maćkowiak, Rafał Wieruszewski) 3:00.38 q (SB)
  4. Germany (Simon Kirch, Kamghe Gaba, Florian Seitz, Bastian Swillims) 3:03.17
  5. Sweden (Mattias Claesson, Jimisola Laursen, Johan Wissman, Thomas Nikitin) 3:03.62 (SB)
  6. Botswana (Obakeng Ngwigwa, California Molefe, Tshepho Kelaotswe, Masheto Gakologelwang) 3:06.39 (SB)

Heat 2

  1. United States (Miles Smith, Derrick Brew, LaShawn Merritt, Darold Williamson) 3:00.48 Q (SB)
  2. ) 3:01.91 Q
  3. ) 3:02.05 q (SB)
  4. Ukraine (Oleksiy Rachkovsky, Andriy Tverdostup, Myhaylo Knysh, Vitaliy Dubonosov) 3:03.41 (SB)
  5. ) 3:08.03
  6. Zimbabwe (Nelton Ndebele, Young Talkmore Nyongani, Brian Dzingai, Temba Ncube) 3:08.26 (SB)

Heat 3

  1. Great Britain (Robert Tobin, Martyn Rooney, Malachi Davis, Graham Hedman) 3:01.95 Q
  2. France (Leslie Djhone, Naman Keïta, Abderrahim El Haouzy, Marc Raquil) 3:02.86 Q
  3. ) 3:03.57 (SB)
  4. South Africa (Jan van der Merwe, Ockert Cilliers, Pieter de Villiers, L. J. van Zyl) 3:04.64 (SB)
  5. Enefiok Udo Obong
    ) 3:07.91 (SB)
  • Mohammed Al Salhi
    ) DQ

Final

  1. United States (Andrew Rock, Derrick Brew, Darold Williamson, Jeremy Wariner) 2:56.91 (WL)
  2. Chris Brown
    ) 2:57.32 (NR)
  3. Jamaica (Sanjay Ayre, Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence, Davian Clarke) 2:58.07 (SB)
  4. ) 2:58.82 (SB)
  5. Poland (Marcin Marciniszyn, Robert Maćkowiak, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Piotr Klimczak) 3:00.58
  6. France (Leslie Djhone, Naman Keïta, Abderrahim El Haouzy, Marc Raquil) 3:03.10
  7. ) 3:03.20

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