2014 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2014 European Athletics Championships took place at the Letzigrund on 16 and 17 August.

Medalists

Gold James Ellington, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey,
Richard Kilty, Adam Gemili, Daniel Talbot
 Great Britain
Silver Julian Reus, Sven Knipphals,
Alexander Kosenkow, Lucas Jakubczyk
 Germany
Bronze Pierre Vincent, Christophe Lemaitre,
Teddy Tinmar, Ben Bassaw
 France

Records

Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics Championships
World record  Jamaica
Nesta Carter, Michael Frater
Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt
36.84 London, Great Britain 11 August 2012
European record  Great Britain
Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell
Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers
37.73 Seville, Spain 29 August 1999
Championship record  France
Max Moriniere, Daniel Sangouma
Jean-Charles Trouabal, Bruno Marie-Rose
37.79 Split, Yugoslavia 1 September 1990
World Leading  Jamaica
Jason Livermore, Kemar Bailey-Cole
Nickel Ashmeade, Usain Bolt
37.58 Glasgow, Great Britain 2 August 2014
European Leading  Great Britain
Richard Kilty, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
James Ellington, Daniel Talbot
37.93 Nassau, Bahamas 25 May 2014

Schedule

Date Time Round
16 August 2014 15:35 Round 1
17 August 2014 17:05 Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Results

Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank Heat Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes
1 2 5  Germany Julian Reus, Sven Knipphals, Alexander Kosenkow, Lucas Jakubczyk 38.15 Q, SB
2 1 4  Great Britain James Ellington, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Richard Kilty, Daniel Talbot 38.26 Q
3 1 5  Switzerland Pascal Mancini, Reto Schenkel, Suganthan Somasundaram, Alex Wilson 38.54 Q, NR
4 2 4  France Pierre Vincent, Christophe Lemaitre, Teddy Tinmar, Ben Bassaw 38.55 Q
5 2 7  Italy Fabio Cerutti, Eseosa Desalu, Diego Marani, Delmas Obou 38.71 Q, SB
6 2 2  Poland Robert Kubaczyk, Dariusz Kuć, Kamil Masztak, Karol Zalewski 38.75 q
7 2 1  Portugal Diogo Antunes, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazaldes Nascimento 38.79 q, NR
8 1 8  Netherlands Giovanni Codrington, Churandy Martina, Hensley Paulina, Wouter Brus 38.90 Q
9 1 1  Ukraine Roman Kravtsov, Serhiy Smelyk, Vitaliy Korzh, Emil Ibrahimov 39.03
10 1 7  Sweden Tom Kling-Baptiste, Stefan Tärnhuvud, Alexander Brorsson, Erik Hagberg 39.27 SB
11 1 6  Finland Eetu Rantala, Ville Myllymäki, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen 39.47 SB
12 1 3  Estonia Mart Muru, Rait Veesalu, Markus Ellisaar, Marek Niit 39.52 NR
13 2 3  Romania Stefan Alexandru Codreanu, Doru Teofilescu, Alexandru Terpezan, Catalin Cîmpeanu 39.67 SB
14 1 2  Turkey Umutcan Emektas, İzzet Safer, Aykut Ay, Ramil Guliyev 39.83 SB
15 2 8  Lithuania Žilvinas Adomavičius, Kostas Skrabulis, Ugnius Savickas, Rytis Sakalauskas 40.15
2 6  Spain Eduard Viles, Sergio Ruíz, Iván Jesús Ramos, Adrià Burriel DNF

Final

Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 3  Great Britain James Ellington, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Richard Kilty, Adam Gemili 37.93 EL
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4  Germany Julian Reus, Sven Knipphals, Alexander Kosenkow, Lucas Jakubczyk 38.09 SB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 6  France Pierre Vincent, Christophe Lemaitre, Teddy Tinmar, Ben Bassaw 38.47
4 5  Switzerland Pascal Mancini, Reto Schenkel, Suganthan Somasundaram, Alex Wilson 38.56
5 8  Netherlands Giovanni Codrington, Churandy Martina, Hensley Paulina, Wouter Brus 38.60
6 1  Poland Adam Pawłowski, Dariusz Kuć, Robert Kubaczyk, Karol Zalewski 38.85
7  Italy Fabio Cerutti, Eseosa Desalu, Diego Marani, Delmas Obou DNF
2  Portugal Diogo Antunes, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazaldes Nascimento DNF

References