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Medals

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Emmit King Willie Gault Calvin Smith Carl Lewis	Italy Stefano Tilli Carlo Simionato Pierfrancesco Pavoni Pietro Mennea	Soviet Union Andrey Prokofyev Nikolay Sidorov Vladimir Muravyov Viktor Bryzgin

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	United States (USA)	38.03	Düsseldorf, West Germany	September 3, 1977
Championship Record	New event

All times shown are in seconds.

AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)
DNS = did not start \| DQ = disqualification \| NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) \| Q = qualification by place in heat \| q = qualification by overall place

Soviet Union (Andrey Prokofyev, Nikolay Sidorov, Vladimir Muravyov, Viktor Bryzgin) 38.62 Q
Italy (Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Pietro Mennea) 38.74 Q
Poland (Krzysztof Zwoliński, Zenon Licznerski, Czesław Prądzyński, Marian Woronin) 39.01 Q
France (Thierry Francois, Marc Gasparoni, Antoine Richard, Jean-Jacques Boussemart) 39.14 Q
Nigeria (Innocent Egbunike, Ikpoto Eseme, Samson Oyeledun, Chidi Imoh) 39.44
Greece (Angelos Angelidis, Theodoros Gatzios, Nikos Hadjinicolaou, Kosmas Stratos) 39.71
Finland (Jouko Lehtinen, Jouko Hassi, Jukka Sihvonen, Kimmo Saaristo) 40.02

United States (Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis) 38.50 Q
East Germany (Andreas Knebel, Thomas Schröder, Jens Hübler, Frank Emmelmann) 38.95 Q
West Germany (Werner Bastians, Christian Haas, Jürgen Evers, Andreas Rizzi) 39.13 Q
Jamaica (George Walcott, Ray Stewart, Leroy Reid, Colin Bradford) 39.18 Q
Great Britain (Ainsley Bennett, Donovan Reid, Mike McFarlane, Drew McMaster) 39.39
Bulgaria (Krasimir Sarbakov, Yordan Vandov, Bogomil Karadimov, Valentin Atanasov) 39.59
Bahamas (Fabian Whymns, Austin Albury, Joey Wells, David Charlton) 40.52

United States (Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis) 37.86 (WR)
Italy (Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Pietro Mennea) 38.37 (NR)
Soviet Union (Andrey Prokofyev, Nikolay Sidorov, Vladimir Muravyov, Viktor Bryzgin) 38.41
East Germany (Andreas Knebel, Thomas Schröder, Jens Hübler, Frank Emmelmann) 38.51
West Germany (Werner Bastians, Christian Haas, Jürgen Evers, Andreas Rizzi) 38.56
Poland (Krzysztof Zwoliński, Zenon Licznerski, Czesław Prądzyński, Marian Woronin) 38.72
Jamaica (George Walcott, Ray Stewart, Leroy Reid, Colin Bradford) 38.75
France (Thierry Francois, Marc Gasparoni, Antoine Richard, Jean-Jacques Boussemart) 38.98