1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
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
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.

Medals

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Lee McRae Lee McNeill Harvey Glance Carl Lewis Dennis Mitchell*	Soviet Union Aleksandr Yevgenyev Viktor Bryzgin Vladimir Muravyov Vladimir Krylov Andrey Fedoriv*	Jamaica John Mair Andrew Smith Clive Wright Ray Stewart

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	United States (USA)	37.83	Los Angeles, USA	August 11, 1984
Championship Record	United States (USA)	37.86	Helsinki, Finland	August 10, 1983

Results

Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

WR world record | 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)

DNF = did not finish | 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

Heat 1

1.  United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Dennis Mitchell) 38.80 Q
2.  Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 39.11 Q
3.  Japan (Kaoru Matsubara, Hirohisa Ota, Masahiro Nagura, Hiroki Fuwa) 39.49 Q
4.  China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.63 Q
5.  Spain (Enrique Talavera, Juan José Prado, Miguel Ángel García, José Javier Arqués) 40.20 q
6.  Uganda (Moses Musonge, Joseph Ssali, Sunday Olweny, Edward Bitoga) 40.22

• •  Great Britain (Lincoln Asquith, John Regis, Mike McFarlane, Clarence Callender) DQ

Heat 2

1.  Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Andrey Fedoriv) 38.98 Q
2.  West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 39.10 Q
3.  Brazil (Joilto Bonfim, Carlos de Oliveira, Arnaldo de Oliveira Silva, Robson da Silva) 39.57 Q
4.  Italy (Ezio Madonia, Stefano Tilli, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.58 Q
5.  Ghana (John Myles-Mills, Emmanuel Tuffour, Salaam Gariba, Eric Akogyiram) 39.77 q
6.  Chinese Taipei (Lai Cheng-Chuan, Lee Shiun-Long, Chang Yih-Yuan, Cheng Hsin-Fu) 40.05 q

Heat 3

1.  Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.76 Q
2.  Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.88 Q
3.  Cuba (Ricardo Chacon, Leandro Peñalver, Sergio Querol, Andrés Simón) 39.44 Q
4.  Senegal (Charles-Louis Seck, Hamidou Diawara, Joseph Dias, Amadou Mbaye) 39.83 Q
5.  Portugal (Arnaldo Abrantes, Pedro Curvelo, Luís Cunha, Luís Barroso) 40.10 q

• •  Nigeria (Augustine Olobia, Patrick Nwankwo, Innocent Egbunike, Chidi Imoh) DNS

Semi-finals

Heat 1

1.  Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Vladimir Krylov) 38.29 Q
2.  Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.50 Q
3.  West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 38.84 Q
4.  Italy (Ezio Madonia, Stefano Tilli, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.52 Q
5.  Japan (Kaoru Matsubara, Hirohisa Ota, Masahiro Nagura, Hiroki Fuwa) 39.71
6.  Spain (Miguel Ángel García, Juan José Prado, Angel Heras, José Javier Arqués) 39.74
7.  Ghana (John Myles-Mills, Emmanuel Tuffour, Salaam Gariba, Eric Akogyiram) 39.94
8.  Senegal (Charles-Louis Seck, Hamidou Diawara, Joseph Dias, Amadou Mbaye) 40.22

Heat 2

1.  United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Dennis Mitchell) 38.33 Q
2.  Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.66 Q
3.  Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 38.78 Q
4.  China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.05 (AR) Q
5.  Cuba (Ricardo Chacon, Leandro Peñalver, Sergio Querol, Andrés Simón) 39.08
6.  Brazil (Joilto Bonfim, Carlos De Oliveira, Arnaldo de Oliveira Silva, Robson da Silva) 39.22
7.  Chinese Taipei (Lai Cheng-Chuan, Lee Shiun-Long, Chang Yih-Yuan, Cheng Hsin-Fu) 39.90
8.  Portugal (Arnaldo Abrantes, Pedro Curvelo, Luís Cunha, Luís Barroso) 40.24

Final

1.  United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Carl Lewis) 37.90
2.  Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Vladimir Krylov) 38.02 (AR)
3.  Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.41
4.  Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.47
5.  West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 38.73
6.  Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 39.04
7.  Italy (Ezio Madonia, Domenico Gorla, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.62
8.  China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.93

References

• IAAF results, heats
• IAAF results, semi-finals
• IAAF results, final