Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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
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
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
Wheelchair races

The 4 x 400 metres relay races at the 1984 Summer Olympics was contested as part of the athletics program.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States (USA) Ray Armstead Alonzo Babers Antonio McKay Sunder Nix Walter McCoy* Willie Smith*	Great Britain (GBR) Kriss Akabusi Todd Bennett Phil Brown Garry Cook	Nigeria (NGR) Innocent Egbunike Rotimi Peters Moses Ugbusien Sunday Uti

Abbreviations

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
OR	olympic record
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

World Record	2:56.16	Vincent Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James Lee Evans	Mexico City (MEX)	October 20, 1968
Olympic Record	2:56.16	Vincent Matthews Ron Freeman Larry James Lee Evans	Mexico City (MEX)	October 20, 1968

Results

Heats

Heat 1

1.  Australia (AUS) (Peter van Miltenberg, Gary Minihan, Bruce Frayne, Rick Mitchell) 3:03:72
2.  Canada (CAN) (Michael Sokolowski, Doug Hinds, Brian Saunders, Tim Béthune) 3:04.47
3.  Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) (Anton Skerritt, Michael Puckerin, Derek Archer, Michael Paul) 3:06.81
4.  Sweden (SWE) (Tommy Johansson, Erik Josjö, Christer Gullstrand, Thomas Nyberg) 3:07.32
5.  Japan (JPN) (Shigenori Omori, Ryoichi Yoshida, Hiroki Fuwa, Susumu Takano) 3:08.16
6.  Mozambique (MOZ) (Leonardo Loforte, Pedro Gonçalvo, Andre Titos, Henrique Pereira) 3:08.95 NR
7.  United Arab Emirates (UAE) (Rashed Jerbeh, Khamis Ebrahim, Mubarak Ismail, Ibrahim Aziz) 3:19.90

Heat 2

1.  Great Britain (GBR) (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Phil Brown) 3:06.10
2.  Italy (ITA) (Roberto Ribaud, Ernesto Nocco, Mauro Zuliani, Donato Sabia) 3:06.28
3.  Uganda (UGA) (John Goville, Moses Kyeswa, Peter Rwamuhanda, Mike Okot) 3:06.65
4.  France (FRA) (Yann Quentrec, Didier Dubois, Jacques Fellice, Aldo Canti) 3:08.33
5.  Antigua and Barbuda (ANT) (Alfred Browne, Larry Miller, Howard Lindsay, Dale Jones) 3:10.95
6.  British Virgin Islands (IVB) (Guy Hill, Jerry Molyneaux, Dean Greenaway, Lindel Hodge) 3:11.89
7.  Cameroon (CMR) (Ernest Tche Noubossie, Jean-Pierre Abossolo Ze, Barnabe Messomo, Mama Moluh) 3:16.00

Heat 3

1.  Barbados (BAR) (Richard Louis, David Peltier, Clyde Edwards, Elvis Forde) 3:03:31
2.  West Germany (FRG) (Martin Weppler, Uwe Schmitt, Thomas Giessing, Erwin Skamrahl) 3:03:33
3.  Ivory Coast (CIV) (Georges Kablan Degnan, Avognan Nogboum, René Djédjémel Mélédjé, Gabriel Tiacoh) 3:03:50 NR
4.  Jamaica (JAM) (Steve Griffiths, Mark Senior, Dennis Wallace, Devon Morris) 3:03:85
5.  Brazil (BRA) (João Batista da Silva, José Luiz Barbosa, Antônio Dias Ferreira, Gerson A. Souza) 3:05.08

Heat 4

1.  United States (USA) (Willie Smith, Ray Armstead, Alonzo Babers, Walter McCoy) 3:01.44
2.  Kenya (KEN) (John Anzarah, Simon Kitur, Jason Opicho, Elijah Sogomo) 3:06.07
3.  Nigeria (NGR) (Sunday Uti, Moses Ugbusien, Rotimi Peters, Innocent Egbunike) 3:06.34
4.  Spain (ESP) (Manuel González, Benjamín González, Antonio Sánchez, Angel Heras) 3:08.79
5.  Oman (OMA) (Barkat Alsharji, Amor Alheshimi, Sulaiman Alakbary, Mohamed Amer Al-Malky) 3:15.87

Semi-final

Heat 1

1.  United States (USA) (Sunder Nix, Walter McCoy, Willie Smith, Antonio McKay) 3:00.19
2.  Great Britain (GBR) (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Phil Brown) 3:02.98
3.  Canada (CAN) (Michael Sokolowski, Doug Hinds, Brian Saunders, Tim Béthune) 3:03:93
4.  Uganda (UGA) (John Goville, Moses Kyeswa, Peter Rwamuhanda, Mike Okot) 3:04.02
5.  West Germany (FRG) (Martin Weppler, Uwe Schmitt, Jörg Vaihinger, Erwin Skamrahl) 3:04.69
6.  Ivory Coast (CIV) (Georges Kablan Degnan, Avognan Nogboum, René Djédjémel Mélédjé, Gabriel Tiacoh) 3:04.87
7.  Sweden (SWE) (Tommy Johansson, Erik Josjö, Christer Gullstrand, Thomas Nyberg) 3:09.40
8.  Japan (JPN) (Susumu Takano, Shigenori Omori, Ryoichi Yoshida, Hiroki Fuwa) 3:10.73

Heat 2

1.  Nigeria (NGR) (Sunday Uti, Moses Ugbusien, Rotimi Peters, Innocent Egbunike) 3:02.22
2.  Australia (AUS) (Peter van Miltenberg, Gary Minihan, Bruce Frayne, Darren Clark) 3:03:79
3.  Italy (ITA) (Roberto Tozzi, Ernesto Nocco, Roberto Ribaud, Donato Sabia) 3:03:87
4.  Barbados (BAR) (Richard Louis, David Peltier, Clyde Edwards, Elvis Forde) 3:03:89
5.  Brazil (BRA) (João Batista da Silva, Wilson David Santos, José-Luiz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:03:99
6.  Jamaica (JAM) (Steve Griffiths, Mark Senior, Karl Smith, Devon Morris) 3:04.24
7.  Kenya (KEN) (John Anzarah, Elijah Sogomo, Jason Opicho, David Kitur) 3:04.74

Final

1.  United States (USA) (Sunder Nix, Ray Armstead, Alonzo Babers, Antonio McKay) 2:57.91
2.  Great Britain (GBR) (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Phil Brown) 2:59.13
3.  Nigeria (NGR) (Sunday Uti, Moses Ugbusien, Rotimi Peters, Innocent Egbunike) 2:59.32
4.  Australia (AUS) (Bruce Frayne, Darren Clark, Gary Minihan, Rick Mitchell) 2:59.70
5.  Italy (ITA) (Roberto Tozzi, Ernesto Nocco, Roberto Ribaud, Pietro Mennea) 3:01.44
6.  Barbados (BAR) (Richard Louis, David Peltier, Clyde Edwards, Elvis Forde) 3:01.60 NR
7.  Uganda (UGA) (John Goville, Moses Kyeswa, Peter Rwamuhanda, Mike Okot) 3:02.09 NR
8.  Canada (CAN) (Michael Sokolowski, Doug Hinds, Brian Saunders, Tim Béthune) 3:02.82

External links

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