Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - relay race 4 × 100 meters (men)

Athletics on 2008 Summer Olympics
Track Disciplines
100 meters	men	women
200 meters	men	women
400 meters	men	women
800 meters	men	women
1,500 meters	men	women
5000 meters	men	women
10,000 meters	men	women
100 meters with barriers		women
110 meters with barriers	men
400 meters with barriers	men	women
3000 meters with obstacles	men	women
Relay race 4 × 100 meters	men	women
Relay race 4 × 400 meters	men	women
Highway Disciplines
Marathon	men	women
20 kilometers walking	men	women
50 kilometers walking	men
Technical disciplines
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vaulting	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin-throwing	men	women
Hammer throwing	men	women
All-around
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 4 × 100 meter relay competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 20 to 21 at the Beijing National Stadium .

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Trinidad and Tobago Keston Bledman Mark Burns Emmanuel Kallender Richard Thompson Aaron Armstrong	Japan Naoki Tsukahara Shingo Suezugu Shinji Takahira Nobuharu Asahara	Brazil Vicente de Lima Sandro Viana Bruno de Barros Jose Carlos Moreira

Records

Data shown at the start of the Olympic Games.

World record	USA Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	37.40	Barcelona ( Spain )	August 8, 1992
Olympic record	USA Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis	37.40	Barcelona ( Spain )	August 8, 1992

Competition

Q - qualified in place in the race
q - time qualified

WJR - Junior World Record
AR - Africa record
SB - the best result of the season
PB is the best career result

NR - national record
DNF - not finished
DQ - Disqualified

Team Qualification

The 16 best results of the national teams are going to the Olympics. Results are considered the average of the two best results.

A place	A country	2 Results		one	2
A place	A country	Total	The average	one	2
one	USA	75.88	37.94	37.78	38.10
2	Jamaica	75.91	37.96	37.89	38.02
3	Great Britain	76.20	38.10	37.90	38.30
four	Japan	76.24	12/12	38.03	38.21
five	Brazil	76.26	38.13	37.99	38.27
6	Germany	77.12	38.56	38.56	38.56
7	France	77.18	38.59	38.40	38.78
eight	Poland	77.23	38.62	38.61	38.62
9	Nigeria	77.34	38.67	38.43	38.91
ten	Canada	77.53	38.77	38.72	38.81
eleven	Italy	77.56	38.78	38.54	39.02
12	Trinidad and Tobago	77.56	38.78	38.54	39.02
13	South Africa	77.80	38.90	38.75	39.05
	Australia	77.82	38.91	38.73	09/39
14	China	77.85	38.93	38.81	39.04
15	Thailand	77.89	38.95	38.94	38.95
sixteen	Netherlands	77.95	38.98	38.92	39.03
Reserve
17	Switzerland	78.01	39.01	38.99	39.02
18	Ghana	78.08	39.04	38.91	39.17
nineteen	Russia	78.45	39.23	39.08	39.37

Results

Q Passed to the next round in place
q Passed to the next round in time

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Line	A country	Time	Result
eight	Trinidad and Tobago	38.26	Q
four	Japan	38.52	Q, SB
3	Netherlands	38.87	Q, SB
2	Brazil	39.01	q
6	Nigeria	99.99! DNF
9	Poland	99.99! DNF
five	South Africa	99.99! DNF
7	USA	99.99! DNF

Semifinal 2

Line	A country	Time	Result
6	Jamaica	38.31	Q, SB
2	Canada	38.77	Q
3	Germany	38.93	Q
9	China	39.13	q
7	Thailand	39.40
four	France	39.53
five	Great Britain	99.99! DSQ
eight	Italy	99.99! DSQ

Final

A place	Track	A country	Members	Time	Result
one	four	Trinidad and Tobago	Keston Bledman Mark Burns Emmanuel Kallender Richard Thompson	06.06
2	7	Japan	Naoki Tsukahara , Shingo Suezugu , Shinji Takahira , Nobuharu Asahara	38.15	SB
3	3	Brazil	Vincent Lima , Sandro Viana , Brunno de Baroche , Jose Carlos Moreira	38.24	SB
four	9	Germany	Tobias Unger , Til Helmke , Alexander Kosenkov , Martin Keller	38.58
five	6	Canada	Hank Palmer , Anson Henry , Jared Connoton , Pierre Brown	38.66	SB
6	eight	Netherlands	Martin Heisen , Gus Hogmood , Patrick van Luke , Caiming Douglas	45.81
99!	2	China	Wen Yongi , Zhang Peimen , Liu Bin , Hu Kai	99.99! DSQ
	five	Jamaica	Nesta Carter , Michael Freiter , Usain Bolt , Asafa Powell Dwight Thomas - participated in the preliminary race.	37.10! DSQ

Doping Scandal

In June 2016, it became known that after rechecking the analyzes of the 2008 Olympics in the doping test of the Jamaican runner Nest Carter , the banned substance methylhexanamine was found ^[1] ^[2] . Carter was stripped of the Beijing Olympics gold medal, as were his relay partners ^[3] ^[4] .

Notes

↑ TASS: Sport - Media: doping test of the Jamaican runner Nesta Carter with OI-2008 gave a positive result
↑ TASS: Sports - Media: Jamaican Carter doping test “B” from Olympic Games 2008 gave a positive result
↑ Usain Bolt lost the gold of the 2008 Olympics due to a doping test of a partner (neopr.) . RIA Novosti (January 25, 2017). Date of treatment January 25, 2017.
↑ Usain Bolt could lose Olympic title amid team-mate's doping controversy

Links

Official Competition Protocol

[1] TASS: Sport - Media: doping test of the Jamaican runner Nesta Carter with OI-2008 gave a positive result

[2] TASS: Sports - Media: Jamaican Carter doping test “B” from Olympic Games 2008 gave a positive result

[3] Usain Bolt lost the gold of the 2008 Olympics due to a doping test of a partner (neopr.) . RIA Novosti (January 25, 2017). Date of treatment January 25, 2017.

[4] Usain Bolt could lose Olympic title amid team-mate's doping controversy