# 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

The men's 4x100 metres relay event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 11 and 12 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Dante Sales Antonio Sales Marquise Goodwin Terrell Wilks United States |
| Silver | Oshane Bailey Dexter Lee Nickel Ashmeade Yohan Blake Jamaica |
| Bronze | Johannes Mosala Roscoe Engel Patrick Vosloo Wilhelm van der Vyver South Africa |

## Results
### Final

12 July
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time |
| | United States | Dante Sales Antonio Sales Marquise Goodwin Terrell Wilks | 38.98 |
| | Jamaica | Oshane Bailey Dexter Lee Nickel Ashmeade Yohan Blake | 39.25 |
| | South Africa | Johannes Mosala Roscoe Engel Patrick Vosloo Wilhelm van der Vyver | 39.70 |
| 4 | Japan | Genki Kawai Seiya Hane Masanori Kaji Yuichi Kobayashi | 39.89 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | Olufunmi Sobodu Junior Ejehu James Alaka Richard Kilty | 39.89 |
| 6 | Trinidad and Tobago | Abiola Glasgow Kendall Bacchus Zwade Edwards Shermund Allsop | 40.16 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei | Liang Tse-Ching Wang Ming-En Pan Po-Yu Su Yung-Chun | 40.17 |
| 8 | Thailand | Poommanus Jankem Wattana Deewong Weerawat Pharueang Suppachai Chimdee | 40.28 |

### Heats

11 July

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | United Kingdom | Olufunmi Sobodu Junior Ejehu James Alaka Richard Kilty | 39.84 | Q |
| 2 | Japan | Genki Kawai Seiya Hane Masanori Kaji Yuichi Kobayashi | 39.95 | Q |
| 3 | Thailand | Poommanus Jankem Wattana Deewong Weerawat Pharueang Suppachai Chimdee | 40.16 | q |
| 4 | Italy | Edoardo Baini Diego Marani Davide Manenti Valerio Rosichini | 40.41 | |
| 5 | Poland | Gustaw Jacewicz Artur Zaczek Michal Partyka Lukasz Gauza | 40.61 | |
| 6 | France | Romain Burel Martin Lamy Frédéric Mignot Tom Chouquet | 40.83 | |
| 7 | Turkey | Ferhat Altunkalem Izzet Safer Emre Karademir Semih Sencer | 41.65 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jamaica | Oshane Bailey Dexter Lee Rasheed Dwyer Yohan Blake | 39.62 | Q |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei | Liang Tse-Ching Wang Ming-En Pan Po-Yu Su Yung-Chun | 40.16 | Q |
| 3 | Czech Republic | Martin Ricar Lukáš Štastný Pavel Maslák Václav Zich | 40.60 | |
| 4 | Sweden | Maximus Fröjd Alexander Nordkvist Benjamin Olsson Oskar Åberg | 40.72 | |
| 5 | Nigeria | Olawuyi Rahmeen Femi Owolade Ufomba Chime Ayokunle Odelusi | 40.74 | |
| 6 | Canada | Michael Robertson Phillip Hayle Daniel Harper Tyrone Halstead | 41.33 | |
| | Germany | Roy Schmidt Robert Hering Jasper Henkel Markus Brandt | DNF | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | United States | Dante Sales Antonio Sales Marquise Goodwin Terrell Wilks | 39.37 | Q |
| 2 | South Africa | Johannes Mosala Roscoe Engel Patrick Vosloo Wilhelm van der Vyver | 39.59 | Q |
| 3 | Trinidad and Tobago | Abiola Glasgow Kendall Bacchus Zwade Edwards Shermund Allsop | 40.40 | q |
| 4 | Russia | Mikhail Yakovlev Aleksandr Shpaer Konstantin Shabanov Igor Borzov | 40.43 | |
| 5 | Austria | Stephan Ender Bernhard Chudarek Lukas Reiter Dominik Distelberger | 40.80 | |
| 6 | Senegal | Papa Ousmane Ndiaye Aliou Wagne Ibrahima Seye Edouard Ndecky | 42.44 | |
| | Spain | Sergio González Javier Sanz Alberto Gavaldá Eusebio Cáceres | DNF | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 85 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.
* Austria (4)
* Canada (4)
* Chinese Taipei (4)
* Czech Republic (4)
* France (4)
* Germany (4)
* Italy (4)
* Jamaica (5)
* Japan (4)
* Nigeria (4)
* Poland (4)
* Russia (4)
* Senegal (4)
* South Africa (4)
* Spain (4)
* Sweden (4)
* Thailand (4)
* Trinidad and Tobago (4)
* Turkey (4)
* United Kingdom (4)
* United States (4)