# 2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 31 July and 1 August.
Shortly after heat 2, it seemed that three teams (France, Poland and Switzerland) would qualify from heat 1, and five teams (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia and Spain) from heat 2, including Italy that finished second. However, it was announced that Italian team was disqualified, and subsequently Finnish team qualified from heat 1 to final. Later on, Italy made successful protest against Russia, so that Russia was disqualified and Italy proceeded to final.

## Medalists

| Gold | Christophe Lemaitre, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock France (FRA) |
| Silver | Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci Italy (ITA) |
| Bronze | Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller Germany (GER) |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships :
| World record | Jamaica Nesta Carter, Michael Frater Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell | 37.10 | Beijing, China | 22 August 2008 |
| European record | United Kingdom Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers | 37.73 | Seville, Spain | 29 August 1999 |
| Championship record | France Max Moriniere, Daniel Sangouma Jean-Charles Trouabal, Bruno Marie-Rose | 37.79 | Split, Yugoslavia | 1 September 1990 |
| World Leading | Jamaica Mario Forsythe, Yohan Blake Marvin Anderson, Usain Bolt | 37.90 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | 24 April 2010 |
| European Leading | France Ronald Pognon, Christophe Lemaitre Yannick Lesourd, Martial Mbandjock | 38.50 | Rome, Italy | 10 June 2010 |
| Broken records during the 2010 European Athletics Championships |||||
| European Leading | France Jimmy Vicaut, Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock | 38.11 | Barcelona, Spain | 1 August 2010 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| 31 July 2010 | 10:15 | Round 1 |
| 1 August 2010 | 19:35 | Final |

## Results
### Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Nation | Athletes | React | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | France (FRA) | Imaad Hallay, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock | 0.168 | 39.12 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Poland (POL) | Dariusz Kuć, Paweł Stempel, Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Kryński | 0.173 | 39.20 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Switzerland (SUI) | Pascal Mancini, Aron Beyene, Reto Schenkel, Marc Schneeberger | 0.172 | 39.22 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Finland (FIN) | Hannu Ali-Huokuna, Joni Rautanen, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen | 0.143 | 39.40 | q |
| 5 | 5 | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | Leon Baptiste, Craig Pickering, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis | 0.180 | 39.49 | |
| 6 | 8 | Norway (NOR) | Philip Bjørnå Berntsen, Tormod Hjortnæs Larsen, Christian Settemsli Mogstad, Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | 0.162 | 40.04 | |
| 7 | 2 | Turkey (TUR) | Mustafa Delioğlu, Sezai Özkaya, Hakan Karacaoğlu, İzzet Safer | 0.254 | 40.23 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Nation | Athletes | React | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Germany (GER) | Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller | 0.174 | 38.75 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Italy (ITA) | Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci | 0.199 | 38.82 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Portugal (POR) | Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazaldes Nascimento | 0.201 | 39.09 | Q |
| 4 | 7 | Spain (ESP) | Alain López, Ángel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Rubén Pros | 0.230 | 39.30 | q |
| | 2 | Russia (RUS) | Mikhail Idrisov, Ivan Teplykh, Roman Smirnov, Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko | 0.173 | DQ | |
| | 5 | Slovenia (SLO) | Jan Žumer, Matic Osovnikar, Boštjan Fridrih, Gregor Kokalovič | 0.165 | DQ | |

#### Summary

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Nation | Athletes | React | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | 6 | Germany (GER) | Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller | 0.174 | 38.75 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | Italy (ITA) | Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci | 0.199 | 38.82 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Portugal (POR) | Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazaldes Nascimento | 0.201 | 39.09 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 3 | France (FRA) | Imaad Hallay, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock | 0.168 | 39.12 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 4 | Poland (POL) | Dariusz Kuć, Paweł Stempel, Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Kryński | 0.173 | 39.20 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 7 | Switzerland (SUI) | Pascal Mancini, Aron Beyene, Reto Schenkel, Marc Schneeberger | 0.172 | 39.22 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 7 | Spain (ESP) | Alain López, Ángel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Rubén Pros | 0.230 | 39.30 | q |
| 8 | 1 | 6 | Finland (FIN) | Hannu Ali-Huokuna, Joni Rautanen, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen | 0.143 | 39.40 | q |
| 9 | 1 | 5 | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | Leon Baptiste, Craig Pickering, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis | 0.180 | 39.49 | |
| 10 | 1 | 8 | Norway (NOR) | Philip Bjørnå Berntsen, Tormod Hjortnæs Larsen, Christian Settemsli Mogstad, Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | 0.162 | 40.04 | |
| 11 | 1 | 2 | Turkey (TUR) | Mustafa Delioğlu, Sezai Özkaya, Hakan Karacaoğlu, İzzet Safer | 0.254 | 40.23 | |
| | 2 | 2 | Russia (RUS) | Mikhail Idrisov, Ivan Teplykh, Roman Smirnov, Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko | 0.173 | DQ | |
| | 2 | 5 | Slovenia (SLO) | Jan Žumer, Matic Osovnikar, Boštjan Fridrih, Gregor Kokalovič | 0.165 | DQ | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Nationality | Athlete | React | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | France (FRA) | Jimmy Vicaut, Christophe Lemaitre, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock | 0.275 | 38.11 | EL |
| | 7 | Italy (ITA) | Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci | 0.241 | 38.17 | NR |
| | 5 | Germany (GER) | Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller | 0.184 | 38.44 | |
| 4 | 8 | Switzerland (SUI) | Pascal Mancini, Aron Beyene, Reto Schenkel, Marc Schneeberger | 0.162 | 38.69 | NR |
| 5 | 4 | Poland (POL) | Dariusz Kuć, Paweł Stempel, Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Kryński | 0.189 | 38.83 | |
| 6 | 6 | Portugal (POR) | Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, João Ferreira | 0.218 | 38.88 | NR |
| 7 | 1 | Finland (FIN) | Hannu Ali-Huokuna, Joni Rautanen, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen | 0.149 | 39.29 | NR |
| | 2 | Spain (ESP) | Alain López, Ángel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Rubén Pros | 0.149 | DNF | |