# 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

The men's 4x100 metres relay event at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Santiago, Chile, at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos on 22 October.

## Medalists

| Gold | Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Tim Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis United Kingdom |
| Silver | Ronald Pognon Fabrice Calligny Ladji Doucouré Leslie Djhone France |
| Bronze | Takashi Mogi Kazuya Kitamura Yusuke Omae Hisashi Miyazaki Japan |

## Results
### Final

22 October
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time |
| | United Kingdom | Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Tim Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis | 39.05 |
| | France | Ronald Pognon Fabrice Calligny Ladji Doucouré Leslie Djhone | 39.33 |
| | Japan | Takashi Mogi Kazuya Kitamura Yusuke Omae Hisashi Miyazaki | 39.47 |
| 4 | Trinidad and Tobago | Kirk Rudder Marc Burns Cleavon Dillon Darrel Brown | 40.03 |
| 5 | Jamaica | Michael Frater Omar Brown Winston Smith Marvin Anderson | 40.07 |
| 6 | Germany | Tobias Pfennig Jan Mörsch Sebastian Gatzka Rasgawa Pinnock | 40.42 |
| 7 | Hungary | László Szabó Gergely Nagy Gergely Németh Imre Lórincz | 40.57 |
| | Poland | Mariusz Latkowski Marcin Jędrusiński Wojciech Niczyporuk Łukasz Chyła | DNF |

### Heats

22 October

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | United Kingdom | Tyrone Edgar Dwayne Grant Tim Benjamin Mark Lewis-Francis | 39.14 | Q |
| 2 | Japan | Takashi Mogi Kazuya Kitamura Yusuke Omae Hisashi Miyazaki | 39.48 | Q |
| 3 | Hungary | László Szabó Gergely Nagy Gergely Németh Imre Lórincz | 40.31 | q |
| 4 | Chile | Iván Sandoval Alfredo Jalón Rodrigo Díaz Diego Valdés | 41.19 | |
| 5 | Israel | Asaf Elderman Michael Gurewitch Maikel Waait Tal Mor | 41.41 | |
| | Spain | Egoitz De Dios Guillermo Vidal Pablo Martínez Martín Rodríguez | DNF | |
| | Italy | Gaetano Barone Marco Marsadri Enrico Rigato Sergio Riva | DNF | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | France | Ronald Pognon Daniel Abenzoar-Foulé Ladji Doucouré Leslie Djhone | 39.91 | Q |
| 2 | Trinidad and Tobago | Dion Rodriguez Marc Burns Kirk Rudder Darrel Brown | 40.33 | Q |
| 3 | Portugal | Ricardo Pacheco Ricardo Alves Pedro Silva Rui Tavares | 40.73 | |
| 4 | United States | Andra Fifer Garland Martin L'Eron George Michael Thomas | 41.01 | |
| 5 | Mexico | Javier Baeza Mario Trillo Rubén Chávez Jorge Ramírez | 41.66 | |
| | Australia | Campbell Tonkin Tim Williams Craig Sconce Scott Richardson | DQ | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Poland | Mariusz Latkowski Marcin Jędrusiński Wojciech Niczyporuk Łukasz Chyła | 39.61 | Q |
| 2 | Jamaica | Michael Frater Winston Smith Dwight Shakespeare Marvin Anderson | 39.94 | Q |
| 3 | Germany | Tobias Pfennig Jan Mörsch Sebastian Gatzka Rasgawa Pinnock | 40.34 | q |
| 4 | New Zealand | Nick Madgwick Hayden Townsend Simon Jones Lachie McLellan | 40.42 | |
| 5 | Switzerland | Vincent Trolliet Andreas Oggier Yann Mühlbauer Marc Schneeberger | 40.57 | |
| 6 | Qatar | Hamad Abbas Saad Al-Sofyani Khaled Al-Obaidli Mohamed Al-Thawadi | 41.06 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 79 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.
* Australia (4)
* Chile (4)
* France (5)
* Germany (4)
* Hungary (4)
* Israel (4)
* Italy (4)
* Jamaica (5)
* Japan (4)
* Mexico (4)
* New Zealand (4)
* Poland (4)
* Portugal (4)
* Qatar (4)
* Spain (4)
* Switzerland (4)
* Trinidad and Tobago (5)
* United Kingdom (4)
* United States (4)