# 2001 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

These are the official results of the Men's 4 × 400 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their final was held on Sunday 12 August 2001 at 16:20h.

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2001 World Athletics Championships :
| World Record | United States (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson) | 2:54.29 | August 22, 1993 | Stuttgart, Germany |
| Event Record | United States (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson) | 2:54.29 | August 22, 1993 | Stuttgart, Germany |
| Season Best | United States "Red" (Leonard Byrd, Angelo Taylor, Jerome Young, Michael Johnson) | 2:58.60 | April 28, 2001 | Philadelphia, United States |

## Final

| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
| | Bahamas (BAH) | • Avard Moncur • Christopher Brown • Troy McIntosh • Timothy Munnings | 2:58.19 |
| | Jamaica (JAM) | • Brandon Simpson • Christopher Williams • Gregory Haughton • Danny McFarlane | 2:58.39 |
| | Poland (POL) | • Rafał Wieruszewski • Piotr Haczek • Piotr Długosielski • Piotr Rysiukiewicz | 2:59.71 |
| 4. | Brazil (BRA) | • Valdinei da Silva • Anderson Jorge dos Santos • Flávio Godoy • Sanderlei Parrela | 3:01.09 |
| 5. | Great Britain (GBR) | • Iwan Thomas • Jamie Baulch • Timothy Benjamin • Mark Richardson | 3:01.26 |
| 6. | Spain (ESP) | • Eduardo Iván Rodríguez • David Canal • Antonio Andrés • Antonio Manuel Reina | 3:02.24 |
| 7. | Germany (GER) | • Marc Alexander Scheer • Ruwen Faller • Lars Figura • Ingo Schultz | 3:03.52 |
| | United States (USA) | • Leonard Byrd • Antonio Pettigrew • Derrick Brew • Angelo Taylor | DQ |

## Heats

* Held on Saturday 11 August 2001

### Heat 1

| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
| 1. | United States (USA) | • Jerome Young • Andrew Pierce • Leonard Byrd • Derrick Brew | 3:00.07 |
| 2. | Great Britain (GBR) | • Mark Hylton • Iwan Thomas • Timothy Benjamin • Mark Richardson | 3:00.96 |
| 3. | Germany (GER) | • Ingo Schultz • Ruwen Faller • Marc Alexander Scheer • Lars Figura | 3:01.33 |
| 4. | Spain (ESP) | • Eduardo Iván Rodríguez • David Canal • Antonio Andrés • Antonio Manuel Reina | 3:01.42 |
| 5. | Japan (JPN) | • Kenji Tabata • Jun Osakada • Dai Tamesue • Ryuji Muraki | 3:02.75 |
| 6. | Sweden (SWE) | • Johan Wissman • Jimisola Laursen • Mikael Jakobsson • Magnus Aare | 3:04.02 |
| 7. | Canada (CAN) | • Shane Niemi • Gary Reed • Lawrence Ringwald • Jean-Marie Louis | 3:04.87 |

### Heat 2

| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
| 1. | Brazil (BRA) | • Claudinei da Silva • Anderson Jorge dos Santos • Flávio Godoy • Sanderlei Parrela | 3:00.75 |
| 2. | Jamaica (JAM) | • Michael Blackwood • Brandon Simpson • Mario Watts • Danny McFarlane | 3:00.97 |
| 3. | France (FRA) | • Marc Raquil • Marc Foucan • Philippe Bouche • Stéphane Diagana | 3:01.65 |
| 4. | Russia (RUS) | • Vitaliy Ignatov • Ruslan Mashchenko • Dmitriy Golovastov • Andrey Semyonov | 3:01.95 |
| 5. | Botswana (BOT) | • Lulu Basinyi • Otukile Lekote • Johnson Kubisa • California Molefe | 3:03.32 |
| 6. | Czech Republic (CZE) | • Karel Bláha • Radek Zachoval • Stepan Tesarik • Jirí Muzik | 3:04.27 |
| — | Sri Lanka (SRI) | • Rohan Pradeep Kumara • Ranga Wimalawansa • Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara • Harijan Ratnayake | DNS |

### Heat 3

| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
| 1. | Bahamas (BAH) | • Troy McIntosh • Avard Moncur • Carl Oliver • Timothy Munnings | 3:00.88 |
| 2. | Poland (POL) | • Rafał Wieruszewski • Piotr Haczek • Jacek Bocian • Piotr Rysiukiewicz | 3:01.32 |
| 3. | South Africa (RSA) | • Marcus La Grange • Jopie van Oudtshoorn • Alwyn Myburgh • Arnaud Malherbe | 3:01.70 |
| 4. | Ukraine (UKR) | • Oleksandr Kaydash • Andriy Tverdostup • Volodymyr Rybalka • Yevhen Zyukov | 3:02.35 (NR) |
| 5. | Mexico (MEX) | • Alejandro Cárdenas • Oscar Juanz • Roberto Carbajal • Juan Pedro Toledo | 3:03.19 (NR) |
| 6. | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | • Hamdan O. Al-Bishi • Hamed Al-Bishi • Belal Al Housah • Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily | 3:04.22 |
| 7. | Ireland (IRL) | • Robert Daly • Tom Comyns • Paul McKee • Tomas Coman | 3:04.26 |
| 8. | Venezuela (VEN) | • Dany Nuñez • Simoncito Silvera • Jonathan Palma • William Hernández | 3:05.37 |