# 1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

The Men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla on August 28 and August 29.

## Medals

| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| United States Jon Drummond Tim Montgomery Brian Lewis Maurice Greene | Great Britain Jason Gardener Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers | Brazil Raphael de Oliveira Claudinei da Silva Édson Luciano Ribeiro André da Silva |

## Results
### Heats

All times shown are in seconds.
* AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)
* DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) | Q = qualification by place in heat | q = qualification by overall place

#### Heat 1

* United States (Jon Drummond, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene) 38.06 Q (WL)
* Poland (Marcin Krzywański, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Marcin Nowak) 38.75 Q (SB)
* Italy (Luca Verdecchia, Massimiliano Donati, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo) 38.98 (SB)
* Thailand (Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Reanchai Seerhawong, Sittichai Suwonprateep) 39.55
* Liberia (Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Paul Sehzue, Andrew Reyes) 40.89
* Ghana (Christian Nsiah, Eric Nkansah, Albert Agyemang, Leonard Myles-Mills) DQ
* Canada (Donovan Bailey, Glenroy Gilbert, Trevino Betty, Bruny Surin) DQ
* France (Thierry Lubin, Frédéric Krantz, Vincent Caure, Issa-Aimé Nthépé) DNF

#### Heat 2

* Great Britain (Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Allyn Condon, Dwain Chambers) 38.31 Q
* Cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Yoel Hernández) 38.61 Q (SB)
* Israel (Rafel Yaar, Gideon Jablonka, Tommy Kafri, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy) 38.81 (NR)
* Germany (Marc Blume, Christian Schacht, Holger Blume, Michael Huke) 38.84
* Cameroon (Jean-Francis Ngapout, Serge Bengono, Joseph Batangdon, Claude Toukene) 39.25 (NR)
** Australia (Darryl Wohlsen, Paul Di Bella, Dean Capobianco, Matthew Shirvington) DQ
** Spain (Diego Moisés Santos, José Illán, Francisco Javier Navarro, Carlos Berlanga) DQ

#### Heat 3

* Brazil (Raphael de Oliveira, Claudinei da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro, André da Silva) 38.46 Q
* Hungary (Viktor Kovács, Gábor Dobos, Roland Németh, Miklós Gyulai) 38.71 q (SB)
* South Africa (Morné Nagel, Marcus la Grange, Lee-Roy Newton, Mathew Quinn) 38.76 q (NR)
* Jamaica (Garth Robinson, Patrick Jarrett, Christopher Williams, Ray Stewart) 38.86
** Nigeria (Sunday Emmanuel, Francis Obikwelu, Daniel Effiong, Deji Aliu) DQ Q
** Greece (Georgios Theodoridis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Hristoforos Hoidis) DQ
** Russia (Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Slukin, Denis Nikolayev, Andrey Fedoriv) DQ
** Namibia (Elton Garus-Oab, Benedictus Botha, Christie Van Wyk, Frankie Fredericks) DNS

### Final

* United States (Jon Drummond, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene) 37.59 (WL)
* Great Britain (Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers) 37.73 (AR)
* Brazil (Raphael de Oliveira, Claudinei da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro, André da Silva) 38.05 (AR)
* Cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Yoel Hernández) 38.63
* Poland (Marcin Krzywański, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Marcin Nowak) 38.70 (SB)
* South Africa (Morne Nagel, Marcus La Grange, Lee Roy Newton, Mathew Quinn) 38.74 (NR)
* Hungary (Viktor Kovács, Gábor Dobos, Roland Németh, Zsolt Szeglet) 38.83
** Nigeria (Innocent Asonze, Francis Obikwelu, Daniel Effiong, Deji Aliu) DQ