Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Men's 4 x 400 metre relay
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The 4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

 races at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2000 Summer Olympics
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

as part of the athletics program
Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, 46 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 22 for women. There were a total number of 2134 participating athletes from 193 countries.-Men's events:...

 were held on September 29 and September 30.
The top two teams in each of the initial five heats automatically qualified for the semi-final. The next six fastest team from across the heats also qualified. The top three teams in each of the semi-finals automatically qualified for the final. The next two fastest team from the semi-finals also qualified.

The United States, with Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Calvin Harrison...

, Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew was an American sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters. He was born in Macon, Georgia....

, Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Alvin Harrison...

 and Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson (athlete)
Michael Duane Johnson is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship gold medals. Johnson currently holds the world and Olympic records in the 400 m and 4 x 400 meters relay. He formerly held the world and Olympic record in the 200 m, and the world...

, originally won the gold medal. On July 18, 2004, the International Association of Athletics Federations
International Association of Athletics Federations
The International Association of Athletics Federations is the international governing body for the sport of athletics. It was founded in 1912 at its first congress in Stockholm, Sweden by representatives from 17 national athletics federations as the International Amateur Athletics Federation...

 (IAAF) ruled that Jerome Young
Jerome Young
Jerome Young in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. He was caught doping in 1999, which cast suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career....

 was ineligible to compete in Sydney and annulled all his past results, including those achieved as part of relay teams. Young had competed for the USA team in the heats and semi-final of this event. Therefore, the United States team was stripped of the gold medal and Nigeria, Jamaica, and the Bahamas were moved up one position each. On July 22, 2005, the Court of Arbitration for Sport
Court of Arbitration for Sport
The Court of Arbitration for Sport is an international arbitration body set up to settle disputes related to sport. Its headquarters are in Lausanne and its courts are located in New York, Sydney and Lausanne, Switzerland...

 (CAS) overturned this decision and restored the original finish order of the race.

In June 2008, Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew was an American sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters. He was born in Macon, Georgia....

 "admitted in court he cheated to win" by using banned performance-enhancing substances, and agreed to return his gold medal. Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson (athlete)
Michael Duane Johnson is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship gold medals. Johnson currently holds the world and Olympic records in the 400 m and 4 x 400 meters relay. He formerly held the world and Olympic record in the 200 m, and the world...

 announced that he would return his own gold medal, won as part of the relay team with Pettigrew. Johnson stated that he felt "cheated, betrayed and let down" by what Pettigrew had done at the Games. Nigerian long jumper
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

 Yusuf Alli
Yusuf Alli
Yusuf Alli is a retired Nigerian long jumper, best known for his gold medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.His personal best is 8.27 metres, achieved at the 1989 African Championships in Athletics in Lagos. This is the Nigerian record...

 urged the IOC to award the gold medal to Nigeria, following Pettigrew's admission.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.
World Record 2:54.20   Jerome Young
Jerome Young
Jerome Young in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. He was caught doping in 1999, which cast suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career....


  Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew was an American sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters. He was born in Macon, Georgia....


  Tyree Washington
Tyree Washington
Tyree Washington is a retired American sprinter.He attended both La Sierra High School and San Bernardino Valley College....


  Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson (athlete)
Michael Duane Johnson is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship gold medals. Johnson currently holds the world and Olympic records in the 400 m and 4 x 400 meters relay. He formerly held the world and Olympic record in the 200 m, and the world...

Uniondale
Uniondale, New York
Uniondale is a hamlet as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. The population was 24,759 at the 2010 United States Census.-Geography:...

 (USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

)
July 22, 1998
Olympic Record 2:55.74   Andrew Valmon
Andrew Valmon
Andrew Orlando Valmon is an American former 400 meters runner.Valmon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Manchester Township, New Jersey. He attended college at Seton Hall University and graduated in 1987 with a degree in communications.Valmon won the silver medal at the World Indoor...


  Quincy Watts
Quincy Watts
Quincy D. Watts is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Quincy Watts attended the University of Southern California where he excelled not only as an athlete but also as a wide receiver on the college football team...


  Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson (athlete)
Michael Duane Johnson is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship gold medals. Johnson currently holds the world and Olympic records in the 400 m and 4 x 400 meters relay. He formerly held the world and Olympic record in the 200 m, and the world...


  Steve Lewis
Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 (ESP
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

)
August 8, 1992

Medalists

Gold: Silver: Bronze:

Vacant

Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu is a former Nigerian athlete who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres.Chukwu attended Eastern Michigan University....


Jude Monye
Jude Monye
Jude Monye is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He is of Onicha-Ugbo, Delta State of Nigeria origin. Monye came to the United States to attend Mississippi State University, where he obtained a degree in Geology...


Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada is a retired Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres event.Bada won three medals at World Indoor Championships, including a gold medal in 1997....


Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong is a Nigerian sprinter who won a gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics as well as a bronze medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics.-External links:...


Nduka Awazie
Nduka Awazie
Nduka Awazie is a Nigerian athlete and Olympic medalist and the 400 meters world Junior Champion. He won the world junior title at the 8th IAAF World Junior Championship held in 1998 Annecy, France...

*
Fidelis Gadzama
Fidelis Gadzama
Fidelis Gadzama is a Nigerian athlete and Olympic medalist.Gadzama was a part of the Nigerian team that received a silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney....

*

Christopher Williams
Christopher Williams (sprinter)
Christopher Williams is a Jamaican sprinter.Williams is best known for winning the silver medal in the 200m at the 2001 World Championships. In 2001 he was named Jamaica Sportsman of the Year. Williams has competed in the Olympic Games three times, in 2000, 2004 and 2008, reaching the semi-finals...


Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood is a male track and field athlete from Jamaica, who specializes in 400 Metres, his personal best being 44.60 set in Madrid in 2002. He is the brother of Catherine Scott.-Achievements:...


Gregory Haughton
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane, OD is a Jamaican hurdler, who has won numerous international medals in individual and relay contests...


Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Claude Ayre is a world-class Jamaican sprinter specializing in the 400 meters.Puma North America Signed Ayre to an undisclosed record 3 year contract in June 2003. Together with Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005...

*
Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald (athlete)
Michael L. McDonald was a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Roxbert Martin, Greg Haughton and Davian Clarke.A...

*

* Athletes who participated in the heats only and received medals.

The IOC formally withdrew the US gold medals on August 2, 2008, but have delayed reallocating the medals.

Heats

Heat 1 of 5
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Nation Athletes Lane Reaction Time Qual. Record
Heat Overall
1 6 Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald (athlete)
Michael L. McDonald was a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Roxbert Martin, Greg Haughton and Davian Clarke.A...

, Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood is a male track and field athlete from Jamaica, who specializes in 400 Metres, his personal best being 44.60 set in Madrid in 2002. He is the brother of Catherine Scott.-Achievements:...

,
Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Claude Ayre is a world-class Jamaican sprinter specializing in the 400 meters.Puma North America Signed Ayre to an undisclosed record 3 year contract in June 2003. Together with Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005...

, Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane, OD is a Jamaican hurdler, who has won numerous international medals in individual and relay contests...

2 0.202 s 3:04.85 Q
2 10 Jared Deacon, Daniel Caines
Daniel Caines
Daniel Stephen Caines is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.-Early life:He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlands town of Solihull...

,
Jamie Baulch
Jamie Baulch
James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...

, Iwan Thomas
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

6 0.218 s 3:04.35 Q SB
3 11 Emmanuel Front, Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters. Foucan competed in the men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.- References :...

,
Pierre-Marie Hilaire
Pierre-Marie Hilaire
Pierre-Marie Hilaire is a French athlete who specializes in the 300 and 400 meters.Hilaire competed at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics .- references :...

, Bruno Wavelet
8 0.416 s 3:04.45 q SB
4 16 Laurent Clerc, Alain Rohr
Alain Rohr
Alain Rohr is a Swiss athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles.Rohr finished fourth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Cédric El-Idrissi, Martin Leiser and Andreas Oggenfuss...

,
Nicolas Baeriswyl, André Bucher
André Bucher
André Bucher is a retired Swiss 800 metres runner. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton in his event. Bucher also won the indoor bronze that same year....

4 3:06.01
5 20 Eduardo Rodríguez, David Canal
David Canal
David Canal Valero is a Spanish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.53 s *200 metres - 20.68 s *400 metres - 45.01 s...

,
Iñigo Monreal
Iñigo Monreal
Iñigo Monreal Saénz is a retired track and field athlete from Spain, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He competed in the 400m hurdles and in the 4x400m relay....

, Antonio Andrés
5 0.178 s 3:06.87 SB
6 26 Zétény Dombi, Zsolt Szeglet
Zsolt Szeglet
Zsolt Szeglet is a Hungarian athlete specializing in the 400 metres.He finished fifth at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics, and participated in the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004...

,
Attila Kilvinger, Tibor Bédi
7 0.354 s 3:08.77
7 29 Boštjan Horvat, Joze Vrtačič,
Sergej Salamon, Matija Šestak
3 0.284 s 3:10.07


Heat 2 of 5
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Nation Athletes Lane Reaction Time Qual. Record
Heat Overall
1 17 Manura Lanka Perera, Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara is Sri Lankan athlete who competed in the Men's 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, and did not pass the first round.Kumara finished 400m Round 1's fourth heat at a time of 46.20 seconds and was placed fifth...

,
Ranga Wimalawansa, Sugath Tillakeratne
7 0.203 s 3:06.25 Q
2 19 Ezra Sambu
Ezra Sambu
Ezra Kenyoke Sambu is a Kenyan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.43 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Nairobi. This ranks him third in Kenya, behind Samson Kitur and Charles Gitonga, and fifth in Africa, behind Innocent Egbunike, Kitur, Gitonga and Davis Kamoga...

, Samson Yego,
Joseph Mwengi Mutua, Julius Chepkwony
2 0.262 s 3:06.77 Q
3 23 Paul McKee, Tomas Coman,
Caroline Daly, Paul Opperman
6 0.170 s 3:07.42
4 25 Lijo David Thottan, Jata Shankar,
Purukottam Ramachandran, Paramjit Singh
Paramjit Singh (athlete)
Paramjit Singh is an Indian athlete who competed, but did not win a medal, in the 400m in the 2000 Olympics.-References:...

5 0.255 s 3:08.38
Malik-Khaled Louahla, Kamel Talhaoui,
Samir Moussaoui
Samir Moussaoui
Samir Moussaoui is an Algerian long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 and 10,000 metres.He has reached two Olympic finals, finishing 16th in 10,000 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 14th in 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics...

, Adem Hecini
Adem Hecini
Adem Hecini is an Algerian athlete who specializes in the 400 and 800 metres.In the 800 metres he won the silver medal at the 1996 African Championships, and the gold medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games. He also competed at three World Championships as well as the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000...

4 0.497 s DQ
Ibrahim Ismail Muftah, Mubarack S Faraj,
Salaheddine Safi Bakar, Ahmed H Al-Imam
3 0.295 s DQ

Heat 3 of 5
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Nation Athletes Lane Reaction Time Qual. Record
Heat Overall
1 5 Jerome Young
Jerome Young
Jerome Young in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. He was caught doping in 1999, which cast suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career....

, Angelo Taylor
Angelo Taylor
Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

,
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Alvin Harrison...

, Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Calvin Harrison...

4 0.163 s 3:03.52 Q
2 7 Alwyn Myburgh
Alwyn Myburgh
Alwyn Myburgh is a South African hurdler.His personal best time is 48.09 seconds, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.66 s...

, Hendrick Mokganyetsi
Hendrick Mokganyetsi
Hendrick Mokganyetsi is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 400 meters.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in September 2000 in Yokohama. He also has a strong personal best in the 800 meters, 1:44.62 minutes from 1997...

,
Werner Botha, Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe is a South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in March 1999 in Roodepoort. It is also the current South African Record...

7 0.223 s 3:04.08 Q SB
3 8 Casey Vincent, Blair Young,
Michael Hazel, Patrick Dwyer
8 0.220 s 3:04.13 q SB
4 14 Aleksandr Kaydash, Roman Voronkov,
Yevgeniy Zyukov, Gennadiy Gorbenko
5 0.568 s 3:05.41 q SB
5 18 Georgios Oikonomidis, Anastasios Gousis
Anastásios Goúsis
Anastasios "Tasos" Gousis is a Greek sprint athlete.He was born in Corfu.He competed in the 200 m and 400 m in the 2000 Olympics, but did not progress out of the heats in either event...

,
Stilianos Dimotsios, Periklis Iakovakis
Periklís Iakovákis
Periklís Iakovákis is a Greek athlete mainly competing in 400 metres hurdles. He is the Greek record holder and nine times national champion in the event....

6 0.259 s 3:06.50
6 28 Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi
Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi
Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi is a Saudi Arabian track and field athlete who specialises in sprint running. He won a gold medal in 4 x 400 m relay at the 2002 Asian Games and became Asian champion over 200 metres in 2005.-Achievements:...

, Hamdan Obah Al-Bishi,
Mohammed Albeshi, Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily
2 0.302 s 3:09.57
7 30 Jirachai Linglom, Senee Kongtong,
Chalermpol Noohlong, Narong Nilploy
3 0.296 s 3:11.65

Heat 4 of 5
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Nation Athletes Lane Reaction Time Qual. Record
Heat Overall
1 12 Shunji Karube
Shunji Karube
is a retired Japanese athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles and occasionally the 400 metres.He teaches sports at Hosei University.-Achievements:-References:...

, Jun Osakada
Jun Osakada
is a male track and field sprinter from Japan.-Achievements:-References:...

,
Kenji Tabata
Kenji Tabata
is a retired Japanese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 1998 Asian Championships in a career best time of 45.69 seconds...

, Takahiko Yamamura
5 0.559 s 3:05.21 Q
2 13 Dmitriy Bogdanov, Andrey Semyonov,
Ruslan Mashchenko
Ruslan Mashchenko
Ruslan Mashchenko is a retired hurdler from Russia, who is best known for winning two silver medals at the European Championships during his career . He represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics , and set his personal best in the men's 400 metres hurdles on 1998-06-13 in...

, Dmitriy Golovastov
2 0.203 s 3:05.37 Q SB
3 15 Crispen Mutakanyi
Crispen Mutakanyi
Crispen Mutakanyi is a retired male middle distance runner from Zimbabwe. He represented his native African country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain.-References:*...

, Tawanda Chiwira
Tawanda Chiwira
Tawanda Blessings Chiwira is a Zimbabwean sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Chiwira finished seventh in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships, together with teammates Phillip Mukomana, Savieri Ngidhi and Ken Harnden. The team set a Zimbabwean record of 3:00.79 minutes...

,
Phillip Mukomana, Ken Harnden
Ken Harnden
Ken Harnden is a Zimbabwean hurdler who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.His personal best time is 48.05 seconds, achieved in July 1998 in Paris...

7 0.227 s 3:05.60
4 21 (Daniel Adomako, Nathaniel Martey,
Abu Duah
Abu Duah
Abu Duah is a Ghanaian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Duah finished fifth in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships, together with teammates Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari and Emmanuel Tuffour...

, Daniel Mensah Kwei)
6 0.582 s 3:07.07
5 24 (Damion Barry
Damion Barry
Damion Barry is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 45.55 seconds, achieved in June 2005 in Port-of-Spain....

, Simon Pierre,
Neil De Silva
Neil de Silva
Neil de Silva is a retired male track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres.His personal best time over 400 m was 45.02 seconds, achieved during the 1996 Olympics...

, Ato Modibo
Ato Modibo
Ato Stephens is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specialises in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 2003 CAC Championships, and took the silver at the 2005 edition...

)
8 0.171 s 3:07.51
6 27 Radoslav Holúbek, Marcel Lopuchovsky
Marcel Lopuchovský
Marcel Lopuchovský is a Slovak athlete who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s before switching to bobsleigh in 2005.-Athletic career:As an athlete, Lopuchovský competed in the 400 m event...

,
Marián Vanderka, Štefan Balošák
3 0.303 s 3:09.54
Musad Al Azimi, Bader Al Fulaij,
Mishal Al Harbi, Fawzi Al Shammari
Fawzi Al Shammari
Fawzi Dahash Awadh Al-Shammari is a Kuwaiti athlete who competes in the 200 and 400 metres.-Achievements:-Achievements:*2005 West Asian Games - gold medal *2003 Pan Arab Championships - gold medal...

4 0.557 s DQ

Heat 5 of 5
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Nation Athletes Lane Reaction Time Qual. Record
Heat Overall
1 1 Nduka Awazie
Nduka Awazie
Nduka Awazie is a Nigerian athlete and Olympic medalist and the 400 meters world Junior Champion. He won the world junior title at the 8th IAAF World Junior Championship held in 1998 Annecy, France...

, Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu is a former Nigerian athlete who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres.Chukwu attended Eastern Michigan University....

,
Fidelis Gadzama
Fidelis Gadzama
Fidelis Gadzama is a Nigerian athlete and Olympic medalist.Gadzama was a part of the Nigerian team that received a silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney....

, Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong is a Nigerian sprinter who won a gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics as well as a bronze medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics.-External links:...

5 0.562 s 3:01.20 Q
2 2 Filip Walotka, Piotr Długosielski,
Jacek Bocian, Robert Maćkowiak
Robert Mackowiak
Robert Maćkowiak is a Polish sprinter. Together with Tomasz Czubak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek he won the gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics...

8 0.502 s 3:01.30 Q SB
3 3 Timothy Munnings
Timothy Munnings
Timothy Munnings is a Bahamian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.At the 2000 Summer Olympics he ran in the heats for the Bahamian team who eventually won the bronze medal....

, Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...

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Carl Oliver, Chris Brown
3 0.258 s 3:01.50 q SB
4 4 (Oumar Loum
Oumar Loum
Oumar Loum is a former Senegalese sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

, Ousmane Niang
Ousmane Niang
Ousmane Niang is a Senegalese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Niang finished eighth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships, together with teammates Assane Diallo, Ibou Faye and Ibrahima Wade.-External links:...

,
Youssoupha Sarr, Ibou Faye
Ibou Faye
Ibou Faye is a Senegalese athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres hurdles.- Achievements :*2003 All-Africa Games - bronze medal*1999 All-Africa Games - gold medal - 48.30 seconds, personal best...

2 0.266 s 3:02.67 q SB
5 9 California Molefe
California Molefe
California Molefe is a Botswana sprinter runner who won a silver medal in 400 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow, becoming the first Botswana athlete to win a major international medal....

, Lulu Basinyi,
Johnson Kubisa
Johnson Kubisa
Johnson Kubisa is a Botswanan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.He was a member of the Botswana 4 x 400 metres relay team that finished eighth at the 2004 Olympic Games. He also helped win this event at the 2003 All-Africa Games in a national record time of 3:02.24 minutes, together with...

, Agrippa Matshameko
4 0.562 s 3:04.19 q NR
6 22 Branislav Stojanovic, Slavisa Vranes,
Marko Jankovic, Siniša Peša
6 0.551 s 3:07.41
Elvis Persic, Nino Habun,
Frano Bakaric, Darko Juricic
7 0.420 s DQ

Round 1- Overall
Round 1
Overall Results
Place Nation Athletes Heat Lane Place Reaction Time Qual. Record
1 Nduka Awazie
Nduka Awazie
Nduka Awazie is a Nigerian athlete and Olympic medalist and the 400 meters world Junior Champion. He won the world junior title at the 8th IAAF World Junior Championship held in 1998 Annecy, France...

, Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu is a former Nigerian athlete who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres.Chukwu attended Eastern Michigan University....

,
Fidelis Gadzama
Fidelis Gadzama
Fidelis Gadzama is a Nigerian athlete and Olympic medalist.Gadzama was a part of the Nigerian team that received a silver medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney....

, Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong is a Nigerian sprinter who won a gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics as well as a bronze medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics.-External links:...

5 5 1 0.562 s 3:01.20 Q
2 Filip Walotka, Piotr Długosielski,
Jacek Bocian, Robert Maćkowiak
Robert Mackowiak
Robert Maćkowiak is a Polish sprinter. Together with Tomasz Czubak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek he won the gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics...

5 8 2 0.502 s 3:01.30 Q SB
3 Timothy Munnings
Timothy Munnings
Timothy Munnings is a Bahamian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.At the 2000 Summer Olympics he ran in the heats for the Bahamian team who eventually won the bronze medal....

, Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...

,
Carl Oliver, Chris Brown
5 3 3 0.258 s 3:01.50 q SB
4 (Oumar Loum
Oumar Loum
Oumar Loum is a former Senegalese sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

, Ousmane Niang
Ousmane Niang
Ousmane Niang is a Senegalese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Niang finished eighth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships, together with teammates Assane Diallo, Ibou Faye and Ibrahima Wade.-External links:...

,
Youssoupha Sarr, Ibou Faye
Ibou Faye
Ibou Faye is a Senegalese athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres hurdles.- Achievements :*2003 All-Africa Games - bronze medal*1999 All-Africa Games - gold medal - 48.30 seconds, personal best...

5 2 4 0.266 s 3:02.67 q SB
5 Jerome Young
Jerome Young
Jerome Young in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. He was caught doping in 1999, which cast suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career....

, Angelo Taylor
Angelo Taylor
Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

,
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Alvin Harrison...

, Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Calvin Harrison...

3 4 1 0.163 s 3:03.52 Q
6 Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald (athlete)
Michael L. McDonald was a Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Jamaica at the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States where he won the bronze medal in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Roxbert Martin, Greg Haughton and Davian Clarke.A...

, Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood is a male track and field athlete from Jamaica, who specializes in 400 Metres, his personal best being 44.60 set in Madrid in 2002. He is the brother of Catherine Scott.-Achievements:...

,
Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Claude Ayre is a world-class Jamaican sprinter specializing in the 400 meters.Puma North America Signed Ayre to an undisclosed record 3 year contract in June 2003. Together with Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005...

, Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane, OD is a Jamaican hurdler, who has won numerous international medals in individual and relay contests...

1 2 1 0.202 s 3:04.85 Q
7 Alwyn Myburgh
Alwyn Myburgh
Alwyn Myburgh is a South African hurdler.His personal best time is 48.09 seconds, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.66 s...

, Hendrick Mokganyetsi
Hendrick Mokganyetsi
Hendrick Mokganyetsi is a South African sprinter who specializes in the 400 meters.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in September 2000 in Yokohama. He also has a strong personal best in the 800 meters, 1:44.62 minutes from 1997...

,
Werner Botha, Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe is a South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in March 1999 in Roodepoort. It is also the current South African Record...

3 7 2 0.223 s 3:04.08 Q SB
8 Casey Vincent, Blair Young,
Michael Hazel, Patrick Dwyer
3 8 3 0.220 s 3:04.13 q SB
9 Califonia Molefe, Lulu Basinyi,
Johnson Kubisa
Johnson Kubisa
Johnson Kubisa is a Botswanan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.He was a member of the Botswana 4 x 400 metres relay team that finished eighth at the 2004 Olympic Games. He also helped win this event at the 2003 All-Africa Games in a national record time of 3:02.24 minutes, together with...

, Agrippa Matshameko
5 4 5 0.562 s 3:04.19 q NR
10 Jared Deacon, Daniel Caines
Daniel Caines
Daniel Stephen Caines is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.-Early life:He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlands town of Solihull...

,
Jamie Baulch
Jamie Baulch
James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...

, Iwan Thomas
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

1 6 2 0.218 s 3:04.35 Q SB
11 Emmanuel Front, Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters. Foucan competed in the men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.- References :...

,
Pierre-Marie Hilaire
Pierre-Marie Hilaire
Pierre-Marie Hilaire is a French athlete who specializes in the 300 and 400 meters.Hilaire competed at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics .- references :...

, Bruno Wavelet
1 8 3 0.416 s 3:04.45 q SB
12 Shunji Karube
Shunji Karube
is a retired Japanese athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles and occasionally the 400 metres.He teaches sports at Hosei University.-Achievements:-References:...

, Jun Osakada
Jun Osakada
is a male track and field sprinter from Japan.-Achievements:-References:...

,
Kenji Tabata
Kenji Tabata
is a retired Japanese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 1998 Asian Championships in a career best time of 45.69 seconds...

, Takahiko Yamamura
4 5 1 0.559 s 3:05.21 Q
13 Dmitriy Bogdanov, Andrey Semyonov,
Ruslan Mashchenko
Ruslan Mashchenko
Ruslan Mashchenko is a retired hurdler from Russia, who is best known for winning two silver medals at the European Championships during his career . He represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics , and set his personal best in the men's 400 metres hurdles on 1998-06-13 in...

, Dmitriy Golovastov
4 2 2 0.203 s 3:05.37 Q SB
14 Aleksandr Kaydash, Roman Voronkov,
Yevgeniy Zyukov, Gennadiy Gorbenko
3 5 4 0.568 s 3:05.41 q SB
15 Crispen Mutakanyi
Crispen Mutakanyi
Crispen Mutakanyi is a retired male middle distance runner from Zimbabwe. He represented his native African country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain.-References:*...

, Tawanda Chiwira
Tawanda Chiwira
Tawanda Blessings Chiwira is a Zimbabwean sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Chiwira finished seventh in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships, together with teammates Phillip Mukomana, Savieri Ngidhi and Ken Harnden. The team set a Zimbabwean record of 3:00.79 minutes...

,
Phillip Mukomana, Ken Harnden
Ken Harnden
Ken Harnden is a Zimbabwean hurdler who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.His personal best time is 48.05 seconds, achieved in July 1998 in Paris...

4 7 3 0.227 s 3:05.60
16 Laurent Clerc, Alain Rohr
Alain Rohr
Alain Rohr is a Swiss athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles.Rohr finished fourth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 World Indoor Championships, together with teammates Cédric El-Idrissi, Martin Leiser and Andreas Oggenfuss...

,
Nicolas Baeriswyl, André Bucher
André Bucher
André Bucher is a retired Swiss 800 metres runner. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton in his event. Bucher also won the indoor bronze that same year....

1 4 4 3:06.01
17 Manura Lanka Perera, Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara is Sri Lankan athlete who competed in the Men's 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, and did not pass the first round.Kumara finished 400m Round 1's fourth heat at a time of 46.20 seconds and was placed fifth...

,
Ranga Wimalawansa, Sugath Tillakeratne
2 7 1 0.203 s 3:06.25 Q
18 Georgios Oikonomidis, Anastasios Gousis
Anastásios Goúsis
Anastasios "Tasos" Gousis is a Greek sprint athlete.He was born in Corfu.He competed in the 200 m and 400 m in the 2000 Olympics, but did not progress out of the heats in either event...

,
Stilianos Dimotsios, Periklis Iakovakis
Periklís Iakovákis
Periklís Iakovákis is a Greek athlete mainly competing in 400 metres hurdles. He is the Greek record holder and nine times national champion in the event....

3 6 5 0.259 s 3:06.50
19 Ezra Sambu
Ezra Sambu
Ezra Kenyoke Sambu is a Kenyan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.43 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Nairobi. This ranks him third in Kenya, behind Samson Kitur and Charles Gitonga, and fifth in Africa, behind Innocent Egbunike, Kitur, Gitonga and Davis Kamoga...

, Samson Yego,
Joseph Mwengi Mutua, Julius Chepkwony
2 2 2 0.262 s 3:06.77 Q
20 Eduardo Rodríguez, David Canal
David Canal
David Canal Valero is a Spanish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.53 s *200 metres - 20.68 s *400 metres - 45.01 s...

,
Iñigo Monreal
Iñigo Monreal
Iñigo Monreal Saénz is a retired track and field athlete from Spain, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996. He competed in the 400m hurdles and in the 4x400m relay....

, Antonio Andrés
1 5 5 0.178 s 3:06.87 SB
21 (Daniel Adomako, Nathaniel Martey,
Abu Duah
Abu Duah
Abu Duah is a Ghanaian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Duah finished fifth in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships, together with teammates Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari and Emmanuel Tuffour...

, Daniel Mensah Kwei)
4 6 4 0.582 s 3:07.07
22 Branislav Stojanovic, Slavisa Vranes,
Marko Jankovic, Siniša Peša
5 6 6 0.551 s 3:07.41
23 Paul McKee, Tomas Coman,
Caroline Daly, Paul Opperman
2 6 3 0.170 s 3:07.42
24 (Damion Barry
Damion Barry
Damion Barry is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 45.55 seconds, achieved in June 2005 in Port-of-Spain....

, Simon Pierre,
Neil De Silva
Neil de Silva
Neil de Silva is a retired male track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres.His personal best time over 400 m was 45.02 seconds, achieved during the 1996 Olympics...

, Ato Modibo
Ato Modibo
Ato Stephens is a sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago who specialises in the 400 metres. He won a bronze medal at the 2003 CAC Championships, and took the silver at the 2005 edition...

)
4 8 5 0.171 s 3:07.51
25 Lijo David Thottan, Jata Shankar,
Purukottam Ramachandran, Paramjit Singh
Paramjit Singh (athlete)
Paramjit Singh is an Indian athlete who competed, but did not win a medal, in the 400m in the 2000 Olympics.-References:...

2 5 4 0.255 s 3:08.38
26 Zétény Dombi, Zsolt Szeglet
Zsolt Szeglet
Zsolt Szeglet is a Hungarian athlete specializing in the 400 metres.He finished fifth at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics, and participated in the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004...

,
Attila Kilvinger, Tibor Bédi
1 7 6 0.354 s 3:08.77
27 Radoslav Holúbek, Marcel Lopuchovsky
Marcel Lopuchovský
Marcel Lopuchovský is a Slovak athlete who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s before switching to bobsleigh in 2005.-Athletic career:As an athlete, Lopuchovský competed in the 400 m event...

,
Marián Vanderka, Štefan Balošák
4 3 6 0.303 s 3:09.54
28 Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi
Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi
Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi is a Saudi Arabian track and field athlete who specialises in sprint running. He won a gold medal in 4 x 400 m relay at the 2002 Asian Games and became Asian champion over 200 metres in 2005.-Achievements:...

, Hamdan Obah Al-Bishi,
Mohammed Albeshi, Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily
3 2 6 0.302 s 3:09.57
29 Boštjan Horvat, Joze Vrtačič,
Sergej Salamon, Matija Šestak
1 3 7 0.284 s 3:10.07
30 Jirachai Linglom, Senee Kongtong,
Chalermpol Noohlong, Narong Nilploy
3 3 7 0.296 s 3:11.65
Malik-Khaled Louahla, Kamel Talhaoui,
Samir Moussaoui
Samir Moussaoui
Samir Moussaoui is an Algerian long-distance runner who specializes in the 5000 and 10,000 metres.He has reached two Olympic finals, finishing 16th in 10,000 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 14th in 5000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics...

, Adem Hecini
Adem Hecini
Adem Hecini is an Algerian athlete who specializes in the 400 and 800 metres.In the 800 metres he won the silver medal at the 1996 African Championships, and the gold medal at the 2001 Mediterranean Games. He also competed at three World Championships as well as the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000...

2 4 0.497 s DQ
Elvis Persic, Nino Habun,
Frano Bakaric, Darko Juricic
5 7 0.420 s DQ
Musad Al Azimi, Bader Al Fulaij,
Mishal Al Harbi, Fawzi Al Shammari
Fawzi Al Shammari
Fawzi Dahash Awadh Al-Shammari is a Kuwaiti athlete who competes in the 200 and 400 metres.-Achievements:-Achievements:*2005 West Asian Games - gold medal *2003 Pan Arab Championships - gold medal...

4 4 0.557 s DQ
Ibrahim Ismail Muftah, Mubarack S Faraj,
Salaheddine Safi Bakar, Ahmed H Al-Imam
2 3 0.295 s DQ

Semi-finals

Heat 1 of 2
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Nation Athletes Lane Reaction Time Qual. Record
Heat Overall
1 1 Jerome Young
Jerome Young
Jerome Young in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. He was caught doping in 1999, which cast suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career....

, Angelo Taylor
Angelo Taylor
Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

,
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Alvin Harrison...

, Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Calvin Harrison...

3 0.242 s 2:58.78 Q
2 2 Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Claude Ayre is a world-class Jamaican sprinter specializing in the 400 meters.Puma North America Signed Ayre to an undisclosed record 3 year contract in June 2003. Together with Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005...

, Gregory Haughton,
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane, OD is a Jamaican hurdler, who has won numerous international medals in individual and relay contests...

, Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood is a male track and field athlete from Jamaica, who specializes in 400 Metres, his personal best being 44.60 set in Madrid in 2002. He is the brother of Catherine Scott.-Achievements:...

4 0.551 s 2:58.84 Q SB
3 3 Avard Moncur
Avard Moncur
Avard Moncur is a Bahamian athlete competing in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau.Moncur's most successful year came in 2001 when he won the gold medal in the 400m and the 4x400m relay at the 2001 World Championships...

, Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...

,
Carl Oliver, Chris Brown
1 0.249 s 2:59.02 Q NR
4 4 Emmanuel Front, Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters. Foucan competed in the men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.- References :...

,
Ibrahima Wade
Ibrahima Wade
Ibrahima Wade is a French sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Senegal in 2000.His personal best time is 45.05 seconds, achieved in August 1998 in Dakar...

, Marc Raquil
Marc Raquil
Marc Raquil is a French runner of Martiniquais origin who mainly competes in the 400 metres. He has a World Championships bronze medal from 2003 and a European gold medal from the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

8 0.249 s 3:00.64 q SB
5 5 Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Piotr Grzegorz Rysiukiewicz is a Polish sprinter who has won various medals for the Polish 4 x 400 metres relay team. He was a member of the best Polish relay 4 x 400 in the 1990s...

, Piotr Haczek
Piotr Haczek
Piotr Haczek is a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. An outdoor and indoor world champion in the 4 x 400 metres relay, his success came mainly in relay, his best individual performance being a gold medal at the 1999 European Under 23 Championships.-Personal bests:*100 metres -...

,
Piotr Długosielski, Robert Maćkowiak
Robert Mackowiak
Robert Maćkowiak is a Polish sprinter. Together with Tomasz Czubak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek he won the gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics...

5 0.494 s 3:00.66 q SB
6 7 Alwyn Myburgh
Alwyn Myburgh
Alwyn Myburgh is a South African hurdler.His personal best time is 48.09 seconds, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.66 s...

, Hezekiél Sepeng
Hezekiél Sepeng
Hezekiél Sello Sepeng , is a South African middle distance runner who came second in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 , the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999...

,
Llewellyn Herbert
Llewellyn Herbert
Llewellyn Herbert is a South African athlete competing over 400 metres hurdles. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 2000 and set five national records over the distance.-Achievements:-External links:...

, Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe is a South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in March 1999 in Roodepoort. It is also the current South African Record...

6 0.172 s 3:01.25 SB
7 14 Califonia Molefe, Lulu Basinyi,
Johnson Kubisa
Johnson Kubisa
Johnson Kubisa is a Botswanan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.He was a member of the Botswana 4 x 400 metres relay team that finished eighth at the 2004 Olympic Games. He also helped win this event at the 2003 All-Africa Games in a national record time of 3:02.24 minutes, together with...

, Glody Dube
Glody Dube
Glody Dube is a Botswana middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 1:44.59 min - national record is 1:44.47 min....

)
2 0.345 s 3:05.28
Ezra Sambu
Ezra Sambu
Ezra Kenyoke Sambu is a Kenyan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.43 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Nairobi. This ranks him third in Kenya, behind Samson Kitur and Charles Gitonga, and fifth in Africa, behind Innocent Egbunike, Kitur, Gitonga and Davis Kamoga...

, Samson Yego,
Joseph Mwengi Mutua, Julius Chepkwony
7 0.413 s DQ

Heat 2 of 2
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Nation Athletes Lane Reaction Time Qual. Record
Heat Overall
1 6 Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu is a former Nigerian athlete who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres.Chukwu attended Eastern Michigan University....

, Jude Monye
Jude Monye
Jude Monye is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He is of Onicha-Ugbo, Delta State of Nigeria origin. Monye came to the United States to attend Mississippi State University, where he obtained a degree in Geology...

,
Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong is a Nigerian sprinter who won a gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics as well as a bronze medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics.-External links:...

, Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada is a retired Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres event.Bada won three medals at World Indoor Championships, including a gold medal in 1997....

3 0.297 s 3:01.06 Q
2 8 Jared Deacon, Daniel Caines
Daniel Caines
Daniel Stephen Caines is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.-Early life:He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlands town of Solihull...

,
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

, Jamie Baulch
Jamie Baulch
James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...

5 0.490 s 3:01.35 Q SB
3 9 Casey Vincent, Blair Young,
Patrick Dwyer, Michael Hazel
2 0.198 s 3:01.91 Q SB
4 10 Andrey Semyonov, Dmitriy Bogdanov,
Ruslan Mashchenko
Ruslan Mashchenko
Ruslan Mashchenko is a retired hurdler from Russia, who is best known for winning two silver medals at the European Championships during his career . He represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics , and set his personal best in the men's 400 metres hurdles on 1998-06-13 in...

, Dmitriy Golovastov
1 0.219 s 3:02.28 SB
5 11 Aleksandr Kaydash, Roman Voronkov,
Yevgeniy Zyukov, Gennadiy Gorbenko
8 0.244 s 3:02.68 NR
6 12 Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara is Sri Lankan athlete who competed in the Men's 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, and did not pass the first round.Kumara finished 400m Round 1's fourth heat at a time of 46.20 seconds and was placed fifth...

, Ratna Kumar,
Ranga Wimalawansa, Sugath Tillakeratne
6 0.507 s 3:02.89
7 13 Oumar Loum
Oumar Loum
Oumar Loum is a former Senegalese sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

, Ousmane Niang
Ousmane Niang
Ousmane Niang is a Senegalese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Niang finished eighth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships, together with teammates Assane Diallo, Ibou Faye and Ibrahima Wade.-External links:...

,
Youssoupha Sarr, Ibou Faye
Ibou Faye
Ibou Faye is a Senegalese athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres hurdles.- Achievements :*2003 All-Africa Games - bronze medal*1999 All-Africa Games - gold medal - 48.30 seconds, personal best...

)
7 0.175 s 3:02.94
8 15 Shunji Karube
Shunji Karube
is a retired Japanese athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles and occasionally the 400 metres.He teaches sports at Hosei University.-Achievements:-References:...

, Jun Osakada
Jun Osakada
is a male track and field sprinter from Japan.-Achievements:-References:...

,
Kenji Tabata
Kenji Tabata
is a retired Japanese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 1998 Asian Championships in a career best time of 45.69 seconds...

, Takahiko Yamamura
4 0.520 s 3:13.63

Semi-Finals
Overall Results
Place Nation Athletes Heat Lane Place Reaction Time Qual. Record
1 Jerome Young
Jerome Young
Jerome Young in Clarendon, Jamaica, attended high school in Hartford, Connecticut at Prince Technical, is a sprint athlete. He was caught doping in 1999, which cast suspicious shadows over his entire track & field career....

, Angelo Taylor
Angelo Taylor
Angelo F. Taylor is an American athlete, winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics....

,
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Alvin Harrison...

, Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Calvin Harrison...

1 3 1 0.242 s 2:58.78 Q
2 Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Ayre
Sanjay Claude Ayre is a world-class Jamaican sprinter specializing in the 400 meters.Puma North America Signed Ayre to an undisclosed record 3 year contract in June 2003. Together with Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005...

, Gregory Haughton,
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane, OD is a Jamaican hurdler, who has won numerous international medals in individual and relay contests...

, Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood is a male track and field athlete from Jamaica, who specializes in 400 Metres, his personal best being 44.60 set in Madrid in 2002. He is the brother of Catherine Scott.-Achievements:...

1 4 2 0.551 s 2:58.84 Q SB
3 Avard Moncur
Avard Moncur
Avard Moncur is a Bahamian athlete competing in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau.Moncur's most successful year came in 2001 when he won the gold medal in the 400m and the 4x400m relay at the 2001 World Championships...

, Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...

,
Carl Oliver, Chris Brown
1 1 3 0.249 s 2:59.02 Q NR
4 Emmanuel Front, Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters. Foucan competed in the men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.- References :...

,
Ibrahima Wade
Ibrahima Wade
Ibrahima Wade is a French sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Senegal in 2000.His personal best time is 45.05 seconds, achieved in August 1998 in Dakar...

, Marc Raquil
Marc Raquil
Marc Raquil is a French runner of Martiniquais origin who mainly competes in the 400 metres. He has a World Championships bronze medal from 2003 and a European gold medal from the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

1 8 4 0.249 s 3:00.64 q SB
5 Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Piotr Grzegorz Rysiukiewicz is a Polish sprinter who has won various medals for the Polish 4 x 400 metres relay team. He was a member of the best Polish relay 4 x 400 in the 1990s...

, Piotr Haczek
Piotr Haczek
Piotr Haczek is a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. An outdoor and indoor world champion in the 4 x 400 metres relay, his success came mainly in relay, his best individual performance being a gold medal at the 1999 European Under 23 Championships.-Personal bests:*100 metres -...

,
Piotr Długosielski, Robert Maćkowiak
Robert Mackowiak
Robert Maćkowiak is a Polish sprinter. Together with Tomasz Czubak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek he won the gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics...

1 5 5 0.494 s 3:00.66 q SB
6 Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu is a former Nigerian athlete who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres.Chukwu attended Eastern Michigan University....

, Jude Monye
Jude Monye
Jude Monye is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He is of Onicha-Ugbo, Delta State of Nigeria origin. Monye came to the United States to attend Mississippi State University, where he obtained a degree in Geology...

,
Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong is a Nigerian sprinter who won a gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics as well as a bronze medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics.-External links:...

, Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada is a retired Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres event.Bada won three medals at World Indoor Championships, including a gold medal in 1997....

2 3 1 0.297 s 3:01.06 Q
7 Alwyn Myburgh
Alwyn Myburgh
Alwyn Myburgh is a South African hurdler.His personal best time is 48.09 seconds, achieved at the 2001 Summer Universiade in Beijing.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.66 s...

, Hezekiél Sepeng
Hezekiél Sepeng
Hezekiél Sello Sepeng , is a South African middle distance runner who came second in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 , the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the World Championships' final in Seville 1999...

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Llewellyn Herbert
Llewellyn Herbert
Llewellyn Herbert is a South African athlete competing over 400 metres hurdles. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 2000 and set five national records over the distance.-Achievements:-External links:...

, Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe
Arnaud Malherbe is a South African sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.59 seconds, achieved in March 1999 in Roodepoort. It is also the current South African Record...

1 6 6 0.172 s 3:01.25 SB
8 Jared Deacon, Daniel Caines
Daniel Caines
Daniel Stephen Caines is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.-Early life:He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlands town of Solihull...

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Iwan Thomas
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

, Jamie Baulch
Jamie Baulch
James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...

2 5 2 0.490 s 3:01.35 Q SB
9 Casey Vincent, Blair Young,
Patrick Dwyer, Michael Hazel
2 2 3 0.198 s 3:01.91 Q SB
10 Andrey Semyonov, Dmitriy Bogdanov,
Ruslan Mashchenko
Ruslan Mashchenko
Ruslan Mashchenko is a retired hurdler from Russia, who is best known for winning two silver medals at the European Championships during his career . He represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics , and set his personal best in the men's 400 metres hurdles on 1998-06-13 in...

, Dmitriy Golovastov
2 1 4 0.219 s 3:02.28 SB
11 Aleksandr Kaydash, Roman Voronkov,
Yevgeniy Zyukov, Gennadiy Gorbenko
2 8 5 0.244 s 3:02.68 NR
12 Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara is Sri Lankan athlete who competed in the Men's 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, and did not pass the first round.Kumara finished 400m Round 1's fourth heat at a time of 46.20 seconds and was placed fifth...

, Ratna Kumar,
Ranga Wimalawansa, Sugath Tillakeratne
2 6 6 0.507 s 3:02.89
13 Oumar Loum
Oumar Loum
Oumar Loum is a former Senegalese sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

, Ousmane Niang
Ousmane Niang
Ousmane Niang is a Senegalese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.Niang finished eighth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships, together with teammates Assane Diallo, Ibou Faye and Ibrahima Wade.-External links:...

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Youssoupha Sarr, Ibou Faye
Ibou Faye
Ibou Faye is a Senegalese athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres hurdles.- Achievements :*2003 All-Africa Games - bronze medal*1999 All-Africa Games - gold medal - 48.30 seconds, personal best...

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2 7 7 0.175 s 3:02.94
14 Califonia Molefe, Lulu Basinyi,
Johnson Kubisa
Johnson Kubisa
Johnson Kubisa is a Botswanan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.He was a member of the Botswana 4 x 400 metres relay team that finished eighth at the 2004 Olympic Games. He also helped win this event at the 2003 All-Africa Games in a national record time of 3:02.24 minutes, together with...

, Glody Dube
Glody Dube
Glody Dube is a Botswana middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 1:44.59 min - national record is 1:44.47 min....

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1 2 7 0.345 s 3:05.28
15 Shunji Karube
Shunji Karube
is a retired Japanese athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles and occasionally the 400 metres.He teaches sports at Hosei University.-Achievements:-References:...

, Jun Osakada
Jun Osakada
is a male track and field sprinter from Japan.-Achievements:-References:...

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Kenji Tabata
Kenji Tabata
is a retired Japanese sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 1998 Asian Championships in a career best time of 45.69 seconds...

, Takahiko Yamamura
2 4 8 0.520 s 3:13.63
Ezra Sambu
Ezra Sambu
Ezra Kenyoke Sambu is a Kenyan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 44.43 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Nairobi. This ranks him third in Kenya, behind Samson Kitur and Charles Gitonga, and fifth in Africa, behind Innocent Egbunike, Kitur, Gitonga and Davis Kamoga...

, Samson Yego,
Joseph Mwengi Mutua, Julius Chepkwony
1 7 0.413 s DQ

Final

Final
Date: Friday 29 September 2000
Place Nation Athletes Lane Reaction Time Record
1 Vacant
2 Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu
Clement Chukwu is a former Nigerian athlete who specialised in the 200 and 400 metres.Chukwu attended Eastern Michigan University....

, Jude Monye
Jude Monye
Jude Monye is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He is of Onicha-Ugbo, Delta State of Nigeria origin. Monye came to the United States to attend Mississippi State University, where he obtained a degree in Geology...

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Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada
Sunday Bada is a retired Nigerian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres event.Bada won three medals at World Indoor Championships, including a gold medal in 1997....

, Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong
Enefiok Udo-Obong is a Nigerian sprinter who won a gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics as well as a bronze medal in the same event at the 2004 Olympics.-External links:...

4 0.541 s 2:58.68 s AR
3 Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood
Michael Blackwood is a male track and field athlete from Jamaica, who specializes in 400 Metres, his personal best being 44.60 set in Madrid in 2002. He is the brother of Catherine Scott.-Achievements:...

, Gregory Haughton,
Christopher Williams
Christopher Williams (sprinter)
Christopher Williams is a Jamaican sprinter.Williams is best known for winning the silver medal in the 200m at the 2001 World Championships. In 2001 he was named Jamaica Sportsman of the Year. Williams has competed in the Olympic Games three times, in 2000, 2004 and 2008, reaching the semi-finals...

, Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane
Danny McFarlane, OD is a Jamaican hurdler, who has won numerous international medals in individual and relay contests...

6 0.382 s 2:58.78 SB
4 Avard Moncur
Avard Moncur
Avard Moncur is a Bahamian athlete competing in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau.Moncur's most successful year came in 2001 when he won the gold medal in the 400m and the 4x400m relay at the 2001 World Championships...

, Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh
Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...

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Carl Oliver, Chris Brown
1 0.260 s 2:59.23
5 Emmanuel Front, Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan
Marc Foucan is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters. Foucan competed in the men's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.- References :...

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Ibrahima Wade
Ibrahima Wade
Ibrahima Wade is a French sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Senegal in 2000.His personal best time is 45.05 seconds, achieved in August 1998 in Dakar...

, Marc Raquil
Marc Raquil
Marc Raquil is a French runner of Martiniquais origin who mainly competes in the 400 metres. He has a World Championships bronze medal from 2003 and a European gold medal from the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

2 0.252s 3:01.02 SB
6 Jared Deacon, Daniel Caines
Daniel Caines
Daniel Stephen Caines is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.-Early life:He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlands town of Solihull...

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Iwan Thomas
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

, Jamie Baulch
Jamie Baulch
James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...

3 0.252 s 3:01.22 SB
7 Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Piotr Grzegorz Rysiukiewicz is a Polish sprinter who has won various medals for the Polish 4 x 400 metres relay team. He was a member of the best Polish relay 4 x 400 in the 1990s...

, Robert Maćkowiak
Robert Mackowiak
Robert Maćkowiak is a Polish sprinter. Together with Tomasz Czubak, Jacek Bocian and Piotr Haczek he won the gold medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics...

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Piotr Długosielski, Piotr Haczek
Piotr Haczek
Piotr Haczek is a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. An outdoor and indoor world champion in the 4 x 400 metres relay, his success came mainly in relay, his best individual performance being a gold medal at the 1999 European Under 23 Championships.-Personal bests:*100 metres -...

8 0.203s 3:03.22
8 Brad Jamieson, Blair Young,
Patrick Dwyer, Michael Hazel
7 0.177 s 3:03.91
DQ Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison
Alvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Calvin Harrison...

, Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew
Antonio Pettigrew was an American sprinter who specialized in the 400 meters. He was born in Macon, Georgia....

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Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison
Calvin Harrison is an American athlete. He won a gold medal in the Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He is the twin brother of fellow Olympic medalist Alvin Harrison...

, Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson (athlete)
Michael Duane Johnson is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship gold medals. Johnson currently holds the world and Olympic records in the 400 m and 4 x 400 meters relay. He formerly held the world and Olympic record in the 200 m, and the world...

5 2:56.35

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