1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Heptathlon	men
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The men's 4x400 metres relay event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 8–9.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States Jason Rouser Mark Everett Sean Maye Deon Minor	Jamaica Linval Laird Michael McDonald Dinsdale Morgan Greg Haughton Garth Robinson*	France Pierre-Marie Hilaire Rodrigue Nordin Fred Mango

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

Results[]

Heats[]

First 2 teams of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	2	Jamaica	Garth Robinson, Michael McDonald, Dinsdale Morgan, Greg Haughton	3:06.87	Q, WL
2	1	United States	Jason Rouser, Sean Maye, Mark Everett, Deon Minor	3:08.03	Q
3	1	Austria	Martin Lachkovics, , , Thomas Griesser	3:08.37	Q
4	1	Japan	Shunji Karube, Dai Tamesue, Masayoshi Kan, Shigekazu Ōmori	3:08.58	q
5	1	Russia	, Dmitriy Kosov, , Dmitriy Golovastov	3:08.85	q
6	2	France	Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Rodrigue Nordin, , Fred Mango	3:09.50	Q
7	2	Italy	Andrea Nuti, Alessandro Aimar, Ashraf Saber, Marco Vaccari	3:09.98
8	1	Brazil	Claudinei da Silva, Osmar dos Santos, Flávio Godoy,	3:10.50
9	2	Mexico	Alejandro Cárdenas, , , Juan Pedro Toledo	3:11.41
10	2	Great Britain	, , Sean Baldock, Adrian Patrick	3:14.55

Final[]

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Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	United States	Jason Rouser, Mark Everett, Sean Maye, Deon Minor	3:04.93	WL
	Jamaica	Linval Laird, Michael McDonald, Dinsdale Morgan, Greg Haughton	3:08.11
	France	Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Rodrigue Nordin, , Fred Mango	3:09.68
4	Russia	, Ruslan Mashchenko, Dmitriy Kosov, Dmitriy Golovastov	3:09.75
5	Austria	Martin Lachkovics, , , Thomas Griesser	3:11.47
6	Japan	Shunji Karube, Dai Tamesue, Shigekazu Ōmori, Masayoshi Kan	3:20.18

References[]