1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the 1999 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The Men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla on August 28 and August 29.

After Antonio Pettigrew later admitted to taking banned substances, the winning US team was retrospectively disqualified.

Medals[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Poland Tomasz Czubak Robert Maćkowiak Jacek Bocian Piotr Haczek	Jamaica Michael McDonald Gregory Haughton Danny McFarlane Davian Clarke	South Africa

Results[]

Heats[]

All times shown are in minutes.

Heat 1[]

1.  Bahamas (Timothy Munnings, Troy McIntosh, Carl Oliver, Chris Brown) 3:01.17 Q
2.  France (Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Marc Foucan, Marc Raquil, Fred Mango) 3:01.31 Q (SB)
3.  Great Britain (, Mark Hylton, Jared Deacon, Jamie Baulch) 3:02.21
4.  Japan (Jun Osakada, Koji Ito, Kenji Tabata, Kazuhiko Yamazaki) 3:02.50 (SB)
5.  Spain (Antonio Andrés, , Andrés Martínez, David Canal) 3:02.85 (SB)
6.  Australia (Patrick Dwyer, Brad Jamieson, , ) 3:04.78
7.  Canada (Shane Niemi, , Byron Goodwin, Monte Raymond) 3:05.60

• •  Saudi Arabia (Hamdan Odha Al-Bishi, , Hamed Hamadan Al-Bishi, Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily) DQ

Heat 2[]

1.  United States (Jerome Davis, Joey Woody, , Angelo Taylor) 3:00.79 Q (SB)
2.  Senegal (Ousmane Niang, Ibou Faye, , Ibrahima Wade) 3:02.53 Q (SB)
3.  Germany (, , Ruwen Faller, Thomas Goller) 3:02.68 (SB)
4.  Brazil (Cleverson da Silva, Anderson Jorge dos Santos, Eronilde Nunes de Araújo, Sanderlei Claro Parrela) 3:05.70
5.  Ireland (Gary Ryan, , Tomas Coman, Paul McKee) 3:05.81

 Botswana (, Lulu Basinyi, California Molefe, Johnson Kubisa) DQ
 Nigeria (Udeme Ekpeyong, Jude Monye, Fidelis Gadzama, Sunday Bada) DQ
 Hungary (, Balázs Korányi, Zsolt Szeglet, Tibor Bédi) DNF

Heat 3[]

1.  South Africa (Jopie van Oudtshoorn, Hendrick Mokganyetsi, Adriaan Botha, Arnaud Malherbe) 3:00.77 Q (SB)
2.  Poland (Robert Maćkowiak, Jacek Bocian, Piotr Długosielski, Piotr Haczek) 3:00.86 Q (SB)
3.  Jamaica (Paston Coke, Davian Clarke, Omar Brown, Michael McDonald) 3:01.38 q
4.  Russia (, Andrey Semyonov, , Dmitriy Golovastov) 3:01.51 q (SB)
5.   Switzerland (Laurent Clerc, Mathias Rusterholz, Alain Rohr, Marcel Schelbert) 3:02.46 (NR)
6.  Slovenia (Miro Kocuvan, Boštjan Horvat, Joze Vrtačič, Matija Šestak) 3:02.70 (NR)
7.  Greece (Panayiotis Sarris, Anastasios Gousis, , Periklis Iakovakis) 3:04.07 (NR)
8.  Zimbabwe (, Philip Mukomana, Savieri Ngidhi, Ken Harnden) 3:07.69

Final[]

1.  Poland (Tomasz Czubak, Robert Maćkowiak, Jacek Bocian, Piotr Haczek) 2:58.91 (SB)
2.  Jamaica (Michael McDonald, Gregory Haughton, Danny McFarlane, Davian Clarke) 2:59.34
3.  South Africa (Jopie van Oudtshoorn, Hendrick Mokganyetsi, Adriaan Botha, Arnaud Malherbe) 3:00.20 (NR)
4.  France (Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Marc Foucan, Marc Raquil, Fred Mango) 3:00.59 (SB)
5.  Russia (Daniyil Shekin, Andrey Semyonov, Valentine Koulbatskiy, Dmitriy Golovastov) 3:00.98 (SB)
6.  Bahamas (Timothy Munnings, Troy McIntosh, Carl Oliver, Chris Brown) 3:02.74
7.  Senegal (Ousmane Niang, Assane Diallo, Ibou Faye, Ibrahima Wade) 3:03.80

 United States (Jerome Davis, Antonio Pettigrew, Angelo Taylor, Michael Johnson) DQ

References[]

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