2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the 2005 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	women
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 4 x 400 metre relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.

Medals[]

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Andrew Rock Derrick Brew Darold Williamson Jeremy Wariner Miles Smith* LaShawn Merritt* *Received Medal For Running in Prelim	Bahamas Nathaniel McKinney Avard Moncur Andrae Williams Chris Brown	Jamaica Sanjay Ayre Brandon Simpson Lansford Spence Davian Clarke

Qualifying[]

From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.

All times shown are in seconds.

• Q denotes automatic qualification.
• q denotes fastest losers.
• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• AR denotes area record.
• NR denotes national record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season's best.

Heat 1[]

1. Bahamas (Nathaniel McKinney, Avard Moncur, Troy McIntosh, Andrae Williams) 2:59.73 Q (WL)
2. Jamaica (Michael Blackwood, Sanjay Ayre, Lansford Spence, Davian Clarke) 2:59.75 Q (SB)
3. Poland (Piotr Klimczak, Marcin Marciniszyn, Robert Maćkowiak, Rafał Wieruszewski) 3:00.38 q (SB)
4. Germany (Simon Kirch, Kamghe Gaba, Florian Seitz, Bastian Swillims) 3:03.17
5. Sweden (Mattias Claesson, Jimisola Laursen, Johan Wissman, ) 3:03.62 (SB)
6. Botswana (Obakeng Ngwigwa, California Molefe, , ) 3:06.39 (SB)

Heat 2[]

1. United States (Miles Smith, Derrick Brew, LaShawn Merritt, Darold Williamson) 3:00.48 Q (SB)
2. Trinidad and Tobago (Ato Modibo, Julieon Raeburn, Renny Quow, Damion Barry) 3:01.91 Q
3. Russia (Dmitriy Forshev, Andrey Rudnitskiy, , Yevgeniy Lebedev) 3:02.05 q (SB)
4. Ukraine (, Andriy Tverdostup, Myhaylo Knysh, ) 3:03.41 (SB)
5. Spain (David Testa, David Canal, David Melo, Antonio Manuel Reina) 3:08.03
6. Zimbabwe (Nelton Ndebele, Young Talkmore Nyongani, Brian Dzingai, ) 3:08.26 (SB)

• Japan (Yuzo Kanemaru, Kenji Narisako, Yoshihiro Horigome, Mitsuhiro Sato) DQ

Heat 3[]

1. Great Britain (Robert Tobin, Martyn Rooney, Malachi Davis, Graham Hedman) 3:01.95 Q
2. France (Leslie Djhone, Naman Keïta, Abderrahim El Haouzy, Marc Raquil) 3:02.86 Q
3. Dominican Republic (Arismendi Peguero, Carlos Santa, Danis García, ) 3:03.57 (SB)
4. South Africa (Jan van der Merwe, Ockert Cilliers, Pieter de Villiers, L. J. van Zyl) 3:04.64 (SB)
5. Nigeria (Saul Weigopwa, Musa Audu, , Enefiok Udo Obong) 3:07.91 (SB)

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

Final[]

1. United States (Andrew Rock, Derrick Brew, Darold Williamson, Jeremy Wariner) 2:56.91 (WL)
2. Bahamas (Nathaniel McKinney, Avard Moncur, Andrae Williams, Chris Brown) 2:57.32 (NR)
3. Jamaica (Sanjay Ayre, Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence, Davian Clarke) 2:58.07 (SB)
4. Great Britain (Timothy Benjamin, Martyn Rooney, Robert Tobin, Malachi Davis) 2:58.82 (SB)
5. Poland (Marcin Marciniszyn, Robert Maćkowiak, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Piotr Klimczak) 3:00.58
6. France (Leslie Djhone, Naman Keïta, Abderrahim El Haouzy, Marc Raquil) 3:03.10
7. Russia (Dmitriy Forshev, Andrey Rudnitskiy, Oleg Mishukov, Yevgeniy Lebedev) 3:03.20

• Trinidad and Tobago (Ato Modibo, Julieon Raeburn, Renny Quow, Damion Barry) DQ

External links[]

• IAAF results, heats
• IAAF results, final