Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 11 and 12 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Scotland David Jenkins Allan Wells Cameron Sharp Drew McMaster	Trinidad and Tobago Edwin Noel Hasely Crawford Christopher Brathwaite Ephraim Serrette	Jamaica Colin Bradford Floyd Brown

Results[]

Heats[]

Qualification: First 3 teams of each heat (Q) plus the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	1	Canada	Desai Williams, Hugh Fraser, Marvin Nash,	39.83	Q
2	1	Trinidad and Tobago	Edwin Noel, Hasely Crawford, Christopher Brathwaite, Ephraim Serrette	39.92	Q
2	2	Ghana	Albert Lomotey, Ernest Obeng, , Ohene Karikari	39.92	Q
4	1	Scotland	David Jenkins, Allan Wells, Cameron Sharp, Drew McMaster	39.96	Q
5	2	Jamaica	, Colin Bradford, , Floyd Brown	40.03	Q
6	1	England	Brian Green, , , Trevor Hoyte	40.36	q
7	2	Australia	Don Wright, Paul Narracott, Maxwell Binnington,	40.61	Q
8	2	Bermuda	Calvin Dill, Dennis Trott, Gregory Simons,	40.74	q
9	2	Kenya	, John Mwebi, ,	41.17
10	1	New Zealand	Bevan Smith, , Phillip Mills,	41.40
11	1	Gambia	, , ,	43.17

Final[]

Rank	Lane	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	7	Scotland	David Jenkins, Allan Wells, Cameron Sharp, Drew McMaster	39.24	NR
	4	Trinidad and Tobago	Edwin Noel, Hasely Crawford, Christopher Brathwaite, Ephraim Serrette	39.29
	8	Jamaica	, Colin Bradford, , Floyd Brown	39.33
4	3	Canada	Desai Williams, Hugh Fraser, Marvin Nash,	39.60
5	1	Ghana	Albert Lomotey, Ernest Obeng, , Ohene Karikari	39.73
6	5	England	Brian Green, , , Trevor Hoyte	40.05
7	6	Australia	Don Wright, Paul Narracott, Maxwell Binnington,	40.24
8	2	Bermuda	Calvin Dill, Dennis Trott, Gregory Simons,	40.33

References[]

• Heats results (The Canberra Times)
• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results