Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Venue	Carrara Stadium
Dates	13 April (heats) 14 April (final)
Nations	13
Winning time	3:01.78
Medalists
Leaname Maotoanong Baboloki Thebe Onkabetse Nkobolo Isaac Makwala    Botswana   O'Jay Ferguson Teray Smith Stephen Newbold Alonzo Russell Michael Mathieu Ramon Miller    Bahamas   Demish Gaye Javon Francis Peter Matthews    Jamaica
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Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
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
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
Para events
100 m (T12)	men
100 m (T35)		women
100 m (T38)	men	women
100 m (T47)	men
1500 m (T54)	men	women
Marathon (T54)	men	women
Long jump (T38)		women
Shot put (F38)	men
Javelin throw (F46)		women
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The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place in the Carrara Stadium on 13 and 14 April 2018.^[1]

Records[]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows:^[2]

World record	United States (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson)	2:54.29	Stuttgart, Germany	22 August 1993
Games record	(Michael McDonald, Roxbert Martin, Greg Haughton, Davian Clarke)	2:59.03	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	21 September 1998

Schedule[]

The schedule was as follows:^[1]

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Results[]

First round[]

The first round consisted of two heats. The three fastest teams per heat (plus two fastest losers) advanced to the final.^[3][4][5]

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	Botswana	Leaname Maotoanong Baboloki Thebe Onkabetse Nkobolo Isaac Makwala	3:05.71	SB	Q
2	Kenya	Mike Mokamba Nyang'au Boniface Ontuga Mweresa	3:13.52		Q
3	Fiji		3:19.19		Q
–	England	Matthew Hudson-Smith Dwayne Cowan Rabah Yousif Jack Green	DNF	Note
–	Nigeria	Orukpe Eraiyokan Samson Nathaniel Salihu Isah Chidi Okezie	DQ	R 163.3a
–	Mozambique		DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Result	Notes	Qual.
1	Jamaica	Peter Matthews Demish Gaye Javon Francis	3:03.97		Q
2	India	Jeevan Karekoppa Suresh Jacob Amoj Mohammad Anas Yahiya Arokia Rajiv	3:04.05		Q
3	Bahamas	O'Jay Ferguson Alonzo Russell Michael Mathieu Ramon Miller	3:04.62		Q
4	Trinidad and Tobago	Renny Quow Deon Lendore Lalonde Gordon Machel Cedenio	3:05.84		q
5	Turks and Caicos Islands	Ifeanyi Otuonye	3:13.70	NR	q
–	Australia	Murray Goodwin Joshua Ralph Steven Solomon	DQ	R 170.20
–	Papua New Guinea		DNS

Final[]

The medals were determined in the final.^[2]

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Result	Notes
	Botswana	Leaname Maotoanong Baboloki Thebe Onkabetse Nkobolo Isaac Makwala	3:01.78	SB
	Bahamas	O'Jay Ferguson Teray Smith Stephen Newbold Alonzo Russell	3:01.92	SB
	Jamaica	Demish Gaye Javon Francis	3:01.97	SB
4	Trinidad and Tobago	Deon Lendore Jereem Richards Renny Quow Machel Cedenio	3:02.85
5	Fiji		3:15.10	SB
6	Turks and Caicos Islands	Ifeanyi Otuonye	3:16.39
–	India	Dharun Ayyasamy Jacob Amoj Mohammad Anas Yahiya Arokia Rajiv	DNF	Note
–	Kenya	Boniface Ontuga Mweresa Aron Kipchumba Koech Nicholas Kiplagat Bett	DQ	R 170.20

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