2001 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the 2001 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
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Men's 4x400 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Canada. Their final was held on Sunday 12 August 2001 at 16:20h.

Records

Standing records prior to the 2001 World Athletics Championships
World Record	United States (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson)	2:54.29	August 22, 1993	Stuttgart, Germany
Event Record	United States (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson)	2:54.29	August 22, 1993	Stuttgart, Germany
Season Best	United States "Red" (Leonard Byrd, Angelo Taylor, Jerome Young, Michael Johnson)	2:58.60	April 28, 2001	Philadelphia, United States

RANK	NATION	ATHLETES	TIME
	Bahamas (BAH)	• Avard Moncur • Christopher Brown • Troy McIntosh • Timothy Munnings	2:58.19
	Jamaica (JAM)	• Brandon Simpson • Christopher Williams • Gregory Haughton • Danny McFarlane	2:58.39
	Poland (POL)	• Rafał Wieruszewski • Piotr Haczek • Piotr Długosielski • Piotr Rysiukiewicz	2:59.71
4.	Brazil (BRA)	• Valdinei da Silva • Anderson Jorge dos Santos • Flávio Godoy • Sanderlei Parrela	3:01.09
5.	Great Britain (GBR)	• Iwan Thomas • Jamie Baulch • Timothy Benjamin • Mark Richardson	3:01.26
6.	Spain (ESP)	• Eduardo Iván Rodríguez • David Canal • Antonio Andrés • Antonio Manuel Reina	3:02.24
7.	Germany (GER)	• Marc Alexander Scheer • Ruwen Faller • Lars Figura • Ingo Schultz	3:03.52
	United States (USA)	• Leonard Byrd • Antonio Pettigrew • Derrick Brew • Angelo Taylor	DQ

RANK	NATION	ATHLETES	TIME
1.	United States (USA)	• Jerome Young • Andrew Pierce • Leonard Byrd • Derrick Brew	3:00.07
2.	Great Britain (GBR)	• Mark Hylton • Iwan Thomas • Timothy Benjamin • Mark Richardson	3:00.96
3.	Germany (GER)	• Ingo Schultz • Ruwen Faller • Marc Alexander Scheer • Lars Figura	3:01.33
4.	Spain (ESP)	• Eduardo Iván Rodríguez • David Canal • Antonio Andrés • Antonio Manuel Reina	3:01.42
5.	Japan (JPN)	• Kenji Tabata • Jun Osakada • Dai Tamesue • Ryuji Muraki	3:02.75
6.	Sweden (SWE)	• Johan Wissman • Jimisola Laursen • Mikael Jakobsson • Magnus Aare	3:04.02
7.	Canada (CAN)	• Shane Niemi • Gary Reed • Lawrence Ringwald • Jean-Marie Louis	3:04.87

RANK	NATION	ATHLETES	TIME
1.	Brazil (BRA)	• Claudinei da Silva • Anderson Jorge dos Santos • Flávio Godoy • Sanderlei Parrela	3:00.75
2.	Jamaica (JAM)	• Michael Blackwood • Brandon Simpson • Mario Watts • Danny McFarlane	3:00.97
3.	France (FRA)	• Marc Raquil • Marc Foucan • Philippe Bouche • Stéphane Diagana	3:01.65
4.	Russia (RUS)	• Vitaliy Ignatov • Ruslan Mashchenko • Dmitriy Golovastov • Andrey Semyonov	3:01.95
5.	Botswana (BOT)	• Lulu Basinyi • Otukile Lekote • Johnson Kubisa • California Molefe	3:03.32
6.	Czech Republic (CZE)	• Karel Bláha • Radek Zachoval • Stepan Tesarik • Jirí Muzik	3:04.27
—	Sri Lanka (SRI)	• Rohan Pradeep Kumara • Ranga Wimalawansa • Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara • Harijan Ratnayake	DNS

RANK	NATION	ATHLETES	TIME
1.	Bahamas (BAH)	• Troy McIntosh • Avard Moncur • Carl Oliver • Timothy Munnings	3:00.88
2.	Poland (POL)	• Rafał Wieruszewski • Piotr Haczek • Jacek Bocian • Piotr Rysiukiewicz	3:01.32
3.	South Africa (RSA)	• Marcus La Grange • Jopie van Oudtshoorn • Alwyn Myburgh • Arnaud Malherbe	3:01.70
4.	Ukraine (UKR)	• Oleksandr Kaydash • Andriy Tverdostup • Volodymyr Rybalka • Yevgeniy Zyukov	3:02.35 (NR)
5.	Mexico (MEX)	• Alejandro Cárdenas • Oscar Juanz • Roberto Carbajal • Juan Pedro Toledo	3:03.19 (NR)
6.	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	• Hamdan O. Al-Bishi • Hamed Al-Bishi • Belal Al Housah • Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily	3:04.22
7.	Ireland (IRL)	• Robert Daly • Tom Comyns • Paul McKee • Tomas Coman	3:04.26
8.	Venezuela (VEN)	• Dany Nuñez • Simoncito Silvera • Jonathan Palma • William Hernández	3:05.37

4 × 400 metres relay at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics

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