1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the 1987 World Championships
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		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
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.

Medals

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Danny Everett Roddie Haley Antonio McKay Harry Reynolds Michael Franks* Raymond Pierre*	Great Britain Derek Redmond Kriss Akabusi Roger Black Philip Brown Todd Bennett* Mark Thomas*	Cuba Leandro Peñalver Agustin Pavó Lázaro Martínez Roberto Hernández

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	United States (USA)	2:56.16	Mexico City, Mexico	October 20, 1968
Championship Record	Soviet Union (URS)	3:00.79	Helsinki, Finland	August 14, 1983

Results

Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

Heat 1

1.  United States (Danny Everett, Michael Franks, Raymond Pierre, Antonio McKay) 3:03.00 Q
2.  East Germany (Mathias Schersing, Michael Schimmer, Jens Carlowitz, Thomas Schönlebe) 3:03.57 Q
3.  Yugoslavia (Branislav Karaulić, Slobodan Popović, Slobodan Branković, Ismail Mačev) 3:03.89 Q
4.  Nigeria (Moses Ugbisie, Joseph Falaye, Henry Amike, Innocent Egbunike) 3:03.90 Q
5.  Canada (Andre Smith, Courtney Brown, John Graham, Anton Skerritt) 3:04.08 q
6.  Spain (Cayetano Cornet, Antonio Sánchez, José Alonso, Angel Heras) 3:05.02 q
7.  Ivory Coast (Akissi Kpidi, Zongo Kuyo, Djedjemel Anatole, René Mélédjé) 3:05.34
8.  Ireland (Kieran Finn, Gerry Delaney, John Barry, Peter Sinclair) 3:07.18

Heat 2

1.  Kenya (Joseph Sainah, Elijah Bitok, Tito Sawe, John Anzrah) 3:02.32 Q
2.  Cuba (Leandro Peñalver, Agustin Pavó, Lázaro Martínez, Roberto Hernández) 3:02.62 Q
3.  Soviet Union (Arkadiy Kornilov, Yevgeniy Lomtyev, Vladimir Prosin, Aleksandr Kurochkin) 3:02.79 Q
4.  Jamaica (Mark Senior, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Bert Cameron) 3:05.11 Q
5.  Czechoslovakia (Jindrich Roun, Stanislav Navesnak, Jozef Kucej, Lubos Balosak) 3:05.44
6.  Brazil (Washington Rodrigues, Sérgio Menezes, Gerson A. Souza, José Luíz Barbosa) 3:05.64

Heat 3

1.  Great Britain (Mark Thomas, Kriss Akabusi, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.75 Q
2.  Japan (Koichi Konakatomi, Kenji Yamauchi, Hiromi Kawasumi, Susumu Takano) 3:03.86 Q
3.  West Germany (Peter Schwelm, Mark Henrich, Klaus Just, Edgar Itt) 3:03.87 Q
4.  Australia (Robert Stone, Gary Minihan, Peter Stubbs, Darren Clark) 3:04.22 Q
5.  Italy (Marcello Pantone, Vito Petrella, Andrea Montanari, Roberto Ribaud) 3:04.64 q
6.  France (Aldo Canti, Jean-Jacques Boussemart, Patrick Barré, Yann Quentrec) 3:04.64 q
7.  Chinese Taipei (Kuang-Liang Lin, Ruo-Ta Hsu, Shiun-Long Lee, Tsai-Tien Lin) 3:11.45

Semi-finals

Heat 1

1.  Cuba (Leandro Peñalver, Agustin Pavó, Lázaro Martínez, Roberto Hernández) 3:00.99 Q
2.  Great Britain (Mark Thomas, Kriss Akabusi, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:01.47 Q
3.  Soviet Union (Arkadiy Kornilov, Yevgeniy Lomtyev, Vladimir Prosin, Aleksandr Kurochkin) 3:01.61 Q
4.  Nigeria (Moses Ugbisie, Joseph Falaye, Henry Amike, Innocent Egbunike) 3:01.92 Q
5.  Canada (Andre Smith, Courtney Brown, John Graham, Anton Skerritt) 3:02.90
6.  France (Aldo Canti, Jean-Jacques Boussemart, Patrick Barré, Yann Quentrec) 3:03.41
7.  Japan (Koichi Konakatomi, Kenji Yamauchi, Hiromi Kawasumi, Susumu Takano) 3:04.86
8.  Spain (Cayetano Cornet, Antonio Sánchez, José Alonso, Angel Heras) 3:06.41

Heat 2

1.  United States (Danny Everett, Michael Franks, Raymond Pierre, Antonio McKay) 2:59.06 (CR) Q
2.  Kenya (Joseph Sainah, Elijah Bitok, David Kitur, John Anzrah) 3:00.73 Q
3.  Jamaica (Mark Senior, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Bert Cameron) 3:01.08 (NR) Q
4.  West Germany (Peter Schwelm, Edgar Itt, Klaus Just, Mark Henrich) 3:01.18 Q
5.  Yugoslavia (Branislav Karaulić, Slobodan Popović, Slobodan Branković, Ismail Mačev) 3:03.30 (NR)
6.  Italy (Marcello Pantone, Vito Petrella, Tiziano Gemelli, Roberto Ribaud) 3:03.91
7.  Australia (Robert Stone, Gary Minihan, Peter Stubbs, Darren Clark) 3:04.59

 East Germany (Jens Carlowitz, Frank Möller, Mathias Schersing, Thomas Schönlebe) DNF

Final

1.  United States (Danny Everett, Roddie Haley, Antonio McKay, Harry Reynolds) 2:57.29 (CR)
2.  Great Britain (Derek Redmond, Kriss Akabusi, Roger Black, Philip Brown) 2:58.86 (AR)
3.  Cuba (Leandro Peñalver, Agustin Pavó, Lázaro Martínez, Roberto Hernández) 2:59.16 (NR)
4.  West Germany (Norbert Dobeleit, Mark Henrich, Edgar Itt, Harald Schmid) 2:59.96 (NR)
5.  Kenya (Joseph Sainah, John Anzrah, Elijah Bitok, David Kitur) 3:01.67
6.  Jamaica (Mark Senior, Devon Morris, Winthrop Graham, Bert Cameron) 3:04.53

 Soviet Union (Yevgeniy Lomtyev, Vladimir Prosin, Aleksandr Kurochkin, Vladimir Krylov) DNF
 Nigeria (Moses Ugbisie, Joseph Falaye, Henry Amike, Innocent Egbunike) DNS

References

• IAAF results, heats (Archived 2009-09-04)
• IAAF results, semi-finals
• IAAF results, final