2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Events at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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		women
10,000 m		men
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
10,000 m 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

The men's 4x100 metres relay event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 11 and 12 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Dante Sales Antonio Sales Marquise Goodwin Terrell Wilks  United States
Silver	Oshane Bailey Dexter Lee Nickel Ashmeade Yohan Blake  Jamaica
Bronze	Johannes Mosala Roscoe Engel Patrick Vosloo Wilhelm van der Vyver  South Africa

Results

Final

12 July

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
01 !	United States	Dante Sales Antonio Sales Marquise Goodwin Terrell Wilks	38.98
02 !	Jamaica	Oshane Bailey Dexter Lee Nickel Ashmeade Yohan Blake	39.25
03 !	South Africa	Johannes Mosala Roscoe Engel Patrick Vosloo Wilhelm van der Vyver	39.70
4	Japan	Genki Kawai Seiya Hane Masanori Kaji Yuichi Kobayashi	39.89
5	United Kingdom	Olufunmi Sobodu Junior Ejehu James Alaka Richard Kilty	39.89
6	Trinidad and Tobago	Abiola Glasgow Kendall Bacchus Zwade Edwards Shermund Allsop	40.16
7	Chinese Taipei	Liang Tse-Ching Wang Ming-En Pan Po-Yu Su Yung-Chun	40.17
8	Thailand	Poommanus Jankem Wattana Deewong Weerawat Pharueang Suppachai Chimdee	40.28

Heats

11 July

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	United Kingdom	Olufunmi Sobodu Junior Ejehu James Alaka Richard Kilty	39.84	Q
2	Japan	Genki Kawai Seiya Hane Masanori Kaji Yuichi Kobayashi	39.95	Q
3	Thailand	Poommanus Jankem Wattana Deewong Weerawat Pharueang Suppachai Chimdee	40.16	q
4	Italy	Edoardo Baini Diego Marani Davide Manenti Valerio Rosichini	40.41
5	Poland	Gustaw Jacewicz Artur Zaczek Michal Partyka Lukasz Gauza	40.61
6	France	Romain Burel Martin Lamy Frédéric Mignot Tom Chouquet	40.83
7	Turkey	Ferhat Altunkalem Izzet Safer Emre Karademir Semih Sencer	41.65

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Jamaica	Oshane Bailey Dexter Lee Rasheed Dwyer Yohan Blake	39.62	Q
2	Chinese Taipei	Liang Tse-Ching Wang Ming-En Pan Po-Yu Su Yung-Chun	40.16	Q
3	Czech Republic	Martin Ricar Lukáš Štastný Pavel Maslák Václav Zich	40.60
4	Sweden	Maximus Fröjd Alexander Nordkvist Benjamin Olsson Oskar Åberg	40.72
5	Nigeria	Olawuyi Rahmeen Femi Owolade Ufomba Chime Ayokunle Odelusi	40.74
6	Canada	Michael Robertson Phillip Hayle Daniel Harper Tyrone Halstead	41.33
7	Germany	Roy Schmidt Robert Hering Jasper Henkel Markus Brandt	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	United States	Dante Sales Antonio Sales Marquise Goodwin Terrell Wilks	39.37	Q
2	South Africa	Johannes Mosala Roscoe Engel Patrick Vosloo Wilhelm van der Vyver	39.59	Q
3	Trinidad and Tobago	Abiola Glasgow Kendall Bacchus Zwade Edwards Shermund Allsop	40.40	q
4	Russia	Mikhail Yakovlev Aleksandr Shpaer Konstantin Shabanov Igor Borzov	40.43
5	Austria	Stephan Ender Bernhard Chudarek Lukas Reiter Dominik Distelberger	40.80
6	Senegal	Papa Ousmane Ndiaye Aliou Wagne Ibrahima Seye Edouard Ndecky	42.44
7	Spain	Sergio González Javier Sanz Alberto Gavaldá Eusebio Cáceres	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 85 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

References