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at the
1997 World Championships in Athletics The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10, 1997. In this event participated 1882 athletes from 19 ...
was held at the
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on August 9 and August 10.


Medals


Results


Heats

All times shown are in seconds.


Heat 1

# ( Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah,
Aziz Zakari Abdul Aziz Zakari (born September 2, 1976) is a Ghanaian athlete specializing in the 100 metres. He was born in Accra, Ghana. Participating in the 2000 Summer Olympics, he made it to the final of the 100 metres, but failed to finish after becomi ...
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Emmanuel Tuffour Emmanuel Tuffour (born December 2, 1966) is a retired Ghanaian sprinter. His best performance in a global event was a seventh place at the 1993 World Championships, but at the 1992 Olympics he failed to qualify for the final by 0.01 second. Tuffo ...
) 38.41 Q (NR) # (
Patrik Lövgren Sven Patrik Lövgren (born 12 October 1975 in Malmö) is a retired Swedish athlete who specialised in sprinting events. He enjoyed most success in the indoor 60 metres, making the final at several major championships. With 6.58, he is the joint Swe ...
, Torbjörn Mårtensson,
Torbjörn Eriksson Jan Torbjörn Eriksson (born 17 April 1971 in Grycksbo) is a retired Swedish athlete who competed in the sprinting events. He is best known for winning the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 1996 European Indoor Championships in his native Swe ...
, Peter Karlsson) 39.04 Q (SB) # (
Aleksey Chikhachov Alexey, Alexei, Alexie, Aleksei, or Aleksey (russian: Алексе́й ; bg, Алексей ) is a Russian and Bulgarian male first name deriving from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Ale ...
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Serhiy Osovych Serhiy Osovych (born 16 December 1973 in Ivano-Frankivsk) is an Austrian sprinter of Ukrainian origin, who specialized in the 200 metres. Before 2003 he competed for Ukraine. At the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki Osovych finished fourth ...
, Oleh Kramarenko, Vladyslav Dolohodin) 39.32 Q (SB) # (
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Jaime de Jesus Lopez Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...
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Juan Pedro Toledo Juan Pedro Toledo Domínguez (born June 17, 1978 in Huatabampo, Sonora) is a sprint athlete from Mexico. He twice won the gold medal in the men's 200 metres at the Central American and Caribbean Games The Central American and Caribbea ...
) 39.93 ** ( Brian Lewis,
Tim Montgomery Timothy Montgomery (born January 28, 1975) is an American former track sprinter who specialized in the 100-meter dash. In 2005, he was stripped of his records—including a now-void men's 100-meter world record of 9.78 seconds set in 2002—a ...
, Dennis Mitchell, Maurice Greene) DNF ** (
Donovan Powell Donovan Powell (born 31 October 1971, in Linstead, Jamaica) is a former sprinter who specialised in the 60 metres and 100 metres events. He is the brother of Asafa Powell, a former 100 m world record holder. Powell had his first successe ...
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Dennis Mowatt Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is someti ...
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Garth Robinson Garth B. Robinson (born 11 October 1970 in London) is a retired male track and field athlete from Jamaica. Robinson won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S ...
, Cawley Elston) DNS ** DNS


Heat 2

# (
Vicente de Lima Vicente Lenílson de Lima (born June 4, 1977) is a Brazilian sprinter specializing in the 100 metres, 200 metres, and the 4×100 metres relay. De Lima represented Brazil at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The 37.90 seconds were not enough ...
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Claudinei da Silva Claudinei Quirino da Silva (born November 19, 1970 in Lençóis Paulista) is a retired Brazilian sprinter who competed primarily in 200 metres. __TOC__ Career He has been successful on regional and world level, and won a 2000 Olympic silver ...
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Robson da Silva Robson Caetano da Silva (born September 4, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian sprinter. He participated in four consecutive Olympic Summer Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996) and won the bronze medal over 200 metres in the 1988 Seoul Olympics a ...
, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.31 Q (AR) # (
Carlton Chambers Carlton Chambers (born June 27, 1975) is a retired sprint athlete from Canada, and a winner of gold medal in 4 × 100 m relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He ran in the preliminary heats, however a groin injury prevented him from running ...
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Glenroy Gilbert Glenroy John Gilbert (born August 31, 1967 in Trinidad & Tobago) is a Canadian former track and field athlete, winner of the gold medal in 4×100 metres relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and head coach of Athletics Canada. Biography Born in ...
, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.36 Q (SB) # (
Satoru Inoue is a retired Japanese athlete who specialised in sprinting events. He represented his country at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics as well as four World Championships. His best individual success was reaching the semifinals at the 1993 World ...
, Koji Ito,
Hiroyasu Tsuchie is a coach and retired Japanese sprinter. Coaching career He has been the Strengthening Committee Member of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations since 2007. University coaching career *Josai University - Director ( - 2014) *Toyo Uni ...
, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.44 Q (AR) # (
Osmond Ezinwa Osmond Ezinwa (born 22 November 1971) is a former sprinter from Nigeria. Together with Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu and Davidson Ezinwa he won a silver medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics. He i ...
, Olapade Adeniken,
Francis Obikwelu Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, GOIH (born 22 November 1978) is a retired Nigerian-born Portuguese sprinter, who specialized in 100 metres and 200 metres. He was the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the 100 metres. In the same race, he ...
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Davidson Ezinwa Davidson Ezinwa (born 22 November 1971) is a former sprinter from Nigeria. He won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as a silver medal at the 1997 World Championships, both in 4 x 100 metres relay. He also won a 60 metres si ...
) 38.46 q # (
Paulo Neves Paulo Manuel da Conceição Neves (born 24 March 1961) is a Portuguese executive, current CEO of Portugal Telecom. Paulo Neves holds a degree in electronic engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon (1984) and a graduate degree in tel ...
, Mário Barbosa,
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Carlos Calado Carlos Nuno Tavares Calado (born October 5, 1975 in Alcanena, Médio Tejo) is an athlete from Portugal, Sporting CP and S.L. Benfica, who specialises in the long jump. He was at his peak in 2001 when he won bronze medals at both the World Indoor a ...
) 39.37 (SB) # ( Marko Štor, Urban Acman, Tomaz Božic, Gregor Breznik) 39.62 (NR) # (
Augustine Nketia Augustine K. Nketia (born 30 December 1970 in Kumasi, Ghana) is a former track and field competitor, specialising in sprinting events, who represented both his home country and New Zealand. Nketia represented Ghana until 1991 including the 1990 ...
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Chris Donaldson Chris Donaldson (born 26 May 1975 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand sprinter who represented his country at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. He is the son of film director Roger Donaldson. He also competed at the 1998 and 2006 Commonwe ...
, Paul Gibbons, Donald MacDonald) 39.66 # (
Kouty Mawenh Kouty Mawenh (born 8 December 1971) is a Liberian sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also k ...
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Sayon Cooper Sayon Cooper (born 24 April 1974) is a retired Liberian sprinter. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, where he earned the 1997 NCAA Division II championship in both the 100 m and 200 m dashes. Cooper is a member of ...
, Robert M. Dennis, Edward Neufville) 39.90 (NR)


Heat 3

# ( Darren Campbell,
Marlon Devonish Marlon Ronald Devonish, (born 1 June 1976) is an English former sprinter who competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres. A prodigious relay runner with particular strength as a 'bend' runner, Devonish ran the third leg for the Great Britain q ...
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Darren Braithwaite Darren Braithwaite (born 20 January 1969) is a retired British sprinter. Braithwaite was a member of the British team which set a world indoor record for the rarely contested 4×200 metres relay on 3 March 1991 in Glasgow. Braithwaite and his ...
, Julian Golding) 38.47 Q (SB) # (
Emmanuel Bangué Emmanuel Bangué (born 21 July 1971 in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses) is a French long jumper, best known for finishing fourth at the 1996 Olympic Games The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 ...
, Frédéric Krantz,
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Stéphane Cali Stéphane Cali (born 26 April 1972 in Paris) is a retired French athlete who specialised in the sprinting events. He won the bronze medal in the 60 metres at the 1998 European Indoor Championships. He represented his country at the 1997 World Cha ...
) 38.80 Q (SB) # (
Frutos Feo Frutos Feo Pérez (born 1 January 1972 in El Perdigón, Province of Zamora) is a retired Spanish sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. He finished seventh in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships, together with teammates V ...
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Venancio José Venancio José Murcía (born 19 April 1976 in Cartagena, Murcia) is a retired Spanish sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres. He finished seventh in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1997 World Championships, together with teammates Fru ...
, Jordi Mayoral,
Francisco Javier Navarro Francisco Javier Navarro Sánchez (born 16 April 1967) is a Spanish sprinter. He competed in the men's 200 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 19 ...
) 38.87 Q # (
Marcin Krzywański Marcin Krzywański (born 29 August 1975) is a retired Polish athlete who specialised in sprinting Sprinting is running over a short distance at the top-most speed of the body in a limited period of time. It is used in many sports that incorpo ...
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Dariusz Adamczyk Dariusz Adamczyk (born 1966 in Poland) is a Polish-German historian. Adamczyk studied history, political science, sociology and social psychology at the University of Silesia in Katowice and Leibniz University Hannover, where he gained a PhD defe ...
, Piotr Balcerzak,
Ryszard Pilarczyk Ryszard Pilarczyk (born 5 November 1975 in Poznań) is a former Poland, Polish Athletics (sport), athlete specializing in Sprint (running), sprinting events. Competition record Personal bests Outdoors *100m 10.26 (Athens 1997) *200m 20.69 (Kra ...
) 39.00 q (SB) # (
Renward Wells Renward Ricardo Wells (born 23 February 1970) is a Bahamian politician and retired sprinter who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bamboo Town from 2012 to 2021. In sprinting, he specialized in the 100 metres. He competed at the Carift ...
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Andrew Tynes Andrew Tynes (born 13 February 1972) is a retired Bahamian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. Biography He won gold medals at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games and the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Champions ...
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Dennis Darling Dennis Darling (born 6 May 1975 in Nassau, Bahamas) is a Bahamian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He is currently track and field Assistant Coach at Texas Christian University. Darling competed in 400 metres at the 1997 ...
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) 39.09 q (NR) # ( Kevin Cogley, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Neil Ryan) 39.46 (NR) # (
Alfred Moussambani Alfred Émile Moussambani (born February 25, 1974) is a Cameroonian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He represented his native country in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics as a member of his nation's 4x100 metres relay team. Neither team adv ...
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Issa-Aimé Nthépé Issa-Aimé Nthépé (born 26 June 1973 in Douala) is a French sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Cameroon in 1999. At the 2002 European Championships he finished fifth in the 100 metres and ...
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Serge Bengono Serge Bengono (born 3 August 1977) is a Cameroonian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Career He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the World Championships in 2001 and 2003 without reaching the final. His personal best times are ...
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Claude Toukene Claude may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Claude (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Claude (surname), a list of people * Claude Lorrain (c. 1600–1682), French landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher ...
) 39.73 ** (
Eric Pacome N'Dri The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...
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Jean-Olivier Zirignon Jean-Olivier Zirignon (born 27 April 1971 in Abidjan) is a Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. He finished seventh in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1993 World Championships, together with teammates Ouattara La ...
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Ahmed Douhou Ahmed Douhou (born 14 December 1976 in Bouake) is a French sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Côte d'Ivoire in 2002. He won the bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2002 European Ch ...
, Ibrahim Meité) DQ


Heat 4

# (
Alfredo García-Baró Alfredo García-Baró (born 5 February 1972) is a Cuban sprinter specializing in the 100 metres. Career He finished fourth with the Cuban 4 × 100 metres relay team at the 1997 and 1999 World Championships. On both occasions 2000 Olymp ...
, Misael Ortíz, Iván García,
Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda (born August 16, 1969) is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay in Sydney 2000. His personal best of 10.18 (100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, i ...
) 38.64 Q (SB) # ( Alexandros Yenovelis,
Thomas Sbokos Thomas Sbokos ( el, Θωμάς Σμπώκος; born 10 April 1972 in Heraklion) is a Greek sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. He won the bronze medal at the 1995 Summer Universiade and finished fourth at the 1996 European Indoor Champion ...
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Georgios Panagiotopoulos Georgios Panagiotopoulos ( el, Γεώργιος Παναγιωτόπουλος; born 12 August 1969) is a retired Greek sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. He won the bronze medal at the 1994 European Indoor Championships, finished se ...
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Aggelos Pavlakakis Angelos Pavlakakis ( el, Άγγελος Παυλακάκης; born 7 November 1976 in Xanthi) is a retired Greek sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. He won the bronze medal at the 1995 European Junior Championships, the gold medals at ...
) 38.74 Q (NR) # (
Andrea Amici Andrea Amici (born 19 October 1971) is an Italian male retired sprinter, which participated, with Italian national track relay team at two editions of the World Championships in Athletics (1993 and 1997). Achievements National titles He won t ...
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Giovanni Puggioni Giovanni "Gianni" Puggioni (born 19 March 1966) is a former Italian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. Biography Puggioni was born in Sassari, Sardinia, he won eleven medals at the International athletics competitions, five of these wit ...
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Carlo Occhiena Carlo Occhiena (born 24 September 1972, in Turin) is a former Italian sprinter. He won five national championships. International competitions National titles * Italian Athletics Championships **200 metres: 1998 *Italian Athletics Indoor Cham ...
, Sandro Floris) 38.97 Q # ( Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.05 q (NR) # (
Viktor Kovács Viktor Kovács (born 27 December 1973) is a Hungarian sprinter specializing in the 100 metres. He finished seventh with the Hungarian 4 x 100 metres relay team, which consisted of Kovács, Gábor Dobos, Roland Németh and Zsolt Szeglet, at the ...
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Miklós Gyulai Miklós Gyulai (born 29 December 1970) is a Hungarian sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the two-man bobsleigh at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Sporting career Track and f ...
, Szabolcs Alexa,
Gábor Dobos Gábor Dobos (born 21 February 1976 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He finished fifth in the 60 metres at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham. His personal best time over 100 m is 10.17 ...
) 39.38 (SB) # ( Ryan Witnish,
Damien Marsh Damien Marsh (born 28 March 1971) is a former Australian 100 metre and 200 metre sprint champion. A native of Goondiwindi, Queensland, Marsh finest moment as a sprinter was winning the 1995 100 metre IAAF Grand Prix Final in Monaco in a time ...
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Steve Brimacombe Steve Brimacombe (born 7 May 1971) is an Australian athletics coach and former runner. Under the tutelage of renowned Scottish coach Jim Bradley, Brimacombe won the 1991 Stawell Gift after only 8 months of training. At the time he was only 19 ...
, Rod Mapstone) 39.39 (SB) ** DNS


Semi-finals


Heat 1

# (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.12 Q (NR) # (
Dwain Chambers Dwain Anthony Chambers (born 5 April 1978) is a British track sprinter. He has won international medals at World and European levels and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of athletics. His primary event is the 100 me ...
, Darren Campbell, Darren Braithwaite, Julian Golding) 38.25 Q (SB) # (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.60 Q (NR) # (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.71 Q (SB) # (Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.77 # (Marcin Krzywański, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 38.79 (SB) # (Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.53 ** (Alexandros Yenovelis, Thomas Sbokos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis) DNF


Heat 2

# (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 37.94 Q (WL) # (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.06 Q (SB) # (
Robert Esmie Robert Esmie (born July 5, 1972) is a Canadian retired sprinter, who was a member of the gold medal-winning Canadian 4 × 100 m relay team at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, Esmi ...
, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.15 Q (SB) # (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.17 Q (AR) # (Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.31 (AR) # (Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 38.89 (SB) # (Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.12 ** (Aleksey Chikhachov, Serhiy Osovych, Igor Strakh, Vladyslav Dolohodin) DNF


Final

# (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 37.86 (WL) # (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.07 # (Darren Braithwaite, Darren Campbell, Douglas Walker, Julian Golding) 38.14 (SB) # (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.15 # (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.26 # (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.48 # (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.72 ** (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) DQ


References


Official results
- IAAF.org
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