1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
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The men's 4x100 metres relay event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 2 August.[1][2]
Medalists
Gold | Steve Slowly Dwight Thomas Paul Thompson Roy Bailey Jamaica |
Silver | Casey Combest Dashaun McCullough Amar Johnson Russell Frye United States |
Bronze | Tobias Unger Stefan Holz Jirka Zapletal Kevin Kuske Germany |
Results
Final
2 August
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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Jamaica | Steve Slowly Dwight Thomas Paul Thompson Roy Bailey | 39.70 | ||
United States | Casey Combest Dashaun McCullough Amar Johnson Russell Frye | 39.71 | ||
Germany | Tobias Unger Stefan Holz Jirka Zapletal Kevin Kuske | 39.99 | ||
4 | Spain | Alejandro Ferrer Alejandro Olivan Pablo Rodríguez Ángel Rodríguez | 40.48 | |
5 | Australia | Stephen Hadfield Adam Dorey Nathan Carr Troy Davies | 40.64 | |
6 | France | Anthony Begue Jeremy Bobe Cédric Gold Dalg Dimitri Demonière | 40.65 | |
7 | South Africa | Colin Dreyer Lawrence Nkosi Wynand Dempers Bradley Agnew | 40.79 | |
Italy | Alessandro Battinelli Massimiliano Donati Marco Cuneo Davide Dell'Oro | DNF |
Heats
2 August
Heat 1
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | Jamaica | Steve Slowly Dwight Thomas Paul Thompson Roy Bailey | 39.80 | Q |
2 | Germany | Tobias Unger Stefan Holz Jirka Zapletal Kevin Kuske | 40.01 | Q |
3 | France | Anthony Begue Yannick Urbino Cédric Gold Dalg Dimitri Demonière | 40.14 | Q |
4 | Italy | Alessandro Battinelli Massimiliano Donati Marco Cuneo Davide Dell'Oro | 40.32 | q |
5 | South Africa | Colin Dreyer Lawrence Nkosi Wynand Dempers Bradley Agnew | 40.89 | q |
6 | Greece | Mihaíl Xanthakis Konstadínos Sfiropoulos Aristídis Petrídis Athanásios Tsiouris | 41.07 | |
7 | Slovenia | Uros Zver Matic Osovnikar Boštjan Fridrih Matic Šušteršic | 41.18 |
Heat 2
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | United States | Casey Combest Dashaun McCullough Amar Johnson Russell Frye | 40.09 | Q |
2 | Spain | Alejandro Ferrer Alejandro Olivan Pablo Rodríguez Ángel Rodríguez | 40.51 | Q |
3 | Australia | Stephen Hadfield Adam Dorey Nathan Carr Troy Davies | 40.77 | Q |
United Kingdom | Mark Lewis-Francis Christian Malcolm Chris Lambert Tim Benjamin | DQ | IAAF rule 170.14 | |
Japan | Takashi Miyata Hirofumi Nakagawa Jun-ya Omodaka Shigeyuki Kojima | DNF | ||
New Zealand | Dallas Roberts Russell Wise Benjamin Potter Matthew Cunningham | DNF |
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 53 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.
- Australia (4)
- France (5)
- Germany (4)
- Greece (4)
- Italy (4)
- Jamaica (4)
- Japan (4)
- New Zealand (4)
- Slovenia (4)
- South Africa (4)
- Spain (4)
- United Kingdom (4)
- United States (4)
References
- ^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1998 Annecy FRA Jul 28-Aug 2, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 3 December 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
- ^ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015