| Final 20.05h | time | L | 1 | | 1. | United States |  | 37.61s | 5 | Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene | | 2. | Brazil | | 37.90s | 4 | Vicente Lenilson de Lima, Edson Ribeiro, Andre Silva, Claudinei Quirino da Silva | | 3. | Cuba | | 38.04s | 3 | Angel Cesar, Luis Alberto Perez-Rionda, Ivan Garcia, Freddy Mayola | | 4. | Jamaica | | 38.20s | 6 | Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood | | 5. | France | | 38.49s | 7 | Frederic Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims | | 6. | Japan | | 38.66s | 2 | Shigeyuki Kojima, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara | | 7. | Italy | | 38.67s | 8 | Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo | | 8. | Poland | | 38.96s | 1 | Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbas, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk |
| Semi 1 20.50h | time | 1 | | 1. | United States | | 37.82s | 6 | Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene | | 2. | Jamaica | | 38.27s | 1 | Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood | | 3. | France | | 38.64s | 5 | Frederic Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims | | 4. | Italy | | 38.67s | 3 | Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo | | 5. | Ivory Coast | | 38.82s | 4 | Pacome Eric N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meite | | 6. | Canada | | 38.92s | 2 | Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Adrian Woodley | | 7. | Thailand | | 39.05s | 7 | Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep | | -. | Nigeria | | DNF | 8 | Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu |
| Semi 2 20.58h | time | 1 | | 1. | Cuba | | 38.16s | 5 | Angel Cesar, Luis Alberto Perez-Rionda, Ivan Garcia, Freddy Mayola | | 2. | Brazil | | 38.27s | 4 | Vicente Lenilson de Lima, Edson Luciano Ribeiro, Andre Silva, Claudinei Quirino daSilva | | 3. | Japan | | 38.31s | 6 | Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara | | 4. | Poland | | 38.60s | 7 | Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbas, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk | | 5. | Greece | | 38.80s | 2 | Georgios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis | | 6. | Trinidad Tobago | | 38.92s | 8 | Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Marc Burns, Ato Boldon | | -. | Slovenia | | DQ | 1 | Matic Sustersic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman | | -. | Australia | | DQ | 3 | Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson |
| Heat 1 10.08h | time | 1 | | 1. | Ivory Coast | | 39.06s | 7 | Pacome N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meite | | 2. | Thailand | | 39.13s | 3 | Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep | | 3. | Guatemala | | 39.34s | 6 | Nolberto Rolando Blanco, Oscar Meneses, Jose Gonzalez, J. Tinoco | | 4. | Bahamas | | 39.57s | 2 | Renward Wells, Dominic Demeritte, Iram Lewis, Whymms Wellington Saunders | | 5. | Cyprus | | 39.75s | 4 | Anthimos Rotos, Anninos Marcoullides, Prodromos Katsantonis, Yiannakis Zisimides | | 6. | Yugoslavia | | 39.99s | 8 | Slobodan Spasic, Predrag Momirovic, Milos Sakic, Milan Petakovic | | 7. | India | | 40.23s | 5 | Anna Durai, Rajeev Balakrishnan, AjayRaj Singh, Panil Kumar | | -. | Great Britain | | DQ | 1 | Allyn Condon, Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers |
| Heat 2 10.08h | time | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 1. | Brazil | | 38.32s | 8 | Vicente Lenilson de Lima, Edson Luciano Ribeiro, Andre Silva, Claudio Roberto deSouza | | 2. | Italy | | 38.84s | 5 | Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo | | 3. | Nigeria | | 38.85s | 4 | Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu | | 4. | Jamaica | | 38.97s | 3 | Donovan Powell, Dwight Thomas, Lindel Frater, Llewellyn Bredwood | | 5. | Slovenia | | 39.25s | 6 | Matic Sustersic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman | | 6. | Liberia | | 39.77s | 7 | Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Andrew Reyes, Koiyan Morlu | | 7. | Hong Kong | | 40.15s | 2 | Wai Lok To, Kwan Lung Ho, Hon Sing Tang, Wai Hung Chiang | | 8. | Chile | | 40.20s | 1 | Diego Valdes, Ricardo Roach, Rodrigo Roach, Juan Pablo Faundez |
| Heat 3 10.16h | time | 1 | | 1. | France | | 39.00s | 5 | Frederic Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Jerome Eyana | | 2. | Greece | | 39.21s | 2 | Georgios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis | | 3. | Canada | | 39.26s | 6 | Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Nicolas Macrozonaris | | 4. | Ireland | | 39.26s | 4 | John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Paul Brizzell | | 5. | Mauritius | | 39.55s | 8 | Jonathan Chimier, Eric Milazar, Stephane Buckland, Fernando Augustin | | 6. | Israel | | 39.76s | 3 | Kfir Golan, Gidon Yablonka, Tommy Kafri, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy | | 7. | Saudi Arabia | | 39.94s | 7 | Mohammed M M Alyami, MubarakAta Mubarak, SalemMubarak Al-Yami, Jamal Abd. Al-Saffar | | -. | Ghana | | DNF | 1 | Christian Nsiah, Kenneth Andam, Abdul Aziz Zakari, Leonard Myles-Mills |
| Heat 4 10.24h | time | 1 | | 1. | Cuba | | 38.74s | - | Angel Cesar, Luis Alberto Perez-Rionda, Ivan Garcia, Freddy Mayola | | 2. | Australia | | 38.76s | - | Matt Shirvington, Paul DiBella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson | | 3. | Trinidad Tobago | | 39.12s | - | Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Jacey Harper, Marc Burns | | 4. | Hungary | | 39.52s | - | Viktor Kovacs, Geza Pauer, Laszlo Babaly, Miklos Gyulai | | 5. | Cameroon | | 39.62s | - | Samuel Nchinda, Serge Bengono, Joseph Batangdon, Benjamin Sirimou | | 6. | Oman | | 39.82s | 1 | Mohammed Said Al Maskari, Hamood Al Dalhami, Mohamed Amer Al-Malky, Jihad Al Sheikh | | 7. | Puerto Rico | | 40.12s | - | Osvaldo Nieves Morales, Rogelio Manuel Pizarro Domenech, Jorge Richardson, Felix Omar Fernandez Rodriguez | | 8. | Uzbekistan | | 41.20s | - | Oleg Juravlyov, Konstantin Zhuravlyov, Anvar Kuchmuradov, | Yeroshenko |
| Heat 5 10.24h | time | 1 | | 1. | United States | | 38.15s | 6 | Kenny Brokenburr, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene | | 2. | Japan | | 38.52s | 3 | Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara | | 3. | Poland | | 38.74s | 7 | Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbas, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk | | 4. | Russia | | 39.29s | 4 | Dmitriy Vasilyev, Aleksandr Ryabov, Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Bychkov | | 5. | Venezuela | | 39.45s | 2 | Juan Morillo, Jose Pena Quevedo, Jose Manuel Carabali, Ellis Ollarves | | 6. | Croatia | | 39.87s | 5 | Slaven Krajacic, Dejan Vojnovic, Sinisa Ergotic, Tihomir Buinjac | | 7. | Indonesia | | 40.35s | 1 | Sukari, Erwin Heru Susanto, Janis Roubaba, John Muray | | 8. | Barbados | | 40.38s | 8 | Wilan Louis, Victor Houston, Gabriel Burnett, Fabian Rollins |
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The United States were again heavy favourites, but prospective medal-
lists Great Britain were disqualified in the first round for a faulty
changeover. The USA, with two reserve runners, won their Heat in
38.15, and improved to 37.82 in the semi-finals. Cuba won the other
Heat in 38.16. Jamaica and Brazil were both runners-up in the time of
38.27.
In the final the USA produced safe passes on the first two
changeovers before Lewis drew away from the field to give Greene a
two metres lead. The individual champion added another metre to fin-
ish with the sixth-fastest time ever of 37.61. Cuba held second place
until the final leg where Claudinei da Silva gained two metres on
Freddy Mayola to win the silver medal.
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