2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay


The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 31 July and 1 August.
Shortly after heat 2, it seemed that three teams would qualify from heat 1, and five teams from heat 2, including Italy that finished second. However, it was announced that Italian team was disqualified, and subsequently Finnish team qualified from heat 1 to final. Later on, Italy made successful protest against Russia, so that Russia was disqualified and Italy proceeded to final.

Medalists

Gold Christophe Lemaitre, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock
France
Silver Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci
Italy
Bronze Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller
Germany

Records

Schedule

DateTimeRound
31 July 201010:15Round 1
1 August 201019:35[|Final]

Results

Round 1

First 3 in each heat and 2 best performers advance to the Final.

Heat 1

RankLaneNationAthletesReactTimeNotes
13Imaad Hallay, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock0.16839.12Q
24Dariusz Kuć, Paweł Stempel, Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Kryński0.17339.20Q
37Pascal Mancini, Aron Beyene, Reto Schenkel, Marc Schneeberger0.17239.22Q
46Hannu Ali-Huokuna, Joni Rautanen, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen0.14339.40q
55Leon Baptiste, Craig Pickering, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis0.18039.49
68Philip Bjørnå Berntsen, Tormod Hjortnæs Larsen, Christian Settemsli Mogstad, Jaysuma Saidy Ndure0.16240.04
72Mustafa Delioğlu, Sezai Özkaya, Hakan Karacaoğlu, İzzet Safer0.25440.23

Heat 2

RankLaneNationAthletesReactTimeNotes
16Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller0.17438.75Q
23Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci0.19938.82Q
34Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazaldes Nascimento0.20139.09Q
47Alain López, Ángel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Rubén Pros0.23039.30q
2Mikhail Idrisov, Ivan Teplykh, Roman Smirnov, Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko0.173
5Jan Žumer, Matic Osovnikar, Boštjan Fridrih, Gregor Kokalovič0.165

Summary

RankHeatLaneNationAthletesReactTimeNotes
126Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller0.17438.75Q
223Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci0.19938.82Q
324Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazaldes Nascimento0.20139.09Q
413Imaad Hallay, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock0.16839.12Q
514Dariusz Kuć, Paweł Stempel, Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Kryński0.17339.20Q
617Pascal Mancini, Aron Beyene, Reto Schenkel, Marc Schneeberger0.17239.22Q
727Alain López, Ángel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Rubén Pros0.23039.30q
816Hannu Ali-Huokuna, Joni Rautanen, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen0.14339.40q
915Leon Baptiste, Craig Pickering, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis0.18039.49
1018Philip Bjørnå Berntsen, Tormod Hjortnæs Larsen, Christian Settemsli Mogstad, Jaysuma Saidy Ndure0.16240.04
1112Mustafa Delioğlu, Sezai Özkaya, Hakan Karacaoğlu, İzzet Safer0.25440.23
22Mikhail Idrisov, Ivan Teplykh, Roman Smirnov, Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko0.173
25Jan Žumer, Matic Osovnikar, Boštjan Fridrih, Gregor Kokalovič0.165

Final