EUGENE, Oregon (July 22) — The United States clocked a world-leading time of 37.87 seconds to qualify with the fastest time from the heats of the men’s 4x100m relays on Day 8 at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 here at Hayward Field on Friday.
A team that included Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles, Elijah Hall, and Marvin Bracy, dominated the first heat to advance to the medal race and could even strengthen the squad for the final with Trayvon Bromell among the likely person to come in for the final.
Great Britain and Northern Island ran 38.49 for second place behind the USA, with Ghana also making progress to the final.
Meanwhile, France took the second semi-final heat in 38.09 seconds, just edging Canada at 38.10, with South Africa taking third in 38.31.
Jamaica ran 38.33 for fourth, and Brazil clocked 38.41 for fifth to grab the last two qualifying spots for the final.
Both Nigeria and Japan were disqualified from heat one.
Olympic champion Italy, which ran without top sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who is injured –didn’t advance to the final.
Men’s 4x100m relay heats results – World Athletics Championships
| RESULT | ||||
| POS | COUNTRY | TEAM | MARK | DETAILS |
| 1 | USA | United States Christian COLEMAN Noah LYLES Elijah HALL Marvin BRACY | 37.87 WL | Q |
| 2 | GBR | Great Britain & NI Adam GEMILI Zharnel HUGHES Nethaneel MITCHELL-BLAKE Reece PRESCOD | 38.49 | Q |
| 3 | GHA | Ghana Sean SAFO-ANTWI Benjamin AZAMATI Joseph ODURO MANU Joseph Paul AMOAH | 38.58 SB | Q |
| 4 | GER | Germany Kevin KRANZ Joshua HARTMANN Owen ANSAH Lucas ANSAH-PEPRAH | 38.83 | |
| 5 | CHN | PR of China Xingqiang TANG Zhenye XIE Bingtian SU Guanfeng CHEN | 38.83 SB | |
| 6 | NED | Netherlands Hensley PAULINA Taymir BURNET Joris VAN GOOL Raphael BOUJU | 39.07 | |
| NGR | Nigeria Raymond EKEVWO Godson Oke OGHENEBRUME Udodi Chudi ONWUZURIKE Favour Oghene Tejiri ASHE | DQ | ||
| JPN | Japan Ryuichiro SAKAI Ryota SUZUKI Koki UEYAMA Hiroki YANAGITA | DQ |
| RESULT | ||||
| POS | COUNTRY | TEAM | MARK | DETAILS |
| 1 | FRA | France Méba Mickaël ZEZE Pablo MATEO Ryan ZEZE Jimmy VICAUT | 38.09 SB | Q |
| 2 | CAN | Canada Aaron BROWN Jerome BLAKE Brendon RODNEY Andre DE GRASSE | 38.10 SB | Q |
| 3 | RSA | South Africa Henricho BRUINTJIES Emile ERASMUS Clarence MUNYAI Akani SIMBINE | 38.31 SB | Q |
| 4 | JAM | Jamaica Ackeem BLAKE Kemar BAILEY-COLE Conroy JONES Jelani WALKER | 38.33 SB | q |
| 5 | BRA | Brazil Rodrigo DO NASCIMENTO Felipe BARDI Derick SILVA Erik CARDOSO | 38.41 SB | q |
| 6 | ESP | Spain Bernat CANET Pol RETAMAL Jesús GÓMEZ Sergio LÓPEZ | 38.70 SB | |
| 7 | ITA | Italy Lorenzo PATTA Filippo TORTU Eseosa Fostine DESALU Chituru ALI | 38.74 SB | |
| DEN | Denmark Simon HANSEN Frederik SCHOU-NIELSEN Tobias LARSEN Kojo MUSAH | DNF |
