2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 14 and 15 July.[1][2][3]
Medalists
[edit]Records
[edit]Prior to the competition[update], the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.
World Junior Record & Championship Record | United States (Brandon Johnson, LaShawn Merritt, Jason Craig, Kerron Clement) | 3:01.09 | Grosseto, Italy | 18 July 2004 |
World Junior Leading | Trinidad and Tobago (Asa Guevara, Brandon Benjamin, Theon Lewis, Machel Cedenio) | 3:05.95 | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 24 June 2012 |
Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics | ||||
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World Junior Leading | United States (Quincy Downing, Aldrich Bailey, Chidi Okezie, Arman Hall) | 3:03.99 | Barcelona, Spain | 15 July 2012 |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified
Final
[edit]Rank | Lane | Nation | Athletes | Time | Notes |
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6 | United States | Quincy Downing, Aldrich Bailey, Chidi Okezie, Arman Hall | 3:03.99 | WJL | |
5 | Poland | Karol Zalewski, Rafał Smoleń, Piotr Kuśnierz, Patryk Dobek | 3:05.05 | NJ | |
4 | Trinidad and Tobago | Asa Guevara, Jereem Richards, Brandon Benjamin, Machel Cedenio | 3:06.32 | ||
4 | 2 | Australia | Jarryd Buchan, Jay Meaney, Max Waldron, Steven Solomon | 3:06.58 | SB |
5 | 3 | Jamaica | Shavon Barnes, Javon Francis, Lennox Williams, Jermaine Fyffe | 3:07.31 | SB |
6 | 8 | Saudi Arabia | Ibrahim Mohammed Saleh, Abdullah Ahmed Abkar, Bandar Atiyah Kaabi, Basheer Atiah Al Barakati | 3:09.26 | |
7 | 9 | Japan | Naohiro Yokoyama, Kenta Kimura, Shota Kozuma, Kazushi Kimura | 3:09.67 | |
7 | Italy | Vito Incantalupo, Marco Lorenzi, Davide Re, Michele Tricca | DSQ |
Participation
[edit]According to an unofficial count, 76 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.
- Australia (4)
- Bahamas (4)
- Canada (4)
- Finland (4)
- Germany (4)
- Ghana (4)
- India (4)
- Italy (5)
- Jamaica (5)
- Japan (4)
- Norway (4)
- Poland (5)
- Russia (4)
- Saudi Arabia (4)
- South Africa (4)
- Spain (4)
- Trinidad and Tobago (4)
- United States (5)
References
[edit]- ^ "iaaf.org – International Association of Athletics Federations". Archived from the original on 27 July 2012.
- ^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC – 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
- ^ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Eugene 2014 – FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015