2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Events at the 2002 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 10–11.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ukraine Kostyantyn Vasyukov Kostyantyn Rurak Anatoliy Dovhal Oleksandr Kaydash	Poland Ryszard Pilarczyk Łukasz Chyła Marcin Nowak Marcin Urbaś Piotr Balcerzak	Germany Ronny Ostwald Marc Blume Alexander Kosenkow Christian Schacht

Note: Great Britain team originally won the gold but was later disqualified for Dwain Chambers' steroid use.

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	2	France	David Patros, Issa-Aimé Nthépé, Jérôme Éyana, Ronald Pognon	38.93	Q, SB
2	2	Poland	Piotr Balcerzak, Łukasz Chyła, Ryszard Pilarczyk, Marcin Nowak	38.98	Q, SB
3	2	Spain	Cecilio Maestra, Angel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Carlos Berlanga	39.08	q, SB
4	1	Germany	Ronny Ostwald, Marc Blume, Alexander Kosenkow, Christian Schacht	39.21	Q
5	1	Russia	Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Blinov, Aleksandr Ryabov, Sergey Bychkov	39.24	Q
6	1	Ukraine	Kostyantyn Vasyukov, Kostyantyn Rurak, Anatoliy Dovhal, Oleksandr Kaydash	39.24	Q
7	1	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Marco Torrieri	39.28	q
8	1	Finland	Tommi Hartonen, Tuomas Nasi, Stefan Koivikko, Markus Pöyhönen	39.58
9	2	Estonia	Argo Golberg, Maidu Laht, Martin Vihmann, Erki Nool	39.69	NR
10	1	Slovenia	Rok Predanič, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	39.71
11	1	Greece	Aristotelis Gavelas, Alexandros Kontzos, Vasilios Seggos, Georgios Theodoridis	39.92
12	1	Sweden	Peter Häggström, Lenny Martinez, Patrik Lövgren, Johan Engberg	39.99
	2	Netherlands	Martijn Ungerer, Troy Douglas, Timothy Beck, Patrick van Balkom	DNF
	2	Israel	Kfir Golan, Tommy Kafri, Gideon Jablonka, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	DNF
	2	Great Britain	Christian Malcolm, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Dwayne Chambers	DQ

Final

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Ukraine	Kostyantyn Vasyukov, Kostyantyn Rurak, Anatoliy Dovhal, Oleksandr Kaydash	38.53	=NR
	Poland	Ryszard Pilarczyk, Łukasz Chyła, Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś	38.71	SB
	Germany	Ronny Ostwald, Marc Blume, Alexander Kosenkow, Christian Schacht	38.88
4	France	David Patros, Issa-Aimé Nthépé, Jérôme Éyana, Ronald Pognon	38.97
5	Spain	Cecilio Maestra, Angel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Carlos Berlanga	39.07
6	Russia	Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Blinov, Aleksandr Ryabov, Sergey Bychkov	39.12
	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Marco Torrieri	DNF
	Great Britain	Christian Malcolm, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Dwayne Chambers	DQ

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