The 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 9 and August 10.
 Robert Esmie Glenroy Gilbert Bruny Surin Donovan Bailey |  Osmond Ezinwa Olapade Adeniken Francis Obikwelu Davidson Ezinwa | Darren Braithwaite Darren Campbell Douglas Walker Julian Golding |
All times shown are in seconds.
(Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.41 Q (NR)
(Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 39.04 Q (SB)
(Aleksey Chikhachov, Serhiy Osovych, Oleh Kramarenko, Vladyslav Dolohodin) 39.32 Q (SB)
(Carlos Villaseñor, Alejandro Banda, Jaime de Jesus Lopez, Juan Pedro Toledo) 39.93
(Brian Lewis, Tim Montgomery, Dennis Mitchell, Maurice Greene) DNF
(Donovan Powell, Dennis Mowatt, Garth Robinson, Cawley Elston) DNS
DNS
(Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.31 Q (AR) (Carlton Chambers, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.36 Q (SB)
(Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.44 Q (AR) (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.46 q
(Paulo Neves, Mário Barbosa, Paulo Figueiredo, Carlos Calado) 39.37 (SB)
(Marko Štor, Urban Acman, Tomaz Božic, Gregor Breznik) 39.62 (NR)
(Augustine Nketia, Chris Donaldson, Paul Gibbons, Donald MacDonald) 39.66
(Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Robert M. Dennis, Edward Neufville) 39.90 (NR)
(Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.80 Q (SB)
(Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Francisco Javier Navarro) 38.87 Q
(Marcin Krzywański, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 39.00 q (SB)
(Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.09 q (NR)
(Kevin Cogley, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Neil Ryan) 39.46 (NR)
(Alfred Moussambani, Issa-Aimé Nthépé, Serge Bengono, Claude Toukene) 39.73
(Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.64 Q (SB)
(Alexandros Yenovelis, Thomas Sbokos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis) 38.74 Q (NR)
(Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.97 Q
(Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.05 q (NR)
(Viktor Kovács, Miklós Gyulai, Szabolcs Alexa, Gábor Dobos) 39.38 (SB)
(Ryan Witnish, Damien Marsh, Steve Brimacombe, Rod Mapstone) 39.39 (SB)
DNS (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.12 Q (NR) (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.60 Q (NR) (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.71 Q (SB) (Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.77 (Marcin Krzywański, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 38.79 (SB) (Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.53 (Alexandros Yenovelis, Thomas Sbokos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis) DNF (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 37.94 Q (WL) (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.06 Q (SB) (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.15 Q (SB) (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.17 Q (AR) (Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.31 (AR) (Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 38.89 (SB) (Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.12 (Aleksey Chikhachov, Serhiy Osovych, Igor Strakh, Vladyslav Dolohodin) DNF (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 37.86 (WL) (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.07 (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.15 (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.26 (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.48 (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.72 (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Gilles Quénéhervé, Stéphane Cali) DQ