2023 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay explained

Event:	Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
Competition:	2023 European Athletics U23 Championships
Venue:	Leppävaara Stadium, Espoo
Dates:	15–16 July
Competitors:	67
Nations:	14
Win Value:	3:02.49
Gold:	Luca Sito Riccardo Meli Francesco Domenico Rossi Lorenzo Benati Andrea Panassidi Matteo Raimondi
Goldnoc:	ITA
Silver:	Ilyas Çanakçi Kubilay Ençü Berke Akçam İsmail Nezir Yağız Canlı Oğuzhan Kaya
Silvernoc:	TUR
Bronze:	Ethan Brown Brodie Young Samuel Reardon Edward Faulds Isaac Cory Emmanuel Agyare
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2021
Next:	2025

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Espoo, Finland, at Leppävaara Stadium on 15 and 16 July.^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

European U23 record		3:02.13	Debrecen, Hungary	15 July 2007
Championship U23 record

Results

Round 1

Qualification rule: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Nation	Time
1	2	align=left	align=left	3:05.99	Q,
2	1	align=left	align=left	3:06.08	Q,
3	1	align=left	align=left	3:06.21	Q,
4	1	align=left	align=left	3:06.24	Q,
5	1	align=left	align=left	3:06.27	q,
6	1	align=left	align=left	3:06.34	q,
7	2	align=left	align=left	3:06.72	Q,
8		align=left	align=left	3:07.12
9	2	align=left	align=left	3:07.48
10	1	align=left	align=left	3:07.81
11	2	align=left	align=left	3:08.35
12	2	align=left	align=left	3:09.12
13	2	align=left	align=left	3:09.44
14	2	align=left	align=left	3:13.20

Final

^[6]

Rank	Nation	Time
	align=left	align=left	3:02.49
	align=left	align=left	3:03.04
	align=left	align=left	3:03.12
4	align=left	align=left	3:03.79
5	align=left	align=left	3:05.51
6	align=left	align=left	3:05.68
7	align=left	align=left	3:07.50
8	align=left	align=left	3:08.54

Notes and References

Web site: Event Schedule: European Athletics U23 Championships 2023 . Watch Athletics . 6 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231128204031/https://www.watchathletics.com/page/4422/event-schedule-european-athletics-u23-championships-2023 . 28 November 2023 . live.
Web site: 4 x 400m Relay Men Round 1 Heat 1/3 Results. EAA. 15 July 2023. 20 July 2023. 21 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230721061632/https://espoo23results.european-athletics.com/resEAA/pdf/ESP2023/ATH/ESP2023_ATH_C73E_ATHM4X400M------------RND1000100--.pdf. live.
Web site: 4 x 400m Relay Men Round 1 Heat 2/3 Results. EAA. 15 July 2023. 20 July 2023. 21 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230721061625/https://espoo23results.european-athletics.com/resEAA/pdf/ESP2023/ATH/ESP2023_ATH_C73E_ATHM4X400M------------RND1000200--.pdf. live.
Web site: 4 x 400m Relay Men Round 1 Rerun Results. EAA. 15 July 2023. 20 July 2023. 21 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230721061630/https://espoo23results.european-athletics.com/resEAA/pdf/ESP2023/ATH/ESP2023_ATH_C73E_ATHM4X400M------------RND1000300--.pdf. live.
Web site: 4 x 400m Relay Men Round 1 Results Summary. EAA. 15 July 2023. 20 July 2023. 21 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230721061628/https://espoo23results.european-athletics.com/resEAA/pdf/ESP2023/ATH/ESP2023_ATH_C74A_ATHM4X400M------------RND1--------.pdf. live.
Web site: 4 x 400m Relay Men Final Results. EAA. 16 July 2023. 21 July 2023. 16 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230716174549/https://espoo23results.european-athletics.com/resEAA/pdf/ESP2023/ATH/ESP2023_ATH_C73E_ATHM4X400M------------FNL-000100--.pdf. live.