The men's 4 × 100 metres relay races at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held on Friday 29 September and Saturday 30 September.[1]
The top two teams in each of the initial five heats automatically qualified for the semi-final. The next six fastest team from across the heats also qualified. The top three teams in each of the semi-finals automatically qualified for the final. The next two fastest team from the semi-finals also qualified.
As of 2028, this is the last time the U.S. team won the men's 4 x 100 meters relay in track & field.
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.
| World Record | 37.40 |  Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis | Barcelona (ESP) | 8 August 1992 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37.40 | Jon Drummond Andre Cason Dennis Mitchell Leroy Burrell | Stuttgart (GER) | 21 August 1993 | ||
| Olympic Record | 37.40 | Michael Marsh Leroy Burrell Dennis Mitchell Carl Lewis | Barcelona (ESP) | 8 August 1992 |
All times shown are in seconds.
| Heat 1 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000 | |||||||||
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| Place | Nation | Athletes | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | ||
| Heat | Overall | ||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité | 7 | 0.342 s | 39.06 s | Q | |||
| 2 | 13 | Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep | 3 | 0.196 s | 39.13 s | Q | |||
| 3 | 19 | Rolando Blanco, Oscar Meneses, José Meneses, José Tinoco | 6 | 0.181 s | 39.34 s | ||||
| 4 | 23 | 2 | 0.139 s | 39.57 s | |||||
| 5 | 25 | Anthimos Rotos, Anninos Marcoullides, Prodromos Katsantonis, Yiannakis Zisimides | 4 | 0.460 s | 39.75 s | ||||
| 6 | 31 | Slobodan Spasić, Predrag Momirović, Miloš Šakić, Milan Petaković | 8 | 0.245 s | 39.99 s | ||||
| 7 | 35 | 5 | 0.151 s | 40.23 s | |||||
| 8 | Allyn Condon, Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers | 1 | 0.175 s | DQ | |||||
| Heat 2 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000 | |||||||||
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| Place | Nation | Athletes | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | ||
| Heat | Overall | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Cláudio Roberto Souza | 8 | 0.153 s | 38.32 s | Q | |||
| 2 | 7 | Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo | 5 | 0.429 s | 38.84 s | Q | SB | ||
| 3 | 8 | Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu | 4 | 0.175 s | 38.85 s | q | SB | ||
| 4 | 9 | Donovan Powell, Dwight Thomas, Lindel Frater, Llewellyn Bredwood | 3 | 0.220 s | 38.97 s | q | |||
| 5 | 15 | 6 | 0.146 s | 39.25 s | q | NR | |||
| 6 | 27 | Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Andrew Reyes, Koiyan Morlu | 7 | 0.175 s | 39.77 s | NR | |||
| 7 | 33 | William To, Ho Kwan Lung, Tang Hon Sing, Chiang Wai Hung | 2 | 0.182 s | 40.15 s | ||||
| 8 | 34 | Diego Valdés, Ricardo Roach, Rodrigo Roach, Juan Pablo Faúndez | 1 | 0.161 s | 40.20 s | ||||
| Heat 3 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000 | |||||||||
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| Place | Nation | Athletes | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | ||
| Heat | Overall | ||||||||
| 1 | 10 | 5 | 0.163 s | 39.00 s | Q | ||||
| 2 | 14 | Georgios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis | 2 | 0.236 s | 39.21 s | Q | |||
| 3 | 16T | 6 | 0.458 s | 39.26 s | q | SB | |||
| 3 | 16T | John McAdorey, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Paul Brizzell | 4 | 0.226 s | 39.26 s | NR | |||
| 5 | 22 | Jonathan Chimier, Eric Milazar, Stéphan Buckland, Fernando Augustin | 8 | 0.419 s | 39.55 s | ||||
| 6 | 26 | Kfir Golan, Gidon Yablonka, Tommy Kafri, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy | 7 | 0.237 s | 39.76 s | ||||
| 7 | 30 | Mohamed Al-Yami, Mubarak Ata Mubarak, Salem Mubarak Al-Yami, Jamal Al-Saffar | 7 | 0.193 s | 39.94 s | ||||
| Christian Nsiah, Kenneth Andam, Aziz Zakari, Leonard Myles-Mills | 1 | 0.250 s | DNF | ||||||
| Heat 4 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000 | |||||||||
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| Place | Nation | Athletes | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | ||
| Heat | Overall | ||||||||
| 1 | 4T | José Ángel César, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola | 8 | 0.414 s | 38.74 s | Q | |||
| 2 | 6 | Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson | 2 | 0.167 s | 38.76 s | Q | |||
| 3 | 12 | Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Jacey Harper, Marc Burns | 7 | 0.176 s | 39.12 s | q | SB | ||
| 4 | 21 | Viktor Kovács, Géza Pauer, László Babály, Miklós Gyulai | 6 | 0.474 s | 39.52 s | ||||
| 5 | 24 | Alfred Moussambani, Serge Bengono, Joseph Batangdon, Benjamin Sirimou | 5 | 0.165 s | 39.62 s | ||||
| 6 | 28 | Mohamed Said Al-Maskary, Hamoud Abdallah Al-Dalhami, Mohamed Al-Houti, Jahad Abdullah Al-Sheikh | 1 | 0.125 s | 39.82 s | SB | |||
| 7 | 32 | Osvaldo Nieves, Rogelio Pizarro, Jorge Richardson, Félix Omar Fernández | 3 | 0.233 s | 40.12 s | ||||
| 8 | 38 | Oleg Juravlyov, Konstantin Zhuravlyov, Anvar Kuchmuradov, Nikolay Yeroshenko | 4 | 0.423 s | 41.20 s | ||||
| Heat 5 of 5 Date: Friday 29 September 2000 | ||||||||
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| Place | Nation | Athletes | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | |
| Heat | Overall | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | Kenneth Brokenburr, Tim Montgomery, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene | 6 | 0.216 s | 38.15 s | Q | ||
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 0.222 s | 38.52 s | Q | SB | ||
| 3 | 4T | Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk | 7 | 0.215 s | 38.74 s | q | SB | |
| 4 | 18 | Dmitri Vasilyev, Aleksandr Ryabov, Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Bychkov | 4 | 0.152 s | 39.29 s | SB | ||
| 5 | 20 | Juan Morillo, José Peña, José Carabalí, Hely Ollarves | 2 | 0.214 s | 39.45 s | NR | ||
| 6 | 29 | 5 | 0.129 s | 39.87 s | ||||
| 7 | 36 | 1 | 0.232 s | 40.35 s | ||||
| 8 | 37 | Wilan Louis, Victor Houston, Gabriel Burnett, Fabian Rollins | 8 | 40.38 s | ||||
Round 1- Overall
| Heat 1 of 2 Date: Friday 29 September 2000 | |||||||||
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| Place | Nation | Athletes | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | ||
| Heat | Overall | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene | 6 | 0.142 s | 37.82 s | Q | |||
| 2 | 3T | Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood | 1 | 0.154 s | 38.27 s | Q | NR | ||
| 3 | 7 | Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims | 5 | 0.158 s | 38.64 s | Q | |||
| 4 | 8 | Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo | 3 | 0.146 s | 38.67 s | q | SB | ||
| 5 | 10 | Eric Pacôme N'Dri, Ahmed Douhou, Yves Sonan, Ibrahim Meité | 4 | 0.435 s | 38.82 s | SB | |||
| 6 | 11T | Bradley McCuaig, Glenroy Gilbert, Pierre Browne, Adrian Woodley | 2 | 0.172 s | 38.92 s | SB | |||
| 7 | 13 | Kongdech Natenee, Vissanu Sophanich, Boonyarit Phuksachat, Sittichai Suwonprateep | 7 | 0.150 s | 39.05 s | ||||
| 8 | Uchenna Emedolu, Nnamdi Anusim, Sunday Emmanuel, Deji Aliu | 8 | 0.194 s | DNF | |||||
| Heat 2 of 2 Date: Friday 29 September 2000 | |||||||||
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| Place | Nation | Athletes | Lane | Reaction | Time | Qual. | Record | ||
| Heat | Overall | ||||||||
| 1 | 2 | José Ángel César, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola | 5 | 0.481 s | 38.16 s | Q | |||
| 2 | 3T | Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva | 4 | 0.394 s | 38.27 s | Q | |||
| 3 | 5 | Shingo Kawabata, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara | 6 | 0.481 s | 38.31 s | Q | =AR | ||
| 4 | 6 | Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk | 7 | 0.224 s | 38.60 s | q | SB | ||
| 5 | 9 | Georgios Theodoridis, Konstadinos Kederis, Alexios Alexopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis | 2 | 0.211 s | 38.80 s | ||||
| 6 | 11T | Niconnor Alexander, Julieon Raeburn, Marc Burns, Ato Boldon | 8 | 0.210 s | 38.92 s | NR | |||
| Matt Shirvington, Paul Di Bella, Darryl Wohlsen, Patrick Johnson | 3 | 0.215 s | DQ | ||||||
| Matic Šušteršic, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman | 1 | 0.165 s | DQ | ||||||
Semi-Finals overall
| Final | ||||||||
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| Place | Nation | Athletes | Lane | Reaction | Time | Record | ||
| 1 | Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene | 5 | 0.126 s | 37.61 s | SB | |||
| 2 | Vicente de Lima, Édson Ribeiro, André da Silva, Claudinei da Silva | 4 | 0.188 s | 37.90 s | NR | |||
| 3 | José Ángel César, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, Iván García, Freddy Mayola | 3 | 0.238 s | 38.04 s | SB | |||
| 4 | Lindel Frater, Dwight Thomas, Christopher Williams, Llewellyn Bredwood | 6 | 0.315 s | 38.20 s | NR | |||
| 5 | Frédéric Krantz, David Patros, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims | 7 | 0.153s | 38.49 s | SB | |||
| 6 | Shigeyuki Kojima, Koji Ito, Shingo Suetsugu, Nobuharu Asahara | 2 | 0.221 s | 38.66 s | ||||
| 7 | Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Andrea Colombo | 8 | 0.146s | 38.67 s | ||||
| 8 | Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk | 1 | 0.196 s | 38.96 s | ||||