1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

The 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 9 and August 10.

Heats
All times shown are in seconds.

Heat 1

 * 1) 🇬🇭 ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.41 Q (NR)
 * 2) 🇸🇪 sweden (Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 39.04 Q (SB)
 * 3) 🇺🇦 ukraine (Aleksey Chikhachov, Serhiy Osovych, Oleh Kramarenko, Vladyslav Dolohodin) 39.32 Q (SB)
 * 4) 🇲🇽 mexico (Carlos Villaseñor, Alejandro Banda, Jaime de Jesus Lopez, Juan Pedro Toledo) 39.93
 * 🇺🇸 united states (Brian Lewis, Tim Montgomery, Dennis Mitchell, Maurice Greene) DNF
 * 🇯🇲 jamaica (Donovan Powell, Dennis Mowatt, Garth Robinson, Cawley Elston) DNS
 * 🇨🇾 cyprus DNS

Heat 2

 * 1) 🇧🇷 brazil (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.31 Q (AR)
 * 2) 🇨🇦 canada (Carlton Chambers, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.36 Q (SB)
 * 3) 🇯🇵 japan (Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.44 Q (AR)
 * 4) 🇳🇬 nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.46 q
 * 5) 🇵🇹 portugal (Paulo Neves, Mário Barbosa, Paulo Figueiredo, Carlos Calado) 39.37 (SB)
 * 6) 🇸🇮 slovenia (Marko Štor, Urban Acman, Tomaz Božic, Gregor Breznik) 39.62 (NR)
 * 7) 🇳🇿 new zealand (Augustine Nketia, Chris Donaldson, Paul Gibbons, Donald MacDonald) 39.66
 * 8) 🇱🇷 liberia (Kouty Mawenh, Sayon Cooper, Robert M. Dennis, Edward Neufville) 39.90 (NR)

Heat 3

 * 1) undefined (Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Darren Braithwaite, Julian Golding) 38.47 Q (SB)
 * 2) 🇫🇷 france (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.80 Q (SB)
 * 3) 🇪🇸 spain (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Francisco Javier Navarro) 38.87 Q
 * 4) 🇵🇱 poland (Marcin Krzywański, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 39.00 q (SB)
 * 5) 🇧🇸 bahamas (Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.09 q (NR)
 * 6) 🇮🇪 ireland (Kevin Cogley, Gary Ryan, Tom Comyns, Neil Ryan) 39.46 (NR)
 * 7) 🇨🇲 cameroon (Alfred Moussambani, Issa-Aimé Nthépé, Serge Bengono, Claude Toukene) 39.73
 * undefined (Eric Pacome N'Dri, Jean-Olivier Zirignon, Ahmed Douhou, Ibrahim Meité) DQ

Heat 4

 * 1) 🇨🇺 cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.64 Q (SB)
 * 2) 🇬🇷 greece (Alexandros Yenovelis, Thomas Sbokos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis) 38.74 Q (NR)
 * 3) 🇮🇹 italy (Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.97 Q
 * 4) 🇶🇦 qatar (Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.05 q (NR)
 * 5) 🇭🇺 hungary (Viktor Kovács, Miklós Gyulai, Szabolcs Alexa, Gábor Dobos) 39.38 (SB)
 * 6) 🇦🇺 australia (Ryan Witnish, Damien Marsh, Steve Brimacombe, Rod Mapstone) 39.39 (SB)
 * 🇫🇯 fiji DNS

Heat 1

 * 1) 🇬🇭 ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.12 Q (NR)
 * 2) undefined (Dwain Chambers, Darren Campbell, Darren Braithwaite, Julian Golding) 38.25 Q (SB)
 * 3) 🇪🇸 spain (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.60 Q (NR)
 * 4) 🇫🇷 france (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Olivier Théophile, Stéphane Cali) 38.71 Q (SB)
 * 5) 🇮🇹 italy (Andrea Amici, Giovanni Puggioni, Carlo Occhiena, Sandro Floris) 38.77
 * 6) 🇵🇱 poland (Marcin Krzywański, Dariusz Adamczyk, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk) 38.79 (SB)
 * 7) 🇶🇦 qatar (Jassim Abbas, Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) 39.53
 * 🇬🇷 greece (Alexandros Yenovelis, Thomas Sbokos, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Aggelos Pavlakakis) DNF

Heat 2

 * 1) 🇳🇬 nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 37.94 Q (WL)
 * 2) 🇨🇺 cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.06 Q (SB)
 * 3) 🇨🇦 canada (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 38.15 Q (SB)
 * 4) 🇧🇷 brazil (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.17 Q (AR)
 * 5) 🇯🇵 japan (Satoru Inoue, Koji Ito, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara) 38.31 (AR)
 * 6) 🇸🇪 sweden (Patrik Lövgren, Torbjörn Mårtensson, Torbjörn Eriksson, Peter Karlsson) 38.89 (SB)
 * 7) 🇧🇸 bahamas (Renward Wells, Andrew Tynes, Dennis Darling, Joseph Styles) 39.12
 * 🇺🇦 ukraine (Aleksey Chikhachov, Serhiy Osovych, Igor Strakh, Vladyslav Dolohodin) DNF

Final

 * 1) 🇨🇦 canada (Robert Esmie, Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, Donovan Bailey) 37.86 (WL)
 * 2) 🇳🇬 nigeria (Osmond Ezinwa, Olapade Adeniken, Francis Obikwelu, Davidson Ezinwa) 38.07
 * 3) undefined (Darren Braithwaite, Darren Campbell, Douglas Walker, Julian Golding) 38.14 (SB)
 * 4) 🇨🇺 cuba (Alfredo García-Baró, Misael Ortíz, Iván García, Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda) 38.15
 * 5) 🇬🇭 ghana (Abu Duah, Eric Nkansah, Aziz Zakari, Emmanuel Tuffour) 38.26
 * 6) 🇧🇷 brazil (Vicente de Lima, Claudinei da Silva, Robson da Silva, Édson Luciano Ribeiro) 38.48
 * 7) 🇪🇸 spain (Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Carlos Berlanga) 38.72
 * 🇫🇷 france (Emmanuel Bangué, Frédéric Krantz, Gilles Quénéhervé, Stéphane Cali) DQ