2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

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Events at the 2010 European Athletics Championships
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The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 31 July and 1 August.

The 2010 European Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the European Athletics Championships, organised under the supervision of the European Athletic Association. They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from 27 July to 1 August 2010. Barcelona was the first Spanish city to host the European Championships.

Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Originally built in 1927 for the 1929 International Exposition in the city, it was renovated in 1989 to be the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Shortly after heat 2, it seemed that three teams (France, Poland and Switzerland) would qualify from heat 1, and five teams (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia and Spain) from heat 2, including Italy that finished second. However, it was announced that Italian team was disqualified, and subsequently Finnish team qualified from heat 1 to final. Later on, Italy made successful protest against Russia, so that Russia was disqualified and Italy proceeded to final.

Medalists

Gold	Christophe Lemaitre, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock France (FRA)
Silver	Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci Italy (ITA)
Bronze	Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller Germany (GER)

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record	Jamaica Nesta Carter, Michael Frater Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell	37.10	Beijing, China	22 August 2008
European record	United Kingdom Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish, Dwain Chambers	37.73	Seville, Spain	29 August 1999
Championship record	France Max Moriniere, Daniel Sangouma Jean-Charles Trouabal, Bruno Marie-Rose	37.79	Split, Yugoslavia	1 September 1990
World Leading	Jamaica Mario Forsythe, Yohan Blake Marvin Anderson, Usain Bolt	37.90	Philadelphia, PA, United States	24 April 2010
European Leading	France Ronald Pognon, Christophe Lemaitre Yannick Lesourd, Martial Mbandjock	38.50	Rome, Italy	10 June 2010
Broken records during the 2010 European Athletics Championships
European Leading	France Jimmy Vicaut, Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock	38.11	Barcelona, Spain	1 August 2010

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
31 July 2010	10:15	Round 1
1 August 2010	19:35	Final

Results

Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Nation	Athletes	React	Time	Notes
1	3	France (FRA)	Imaad Hallay, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock	0.168	39.12	Q
2	4	Poland (POL)	Dariusz Kuć, Paweł Stempel, Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Kryński	0.173	39.20	Q
3	7	Switzerland (SUI)	Pascal Mancini, Aron Beyene, Reto Schenkel, Marc Schneeberger	0.172	39.22	Q
4	6	Finland (FIN)	Hannu Ali-Huokuna, Joni Rautanen, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen	0.143	39.40	q
5	5	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	Leon Baptiste, Craig Pickering, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis	0.180	39.49
6	8	Norway (NOR)	Philip Bjørnå Berntsen, Tormod Hjortnæs Larsen, Christian Settemsli Mogstad, Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	0.162	40.04
7	2	Turkey (TUR)	Mustafa Delioğlu, Sezai Özkaya, Hakan Karacaoğlu, İzzet Safer	0.254	40.23

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Nation	Athletes	React	Time	Notes
1	6	Germany (GER)	Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller	0.174	38.75	Q
2	3	Italy (ITA)	Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci	0.199	38.82	Q
3	4	Portugal (POR)	Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazaldes Nascimento	0.201	39.09	Q
4	7	Spain (ESP)	Alain López, Ángel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Rubén Pros	0.230	39.30	q
5	2	Russia (RUS)	Mikhail Idrisov, Ivan Teplykh, Roman Smirnov, Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko	0.173	99.99!DQ
5	5	Slovenia (SLO)	Jan Žumer, Matic Osovnikar, Boštjan Fridrih, Gregor Kokalovič	0.165	99.99!DQ

Summary

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Athletes	React	Time	Notes
1	2	6	Germany (GER)	Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller	0.174	38.75	Q
2	2	3	Italy (ITA)	Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci	0.199	38.82	Q
3	2	4	Portugal (POR)	Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazaldes Nascimento	0.201	39.09	Q
4	1	3	France (FRA)	Imaad Hallay, Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock	0.168	39.12	Q
5	1	4	Poland (POL)	Dariusz Kuć, Paweł Stempel, Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Kryński	0.173	39.20	Q
6	1	7	Switzerland (SUI)	Pascal Mancini, Aron Beyene, Reto Schenkel, Marc Schneeberger	0.172	39.22	Q
7	2	7	Spain (ESP)	Alain López, Ángel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Rubén Pros	0.230	39.30	q
8	1	6	Finland (FIN)	Hannu Ali-Huokuna, Joni Rautanen, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen	0.143	39.40	q
9	1	5	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	Leon Baptiste, Craig Pickering, Marlon Devonish, Mark Lewis-Francis	0.180	39.49
10	1	8	Norway (NOR)	Philip Bjørnå Berntsen, Tormod Hjortnæs Larsen, Christian Settemsli Mogstad, Jaysuma Saidy Ndure	0.162	40.04
11	1	2	Turkey (TUR)	Mustafa Delioğlu, Sezai Özkaya, Hakan Karacaoğlu, İzzet Safer	0.254	40.23
99!	2	2	Russia (RUS)	Mikhail Idrisov, Ivan Teplykh, Roman Smirnov, Vyacheslav Kolesnichenko	0.173	99.99!DQ
99!	2	5	Slovenia (SLO)	Jan Žumer, Matic Osovnikar, Boštjan Fridrih, Gregor Kokalovič	0.165	99.99!DQ

Final

Rank	Lane	Nationality	Athlete	React	Time	Notes
01!	3	France (FRA)	Jimmy Vicaut, Christophe Lemaitre, Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux, Martial Mbandjock	0.275	38.11	EL
02!	7	Italy (ITA)	Roberto Donati, Simone Collio, Emanuele di Gregorio, Maurizio Checcucci	0.241	38.17	NR
03!	5	Germany (GER)	Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, Alexander Kosenkow, Martin Keller	0.184	38.44
04!4	8	Switzerland (SUI)	Pascal Mancini, Aron Beyene, Reto Schenkel, Marc Schneeberger	0.162	38.69	NR
05!5	4	Poland (POL)	Dariusz Kuć, Paweł Stempel, Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Kryński	0.189	38.83
06!6	6	Portugal (POR)	Ricardo Monteiro, Francis Obikwelu, Arnaldo Abrantes, João Ferreira	0.218	38.88	NR
07!7	1	Finland (FIN)	Hannu Ali-Huokuna, Joni Rautanen, Jonathan Åstrand, Hannu Hämäläinen	0.149	39.29	NR
99!	2	Spain (ESP)	Alain López, Ángel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Rubén Pros	0.149	99.99!DNF

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