| 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| Track events | ||
| 60 m | men | women |
| 400 m | men | women |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | men | women |
| 60 m hurdles | men | women |
| 4×400 m relay | men | women |
| Field events | ||
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | women |
| Long jump | men | women |
| Triple jump | men | women |
| Shot put | men | women |
| Combined events | ||
| Pentathlon | women | |
| Heptathlon | men | |
The Men's 4 x 400 metres relay race at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held at March 6, 2011 at 17:40 local time. [1]
| Standing records prior to the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record |  | 3:02.83 | Maebashi, Japan | 7 March 1999 |
| European record |  | 3:03.01 | Maebashi, Japan | 7 March 1999 |
| Championship record | | 3:05.50 | Vienna, Austria | 3 March 2002 |
| World Leading | University of Arkansas | 3:05.13 | Fayetteville, United States | 27 February 2011 |
| European Leading | ||||
The final was held at 17:40. [2]
| Rank | Lane | Nationality | Athlete | React | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1 |  | Marc Macedot Leslie Djhone Mamoudou Hanne Yoan Décimus | 0.475 | 3:06.17 | NR |
 | 4 |  | Nigel Levine Nick Leavey Richard Strachan Richard Buck | 0.180 | 3:06.46 | |
 | 5 |  | Jonathan Borlée Antoine Gillet Nils Duerinck Kevin Borlée | 0.221 | 3:06.57 | NR |
| DQ | 3 |  | Dmitriy Buryak Pavel Trenikhin Sergey Petukhov Denis Alekseyev | 0.185 | Doping | |
| 4 | 2 | | Mateusz Fórmański Marcin Marciniszyn Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina | 0.225 | 3:09.31 | |
| 6 |  | Joeri Moerman Youssef El Rhalfioui Bjorn Blauwhof Daniël Franken | 0.243 | DQ | R 170.9 [3] |
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