Athletics at the Friendship Games | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
3000 m | women | |
5000 m | men | |
10,000 m | men | |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | women |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4×100 m relay | men | women |
4×400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | women |
20 km walk | men | |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Combined events | ||
Heptathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the Friendship Games was held on 18 August 1984 at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union.
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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Soviet Union | Sergey Lovachev, Yevgeniy Lomtev, Aleksandr Kurochkin, Viktor Markin | 3:00.16 | NR | |
East Germany | Carlo Niestädt, Mathias Schersing, Thomas Schönlebe, Jens Carlowitz | 3:00.47 | ||
Cuba | Lázaro Martínez, Carlos Reyte, Roberto Ramos, Alberto Juantorena | 3:04.76 | ||
4 | Czechoslovakia | Miroslav Púchovský, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko | 3:05.69 | |
5 | Poland | Robert Kseniak, Ryszard Ostrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień | 3:06.03 | |
6 | Hungary | Gusztáv Menczer, Pál Bankó, István Takács, István Csabo | 3:06.28 | |
7 | Bulgaria | Dimitar Rangelov, Toma Tomov, Dinko Penev, Bozhidar Konstantinov | 3:26.13 | |
8 | South Yemen | Mohammed Samanter, M. Daud, A. Zakir, Muntaser Ali Qassim | 3:29.75 |
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