2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the 2002 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
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		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 10–11.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Great Britain Jared Deacon Matthew Elias Jamie Baulch Daniel Caines Sean Baldock	Russia Oleg Mishukov Andrey Semyonov Ruslan Mashchenko Yuriy Borzakovskiy Yevgeniy Lebedev	France Leslie Djhone Ahmed Douhou Naman Keïta Ibrahima Wade

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	1	Great Britain	Jared Deacon, Sean Baldock, Jamie Baulch, Matthew Elias	3:02.97	Q
2	1	Poland	Marcin Marciniszyn, Artur Gąsiewski, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Robert Maćkowiak	3:03.11	Q
3	1	Russia	Oleg Mishukov, Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Yevgeniy Lebedev, Andrey Semyonov	3:03.11	Q
4	2	Germany	Bastian Swillims, Jens Dautzenberg, Lars Figura, Ingo Schultz	3:03.55	Q
5	1	Ireland	Robert Daly, Paul McKee, Antoine Burke, David McCarthy	3:03.73	q, NR
6	2	France	Leslie Djhone, Ahmed Douhou, Ibrahima Wade, Naman Keïta	3:03.77	Q
7	2	Greece	Stilianos Dimotsios, Anastasios Gousis, Georgios Ikonomidis, Periklis Iakovakis	3:04.31	Q
8	1	Czech Republic	Jiří Vojtík, Radek Zachoval, Jan Mazanec, Karel Bláha	3:04.35	q
9	2	Spain	César Martínez, Salvador Rodríguez, Alberto Martínez, David Canal	3:05.28
	2	Latvia	Inguns Sviklinš, Viktors Lacis, Girts Lamba, Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	DQ

Final

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Great Britain	Jared Deacon, Matthew Elias, Jamie Baulch, Daniel Caines	3:01.25
	Russia	Oleg Mishukov, Andrey Semyonov, Ruslan Mashchenko, Yuriy Borzakovskiy	3:01.34
	France	Leslie Djhone, Ahmed Douhou, Naman Keïta, Ibrahima Wade	3:02.76
4	Czech Republic	Štěpán Tesařík, Radek Zachoval, Jiří Mužík, Karel Bláha	3:03.82
5	Ireland	Robert Daly, Paul McKee, Antoine Burke, David McCarthy	3:04.13
6	Greece	Stilianos Dimotsios, Anastasios Gousis, Georgios Ikonomidis, Periklis Iakovakis	3:04.26
7	Germany	Ingo Schultz, Jens Dautzenberg, Lars Figura, Bastian Swillims	3:08.56
	Poland	Marcin Marciniszyn, Marek Plawgo, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Robert Maćkowiak	DQ

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