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2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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Men's 4 x 400 metres relay
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.

Medalists

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Gold Antoine Gillet, Jonathan Borlée
Jente Bouckaert, Kevin Borlée
 Belgium
Silver Nigel Levine, Conrad Williams
Robert Tobin, Richard Buck
 Great Britain
Bronze Jonas Plass, Kamghe Gaba
Eric Krüger, Thomas Schneider
 Germany

Records

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Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics Championships
World record  United States
Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts
Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson
2:54.29 Stuttgart, Germany 22 August 1993
European record  United Kingdom
Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch
Mark Richardson, Roger Black
2:56.60 Atlanta, United States 3 August 1996
Championship record  United Kingdom
Paul Sanders, Kriss Akabusi
John Regis, Roger Black
2:58.22 Split, Yugoslavia 1 September 1990
World Leading University of Florida
Dedric Dukes, Hugh Graham Jr
Leonardo Seymore, Tony McQuay
3:00.02 Des Moines, United States 9 June 2012
European Leading  Belgium
Antoine Gillet, Jonathan Borlée
Jente Bouckaert, Kevin Borlée
3:01.76 Rome, Italy 31 May 2012
Broken records during the 2012 European Athletics Championships
European Leading  Belgium
Antoine Gillet, Jonathan Borlée
Jente Bouckaert, Kevin Borlée
3:01.09 Helsinki, Finland 1 July 2012

Schedule

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Date Time Round
30 June 2012 20:25 Round 1
1 July 2012 19:45 Final

Results

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Round 1

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

Rank Heat Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes
1 2 6  Belgium Nils Duerinck, Antoine Gillet, Jente Bouckaert, Kevin Borlée 3:05.29 Q
2 2 8  Czech Republic Daniel Němeček, Pavel Maslák, Josef Prorok, Jakub Holuša 3:05.41 Q
3 1 2  Great Britain Luke Lennon-Ford, Michael Bingham, Conrad Williams, Nigel Levine 3:05.50 Q
4 1 5  Poland Kamil Budziejewski, Jan Ciepiela, Michał Pietrzak, Piotr Wiaderek 3:05.69 Q
5 1 3  Germany Jonas Plass, Kamghe Gaba, Niklas Zender, Thomas Schneider 3:05.71 Q
6 2 7  Ukraine Myhaylo Knysh, Oleksiy Ryemyen, Yevhen Hutsol, Volodymyr Burakov 3:06.12 Q
7 2 4  Netherlands Joeri Moerman, Bram Peters, Dennis Spillekom, Youssef El Rhalfioui 3:06.15 q
8 1 6  France Teddy Venel, Naman Keïta, Marc Macedot, Mame-Ibra Anne 3:06.44 q
9 1 4  Italy Lorenzo Valentini, Isalbet Juarez, Andrea Barberi, Claudio Licciardello 3:08.78
10 2 3  Spain Roberto Briones, Mark Ujakpor, David Testa, Samuel García 3:09.11
11 1 8  Russia Yegor Kibakin, Aleksey Kenig, Maksim Aleksandrenko, Nikita Uglov 3:09.94
12 2 2  Finland Petteri Monni, Ville Wendelin, Oskari Mörö, Jani Koskela 3:10.26
13 1 7  Turkey Mehmet Güzel, Halit Kiliç, Bugra Han Kocabeyoglu, Yavuz Can 3:11.44
14 2 5  Hungary Tibor Kása, Zoltán Kovács, Dávid Bartha, Máté Lukács 3:11.79
1 1  Ireland Brian Murphy, David Gillick, Tim Crowe, Jason Harvey DQ

Final

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Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 6  Belgium Antoine Gillet, Jonathan Borlée, Jente Bouckaert, Kevin Borlée 3:01.09 EL
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 5  Great Britain Nigel Levine, Conrad Williams, Robert Tobin, Richard Buck 3:01.56
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7  Germany Jonas Plass, Kamghe Gaba, Eric Krüger, Thomas Schneider 3:01.77
4 4  Poland Piotr Wiaderek, Jan Ciepiela, Marcin Marciniszyn, Kacper Kozłowski 3:02.37
5 3  Czech Republic Daniel Němeček, Pavel Maslák, Josef Prorok, Jakub Holuša 3:02.72 NR
6 1  France Teddy Venel, Toumane Coulibaly, Marc Macedot, Yannick Fonsat 3:03.04
7 8  Ukraine Oleksiy Ryemyen, Stanislav Melnykov, Yevhen Hutsol, Volodymyr Burakov 3:04.56
8 2  Netherlands Joeri Moerman, Bram Peters, Dennis Spillekom, Youssef El Rhalfioui 3:05.68

References

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