2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 14 and 15 July.[1][2][3]
Medalists edit
Records edit
Prior to the competition[update], the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.
| World Junior Record & Championship Record |
 United States(Brandon Johnson, LaShawn Merritt, Jason Craig, Kerron Clement) |
3:01.09 | Grosseto, Italy | 18 July 2004 |
| World Junior Leading |  Trinidad and Tobago(Asa Guevara, Brandon Benjamin, Theon Lewis, Machel Cedenio) |
3:05.95 | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 24 June 2012 |
| Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Junior Leading | United States (Quincy Downing, Aldrich Bailey, Chidi Okezie, Arman Hall) |
3:03.99 | Barcelona, Spain | 15 July 2012 |
Results edit
Heats edit
Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified
Final edit
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Athletes | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
6 | United States |
Quincy Downing, Aldrich Bailey, Chidi Okezie, Arman Hall | 3:03.99 | WJL |
 |
5 |  Poland |
Karol Zalewski, Rafał Smoleń, Piotr Kuśnierz, Patryk Dobek | 3:05.05 | NJ |
 |
4 | Trinidad and Tobago |
Asa Guevara, Jereem Richards, Brandon Benjamin, Machel Cedenio | 3:06.32 | |
| 4 | 2 |  Australia |
Jarryd Buchan, Jay Meaney, Max Waldron, Steven Solomon | 3:06.58 | SB |
| 5 | 3 |  Jamaica |
Shavon Barnes, Javon Francis, Lennox Williams, Jermaine Fyffe | 3:07.31 | SB |
| 6 | 8 |  Saudi Arabia |
Ibrahim Mohammed Saleh, Abdullah Ahmed Abkar, Bandar Atiyah Kaabi, Basheer Atiah Al Barakati | 3:09.26 | |
| 7 | 9 |  Japan |
Naohiro Yokoyama, Kenta Kimura, Shota Kozuma, Kazushi Kimura | 3:09.67 | |
| 7 |  Italy |
Vito Incantalupo, Marco Lorenzi, Davide Re, Michele Tricca | DSQ |
Participation edit
According to an unofficial count, 76 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.
Australia (4)
Bahamas (4)
Canada (4)
Finland (4)
Germany (4)
Ghana (4)
India (4)
Italy (5)
Jamaica (5)
Japan (4)
Norway (4)
Poland (5)
Russia (4)
Saudi Arabia (4)
South Africa (4)
Spain (4)
Trinidad and Tobago (4)
United States (5)
References edit
- ^ "iaaf.org – International Association of Athletics Federations". Archived from the original on 27 July 2012.
- ^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC – 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
- ^ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Eugene 2014 – FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015