1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Medals

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

Heat 1

1.  United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Dennis Mitchell) 38.80 Q
2.  Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 39.11 Q
3.  Japan (Kaoru Matsubara, Hirohisa Ota, Masahiro Nagura, Hiroki Fuwa) 39.49 Q
4.  China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.63 Q
5.  Spain (Enrique Talavera, Juan José Prado, Miguel Ángel García, José Javier Arqués) 40.20 q
6.  Uganda (Moses Musonge, Joseph Ssali, Sunday Olweny, Edward Bitoga) 40.22

Heat 2

1.  Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Andrey Fedoriv) 38.98 Q
2.  West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 39.10 Q
3.  Brazil (Joilto Bonfim, Carlos de Oliveira, Arnaldo de Oliveira Silva, Robson da Silva) 39.57 Q
4.  Italy (Ezio Madonia, Stefano Tilli, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.58 Q
5.  Ghana (John Myles-Mills, Emmanuel Tuffour, Salaam Gariba, Eric Akogyiram) 39.77 q
6.  Chinese Taipei (Lai Cheng-Chuan, Lee Shiun-Long, Chang Yih-Yuan, Cheng Hsin-Fu) 40.05 q

Heat 3

1.  Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.76 Q
2.  Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.88 Q
3.  Cuba (Ricardo Chacon, Leandro Peñalver, Sergio Querol, Andrés Simón) 39.44 Q
4.  Senegal (Charles-Louis Seck, Hamidou Diawara, Joseph Dias, Amadou Mbaye) 39.83 Q
5.  Portugal (Arnaldo Abrantes, Pedro Curvelo, Luís Cunha, Luís Barroso) 40.10 q

Heat 1

1.  Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Vladimir Krylov) 38.29 Q
2.  Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.50 Q
3.  West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 38.84 Q
4.  Italy (Ezio Madonia, Stefano Tilli, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.52 Q
5.  Japan (Kaoru Matsubara, Hirohisa Ota, Masahiro Nagura, Hiroki Fuwa) 39.71
6.  Spain (Miguel Ángel García, Juan José Prado, Angel Heras, José Javier Arqués) 39.74
7.  Ghana (John Myles-Mills, Emmanuel Tuffour, Salaam Gariba, Eric Akogyiram) 39.94
8.  Senegal (Charles-Louis Seck, Hamidou Diawara, Joseph Dias, Amadou Mbaye) 40.22

Heat 2

1.  United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Dennis Mitchell) 38.33 Q
2.  Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.66 Q
3.  Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 38.78 Q
4.  China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.05 (AR) Q
5.  Cuba (Ricardo Chacon, Leandro Peñalver, Sergio Querol, Andrés Simón) 39.08
6.  Brazil (Joilto Bonfim, Carlos De Oliveira, Arnaldo de Oliveira Silva, Robson da Silva) 39.22
7.  Chinese Taipei (Lai Cheng-Chuan, Lee Shiun-Long, Chang Yih-Yuan, Cheng Hsin-Fu) 39.90
8.  Portugal (Arnaldo Abrantes, Pedro Curvelo, Luís Cunha, Luís Barroso) 40.24

Final

1.  United States (Lee McRae, Lee McNeill, Harvey Glance, Carl Lewis) 37.90
2.  Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Viktor Bryzgin, Vladimir Muravyov, Vladimir Krylov) 38.02 (AR)
3.  Jamaica (John Mair, Andrew Smith, Clive Wright, Ray Stewart) 38.41
4.  Canada (Ben Johnson, Atlee Mahorn, Desai Williams, Mike Dwyer) 38.47
5.  West Germany (Fritz Heer, Volker Westhagemann, Christian Haas, Norbert Dobeleit) 38.73
6.  Hungary (István Nagy, László Karaffa, István Tatár, Attila Kovács) 39.04
7.  Italy (Ezio Madonia, Domenico Gorla, Paolo Catalano, Pierfrancesco Pavoni) 39.62
8.  China (Li Tao, Cai Jianming, Li Feng, Zheng Chen) 39.93