2015 Athletics World Championships – 4 × 100 Men’s relay

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The race of the Male 4 × 100 meters relay It took place on 29 August 2015.

Pos.	Nation	Time
	Jamaica Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell, Nickel Ashmeade, Usain Bolt, Rasheed Dwyer ^[first]	37 “36
	Chinese Mo youxue, xie zhenye, su bingtian, zhang peopleng	38 “01
	Canada Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse, Brendon Rodney, Justyn Warner	38 “13

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Before this competition, the world record (WR) and the record of the championships (CR) were as follows.

The reigning champions, worldwide and Olympic, were:

Sample	Athlete	Performance	Data	Competition
Olympic	Jamaica Nesta Carter, Michael Brother, Yohan Blake, Usain Bolt, yesterday Bailey-Cole ^[first]	36 “84	11 August 2012 London, United Kingdom	Games of the XXX Olympiad
World	Jamaica Nesta Carter, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Nickel Ashmeade, Usain Bolt, Warren Weir ^[first], Oshane Bailey ^[first]	37 “36	August 18, 2013 Mosk Russia	World Championships 2013

Before this race, the athletes with the best three performances of the year were:

Qualification: the first three of each series (Q) and the two best times among the excluded (q) qualify for the finals.

Pos.	Drums	Nation	Athletes	Time	Note
first	2	Jamaica	Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell, Rasheed Dwyer, Nickel Ashmeade	37.41	Q,
2	2	France	Emmanuel Biron, Christophe Lemaitre, Guy-Elphège Anouman, Jimmy Vicaut	37.88	Q,
3	first	United States	Trayvon Bromell, Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay, Mike Rodgers	37.91	Q
4	2	Chinese	Mo youxue, xie zhenye, su bingtian, zhang peopleng	37.92	Q,
5	2	Antigua and Barbuda	Chavaughn Walsh, Daniel Bailey, Jared Jarvis, Miguel Francis	38.01	q,
6	2	Canada	Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse, Brendon Rodney, Justyn Warner	38.03	q,
7	first	Great Britain	Richard Kilty, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, James Ellington, Daniel Talbot	38.20	Q,
8	2	Netherlands	Solomon Bockarie, Patrick Van Luijk, Liemarvin Bonevacia, Hensley Paulina	38.41
9	first	Germany	Julian Reus, Sven Knipphals, Alexander Kosenkow, Aleixo Platini Menga	38.57	Q
ten	first	Japan	Kazuma Oseto, Kenji Fujimitsu, Takuya Nakata, Kotaro Taniguchi	38.60
11	first	Ukraine	Roman Kravtsov, Serhiy Smelyk, Volodymyr Suprun, Vitaliy Korzh	38.79
twelfth	first	Bahamas	Warren Fraser, Shavez Hart, Elroy Mcbride, Teray Smith	38.96
	first	Brazil	Gustavo M. dos Santos, Aldemir da Silva Junior, Bruno de Barros, José Carlos Moreira	nf
	2	South Africa	Henricho Bruintjies, Anaso Jobodwana, Antonio Alkana, Akani Simbine	nf

Pos.	Nation	Athletes	Time
	Jamaica	Nesta Carter, Asafa Powell, Nickel Ashmeade, Usain Bolt	37.36
	Chinese	Mo youxue, xie zhenye, su bingtian, zhang peopleng	38.01
	Canada	Aaron Brown, Andre De Grasse, Brendon Rodney, Justyn Warner	38.13
4	Germany	Julian Reus, Sven Knipphals, Alexander Kosenkow, Aleixo Platini Menga	38.15
5	France	Emmanuel Biron, Christophe Lemaitre, Guy-Elphège Anouman, Jimmy Vicaut	38.23
6	Antigua and Barbuda	Chavaughn Walsh, Daniel Bailey, Jared Jarvis, Miguel Francis	38.61
	United States	Trayvon Bromell, Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay, Mike Rodgers	sq
	Great Britain	Richard Kilty, Chijutane Ujah, James Ellington, Daniel Talbot	nf

^ ^a^b^c^d Athletes who took part only in the elimination shifts but have equally received medals.