Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2014 Asian Games
Venue	Incheon Asiad Main Stadium
Dates	29 September – 2 October
Competitors	65 from 16 nations
Medalists
Japan Yuzo Kanemaru, Kenji Fujimitsu, Shota Iizuka, Nobuya Kato, Shinji Takahira    South Korea Park Se-jung, Park Bong-go, Seong Hyeok-je, Yeo Ho-sua, Choi Dong-baek    Saudi Arabia Ismail Al-Sabiani, Ahmed Al-Khayri, Mohammed Al-Bishi, Yousef Masrahi

Main article: Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2014 Asian Games was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, Incheon, South Korea on 29 September – 2 October.

Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date	Time	Event
Monday, 29 September 2014	20:35	Round 1
Thursday, 2 October 2014	20:20	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	United States	2:54.29	Stuttgart, Germany	22 August 1993
Asian Record	Japan	3:00.76	Atlanta, United States	3 August 1996
Games Record	Japan	3:01.70	Bangkok, Thailand	19 December 1998

Results

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish
• DNS — Did not start

Round 1

• Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
1	Japan (JPN) Nobuya Kato Kenji Fujimitsu Shinji Takahira Yuzo Kanemaru	3:05.53	Q
2	China (CHN) Ou Shaowei Chen Ke Zhang Huadong Zhu Chenbin	3:09.19	Q
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Dmitriy Korobeynikov Igor Kondratyev Omirserik Bekenov Sergey Zaikov	3:09.92	Q
4	Oman (OMA) Salah Al-Ajmi Othman Al-Busaidi Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi Ahmed Al-Merjabi	3:10.01	q
5	Sri Lanka (SRI) Kalinga Kumarage Anjana Gunaratne Kasun Seneviratne Nalin Karunarathna	3:10.30	q
6	Philippines (PHI) Archand Bagsit Edgardo Alejan Julius Nierras Isidro del Prado	3:11.67
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Lin Chih-wei Wang Wei-hsu Yu Chia-hsuan Lo Yen-yao	3:13.07
—	Qatar (QAT) Eid Abdulla Al-Kuwari Hassan Aman Salmeen Mohamad Al-Garni Gamal Abdelnasir Abubaker	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
1	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ismail Al-Sabiani Ahmed Al-Khayri Mohammed Al-Bishi Yousef Masrahi	3:05.39	Q
2	India (IND) Kunhu Muhammed Joseph Abraham Jithin Paul Arokia Rajiv	3:05.60	Q
3	South Korea (KOR) Park Se-jung Park Bong-go Choi Dong-baek Seong Hyeok-je	3:05.89	Q
4	Hong Kong (HKG) Chan Ka Chun Leung King Hung Ho Tsz Fung Choi Ho Sing	3:11.28
5	Iraq (IRQ) Maytham Hussein Karrar Abdul-Zahra Mohammed Abdul-Ridha Mohammed Hasan	3:11.44
6	Thailand (THA) Suppachai Chimdee Vitsanu Phosri Saharat Sammayan Srikharin Wannasa	3:11.73
—	Iran (IRI) Mehdi Rahimi Mehdi Zamani Ehsan Tahmasebi Sajjad Hashemi	DNF
—	Kuwait (KUW) — — — —	DNS

Final

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
	Japan (JPN) Yuzo Kanemaru Kenji Fujimitsu Shota Iizuka Nobuya Kato	3:01.88
	South Korea (KOR) Park Se-jung Park Bong-go Seong Hyeok-je Yeo Ho-sua	3:04.03
	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ismail Al-Sabiani Ahmed Al-Khayri Mohammed Al-Bishi Yousef Masrahi	3:04.03
4	India (IND) Kunhu Muhammed Joseph Abraham Jithin Paul Arokia Rajiv	3:04.61
5	China (CHN) Ou Shaowei Cheng Wen Zhang Huadong Zhu Chenbin	3:06.51
6	Oman (OMA) Salah Al-Ajmi Othman Al-Busaidi Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi Ahmed Mubarak Al-Saadi	3:07.71
7	Sri Lanka (SRI) Udaya Viraj Weerasinghe Anjana Gunaratne Kasun Seneviratne Nalin Karunarathna	3:08.11
8	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Dmitriy Korobeynikov Igor Kondratyev Omirserik Bekenov Sergey Zaikov	3:09.62

References

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