Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2002 Asian Games
Venue	Busan Asiad Main Stadium
Dates	October 10, 2002 (2002-10-10)–October 13, 2002 (2002-10-13)
Competitors	48 from 11 nations
Medalists
Thailand Reanchai Seeharwong, Vissanu Sophanich, Ekkachai Janthana, Sittichai Suwonprateep    Japan Hisashi Miyazaki, Shingo Suetsugu, Hiroyasu Tsuchie, Nobuharu Asahara    China Shen Yunbao, Chen Haijian, Yin Hanzhao, Han Chaoming
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Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m s'chase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

Main article: Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games

The men's 4 × 100 metres relay competition at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea was held on 10 and 13 October at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium.

Schedule

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

Date	Time	Event
Thursday, 10 October 2002	14:00	1st round
Sunday, 13 October 2002	10:20	Final

Records

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

World Record	United States United States	37.40	Barcelona, Spain Stuttgart, Germany	8 August 1992 21 August 1993
Asian Record	Japan	38.31	Athens, Greece	9 August 1997
Games Record	Japan	38.91	Bangkok, Thailand	15 December 1998

Results

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish

1st round

• 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) Hisashi Miyazaki Shingo Suetsugu Hiroyasu Tsuchie Nobuharu Asahara	39.17	Q
2	Thailand (THA) Reanchai Seeharwong Vissanu Sophanich Ekkachai Janthana Sittichai Suwonprateep	39.24	Q
3	India (IND) Anil Kumar Prakash Piyush Kumar Clifford Joshua Sanjay Ghosh	39.71	Q
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Liu Yuan-kai Liu Chih-hung Chang Po-chih Huang Hsin-ping	40.15	q
5	Oman (OMA) Ahmed Al-Moamari Hamoud Al-Dalhami Mohammed Al-Hooti Musabah Al-Masoudi	40.32	q
6	Hong Kong (HKG) Ryan Lai William To Tang Hon Sing Chiang Wai Hung	40.59

Heat 2

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
1	China (CHN) Shen Yunbao Chen Haijian Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming	39.21	Q
2	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Yahya Habeeb Mubarak Ata Mubarak Khalifah Al-Sager Jamal Al-Saffar	40.01	Q
3	Malaysia (MAS) Tan Kok Lim Nazmizan Mohamad Mohd Zaiful Zainal Abidin Azmi Ibrahim	40.30	Q
4	South Korea (KOR) Park Seung-hyuk Kim Sang-do Shin Jung-ki Lee Kwang-pil	40.34
—	Qatar (QAT) Sultan Mohamed Al-Sheib Khalid Al-Obaidli Abdulla Al-Hamad Saad Al-Shahwani	DNF

Final

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
	Thailand (THA) Reanchai Seeharwong Vissanu Sophanich Ekkachai Janthana Sittichai Suwonprateep	38.82	GR
	Japan (JPN) Hisashi Miyazaki Shingo Suetsugu Hiroyasu Tsuchie Nobuharu Asahara	38.90
	China (CHN) Shen Yunbao Chen Haijian Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming	39.09
4	India (IND) Sanjay Ghosh Piyush Kumar Anand Menezes Anil Kumar Prakash	39.36
5	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Yahya Al-Ghahes Mubarak Ata Mubarak Salem Al-Yami Jamal Al-Saffar	40.00
6	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Liu Chih-hung Tsai Meng-lin Chang Po-chih Huang Hsin-ping	40.02
7	Oman (OMA) Ahmed Al-Moamari Hamoud Al-Dalhami Mohammed Al-Hooti Musabah Al-Masoudi	40.19
8	Malaysia (MAS) Tan Kok Lim Nazmizan Mohamad Mohd Zaiful Zainal Abidin Azmi Ibrahim	41.20

References

• 2002 Asian Games Official Report, Page 133–134
• Results