Athletics at the 2010 South American Games – Men's 4 x 400m relay

Athletics at the 2010 South American 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
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
20,000m 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
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Men's 4x400m Relay event at the 2010 South American Games was held on March 23 at 19:15.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rubén Headly Georni Jaramillo Arturo Ramírez Omar Longart Venezuela	José Guilherme de Oliveira Hederson Estefani Henrique de Souza Hélder Alves Brazil	Juan Pablo Maturana Brayan Ambuila Javier Palacios Rafith Rodríguez Colombia

Standing records prior to the 2010 South American Games
World record	United States	2:54.29	Stuttgart, Germany	22 July 1993
World Leading	University of Technology (JAM)	3:05.33	Kingston, Jamaica	27 February 2010
South American record	Brazil	2:58.56	Winnipeg, Canada	30 July 1999
South American U23 record	Venezuela	3:04.88	Caracas, Venezuela	29 July 2001

Results were published.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Reaction	Result
	Rubén Headly Georni Jaramillo Arturo Ramírez Omar Longart	Venezuela	0.217	3:06.53
	José Guilherme de Oliveira Hederson Estefani Henrique de Souza Hélder Alves	Brazil	0.247	3:07.11
	Juan Pablo Maturana Brayan Ambuila Javier Palacios Rafith Rodríguez	Colombia	0.200	3:09.03
4	Chile Diego Lira Iván López José Alarcón Tomás Squella	Chile	0.403	3:15.60
5	Matías Larregle Tomás Pérez Andrés Mendoza Maximiliano Díaz	Argentina	0.274	3:16.31
6	Emerson Chala Wilter Cagua David Washco Jorge Eduardo Montero	Ecuador	0.178	3:19.21
–	Vitorio Gotuzzo Julio Alfredo Pérez Javier McFarlane Jorge McFarlane	Perú		DNS