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Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 × 100 metre relay
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue Olympic Stadium
Date 10–11 August
Teams 16
Winning time 36.84 WR
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Nesta Carter
Michael Frater
Yohan Blake
Usain Bolt
 Jamaica
2nd, silver medalist(s) Keston Bledman
Marc Burns
Emmanuel Callender
Richard Thompson
 Trinidad and Tobago
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Jimmy Vicaut
Christophe Lemaitre
Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux
Ronald Pognon
 France
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1st, gold medalist(s) Nesta Carter
Michael Frater
Yohan Blake
Usain Bolt
 Jamaica
2nd, silver medalist(s) Keston Bledman
Marc Burns
Emmanuel Callender
Richard Thompson
 Trinidad and Tobago
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Jimmy Vicaut
Christophe Lemaitre
Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux
Ronald Pognon
 France

The men's 4 × 100 metres relay competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, was held at the Olympic Stadium on 10–11 August.

On 11 August, the Jamaican national team, led by Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, Yohan Blake and Usain Bolt, won the gold medal and broke their own world record of 37.04 set at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, with a time of 36.84.

Carter did not start well, and Trell Kimmons of the United States led the first 100 metres. Kimmons handed the baton to former world record holder and Olympic champion Justin Gatlin, who was in the lead. By the third changeover, America had a slight lead over the Jamaicans, but when Michael Frater handed over to Yohan Blake, Blake took the final bend and made up ground and overtook Tyson Gay of the USA. Blake then passed the baton to Bolt slightly ahead of Gay's pass to Ryan Bailey. In the final 100 metres, Bolt extended that lead to a few metres and crossed the line in a new world record time for his country for the second consecutive Olympics, with the USA finishing second. Although the Canadian team finished third, they were disqualified after third leg runner Jared Connaughton accidentally stepped on a line, and the bronze medal went to Trinidad and Tobago.

While the Jamaican team were breaking the world record, the American team crossed the line in exactly the same time as the old record of 37.04 seconds, setting a new national record.

In May 2014, the US 4x100m relay team member Tyson Gay received a one-year suspension for anabolic steroid use and was stripped of his medals and disqualified from all results after 15 July 2012 when he first used. In May 2015 the IOC wrote to the USOC telling them to collect the medals from teammates Trell Kimmons, Justin Gatlin, Ryan Bailey, Jeffery Demps and Darvis Patton. One of Gay's teammates who ran with him in the final, Gatlin, had previously also served a suspension. The medals were reallocated in 2015, with Trinidad and Tobago awarded silver, and France the bronze.


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