2001 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
These are the official results of the Men's 4x400 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their final was held on Sunday 12 August 2001 at 16:20h.
Records
Final
Heats
- Held on Saturday 11 August 2001
Heat 1
| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
| 1. | • Jerome Young • Andrew Pierce • Leonard Byrd • Derrick Brew | 3:00.07 | |
| 2. | • Mark Hylton • Iwan Thomas • Timothy Benjamin • Mark Richardson | 3:00.96 | |
| 3. | • Ingo Schultz • Ruwen Faller • Marc Alexander Scheer • Lars Figura | 3:01.33 | |
| 4. | • Eduardo Iván Rodríguez • David Canal • Antonio Andrés • Antonio Manuel Reina | 3:01.42 | |
| 5. | • Kenji Tabata • Jun Osakada • Dai Tamesue • Ryuji Muraki | 3:02.75 | |
| 6. | • Johan Wissman • Jimisola Laursen • Mikael Jakobsson • Magnus Aare | 3:04.02 | |
| 7. | • Shane Niemi • Gary Reed • Lawrence Ringwald • Jean-Marie Louis | 3:04.87 |
Heat 2
| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
| 1. | • Claudinei da Silva • Anderson Jorge dos Santos • Flávio Godoy • Sanderlei Parrela | 3:00.75 | |
| 2. | • Michael Blackwood • Brandon Simpson • Mario Watts • Danny McFarlane | 3:00.97 | |
| 3. | • Marc Raquil • Marc Foucan • Philippe Bouche • Stéphane Diagana | 3:01.65 | |
| 4. | • Vitaliy Ignatov • Ruslan Mashchenko • Dmitriy Golovastov • Andrey Semyonov | 3:01.95 | |
| 5. | • Lulu Basinyi • Otukile Lekote • Johnson Kubisa • California Molefe | 3:03.32 | |
| 6. | • Karel Bláha • Radek Zachoval • Stepan Tesarik • Jirí Muzik | 3:04.27 | |
| — | • Rohan Pradeep Kumara • Ranga Wimalawansa • Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara • Harijan Ratnayake | DNS |
Heat 3
| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
| 1. | • Troy McIntosh • Avard Moncur • Carl Oliver • Timothy Munnings | 3:00.88 | |
| 2. | • Rafał Wieruszewski • Piotr Haczek • Jacek Bocian • Piotr Rysiukiewicz | 3:01.32 | |
| 3. | • Marcus La Grange • Jopie van Oudtshoorn • Alwyn Myburgh • Arnaud Malherbe | 3:01.70 | |
| 4. | • Oleksandr Kaydash • Andriy Tverdostup • Volodymyr Rybalka • Yevhen Zyukov | 3:02.35 | |
| 5. | • Alejandro Cárdenas • Oscar Juanz • Roberto Carbajal • Juan Pedro Toledo | 3:03.19 | |
| 6. | • Hamdan O. Al-Bishi • Hamed Al-Bishi • Belal Al Housah • Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily | 3:04.22 | |
| 7. | • Robert Daly • Tom Comyns • Paul McKee • Tomas Coman | 3:04.26 | |
| 8. | • Dany Nuñez • Simoncito Silvera • Jonathan Palma • William Hernández | 3:05.37 |