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	September 29, 2014 (2014-09-29) – October 2, 2014 (2014-10-02)
Competitors	61 from 14 nations
Medalists
Japan Yuzo Kanemaru, Kenji Fujimitsu, Shōta Iizuka, Nobuya Kato, Shinji Takahira*    South Korea Park Se-jung, Park Bong-go, Seong Hyeo-kje, Yeo Ho-sua, Choi Dong-baek*    Saudi Arabia Ismaeel Al-Subiani, Ahmed Yahya 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 South Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date	Time	Event
Monday, 29 September 2014	20:35	Heats
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

• DSQ — Disqualified
• DNF — Did not finish

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 Korobeinikov Igor Kondratyev Omirserik Bekenov Sergey Zaikov	3:09.92	Q
4	Oman (OMA) Salah Al-Ajmi Othman Al-Busaidi Obaid Hindi Mohamed Ahmed Mohammed Al-Marjibi	3:10.01	q
5	Sri Lanka (SRI) Kalinga Kumarage Anjana Madushan Gunarathna Kasun Kankanamlage Danuska Gamage	3:10.30	q
6	Philippines (PHI) Archand Christian Bagsit Edgardo Alejan Jr Julius Felicisimo Nierras Isidro del Prado Jr	3:11.67
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Lin Chih-Wei Wang Wei-Hsu Yu Chia-Hsuan Lo Yen-Yao	3:13.07
—	Qatar (QAT)	DSQ

Heat 2

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
1	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ismaeel Al-Subiani Ahmed Al-Khayri Mohammed Al-Bishi Yousef Masrahi	3:05.39	Q
2	India (IND) Kunhu Puthanpurakkal Joseph Abraham Jithin Paul Arokia Rajiv	3:05.60	Q,SB
3	South Korea (KOR) Park Se-jung Park Bong-go Choi Dong-baek Seong Hyeo-kje	3:05.89	Q,SB
4	Hong Kong (HKG) Chan Ka Chun Leung King Hung Ho Tsz Fung Choi Ho Sing	3:11.28	NR
5	Iraq (IRQ) Maytham Al-Juaifari Karar Al-Abbody Mohammed Al-Tameemi Mohammed Hasan Jumaah	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)	DSQ

Final

Rank	Team	Time	Notes
	Japan (JPN) Yuzo Kanemaru Kenji Fujimitsu Shōta Iizuka Nobuya Kato	3:01.88	SB
	South Korea (KOR) Park Se-jung Park Bong-go Seong Hyeo-kje Yeo Ho-sua	3:04.03	NR
	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ismaeel Al-Subiani Ahmed Al-Khayri Mohammed Al-Bishi Yousef Masrahi	3:04.03	SB
4	India (IND) Kunhu Puthanpurakkal Joseph Abraham Jithin Paul Arokia Rajiv	3:04.61	SB
5	China (CHN) Ou Shaowei Cheng Wen Zhang Huadong Zhu Chenbin	3:06.51
6	Oman (OMA) Salah Al-Ajmi Othman Al-Busaidi Obaid Hindi Mohamed Mubarak Saleh Ahmed	3:07.71	NR
7	Sri Lanka (SRI) Udaya Weerasinghe Anjana Madushan Gunarathna Kasun Kankanamlage Danuska Gamage	3:08.11
8	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Dmitriy Korobeinikov Igor Kondratyev Omirserik Bekenov Sergey Zaikov	3:09.62

References

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