2005 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The Men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 12 and August 13.
Great Britain just beat Jamaica and Australia to bronze medal position. The United States' team did not participate in the final, having bungled their first relay stick handoff in their qualification heat the previous day.Medals
Qualifying
From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.
All times shown are in seconds.
- Q denotes automatic qualification.
- q denotes fastest losers.
- DNS denotes did not start.
- DNF denotes did not finish.
- AR denotes area record.
- NR denotes national record.
- SB denotes season's best.
Heat 1
- 38.34s Q
- 38.37s Q
- 38.58 Q
- 38.65s q
- 38.92s
- 39.30s
- 38.28s Q
- 38.32s Q
- 38.46s Q
- 38.60 q
- 38.67s
- 39.29s
- 38.08s
- 38.10s
- 38.27s
- 38.28s
- 38.32s
- 38.45
- 38.48
- 38.77s