2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 x 400 metres relay
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The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2010 European Athletics Championships was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys is a stadium in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Originally built in 1927 for the 1929 International Exposition in the city , it was renovated in 1989 to be the main stadium for the 1992 Summer Olympics...

 on 31 July and 1 August.

Medalists

Gold   Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Sergeyevich Dyldin is a Russian sprint athlete.-External links:*...

, Alexey Aksenov, Vladimir Krasnov
Vladimir Krasnov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Krasnov is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Aleksandrovich Trenikhin |Serov]]) is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...


Russia
Russia at the 2010 European Championships in Athletics
Russia was represented by 105 athletes at the 2010 European Athletics Championships held in Barcelona, Spain.- Participants :-Results:- References :*...

 (RUS)
Silver   Conrad Williams
Conrad Williams (athlete)
Conrad Williams is a British 400m athlete.-Personal bests:-Reference:...

, Michael Bingham
Michael Bingham
Michael Bingham is a British 400 m athlete. He is managed by Michael Johnson.He is one of five children born to British citizen Norris Bingham and his wife Mollissie in Sylva, North Carolina. His parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, attending The McCallie School...

, Martyn Rooney
Martyn Rooney
Martyn Joseph Rooney is an English sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres event. He reached the 400 m final at the 2008 Summer Olympics and also finished fourth in the 4×400 metres relay. At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics he won a silver medal with the Great Britain relay team...

, Robert Tobin
Robert Tobin
Robert "Rob" John Tobin is an English sprinter. He currently has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds.-Personal life:...


Great Britain
Great Britain at the 2010 European Championships in Athletics
The United Kingdom competed under the name Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The nation was represented by 72 athletes at the 2010 European Athletics Championships held in Barcelona, Spain....

 (GBR)
Bronze   Arnaud Destatte
Arnaud Destatte
Arnaud Destatte is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:...

, Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres. He was a semi-finalist at both the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships, and is the current European Champion on this distance....

, Cédric Van Branteghem
Cédric Van Branteghem
Cédric Marie Carlos Thérèse Van Branteghem is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.54 s *200 metres - 20.60 s *400 metres - 45.02 s...

, Jonathan Borlée
Belgium
Belgium at the 2010 European Championships in Athletics
Belgium was represented by 31 athletes at the 2010 European Athletics Championships held in Barcelona, Spain, from 27 July to 1 August 2010.-Results:-Track and road events:-Combined events:-Track and road events:-Field events:...

 (BEL)

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 European Athletics Championships
World record
Andrew Valmon
Andrew Valmon
Andrew Orlando Valmon is an American former 400 meters runner.Valmon was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Manchester Township, New Jersey. He attended college at Seton Hall University and graduated in 1987 with a degree in communications.Valmon won the silver medal at the World Indoor...

, Quincy Watts
Quincy Watts
Quincy D. Watts is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Quincy Watts attended the University of Southern California where he excelled not only as an athlete but also as a wide receiver on the college football team...


Butch Reynolds
Butch Reynolds
Harry "Butch" Reynolds is an American former track and field athlete who competed in the 400 meter dash. He held the world record for the event for eleven years with his personal best time of 43.29 seconds set in 1988. That year he was the silver medalist at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and a...

, Michael Johnson
Michael Johnson (athlete)
Michael Duane Johnson is a retired American sprinter. He won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship gold medals. Johnson currently holds the world and Olympic records in the 400 m and 4 x 400 meters relay. He formerly held the world and Olympic record in the 200 m, and the world...

2:54.29 Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

22 August 1993
European record
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Thomas
Iwan Gwyn Thomas MBE is a sprinter who represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Olympic Games in the 400 m, and Wales at the Commonwealth Games. Thomas is the current UK record holder at 400 m with a time of 44.36 seconds and is a former European and Commonwealth games champion...

, Jamie Baulch
Jamie Baulch
James Steven Baulch , but raised by foster parents in Risca, near Newport, is a British sprint athlete and television presenter. He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 World Indoor Championships. As a member of British 4 x 400 metres relay teams, he won a gold medal at the 1997 World...


Mark Richardson
Mark Richardson (athlete)
Mark Ashton Richardson is a British former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Great Britain in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch and Roger Black...

, Roger Black
Roger Black
Roger Anthony Black MBE is a retired British athlete. During his athletics career, he won individual silver medals in the 400 metres sprint at both the Olympic Games and World Championships, two individual gold medals at the European Championships, and 4x400 metres relay gold medals at both the...

2:56.60 Atlanta, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

3 August 1996
Championship record
Paul Sanders, Kriss Akabusi
Kriss Akabusi
Kriss Kezie Uche Chukwu Duru Akabusi MBE is a former sprint and hurdling athlete from the United Kingdom. During his career, he won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1990 European Championships, a gold in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal in...


John Regis
John Regis (athlete)
John Paul Lyndon Regis, MBE is a retired English sprinter. During his career, he won gold medals in the 200 metres at the 1989 World Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Championships, and a silver medal in the distance at the 1993 World Championships.He was a member of the British teams...

, Roger Black
Roger Black
Roger Anthony Black MBE is a retired British athlete. During his athletics career, he won individual silver medals in the 400 metres sprint at both the Olympic Games and World Championships, two individual gold medals at the European Championships, and 4x400 metres relay gold medals at both the...

2:58.22 Split
Split (city)
Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...

, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

1 September 1990
World Leading U23
LeJerald Betters, O'Neal Wilder
O'Neal Wilder
Cranston O’Neal Wilder is an American sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He currently in his junior year at Mississippi State University....


Joey Hughes, Tavaris Tate
Tavaris Tate
-Career:At the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships, Tate won a silver medal in the 400 m and a gold medal in the 4x400 m relay along with Clayton Parros, Duane Walker, and Joey Hughes....

2:58.83 Miramar
Miramar, Florida
Miramar is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city was named after the Miramar district of Havana, Cuba. As of the 2010 census, the population was 122,041...

, FL
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

11 July 2010
European Leading
Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Sergeyevich Dyldin is a Russian sprint athlete.-External links:*...

, Valentin Kruglyakov
Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Aleksandrovich Trenikhin |Serov]]) is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Vladimir Krasnov
Vladimir Krasnov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Krasnov is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

3:01.72 Bergen
Bergen
Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

20 June 2010

Schedule

Date Time Round
31 July 2010 11:20 Round 1
1 August 2010 21:55 Final

Heat 1

Rank Lane Nation Athletes React Time Notes
1 2 Conrad Williams
Conrad Williams (athlete)
Conrad Williams is a British 400m athlete.-Personal bests:-Reference:...

, Graham Hedman
Graham Hedman
Graham Hedman is a British sprinter. At the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, he won the silver medal in the 4x400 m relay along with Robert Tobin, Rhys Williams and Timothy Benjamin, in a time of 3:01.63.-Personal bests:100 m 10.64 sec 200 m 21.02 400 m 45.84 400 L 45.0...

, Richard Buck
Richard Buck
Richard Thomas Buck is a British sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres event. He is from York, and trains in Loughborough, his current club is City of York A.C, , previously he had an 18 month spell at Scarborough A.C. He has been trained by his grandfather, Geoff Barraclough...

, Robert Tobin
Robert Tobin
Robert "Rob" John Tobin is an English sprinter. He currently has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds.-Personal life:...

 
0.247 3:04.09 Q
2 1 Marcin Marciniszyn
Marcin Marciniszyn
Marcin Marciniszyn is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:Outdoor*200 metres - 21.07 s *400 metres - 45.27 s Indoor...

, Daniel Dąbrowski
Daniel Dabrowski
Daniel Dąbrowski is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.58 s *200 metres - 20.74 s *400 metres - 45.38 s -References:...

, Piotr Klimczak
Piotr Klimczak
Piotr Klimczak is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-References:...

, Jan Ciepiela 
0.234 3:04.51 Q
3 8 Joeri Moerman, Youssef El Rhalfioui, Dennis Spillekom, Robert Lathouwers
Robert Lathouwers
Robert Lathouwers is a Dutch athlete who mainly focuses on the 400 and 800 metres.-Biography:Lathouwers was born and raised in Rotterdam and has a sister who is two years older than he is named Maura. He started in athletics at the age of six, doing all different kinds of disciplines in the sport...

 
0.205 3:04.52 Q
4 5 Yannick Fonsat, Mamoudou Hanne
Mamoudou Hanne
Mamoudou Hanne is a French, former Malian, sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Mame-Ibra Anne, Yoan Décimus 
0.189 3:05.32 q
5 4 Maksym Nakonechnyy, Myhaylo Knysh, Volodymyr Burakov, Dmytro Ostrovskyy  0.314 3:05.51
6 6 Gordon Kennedy, Brian Murphy, Brian Gregan, Steven Colvert  0.230 3:07.21
7 3 Marc Orozco, Mark Ujakpor, Santiago Ezquerro, Antonio Manuel Reina
Antonio Manuel Reina
Antonio Manuel Reina Ballesteros is a Spanish middle distance runner. He specializes in the 800 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*400 metres - 45.98 s *800 metres - 1:43.83 min...

 
0.199 3:07.38
8 7 Adrian Dragan, Iulian Geambazu, Attila Nagy, Catalin Cîmpeanu  0.355 3:09.48

Heat 2

Rank Lane Nation Athletes React Time Notes
1 2 Antoine Gillet
Antoine Gillet
Antoine Gillet is a Belgian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Cédric Van Branteghem
Cédric Van Branteghem
Cédric Marie Carlos Thérèse Van Branteghem is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.54 s *200 metres - 20.60 s *400 metres - 45.02 s...

, Nils Duerinck
Nils Duerinck
Nils Duerinck is a Belgian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres. He was a semi-finalist at both the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships, and is the current European Champion on this distance....

 
0.238 3:03.49 Q
2 6 Kamghe Gaba
Kamghe Gaba
Kamghe Gaba is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He represents LG Eintracht Frankfurt.As a teenager he competed in combined events, finishing fifth in octathlon at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Debrecen.In 2006 he ran in a personal best of 45.47 seconds as he became...

, Bastian Swillims
Bastian Swillims
Bastian Swillims is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 45.44 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Osaka.- Achievements :- External links :...

, Jonas Plass, Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider (athlete)
Thomas Schneider is a German sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

 
0.168 3:03.83 Q
3 1 Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Sergeyevich Dyldin is a Russian sprint athlete.-External links:*...

, Aleksey Aksyonov
Aleksey Aksyonov
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Aksyonov is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Sergey Petukhov, Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Aleksandrovich Trenikhin |Serov]]) is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

 
0.199 3:04.20 Q
4 3 Claudio Licciardello
Claudio Licciardello
Claudio Licciardello is a track and field sprinter from Italy, who specializes in the 400 metres. His personal best time is 45.25 seconds, achieved in the heats at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.-Career:...

, Luca Galletti, Domenico Fontana, Marco Vistalli
Marco Vistalli
Marco Vistalli is an Italian sprinter, specialized in 400 metres.-Biographyr:He was 3rd at 2011 European Team Championships in Stockholm....

 
0.246 3:04.55 q
5 5 Pétros Kiriakídis, Dimítrios Grávalos, Padeleímon Melahrinoúdis, Sotírios Iakovákis  0.250 3:07.12
6 4 Máté Lukács, Gábor Pásztor, Zoltán Kovács, Marcell Deák-Nagy
Marcell Deák-Nagy
Marcell Deák-Nagy is an Hungarian sprinter who specialises in the 200 and 400 metres.At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, Canada, Deák-Nagy won a silver medal over 400 metres.-Personal best:...

 
0.231 3:08.32
7 7 Uros Jovanovic, Sebastjan Jagarinec, Marko Macuh, Erik Voncina  0.174 3:08.95
8 8 Jacob Fabricius Riis, Andreas Hjartbro Bube, Daniel B. Christensen, Nicklas Hyde  0.190 3:09.04

Summary

Rank Heat Lane Nation Athletes React Time Notes
1 2 2 Antoine Gillet
Antoine Gillet
Antoine Gillet is a Belgian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Cédric Van Branteghem
Cédric Van Branteghem
Cédric Marie Carlos Thérèse Van Branteghem is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.54 s *200 metres - 20.60 s *400 metres - 45.02 s...

, Nils Duerinck
Nils Duerinck
Nils Duerinck is a Belgian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres. He was a semi-finalist at both the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships, and is the current European Champion on this distance....

 
0.238 3:03.49 Q
2 2 6 Kamghe Gaba
Kamghe Gaba
Kamghe Gaba is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He represents LG Eintracht Frankfurt.As a teenager he competed in combined events, finishing fifth in octathlon at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Debrecen.In 2006 he ran in a personal best of 45.47 seconds as he became...

, Bastian Swillims
Bastian Swillims
Bastian Swillims is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 45.44 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Osaka.- Achievements :- External links :...

, Jonas Plass, Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider (athlete)
Thomas Schneider is a German sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

 
0.168 3:03.83 Q
3 1 2 Conrad Williams
Conrad Williams (athlete)
Conrad Williams is a British 400m athlete.-Personal bests:-Reference:...

, Graham Hedman
Graham Hedman
Graham Hedman is a British sprinter. At the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, he won the silver medal in the 4x400 m relay along with Robert Tobin, Rhys Williams and Timothy Benjamin, in a time of 3:01.63.-Personal bests:100 m 10.64 sec 200 m 21.02 400 m 45.84 400 L 45.0...

, Richard Buck
Richard Buck
Richard Thomas Buck is a British sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres event. He is from York, and trains in Loughborough, his current club is City of York A.C, , previously he had an 18 month spell at Scarborough A.C. He has been trained by his grandfather, Geoff Barraclough...

, Robert Tobin
Robert Tobin
Robert "Rob" John Tobin is an English sprinter. He currently has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds.-Personal life:...

 
0.247 3:04.09 Q
4 2 1 Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Sergeyevich Dyldin is a Russian sprint athlete.-External links:*...

, Aleksey Aksyonov
Aleksey Aksyonov
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Aksyonov is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Sergey Petukhov, Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Aleksandrovich Trenikhin |Serov]]) is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

 
0.199 3:04.20 Q
5 1 1 Marcin Marciniszyn
Marcin Marciniszyn
Marcin Marciniszyn is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:Outdoor*200 metres - 21.07 s *400 metres - 45.27 s Indoor...

, Daniel Dąbrowski
Daniel Dabrowski
Daniel Dąbrowski is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.58 s *200 metres - 20.74 s *400 metres - 45.38 s -References:...

, Piotr Klimczak
Piotr Klimczak
Piotr Klimczak is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-References:...

, Jan Ciepiela 
0.234 3:04.51 Q
6 1 8 Joeri Moerman, Youssef El Rhalfioui, Dennis Spillekom, Robert Lathouwers
Robert Lathouwers
Robert Lathouwers is a Dutch athlete who mainly focuses on the 400 and 800 metres.-Biography:Lathouwers was born and raised in Rotterdam and has a sister who is two years older than he is named Maura. He started in athletics at the age of six, doing all different kinds of disciplines in the sport...

 
0.205 3:04.52 Q
7 2 3 Claudio Licciardello
Claudio Licciardello
Claudio Licciardello is a track and field sprinter from Italy, who specializes in the 400 metres. His personal best time is 45.25 seconds, achieved in the heats at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.-Career:...

, Luca Galletti, Domenico Fontana, Marco Vistalli
Marco Vistalli
Marco Vistalli is an Italian sprinter, specialized in 400 metres.-Biographyr:He was 3rd at 2011 European Team Championships in Stockholm....

 
0.246 3:04.55 q
8 1 5 Yannick Fonsat, Mamoudou Hanne
Mamoudou Hanne
Mamoudou Hanne is a French, former Malian, sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Mame-Ibra Anne, Yoan Décimus 
0.189 3:05.32 q
9 1 4 Maksym Nakonechnyy, Myhaylo Knysh, Volodymyr Burakov, Dmytro Ostrovskyy  0.314 3:05.51
10 2 5 Pétros Kiriakídis, Dimítrios Grávalos, Padeleímon Melahrinoúdis, Sotírios Iakovákis  0.250 3:07.12
11 1 6 Gordon Kennedy, Brian Murphy, Brian Gregan, Steven Colvert  0.230 3:07.21
12 1 3 Marc Orozco, Mark Ujakpor, Santiago Ezquerro, Antonio Manuel Reina
Antonio Manuel Reina
Antonio Manuel Reina Ballesteros is a Spanish middle distance runner. He specializes in the 800 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*400 metres - 45.98 s *800 metres - 1:43.83 min...

 
0.199 3:07.38
13 2 4 Máté Lukács, Gábor Pásztor, Zoltán Kovács, Marcell Deák-Nagy
Marcell Deák-Nagy
Marcell Deák-Nagy is an Hungarian sprinter who specialises in the 200 and 400 metres.At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, Canada, Deák-Nagy won a silver medal over 400 metres.-Personal best:...

 
0.231 3:08.32
14 2 7 Uros Jovanovic, Sebastjan Jagarinec, Marko Macuh, Erik Voncina  0.174 3:08.95
15 2 8 Jacob Fabricius Riis, Andreas Hjartbro Bube, Daniel B. Christensen, Nicklas Hyde  0.190 3:09.04
16 1 7 Adrian Dragan, Iulian Geambazu, Attila Nagy, Catalin Cîmpeanu  0.355 3:09.48

Final

Rank Lane Nationality Athlete React Time Notes
7 Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Sergeyevich Dyldin is a Russian sprint athlete.-External links:*...

, Aleksey Aksyonov
Aleksey Aksyonov
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Aksyonov is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Trenikhin
Pavel Aleksandrovich Trenikhin |Serov]]) is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

, Vladimir Krasnov
Vladimir Krasnov
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Krasnov is a Russian sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

 
0.210 2:59.64
3 Conrad Williams
Conrad Williams (athlete)
Conrad Williams is a British 400m athlete.-Personal bests:-Reference:...

, Michael Bingham
Michael Bingham
Michael Bingham is a British 400 m athlete. He is managed by Michael Johnson.He is one of five children born to British citizen Norris Bingham and his wife Mollissie in Sylva, North Carolina. His parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, attending The McCallie School...

, Robert Tobin
Robert Tobin
Robert "Rob" John Tobin is an English sprinter. He currently has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds.-Personal life:...

, Martyn Rooney
Martyn Rooney
Martyn Joseph Rooney is an English sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres event. He reached the 400 m final at the 2008 Summer Olympics and also finished fourth in the 4×400 metres relay. At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics he won a silver medal with the Great Britain relay team...

 
0.242 2:59.75
4 Arnaud Destatte
Arnaud Destatte
Arnaud Destatte is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:...

, Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres. He was a semi-finalist at both the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2009 World Championships, and is the current European Champion on this distance....

, Cédric Van Branteghem
Cédric Van Branteghem
Cédric Marie Carlos Thérèse Van Branteghem is a Belgian sprinter, who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.54 s *200 metres - 20.60 s *400 metres - 45.02 s...

, Jonathan Borlée 
0.178 3:00.10
4 5 Kamghe Gaba
Kamghe Gaba
Kamghe Gaba is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He represents LG Eintracht Frankfurt.As a teenager he competed in combined events, finishing fifth in octathlon at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Debrecen.In 2006 he ran in a personal best of 45.47 seconds as he became...

, Bastian Swillims
Bastian Swillims
Bastian Swillims is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 45.44 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Osaka.- Achievements :- External links :...

, Eric Krüger, Thomas Schneider
Thomas Schneider (athlete)
Thomas Schneider is a German sprint athlete.-Achievements:-References:...

 
0.192 3:00.15
5 6 Marcin Marciniszyn
Marcin Marciniszyn
Marcin Marciniszyn is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:Outdoor*200 metres - 21.07 s *400 metres - 45.27 s Indoor...

, Daniel Dąbrowski
Daniel Dabrowski
Daniel Dąbrowski is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.58 s *200 metres - 20.74 s *400 metres - 45.38 s -References:...

, Piotr Klimczak
Piotr Klimczak
Piotr Klimczak is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-References:...

, Kacper Kozłowski
Kacper Kozłowski
Kacper Kozłowski is a Polish sprint athlete who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-References:...

 
0.273 3:03.42
6 1 Leslie Djhone
Leslie Djhone
Leslie Djhone is a French athlete. Competing mainly in the 400 metres event, he placed 5th at the 2003 World Championships and 2007 World Championships and 7th at the 2004 Olympics...

, Yannick Fonsat, Mame-Ibra Anne, Teddy Venel
Teddy Venel
Teddy Venel is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters. Venel competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.- References :...

 
0.173 3:03.85
7 8 Joeri Moerman, Youssef El Rhalfioui, Dennis Spillekom, Robert Lathouwers
Robert Lathouwers
Robert Lathouwers is a Dutch athlete who mainly focuses on the 400 and 800 metres.-Biography:Lathouwers was born and raised in Rotterdam and has a sister who is two years older than he is named Maura. He started in athletics at the age of six, doing all different kinds of disciplines in the sport...

 
0.184 3:04.13
8 2 Marco Vistalli
Marco Vistalli
Marco Vistalli is an Italian sprinter, specialized in 400 metres.-Biographyr:He was 3rd at 2011 European Team Championships in Stockholm....

, Luca Galletti, Claudio Licciardello
Claudio Licciardello
Claudio Licciardello is a track and field sprinter from Italy, who specializes in the 400 metres. His personal best time is 45.25 seconds, achieved in the heats at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.-Career:...

, Andrea Barberi
Andrea Barberi
Andrea Barberi is an Italian sprint athlete who specializes in the 400 metres.He finished fifth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He also reached the semi-finals of the 2005 World Athletics Championships...

0.204 3:04.20
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