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2002 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 10–11.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ukraine Kostyantyn Vasyukov Kostyantyn Rurak Anatoliy Dovhal Oleksandr Kaydash	Poland Ryszard Pilarczyk Łukasz Chyła Marcin Nowak Marcin Urbaś Piotr Balcerzak	Germany Ronny Ostwald Marc Blume Alexander Kosenkow Christian Schacht

Note: Great Britain team originally won the gold but was later disqualified for Dwain Chambers' steroid use.

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	2	France	David Patros, Issa-Aimé Nthépé, Jérôme Éyana, Ronald Pognon	38.93	Q, SB
2	2	Poland	Piotr Balcerzak, Łukasz Chyła, Ryszard Pilarczyk, Marcin Nowak	38.98	Q, SB
3	2	Spain	Cecilio Maestra, Angel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Carlos Berlanga	39.08	q, SB
4	1	Germany	Ronny Ostwald, Marc Blume, Alexander Kosenkow, Christian Schacht	39.21	Q
5	1	Russia	Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Blinov, Aleksandr Ryabov, Sergey Bychkov	39.24	Q
6	1	Ukraine	Kostyantyn Vasyukov, Kostyantyn Rurak, Anatoliy Dovhal, Oleksandr Kaydash	39.24	Q
7	1	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Marco Torrieri	39.28	q
8	1	Finland	Tommi Hartonen, Tuomas Nasi, Stefan Koivikko, Markus Pöyhönen	39.58
9	2	Estonia	Argo Golberg, Maidu Laht, Martin Vihmann, Erki Nool	39.69	NR
10	1	Slovenia	Rok Predanič, Matic Osovnikar, Bostjan Fridrih, Urban Acman	39.71
11	1	Greece	Aristotelis Gavelas, Alexandros Kontzos, Vasilios Seggos, Georgios Theodoridis	39.92
12	1	Sweden	Peter Häggström, Lenny Martinez, Patrik Lövgren, Johan Engberg	39.99
	2	Netherlands	Martijn Ungerer, Troy Douglas, Timothy Beck, Patrick van Balkom	DNF
	2	Israel	Kfir Golan, Tommy Kafri, Gideon Jablonka, Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	DNF
	2	Great Britain	Christian Malcolm, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Dwayne Chambers	DQ

Final

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Ukraine	Kostyantyn Vasyukov, Kostyantyn Rurak, Anatoliy Dovhal, Oleksandr Kaydash	38.53	=NR
	Poland	Ryszard Pilarczyk, Łukasz Chyła, Marcin Nowak, Marcin Urbaś	38.71	SB
	Germany	Ronny Ostwald, Marc Blume, Alexander Kosenkow, Christian Schacht	38.88
4	France	David Patros, Issa-Aimé Nthépé, Jérôme Éyana, Ronald Pognon	38.97
5	Spain	Cecilio Maestra, Angel David Rodríguez, Orkatz Beitia, Carlos Berlanga	39.07
6	Russia	Aleksandr Smirnov, Sergey Blinov, Aleksandr Ryabov, Sergey Bychkov	39.12
	Italy	Francesco Scuderi, Alessandro Cavallaro, Maurizio Checcucci, Marco Torrieri	DNF
	Great Britain	Christian Malcolm, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Dwayne Chambers	DQ

External links

• Events at the 2002 European Athletics Championships
• Relays at the European Athletics Championships