| | Final 20:50 | time | L | | _______ | | 1. |  Great Britain | 2:56.65 | 4 | | | | Iwan Thomas, Roger Black, Jamie Baulch, Mark Richardson | | 2. |  Jamaica | 2:56.75 | 3 | NR | | | Michael McDonald, Gregory Haughton, Danny McFarlane, Davian Clarke | | 3. |  Poland | 3:00.26 | 5 | | | | Tomasz Czubak, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Piotr Haczek, Robert Mackowiak | | 4. |  South Africa | 3:00.26 | 1 | NR | | | Arnaud Malherbe, Hezekiel Sepeng, Hendrik Mokganyetsi, Llewellyn Herbert | | 5. |  France | 3:01.06 | 2 | | | | Jean-Louis Rapnouil, Marc Foucan, Fred Mango, Stephane Diagana | | 6. |  Zimbabwe | 3:01.43 | 7 | | | | Tawanda Chiwira, Phillip Mukomana, Savieri Ngidhi, Ken Harnden | | 7. |  Italy | 3:01.52 | 8 | | | | Ashraf Saber, Marco Vaccari, Andrea Nuti, Fabrizio Mori | | -. |  United States | 2:56.47 | 6 | | | | Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Chris Jones, Tyree Washington |
The Gold Medal was orriginally won by United States, but the team were retrospectively disqualified in 2009 after Antonio Pettigrew admitted using human grouth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003.
| World Record: United States 2:54.29 (Andrew Valmon, Quincy Wats, Harry Reynolds, Michael Jordan) WC: Sttutgart, Germany 22nd August 1993 |
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Heats - Saturday, 9th August 19:40 |
| | Heat 1 19:40 | time | L | | Rk | _______ | | 1. | Great Britain | 3:00.19 | 1 | Q | 3. | | | Mark Hylton, Roger Black, Jamie Baulch, Iwan Thomas | | 2. | France | 3:01.76 | 6 | Q, SB | 7. | | | Jean-Louis Rapnouil, Marc Foucan, Fred Mango, Stephane Diagana | | 3. |  Austria | 3:02.95 | 7 | | 8. | | | Christoph Postinger, Thomas Griesser, Andreas Rechbauer | | 4. |  Nigeria | 3:04.19 | 2 | | 11. | | | Ayuba Machen, Tony Ogbeta, Udeme Ekpeyong, Clement Chukwu | | 5. |  Algeria | 3:05.22 | 4 | | 13. | | | Samir-Adel Louahla, Louahla Talhaodi Kamel, Hacini Malik-Khaled | | 6. |  Spain | 3:05.40 | 5 | | 15. | | | Cesar Martinez, Antonio Andres, Pablo Jaime Vallejo, David Canal | | 7. |  Botswana | 3:05.96 | 3 | NR | 17. | | | Justice Dipeba, Lulu Basinyi, Rampa Mosweu, Johnson Kubisa |
| | Heat 2 19:49 | time | L | | Rk | _______ | | 1. | Poland | 2:59.91 | 3 | Q | 1. | | | Tomasz Czubak, Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Piotr Haczek, Robert Mackowiak | | 2. |  Jamaica | 2:59.98 | 6 | Q | 2. | | | Linval Laird, Davian Clarke, Gregory Haughton, Danny McFarlane | | 3. | South Africa | 3:00.58 | 7 | | 4. | | | Arnaud Malherbe, Hezekiel Sepeng, Hendrik Mokganyetsi, Llewellyn Herbert | | 4. |  Russia | 3:03.35 | 5 | | 9. | | | Mikhail Vdovin, Innokentiy Zharov, Dmitriy Golovastov, Ruslan Mashchenko | | 5. |  Latvia | 3:04.30 | 4 | | 12. | | | Sergejs Insakovs, Egils Tebelis, Einars Tupuritis, Inguns Sviklins | | 6. |  Greece | 3:05.43 | 2 | | 15. | | | Panagiotis Sarris, Konstantinos Moumoulidis, Georgios Batsikas, Periklis Iakovakis |
| | Heat 3 19:58 | time | L | | Rk | _______ | | 1. | United States | 2:59.78 | 7 | Q | DQ 1. | | | Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Chris Jones, Allen Johnson | | 2. | Zimbabwe | 3:00.79 | 5 | Q | 5. | | | Tawanda Chiwira, Phillip Mukomana, Savieri Ngidhi, Ken Harnden | | 3. | Italy | 3:01.75 | 2 | q | 6. | | | Ashraf Saber, Marco Vaccari, Andrea Nuti, Fabrizio Mori | | 4. |  Japan | 3:03.85 | 6 | | 10. | | | Shunji Karube, Seiji Inagaki, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Shigekazu Omori | | 5. |  Switzerland | 3:05.34 | 4 | | 14. | | | Laurent Clerc, Kevin Widmer, Matthias Rusterholz, Marcel Schelbert | | 6. |  Czechia | 3:05.65 | 3 | | 16. | | | Jan Podebradsky, Jiri Svenek, Jan Stejfa, Jiri Muzik |
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