Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
# Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand was held on 18 and 19 December at the Thammasat Stadium.

## Schedule

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

| Date | Time | Event |
| - | - | - |
| Friday, 18 December 1998 | 17:30 | Heats |
| Saturday, 19 December 1998 | 16:20 | Final |

## Results

### Heats

* 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) Jun Osakada Kenji Tabata Masayoshi Kan Shunji Karube | 3:04.25 | Q |
| 2 | India (IND) Lijo David Thottan Purukottam Ramachandran Dinesh Rawat Jata Shankar | 3:04.86 | Q |
| 3 | Kuwait (KUW) Khaled Al-Johar Fawzi Al-Shammari Musayed Al-Azimi Mishal Al-Harbi | 3:07.99 | Q |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Chen Tien-wen Chang Po-chih Lin Chin-fu Lee Ching-yen | 3:08.08 | q |
| 5 | Oman (OMA) Mansoor Al-Anbari Hamoud Al-Dalhami Hamoud Al-Hashimi Abdullah Al-Anbari | 3:13.96 | |

**Heat 2**

* Wind: +0.6 m/s

| Rank | Team | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Thailand (THA) Jirachai Linglom Narong Nilploy Chalermpol Noohlong Senee Kongtong | 3:07.36 | Q |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) Kim Jae-da Kim Yong-hwan Kim Ho Shon Ju-il | 3:07.67 | Q |
| 3 | Qatar (QAT) Masoud Khamis Rahman Fareh Ibrahim Ali Ali Ismail Doka Sami Al-Abdullah | 3:08.11 | Q |
| 4 | Malaysia (MAS) Zaiful Zainal Abidin Romzi Bakar Nadarajan Devarajo Yazid Parlan | 3:09.01 | q |
| 5 | Sri Lanka (SRI) Rohan Pradeep Kumara W. M. S. K. Wijetunge Suminda Mendis Ratna Kumar | 3:13.66 | |

### Final

| Rank | Team | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Japan (JPN) Jun Osakada Kenji Tabata Masayoshi Kan Shunji Karube | 3:01.70 | GR |
| | India (IND) Lijo David Thottan Purukottam Ramachandran Paramjit Singh Jata Shankar | 3:02.62 | |
| | South Korea (KOR) Kim Jae-da Kim Yong-hwan Kim Ho Shon Ju-il | 3:05.72 | |
| 4 | Kuwait (KUW) Khaled Al-Johar Fawzi Al-Shammari Musayed Al-Azimi Mishal Al-Harbi | 3:05.75 | |
| 5 | Qatar (QAT) Masoud Khamis Rahman Ibrahim Ismail Muftah Sami Al-Abdullah Fareh Ibrahim Ali | 3:06.51 | |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) Wirat Sarad Narong Nilploy Chalermpol Noohlong Senee Kongtong | 3:07.34 | |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Chen Tien-wen Chang Po-chih Lin Chin-fu Lee Ching-yen | 3:07.61 | |
| 8 | Malaysia (MAS) Nadarajan Devarajo Romzi Bakar Vasu Subramaniam Yazid Parlan | 3:10.31 | |
