Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
# Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

The men's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2014 Asian Games was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, Incheon, South Korea on 29 September – 2 October.

## Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

| Date | Time | Event |
| - | - | - |
| Monday, 29 September 2014 | 20:35 | Round 1 |
| Thursday, 2 October 2014 | 20:20 | Final |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

| World Record | United States | 2:54.29 | Stuttgart, Germany | 22 August 1993 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Asian Record | Japan | 3:00.76 | Atlanta, United States | 3 August 1996 |
| Games Record | Japan | 3:01.70 | Bangkok, Thailand | 19 December 1998 |

## Results

### Legend

* DNF — Did not finish
* DNS — Did not start

### Round 1

* 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) Nobuya Kato Kenji Fujimitsu Shinji Takahira Yuzo Kanemaru | 3:05.53 | Q |
| 2 | China (CHN) Ou Shaowei Chen Ke Zhang Huadong Zhu Chenbin | 3:09.19 | Q |
| 3 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) Dmitriy Korobeynikov Igor Kondratyev Omirserik Bekenov Sergey Zaikov | 3:09.92 | Q |
| 4 | Oman (OMA) Salah Al-Ajmi Othman Al-Busaidi Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi Ahmed Al-Merjabi | 3:10.01 | q |
| 5 | Sri Lanka (SRI) Kalinga Kumarage Anjana Gunaratne Kasun Seneviratne Nalin Karunarathna | 3:10.30 | q |
| 6 | Philippines (PHI) Archand Bagsit Edgardo Alejan Julius Nierras Isidro del Prado | 3:11.67 | |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Lin Chih-wei Wang Wei-hsu Yu Chia-hsuan Lo Yen-yao | 3:13.07 | |
| — | Qatar (QAT) Eid Abdulla Al-Kuwari Hassan Aman Salmeen Mohamad Al-Garni Gamal Abdelnasir Abubaker | DNS | |

**Heat 2**

| Rank | Team | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ismail Al-Sabiani Ahmed Al-Khayri Mohammed Al-Bishi Yousef Masrahi | 3:05.39 | Q |
| 2 | India (IND) Kunhu Muhammed Joseph Abraham Jithin Paul Arokia Rajiv | 3:05.60 | Q |
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) Park Se-jung Park Bong-go Choi Dong-baek Seong Hyeok-je | 3:05.89 | Q |
| 4 | Hong Kong (HKG) Chan Ka Chun Leung King Hung Ho Tsz Fung Choi Ho Sing | 3:11.28 | |
| 5 | Iraq (IRQ) Maytham Hussein Karrar Abdul-Zahra Mohammed Abdul-Ridha Mohammed Hasan | 3:11.44 | |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) Suppachai Chimdee Vitsanu Phosri Saharat Sammayan Srikharin Wannasa | 3:11.73 | |
| — | Iran (IRI) Mehdi Rahimi Mehdi Zamani Ehsan Tahmasebi Sajjad Hashemi | DNF | |
| — | Kuwait (KUW) — — — — | DNS | |

### Final

| Rank | Team | Time |
| - | - | - |
| | Japan (JPN) Yuzo Kanemaru Kenji Fujimitsu Shota Iizuka Nobuya Kato | 3:01.88 |
| | South Korea (KOR) Park Se-jung Park Bong-go Seong Hyeok-je Yeo Ho-sua | 3:04.03 |
| | Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ismail Al-Sabiani Ahmed Al-Khayri Mohammed Al-Bishi Yousef Masrahi | 3:04.03 |
| 4 | India (IND) Kunhu Muhammed Joseph Abraham Jithin Paul Arokia Rajiv | 3:04.61 |
| 5 | China (CHN) Ou Shaowei Cheng Wen Zhang Huadong Zhu Chenbin | 3:06.51 |
| 6 | Oman (OMA) Salah Al-Ajmi Othman Al-Busaidi Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi Ahmed Mubarak Al-Saadi | 3:07.71 |
| 7 | Sri Lanka (SRI) Udaya Viraj Weerasinghe Anjana Gunaratne Kasun Seneviratne Nalin Karunarathna | 3:08.11 |
| 8 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) Dmitriy Korobeynikov Igor Kondratyev Omirserik Bekenov Sergey Zaikov | 3:09.62 |
