The men's 4x400 metres relay event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 24 and 25 August.

Medalists Gold Desmond JohnsonJerome DavisRobin MartinObea Moore Silver Hiroki TakahashiDai TamesueMasayuki OkusakoShinji Morita Bronze Kris StewartTom LerwillMark RowlandsGeoff Dearman

Results Final 25 August Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Desmond JohnsonJerome DavisRobin MartinObea Moore 3:03.65 Hiroki TakahashiDai TamesueMasayuki OkusakoShinji Morita 3:06.01 Kris StewartTom LerwillMark RowlandsGeoff Dearman 3:06.76 4 Victor VallejoAdrián FernándezAlberto MartínezDavid Canal 3:06.95 5 Scott ThomEugene BernaudoBrad JamiesonCasey Vincent 3:07.21 6 Piotr JagielloJacek LewandowskiPiotr DługosielskiPiotr Haczek 3:08.04 7 Michael CampbellRoy BaileyDavid SpencerRohan McDonald 3:09.04 8 Joseph MutuaPaul NgothoJapheth KimutaiIsaac Magut 3:09.04

Heats 24 August

Heat 1 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Desmond JohnsonJerome DavisRobin MartinObea Moore 3:08.21 Q 2 Kris StewartTom LerwillMark RowlandsGeoff Dearman 3:08.36 Q 3 Piotr JagielloJacek LewandowskiPiotr DługosielskiPiotr Haczek 3:08.39 Q 4 Clay MurphyEugene BernaudoBrad JamiesonBryce Barnwell 3:08.48 q 5 Victor VallejoAdrián FernándezAlberto MartínezDavid Canal 3:08.69 q 6 Juan LabuschagneChris JacobsThabo ThobelangopeMoses Mabaso 3:13.85 7 Nathan GodfreyClyde McIntoshDavid BairdSimon Potter 3:14.16 Nikólaos GiannadákisNikólaos GrigorópoulosYeóryios IkonomídisPeriklís Iakovákis DNF

Heat 2 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Marlon BaughMichael CampbellDavid SpencerRohan McDonald 3:08.45 Q 2 Hiroki TakahashiRyo FujimoriShinji MoritaDai Tamesue 3:09.31 Q 3 Joseph MutuaPaul NgothoJapheth KimutaiIsaac Magut 3:11.17 Q 4 Aljoscha NemitzMaik LiebeThomas GollerCarlos Gachanja 3:11.39 5 Alexandre MarchandZach WhitmarshJay CantinShane Niemi 3:12.03 6 Marco CagnazziEzio PreatoniEdoardo ValletFrancesco Filisetti 3:12.24 7 Andrey SemyonovBoris GorbanSergey FedkoAleksey Baryshnikov 3:13.56 Mubarak Al-NubiKhalifa Mubarak WaleedAmjad AbbassHamad Al-Dosari DNF

Participation According to an unofficial count, 68 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

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