Records
| Men's Outdoor World Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Members | Venue | Date | Time |
| USA | Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Butch Reynolds, Michael Johnson | Stuttgart, Germany | 22 August 1993 | 2:54.29 |
Note: The IAAF announced on 12 August 2008 that they had rescinded the world record of 2:54.20 set by the USA (Jerome Young, Antonio Pettigrew, Tyree Washington, Michael Johnson) on 22 July 1998 after Pettigrew admitted to using human growth hormone and EPO between 1997 and 2003.
| Men's Indoor World Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Members | Venue | Date | Time |
| USA | Andre Morris, Dameon Johnson, Deon Minor, Milton Campbell | Maebashi, Japan | 7 March 1999 | 3:02.83 |
Note: The IAAF rejected a time of 3:01.96 set by the USA (Kerron Clement, Wallace Spearmon, Darold Williamson, Jeremy Wariner) on 16 September 2006 as no post-race EPO analysis was performed.
| Women's Outdoor World Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Members | Venue | Date | Time |
| USSR | Tatyana Ledovskaya (BLR), Olga Nazarova (RUS), Mariya Pinigina (UKR), Olga Bryzgina (UKR) | Seoul, Korea | 1 October 1988 | 3:15.17 |
| Women's Indoor World Record | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Members | Venue | Date | Time |
| Russia | Yuliya Gushchina, Olga Kotlyarova, Olga Zaytseva, Olesya Krasnomovets | Glasgow, Scotland | 27 January 2006 | 3:23.37 |
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