In the final, USA's bronze medalist Quincy Hall was out fast, making up the 3 turn stagger distance on GBR's Alex Haydock-Wilson.

Inside of Hall, France Ludvy Vaillant, Jamaica Rusheen McDonald and India Muhammed Anas were all running well.

Jamaica was next, but Roshawn Clarke did shuffle step that delayed his start, evening the chase group and letting Norwood have a bigger advantage.

France was able to make a clean handoff to David Sombé and GBR's Charlie Dobson was able to pass to Lewis Davey unobstructed, but Botswana's veteran Baboloki Thebe came into the passing zone inside of Jamaica, while Laone Ditshetelo was waiting outside of Jamaica.

Before the competition, records were as follows:[2] The original standard to qualify automatically for entry was to finish in the first 12 at the 2023 World Athletics Relays, completed by 4 top lists' teams;[4] with the postponement of the World Relays event due to ongoing pandemic conditions in the host city of Guangzhou, this was changed to the top eight teams from the 2022 World Athletics Championship, plus the next eight best international teams, based on performances in official competitions between 31 July 2022 and 20 July 2023.