Athletics - Women's 4 x 400 m Relay

München 1972

  1. East Germany
    (1600) Dagmar Käsling (gdr-GER/1972)
    (1600) Rita Kühne (gdr-GER/1972)
    (1600) Helga Seidler (gdr-GER/1972)
    (1600) Monika Zehrt (gdr-GER/1972)
    did not run:
    Waltraud Dietsch
    (-=1600) Brigitte Rohde (gdr-GER/1976)
  2. United States
    (1000) Mable Fergerson (USA/1972)
    (1000) Madeline Manning-Jackson (USA/1968-76)
    (1000) Cheryl Toussaint (USA/1972)
    (1000) Kathy Hammond (USA/1972)
    did not run:
    Debra Edwards-Armstrong (USA/1972-76)
    Willie Fergerson
  3. West Germany
    (640) Anette Rückes (frg-GER/1972)
    (640) Inge Bödding (frg-GER/1972)
    (640) Hildegard Falck (frg-GER/1972)
    (640=890) Rita Jahn-Wilden (frg-GER/1968-76)
    did not run:
    Christel Frese (frg-GER/1972)
    Erika Weinstein
  4. France
    (400) Martine Duvivier (FRA/1972)
    (400) Colette Besson (FRA/1968-72)
    (400) Bernadette Martin (FRA/1972)
    (400) Nicole Duclos (FRA/1972)
    did not run:
    Ghislaine Barnay
    Éliane Jacq
  5. Great Britain
    (250=350) Verona Bernard-Elder (GBR/1972-76)
    (250) Janet Simpson (GBR/1964-72)
    (250) Janette Roscoe (GBR/1972)
    (250) Rosemary Stirling (GBR/1972)
    did not run:
    Pat Lowe-Cropper
    Maureen Tranter
  6. Australia
    (160) Allison Ross-Edwards (AUS/1972)
    (160) Raelene Boyle (AUS/1968-76)
    (160) Cheryl Peasley (AUS/1972)
    (160=560) Charlene Rendina (AUS/1972-76)
    did not run:
    Jenny Orr (AUS/1972)
    Judy Amoore-Pollock (AUS/1964,76)
  7. Finland
    (100=260) Marika Eklund-Lindholm (FIN/1972-76)
    (100=260) Pirjo Wilmi-Häggman (FIN/1972-80)
    (100) Tuula Rautanen (FIN/1972)
    (100=260) Mona-Lisa Strandvall-Pursiainen (FIN/1972-76)
    did not run:
    Seija Rönn
    (-=160) Riitta Salin (FIN/1976)
  8. Soviet Union
    (64) Lyubov Runtso (urs-BLR/1972)
    (64) Nataliya Pechonkina-Chistyakova (urs-RUS/1968-72)
    (64=128) Olga Syrovatskaya-Mineyeva (urs-RUS/1972,80)
    (64=704) Nadezhda Kolesnikova-Ilyina (urs-RUS/1972-76)
    did not run:
    Valentina Chichayeva
    Nijolė Sabaitė (urs-LTU/1972)
    fifth in heats:
  9. Cuba
    (32.5) Asunción Acosta (CUB/1972)
    (32.5) Marcela Chibás (CUB/1972)
    (32.5) Beatriz Castillo (CUB/1972)
    (32.5) Aurelia Pentón (CUB/1968-72)
    did not run:
    Carmen Trustée (CUB/1972)
  10. Jamaica
    (32.5=88.5) Ruth Williams-Simpson (JAM/1972-80)
    (32.5) Una Morris (JAM/1964-72)
    (32.5) Rosie Allwood (JAM/1972-80)
    (32.5=96.5) Yvonne Saunders (JAM-CAN/1972-76)
    did not run:
    Marilyn Neufville (JAM/1976)
    Yvonne White
    sixth in heats:
  11. Sweden
    (13) Lotta Malmström (SWE/1972)
    (13) Elisabeth Randerz (SWE/1972)
    (13) Ann Larsson (SWE/1972)
    (13) Karin Wallgren-Lundgren (SWE/1968-72)
    did not run:
    Margareta Larsson
  12. Austria
    (13) Christiane Casapicola-Wildschek (AUT/1972-76)
    (13) Maria Sykora (AUT/1972)
    (13) Gerlinde Massing (AUT/1972)
    (13) Karoline Käfer (AUT/1972,80)
    did not run:
    Helga Kapfer
    seventh in heats:
  13. Barbados
    (5.2) Lorna Forde (BAR/1972-76)
    (5.2) Barbara Bishop (BAR/1972)
    (5.2) Marcia Trotman (BAR/1972)
    (5.2) Heather Gooding (BAR/1972)
    did not run:
    Freida Nicholls-Davy (BAR/1972)
  14. Poland
    (5.2) Bożena Zientarska (POL/1972)
    (5.2) Krystyna Kacperczyk (POL/1972)
    (5.2=165.2) Elżbieta Skowrońska-Katolik (POL/1972,80)
    (5.2) Danuta Piecyk (POL/1972)
    did not run:
    Danuta Pankowska
    Irena Kirszenstein-Szewińska (POL/1964-80)

Montréal 1976

  1. East Germany
    (1600) Doris Maletzki (gdr-GER/1976)
    (1600) Brigitte Rohde (gdr-GER/1976)
    (1600) Ellen Strophal-Streidt (gdr-GER/1972-76)
    (1600=2600) Christina Brehmer-Lathan (gdr-GER/1976-80)
    did not run:
    Marita Koch (gdr-GER/1976-80)
    Margit Sinzel (DNS)
  2. United States
    (1000) Debra Sapenter (USA/1976)
    (1000) Sheila Ingram (USA/1976)
    (1000) Pam Jiles (USA/1976)
    (1000) Rosalyn Bryant (USA/1976)
    did not run:
    Debra Edwards-Armstrong (USA/1972-76)
    366 Arthurene Gainer (DNS)
  3. Soviet Union
    (640) Inta Kļimoviča (urs-LAT/1976)
    (640) Liudmyla Aksenova (urs-UKR/1976)
    (640) Nataliya Sokolova (urs-RUS/1976)
    (640=704) Nadezhda Kolesnikova-Ilyina (urs-RUS/1972-76)
    did not run:
    Valentina Gerasimova (urs-KAZ/1976)
    Svetlana Styrkina (urs-BLR/1976)
  4. Australia
    (400) Judy Canty (AUS/1976)
    (400) Verna Burnard (AUS/1976)
    (400=560) Charlene Rendina (AUS/1972-76)
    (400) Beth Nail (AUS/1976)
    did not run:
    Judy Amoore-Pollock (AUS/1964,76)
    Terri Wangman
  5. West Germany
    (250) Claudia Steger (frg-GER/1976)
    (250) Dagmar Fuhrmann (frg-GER/1976)
    (250) Elke Barth (frg-GER/1976)
    (250=890) Rita Jahn-Wilden (frg-GER/1968-76)
    did not run:
    Silvia Hollmann
    Erika Weinstein
  6. Finland
    (160=260) Marika Eklund-Lindholm (FIN/1972-76)
    (160=260) Pirjo Wilmi-Häggman (FIN/1972-80)
    (160=260) Mona-Lisa Strandvall-Pursiainen (FIN/1972-76)
    (160) Riitta Salin (FIN/1976)
    did not run:
    Nina Holmén (FIN/1976)
    Barbro Lindström
  7. Great Britain
    (100) Liz Barnes (GBR/1976)
    (100=500) Gladys Taylor (GBR/1976,84)
    (100=350) Verona Bernard-Elder (GBR/1972-76)
    (100=740) Donna Murray-Hartley (GBR/1972-80)
    did not run:
    Bev Goddard-Callender (GBR/1976-84)
    (-=250) Janette Roscoe (GBR/1972)
  8. Canada
    (64) Marg Stride (CAN/1976)
    (64) Joyce Sadowick-Yakubowich (CAN/1972-76)
    (64) Rachelle Campbell (CAN/1976)
    (64=96.5) Yvonne Saunders (JAM-CAN/1972-76)
    did not run:
    Marjorie Bailey (CAN/1976)
    Joan Wenzel (CAN/1976)
    ran in heats:
  9. Bulgaria
    (40) Yordanka Ivanova (BUL/1976)
    (40) Svetla Zlateva (BUL/1972-76)
    (40) Ivanka Bonova (BUL/1976)
    (40) Lilyana Todorova (BUL/1976)
    did not run:
    Nikolina Shtereva (BUL/1976-80)
  10. Belgium
    (25=125) Lea Alaerts (BEL/1976-80)
    (25=125) Regina Berg (BEL/1976-80)
    (25) Anne-Marie Van Nuffel (BEL/1976-80)
    (25) Rita Thijs (BEL/1976)
    did not run:
    (-=100) Rosine Wallez (BEL/1976-80)
    did not finish:
  11. Jamaica
    (16) Helen Blake (JAM/1976)
    (16) Carol Cummings (JAM/1972-76)
    (16=56) Jackie Pusey (JAM/1976-80)
    (16=88.5) Ruth Williams-Simpson (JAM/1972-80)
    did not run:
    229 Rosie Allwood (DNS)
    Marilyn Neufville (JAM/1976)
    did not start:
  12. Austria
    13 Johanna Berger (DNS)
    (-=13) Karoline Käfer (AUT/1972,80)
    20 Andrea Mühlbach (DNS)
    Silvia Schinzel (AUT/1976)
    (-=13) Christiane Casapicola-Wildschek (AUT/1972-76)
  13. Poland
    268 Danuta Jędrejek (DNS)
    (-=165.2) Elżbieta Skowrońska-Katolik (POL/1972,80)
    271 Genowefa Błaszak (DNS)
    (-=5.2) Danuta Piecyk (POL/1972)
    278 Aniela Szubert (DNS)
    280 Zofia Zwolińska (DNS)
  14. Chinese Taipei
    282 Chiu Mei-Tsuey (DNS)
    283 Huang Chow-Jin (DNS)
    Lee Chiu-Hsia (TPE/1972)
    286 Lin Mei-Hua (DNS)
    287 Lin Yueh-Hsiang (DNS)
    288 Sui Sin-Pei (DNS)

Moskva 1980

  1. Soviet Union
    (1600) Tetiana Prorochenko (urs-UKR/1976-80)
    (1600) Tatyana Goyshchik (urs-RUS/1980)
    (1600) Nina Ziuskova (urs-UKR/1980)
    (1600) Irina Nazarova (urs-RUS/1980)
    ran in heats:
    (64=128) Olga Syrovatskaya-Mineyeva (urs-RUS/1972,80)
    (64) Lyudmila Chernova (urs-RUS/1980)
  2. East Germany
    (1000) Gabriele Löwe (gdr-GER/1980)
    (1000) Barbara Krug (gdr-GER/1980)
    (1000=2600) Christina Brehmer-Lathan (gdr-GER/1976-80)
    (1000) Marita Koch (gdr-GER/1976-80)
    did not run:
    Dagmar Neubauer ***
    (-=1600) Ellen Strophal-Streidt (gdr-GER/1972-76)
  3. Great Britain
    (640) Linsey MacDonald (GBR/1980)
    (640=1040) Michelle Probert-Scutt (GBR/1980-84)
    (640=1040) Joslyn Hoyte-Smith (GBR/1980-84)
    (640=740) Donna Murray-Hartley (GBR/1972-80)
    did not run:
    (-=350) Verona Bernard-Elder (GBR/1972-76)
    Janine MacGregor
  4. Romania
    (400) Ibolya Korodi (ROU/1980)
    (400) Niculina Lazarciuc (ROU/1980)
    (400) Maria Samungi (ROU/1980)
    (400) Elena Tărîță (ROU/1980)
    did not run:
    Nicoleta Lia (ROU/1980)
    Fița Lovin (ROU/1980-84)
  5. Hungary
    (250) Orosz-Árva Irén (HUN/1972,80)
    (250=276) Forgács Judit (HUN/1980,92)
    (250) Tóth Éva (HUN/1980)
    (250) Pál Ilona (HUN/1980)
    ran in heats:
    (64) Petrika Ibolya (HUN/1980)
  6. Poland
    (160) Grażyna Oliszewska (POL/1980)
    (160=165.2) Elżbieta Skowrońska-Katolik (POL/1972,80)
    (160) Jolanta Januchta (POL/1980)
    (160) Małgorzata Dunecka (POL/1980)
    did not run:
    Zofia Bielczyk (POL/1980)
    Irena Kirszenstein-Szewińska (POL/1964-80)
  7. Belgium
    (100=125) Lea Alaerts (BEL/1976-80)
    (100=125) Regina Berg (BEL/1976-80)
    (100) Anne Michel (BEL/1980)
    (100) Rosine Wallez (BEL/1976-80)
    did not run:
    (-=25) Anne-Marie Van Nuffel (BEL/1976-80)
    Karin Verguts (BEL/1980)
  8. Bulgaria
    (64) Svobodka Damyanova (BUL/1980)
    (64) Rositsa Stamenova (BUL/1980)
    (64) Malena Andonova (BUL/1980)
    (64) Bonka Dimova (BUL/1980)
    did not run:
    (-=40) Ivanka Bonova (BUL/1976)
    Violeta Tzvetkova
  9. Jamaica
    (40=88.5) Ruth Williams-Simpson (JAM/1972-80)
    (40=56) Jackie Pusey (JAM/1976-80)
    (40=869) Cathy Rattray-Williams (JAM/1980-92)
    (40) Merlene Ottey-Page (JAM-SLO/1984-2004)
    did not run:
    (-=16) Helen Blake (JAM/1976)
    Dorothy Scott (JAM/1980-84)
  10. Italy
    (25) Rossana Lombardo (ITA/1980)
    (25) Agnese Possamai (ITA/1980-84)
    (25) Daniela Porcelli (ITA/1980)
    (25=185) Erica Rossi (ITA/1980-84)
    did not run:
    Rita Bottiglieri (ITA/1976)
    Gabriella Dorio (ITA/1976-84)
  11. Nigeria
    (16) Gloria Ayanlaja (NGR/1980)
    (16=56) Kehinde Vaughan (NGR/1980,88)
    (16) Asele Woy (NGR/1980)
    (16) Mary Akinyemi (NGR/1980)
    did not run:
    Comfort Ighagbon
    Joan Elumelu
    did not start:
  12. Finland
    Barbro Lindström
    Pirjo Wilmi-Häggman (FIN/1972-80)
    Yvonne Hannus
    Helinä Laihorinne-Marjamaa (FIN/1980-84)

Los Angeles 1984

  1. United States
    (1600=1664) Lillie Leatherwood (USA/1984-88)
    (1600=1664) Sherri Howard (USA/1984-88)
    (1600=2600) Valerie Brisco-Hooks (USA/1984-88)
    (1600) Chandra Cheeseborough (USA/1976,84)
    ran in heats:
    (64=1064) Diane Dixon (USA/1984-88)
    (64=1410) Denean Howard-Hill (USA/1984-92)
    did not run:
    Roberta Belle (USA)
  2. Canada
    (1000=1464) Charmaine Crooks (CAN/1984-96)
    (1000=1610) Jill Richardson-Briscoe (CAN/1984)
    (1000=1064) Molly Killingbeck (CAN/1984-88)
    (1000=1064) Marita Payne Wiggins (CAN/1984-88)
    ran in heats:
    (64) Dana Wright (CAN/1984)
  3. West Germany
    (640) Heike Schulte-Mattler (frg-GER/1984)
    (640=1040) Ute Thimm (frg-GER/1984-88)
    (640) Heidi-Elke Gaugel (frg-GER/1984)
    (640) Gaby Bußmann (frg-GER/1984)
    ran in heats:
    (64) Nicole Leistenschneider (frg-GER/1984)
    (64) Christina Sussiek (frg-GER/1984)
    did not run:
    Ulrike Sommer (frg-GER)
  4. Great Britain
    (400=1040) Michelle Probert-Scutt (GBR/1980-84)
    (400=440) Helen Barnett-Burkart (GBR-SUI/1984,92)
    (400=500) Gladys Taylor (GBR/1976,84)
    (400=1040) Joslyn Hoyte-Smith (GBR/1980-84)
    did not run:
    Tracy Lawton (GBR)
    Jane Parry (GBR)
  5. Jamaica
    (250) Ilrey Oliver (JAM/1984)
    (250) Cynthia Green (JAM/1984)
    (250=869) Cathy Rattray-Williams (JAM/1980-92)
    (250) Grace Jackson-Small (JAM/1984-92)
    ran in heats:
    (64=314) Andrea Thomas (JAM/1984-88)
    did not run:
    Merlene Ottey-Page (JAM-SLO/1984-2004)
    (-=64) Marcia Tate (JAM/1988)
  6. Italy
    (160) Patrizia Lombardo (ITA/1984)
    (160) Cosetta Campana (ITA/1984)
    (160) Marisa Masullo (ITA/1980-88)
    (160=185) Erica Rossi (ITA/1980-84)
    ran in heats:
    (64) Giuseppina Cirulli (ITA/1984)
  7. India
    (100) M. D. Valsamma (IND/1984)
    (100=125) Vandana Rao (IND/1984-88)
    (100=129) Shiny Abraham-Wilson (IND/1984-96)
    (100) P. T. Usha (IND/1980-88)
    did not start in final:
  8. Puerto Rico
    (64) Margaret de Jesús (PUR/1984)
    (64) Evelyn Mathieu (PUR/1984)
    (64) Marie Mathieu (PUR/1984)
    (64) Angelita Lind (PUR/1984)
    ran in heats:
  9. Antigua and Barbuda
    (40) Jocelyn Joseph (ANT/1984-88)
    (40) Ruperta Charles (ANT/1984)
    (40) Monica Stevens (ANT/1984)
    (40) Laverne Bryan (ANT/1984-88)
  10. Ghana
    (25) Martha Appiah (GHA/1984-88)
    (25) Mercy Addy (GHA/1984-88,96)
    (25) Mary Mensah (GHA/1984)
    (25) Grace Bakari (GHA/1984)
    Doris Wiredu (GHA/1984)
    did not start:
  11. Thailand
    Jaree Pattharath (THA/1984)
    Jaranee Pongkant(THA)
    Ratjai Sripet (THA/1984,92)
    Rewadee Srithoa (THA/1984,92)
    Walapa Tangjitnusorn (THA/1984)

1988


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