1987 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 4 x 100 metres relay

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The 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.

[edit] Medals

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith-Joyner Pam Marshall	East Germany Silke Gladisch-Möller Cornelia Oschkenat Kerstin Behrendt Marlies Göhr	Soviet Union Irina Slyusar Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova Natalya German Olga Antonova

[edit] Results

[edit] Heats

All times shown are in seconds.

AR Area record | CR championship record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB/PR personal best/record | SB seasonal best | WL world leading (in a given season) | WR world record

DNF = did not finish | DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) | Q = qualification by place in heat | q = qualification by overall place

[edit] Heat 1

1.  East Germany (Silke Gladisch-Möller, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr) 42.96
2.  Canada (Angela Bailey, Angela Phipps, Angella Taylor-Issajenko, Keturah Anderson) 43.30
3.  West Germany (Silke-Beate Knoll, Ulrike Sarvari, Andrea Thomas, Ute Thimm) 43.32
4.  Bulgaria (Ginka Zagorcheva, Anelia Nuneva, Nadezhda Georgieva, Valya Demireva) 43.50
5.  Nigeria (Beatrice Utondu, Tina Iheagwam, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, Falilat Ogunkoya) 43.95
6.  Ghana (Mercy Addy, Diana Yankey, Cynthia Quartey, Martha Appiah) 44.28

•  Brazil (Ines Ribeiro, Claudilea Dos Santos, Sheila De Oliveira, Cleide Amaral) DNS

[edit] Heat 2

1.  United States (Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Pam Marshall) 41.96
2.  Soviet Union (Irina Slyusar, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Natalya German, Olga Antonova) 42.47
3.  Cuba (Eusebia Riquelme, Aliuska López, Susana Armenteros, Liliana Allen) 43.53
4.  France (Françoise Leroux, Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo, Laurence Bily, Muriel Leroy) 43.59
5.  Great Britain (Eleanor Cohen, Joan Baptiste, Wendy Hoyte, Paula Dunn-Thomas) 44.21
6.  Italy (Rita Angotzi, Patrizia Lombardo, Annarita Balzani, Marisa Masullo) 44.49
7.  India (Ashwini Nachappa, Vandana Shanbag, Sany Joseph, Vandana Rao) 40.10

[edit] Final

1.  United States (Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Pam Marshall) 41.58 (CR)
2.  East Germany (Silke Gladisch-Möller, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr) 41.95
3.  Soviet Union (Irina Slyusar, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Natalya German, Olga Antonova) 42.33
4.  Bulgaria (Ginka Zagorcheva, Anelia Nuneva, Nadezhda Georgieva, Valya Demireva) 42.71
5.  West Germany (Silke-Beate Knoll, Ulrike Sarvari, Andrea Thomas, Ute Thimm) 43.20
6.  Canada (Angela Bailey, Angela Phipps, Angella Taylor-Issajenko, Keturah Anderson) 43.26
7.  Cuba (Eusebia Riquelme, Aliuska López, Susana Armenteros, Liliana Allen) 43.66
8.  France (Françoise Leroux, Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo, Laurence Bily, Muriel Leroy) 43.75

[edit] References

• IAAF results, heats
• IAAF results, final

1987 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Rome, Italy

Men's Competition

100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1,500 m | 5,000 m | 10,000 m | 110 m Hurdles | 400 m Hurdles | 3,000 m Steeplechase | 4x100 m relay | 4x400 m relay | Marathon | 20 km walk | 50 km walk | Long Jump | Triple Jump | High Jump | Pole Vault | Shot Put | Hammer | Discus | Javelin | Decathlon

Women's Competition

100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1,500 m | 3,000 m | 10,000 m | 100 m Hurdles | 400 m Hurdles | 4x100 m relay | 4x400 m relay | 10 km walk | Marathon | Long Jump | High Jump | Shot Put | Discus | Javelin | Heptathlon