1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 x 400 metres relay

Events at the 1983 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.

Medals

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
East Germany Gesine Walther Sabine Busch Marita Koch Dagmar Rübsam	Czechoslovakia Tatána Kocembová Milena Matejkovicova-Strnadova Zuzana Moravcikova Jarmila Kratochvílová	Soviet Union Yelena Didilenko-Korban Marina Ivanova-Kharlamova Irina Baskakova Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	East Germany (GDR)	3:19.04	Athens, Greece	September 11, 1982
Championship Record	New event

Results

Heats

All times shown are in minutes.

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

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

Heat 1

1. United States (Roberta Belle, Easter Gabriel, Rosalyn Bryant, Denean Howard-Hill) 3:26.82 Q
2. Canada (Charmaine Crooks, Jillian Richardson, Molly Killingbeck, Marita Payne-Wiggins) 3:27.21 Q
3. Czechoslovakia (Milena Matejkovičová-Strnadová, Zuzana Moravčíková, Taťána Kocembová, Jarmila Kratochvílová) 3:27.60 Q
4. West Germany (Rita Daimer, Ute Thimm, Gisela Gottwald, Gaby Bußmann) 3:29.70 q
5. Romania (Iulia Radu, Daniela Matei, Cristieana Cojocaru, Elena Lina) 3:30.96 q

Heat 2

1. Soviet Union (Yelena Didilenko-Korban, Marina Ivanova-Kharlamova, Irina Baskakova, Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina) 3:28.77 Q
2. East Germany (Kerstin Walther, Undine Bremer, Ellen Neumann-Fiedler, Sabine Busch) 3:29.05 Q
3. Bulgaria (Svobodka Damyanova, Rositsa Stamenova, Katya Ilieva, Galina Penkova) 3:31.11 Q
4. Jamaica (Cathy Rattray-Williams, Ovrill Dwyer-Brown, Jacqueline Pusey, Grace Jackson) 3:34.17
5. Puerto Rico (Madeline De Jesus, Vilma Paris, Margaret De Jesus, Nilsa Paris) 3:42.79

Final

1. East Germany (Gesine Walther, Sabine Busch, Marita Koch, Dagmar Rübsam) 3:19.73
2. Czechoslovakia (Taťána Kocembová, Milena Matejkovičová-Strnadová, Zuzana Moravčíková, Jarmila Kratochvílová) 3:20.32
3. Soviet Union (Yelena Didilenko-Korban, Marina Ivanova-Kharlamova, Irina Baskakova, Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina) 3:21.16
4. Canada (Charmaine Crooks, Jillian Richardson, Molly Killingbeck, Marita Payne-Wiggins) 3:27.41
5. United States (Roberta Belle, Easter Gabriel, Rosalyn Bryant, Denean Howard-Hill) 3:27.57
6. West Germany (Rita Daimer, Ute Thimm, Gisela Gottwald, Gaby Bußmann) 3:29.43
7. Bulgaria (Svobodka Damyanova, Rositsa Stamenova, Katya Ilieva, Galina Penkova) 3:30.36
8. Romania (Iulia Radu, Daniela Matei, Cristieana Cojocaru, Elena Lina) 3:35.61

References

• IAAF results, heats
• IAAF results, final