1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
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.
Medals
Results
Heats
All times shown are in seconds.
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) |
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
- East Germany (Silke Gladisch, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr) 42.96 Q
- Canada (Angela Bailey, Angela Phipps, Angella Issajenko, Keturah Anderson) 43.30 Q
- West Germany (Silke-Beate Knoll, Ulrike Sarvari, Andrea Thomas, Ute Thimm) 43.32 Q
- Bulgaria (Ginka Zagorcheva, Anelia Nuneva, Nadezhda Georgieva, Valya Demireva) 43.50 Q
- Nigeria (Beatrice Utondu, Tina Iheagwam, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi, Falilat Ogunkoya) 43.95
- Ghana (Mercy Addy, Diana Yankey, Cynthia Quartey, Martha Appiah) 44.28
Heat 2
- United States (Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith, Pam Marshall) 41.96 Q
- Soviet Union (Irina Slyusar, Natalya Pomoshchnikova, Natalya German, Olga Antonova) 42.47 Q
- Cuba (Eusebia Riquelme, Aliuska López, Susana Armenteros, Liliana Allen) 43.53 Q
- France (Françoise Leroux, Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo, Laurence Bily, Muriel Leroy) 43.59 Q
- Great Britain (Eleanor Cohen, Joan Baptiste, Wendy Hoyte, Paula Dunn) 44.21
- Italy (Rita Angotzi, Patrizia Lombardo, Annarita Balzani, Marisa Masullo) 44.49
- India (Ashwini Nachappa, Vandana Shanbag, Sany Joseph, Vandana Rao) 40.10
Final
- United States (Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith, Pam Marshall) 41.58 (CR)
- East Germany (Silke Gladisch, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr) 41.95
- Soviet Union (Irina Slyusar, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Natalya German, Olga Antonova) 42.33
- Bulgaria (Ginka Zagorcheva, Anelia Nuneva, Nadezhda Georgieva, Valya Demireva) 42.71
- West Germany (Silke-Beate Knoll, Ulrike Sarvari, Andrea Thomas, Ute Thimm) 43.20
- Canada (Angela Bailey, Angela Phipps, Angella Taylor-Issajenko, Keturah Anderson) 43.26
- Cuba (Eusebia Riquelme, Aliuska López, Susana Armenteros, Liliana Allen) 43.66
- France (Françoise Leroux, Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo, Laurence Bily, Muriel Leroy) 43.75