1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the
1999 World Championships
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
5000 mmenwomen
10,000 mmenwomen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmenwomen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmenwomen
20 km walkmenwomen
50 km walkmen
Field events
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmenwomen
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmenwomen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Combined events
Heptathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

The Women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla on August 28 and August 29.

Medals

Gold Silver Bronze
 Russia
Tatyana Chebykina
Svetlana Goncharenko
Olga Kotlyarova
Natalya Nazarova 		 United States
Suziann Reid
Maicel Malone-Wallace
Michelle Collins
Jearl Miles Clark 		 Germany
Anke Feller
Uta Rohländer-Fromm
Anja Rücker
Grit Breuer

Results

Heats

All times shown are in minutes.

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

  1.  Russia (Natalya Sharova, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko) 3:24.51 Q (WL)
  2.  Australia (Tamsyn Lewis, Lee Naylor, Susan Andrews, Cathy Freeman) 3:27.31 Q
  3.  Cuba (Julia Duporty, Zulia Calatayud, Yudalis Díaz, Idalmis Bonne) 3:27.54 q
  4.  Canada (Karlene Haughton, LaDonna Antoine-Watkins, Candice Jones, Foy Williams) 3:28.47 (SB)
  5.  Senegal (Aïda Diop, Mame Tacko Diouf, Aminata Diouf, Amy Mbacké Thiam) 3:30.99 (NR)
  6.  Spain (Elena Córcoles, Yolanda Reyes, Miriam Bravo, Lisette Ferri) 3:36.28

Heat 2

  1.  Germany (Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer-Fromm, Anja Knippel, Anja Rücker) 3:24.80 Q (SB)
  2.  Czech Republic (Jitka Burianová, Hana Benešová, Ludmila Formanová, Helena Fuchsová) 3:25.58 Q (SB)
  3.  Jamaica (Beverly Grant, Charmaine Howell, Tracey Barnes, Claudine Williams) 3:27.78 q (SB)
  4.  Great Britain (Donna Fraser, Helen Frost, Michelle Thomas, Sinead Dudgeon) 3:27.99 (SB)
  5.  Cameroon (Mireille Nguimgo, Myriam Léonie Mani, Stéphanie Nicole Zanga, Claudine Komgang) 3:33.51 (NR)
  6.  Liberia (Jocelyn Harris, Grace Dinkins, Joetta Dweh, Hannah Cooper) 3:55.30 (NR)

Heat 3

  1.  United States (Suziann Reid, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Andrea Anderson, Michelle Collins) 3:25.10 Q (SB)
  2.  Italy (Danielle Perpoli, Patrizia Spuri, Monika Niederstätter, Virna De Angeli) 3:31.67 Q
  3.  Barbados (Andrea Blackett, Melissa Straker, Lucy-Ann Richards, Joanne Durant) 3:34.37
  4.  India (M. K. Asha, K. Mathews Beenamol, Rosa Kutty, Jincy Phillip) 3:36.54

Final

  1.  Russia (Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Olga Kotlyarova, Natalya Nazarova) 3:21.98 (WL)
  2.  United States (Suziann Reid, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Michelle Collins, Jearl Miles Clark) 3:22.09 (SB)
  3.  Germany (Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer-Fromm, Anja Rücker, Grit Breuer) 3:22.43 (SB)
  4.  Czech Republic (Jitka Burianová, Hana Benešová, Ludmila Formanová, Helena Fuchsová) 3:23.82 (SB)
  5.  Jamaica (Beverly Grant, Lorraine Fenton, Claudine Williams, Deon Hemmings) 3:24.83 (SB)
  6.  Australia (Tania Van Heer, Lee Naylor, Susan Andrews, Cathy Freeman) 3:28.04
  7.  Cuba (Julia Duporty, Zulia Calatayud, Yudalis Díaz, Idalmis Bonne) 3:29.19
  8.  Italy (Virna De Angeli, Patrizia Spuri, Francesca Carbone, Monika Niederstätter) 3:29.56

References