Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 x 100 metres relay

Athletics at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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 women
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

These are the official results of the Women's 4x100m Relay event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There were a total number of 19 nations competing.

Contents

Records

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record 41.37 Silke Gladisch
Sabine Rieger
Ingrid Auerswald
Marlies Göhr
Canberra (AUS) October 6, 1985
Olympic Record 41.60 Romy Muller
Barbel Wockel
Ingrid Auerswald
Marlies Göhr
Moscow (URS) August 1, 1980

Final

RANK NATION ATHLETES TIME
 United States (USA) Alice Brown
Sheila Echols
Florence Griffith
Evelyn Ashford
41.98
 East Germany (GDR) Silke Möller
Kerstin Behrendt
Ingrid Auerswald
Marlies Goehr
42.09
 Soviet Union (URS) Lyudmila Kondratyeva
Galina Malchugina
Marina Zhirova
Natalya Pomoshchnikova
42.75
4.  West Germany (FRG) • Sabine Richter
Ulrike Sarvari
Andrea Thomas
Ute Thimm
42.76
5.  Bulgaria (BUL) • Zvetanka Ilieva
• Valia Demireva
• Nadeyda Gueorguieva
Yordanka Donkova
43.02
6.  Poland (POL) Joanna Smolarek
Jolanta Janota
Ewa Pisiewicz
Agnieszka Siwek
43.93
7.  France (FRA) • Françoise Leroux
• Muriel Leroy
Laurence Bily
Patricia Girard
44.02
 Jamaica (JAM) • Ethlyn Tate
Grace Jackson
Juliet Cuthbert
Merlene Ottey
DNS

Semifinals

Heats

See also

References