World Athletics Championships 1987/4 × 100 m women

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay
gender	Women
Attendees	13 relay teams with 52 athletes
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 5th (preliminary) September 6th (final)
Medalists  United States  GDR  Soviet Union

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the World Athletics Championships 1987 was held on September 5th and 6th, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

World Champion was USA in the cast Alice Brown , Diane Williams , Florence Griffith Joyner and Pam Marshall .
Second place went to the GDR with Silke Gladisch , Cornelia Oschkenat , Kerstin Behrendt and Marlies Göhr .
Bronze went to the Soviet Union ( Irina Sljussar , Natalja Pomoschtschnikowa , Natalja German , Olga Antonowa ).

There were no cast changes for the individual seasons in the finale.

Records

Existing records

World record	41.37 s	GDR ( Silke Gladisch , Sabine Rieger , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	Canberra , Australia	October 6, 1985
World Cup record	41.76 s	GDR ( Silke Gladisch , Marita Koch , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 10, 1983

Record improvement

The world championship relay from the United States ( Alice Brown , Diane Williams , Florence Griffith-Joyner , Pam Marshall ) improved the existing world championship record in the final on September 6th by eighteen hundredths of a second to 41.58 s.

doping

There was a doping case in this competition.

A member of the Canadian 4 x 100 meter relay , which was initially sixth, was Angella Issajenko , former Angella Taylor, who was involved in the Ben Johnson doping case . She belonged to the same training group as Johnson under Charlie Francis. The doctor responsible for the doping preparations George Astaphan was responsible for Issajenko as well as for Johnson. After Ben Johnson was convicted of the doping offense, Issajenko exposed numerous doping practices and admitted that she had also doped herself. She then received a suspension, among other things, her results achieved over 100 meters at these World Championships (initially fifth) and with the 4 x 100 meter relay were canceled.

The relay from Nigeria was disadvantaged . The team would have been eligible to compete in the final with Beatrice Utondu , Tina Iheagwam , Mary Onyali and Falilat Ogunkoya .

Preliminary round

September 6th

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest teams - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	GDR	Silke Gladisch Cornelia Oschkenat Kerstin Behrendt Marlies Göhr	42.96
2	BR Germany	Silke-Beate Knoll Ulrike Sarvari Andrea Thomas Ute Thimm	43.32
3	Bulgaria	Ginka Sagortschewa Anelija Nunewa Nadezhda Georgieva Valya Demirewa	43.50
4th	Nigeria	Beatrice Utondu Tina Iheagwam Mary Onyali Falilat Ogunkoya	43.95 actually qualified for the final
5	Ghana	Mercy Addy Dinah Yankey Cynthia Quartey Martha Appiah	44.28
DOP	Canada	Angela Bailey Angela Phipps Angella Issajenko Keturah Anderson	admitted to the finals
DNS	Brazil	Inés Ribeiro Claudilea dos Santos Sheila dos Santos Cleide Amaral

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	United States	Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith-Joyner Pam Marshall	41.96
2	Soviet Union	Irina Sljussar Natalja Pomoschtschnikowa Natalja German Olga Antonowa	42.47
3	Cuba	Eusebia Riquelme Aliuska López Susana Armenteros Liliana Allen	43.53
4th	France	Françoise Leroux Marie-Christine Cazier Laurence Bily Muriel Leroy	43.59
5	Great Britain	Eleanor Cohen Joan Baptiste Wendy Hoyte Paula Dunn	44.21
6th	Italy	Rita Angotzi Patrizia Lombardo Annarita Balzani Marisa Masullo	44.49
7th	India	Ashwini Nachappa Vandana Shanbag Sany Joseph Vandana Rao	46.32

final

September 6th

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	United States	Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith-Joyner Pam Marshall	41.58 CR
2	GDR	Silke Gladisch Cornelia Oschkenat Kerstin Behrendt Marlies Göhr	41.95
3	Soviet Union	Irina Sljussar Natalja Pomoschtschnikowa Natalja German Olga Antonowa	42.33
4th	Bulgaria	Ginka Sagortschewa Anelija Nunewa Nadezhda Georgieva Valya Demirewa	42.71
5	BR Germany	Silke-Beate Knoll Ulrike Sarvari Andrea Thomas Ute Thimm	43.20
6th	Cuba	Eusebia Riquelme Aliuska López Susana Armenteros Liliana Allen	43.66
7th	France	Françoise Leroux Marie-Christine Cazier Laurence Bily Muriel Leroy	43.75
DOP	Canada	Angela Bailey Angela Phipps Angella Issajenko Keturah Anderson

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 23, 2020
• Women 4x100m Relay Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 5, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 4x100m Relay, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 365), English, accessed on April 5, 2020

Video

• 1987 World Championships 4x100m relay Women on youtube.com, accessed April 5, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m women , accessed April 5, 2020
2. ↑ Angella Taylor-Issajenko on haltraum.com, accessed March 18, 2020
3. ↑ John Barnes, Recent Developments in Canadian Sports Law at commentary.canlii.org, 1991, English (PDF, 5554 KB), accessed March 18, 2020