1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 4 x 100 meter relay | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 60 athletes from 15 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estadio Olímpico Universitario | ||||||||
Competition phase | October 19, 1968 (preliminary) October 20, 1968 (final) |
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The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 19 and 20, 1968 in the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 60 athletes took part in 15 relays.
The US relay team with Barbara Ferrell , Margaret Bailes , Mildrette Netter and Wyomia Tyus was Olympic champion in a new world record time ahead of the relay teams from Cuba ( Marlene Elejarde , Fulgencia Romay , Violeta Quesada , Miguelina Cobián ) and the Soviet Union with Lyudmila Scharkowa , Galina Bucharina , Vera Popkova and Lyudmila Samotjossowa .
For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Renate Meyer , Jutta Stöck , Rita Jahn and Ingrid Becker started . This season finished sixth in the final.
Relays from the GDR - officially East Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 43.6 s |
![]() ( Lyudmila Scharkowa , Galina Bucharina , Wera Popkowa , Lyudmila Samotjossowa ) |
Mexico City , Mexico | September 27, 1968 |
![]() ( Marlene Elejarde , Fulgencia Romay , Violeta Quesada , Miguelina Cobián ) |
5th October 1968 | |||
Olympic record | 43.9 s |
![]() ( Willye White , Wyomia Tyus , Marilyn White , Edith McGuire ) |
Tokyo finals , Japan | October 21, 1964 |
Note: The Olympic record of the US relay came about when the records of the then victorious Polish relay were withdrawn. This had won the final in Tokyo in a world record time of 43.6 seconds. After a sex test before the European Athletics Cup in 1967 , the final runner Ewa Kłobukowska was classified as intersex . In 1969 the World Athletics Federation Kłobukowskas canceled world records, including those from the final in Tokyo. The Polish relay team remained Olympic champion, but the world record was now awarded to the second-placed US relay team, which was also below the current world record.
Conducting the competition
The relays competed on October 19 for a total of two preliminary runs. The best four teams qualified for the final on October 20th.
Time schedule
October 19, 3:30 p.m .: Preliminaries
October 20, 4:30 p.m .: Final
Note: All times are Mexico City local time ( UTC −6)
The relays qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue
Prelims
Date: October 19, 1968, from 3:30 p.m.
Forward 1
space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 |
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Barbara Ferrell Margaret Bailes Mildrette Nice Wyomia Tyus |
43.4 s | 43.50 s | WR |
2 |
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Jennifer Lamy Joyce Bennett Raelene Boyle Dianne Burge |
43.7 s | 43.77 s | |
3 |
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Renate Meyer Jutta Stöck Rita Jahn Ingrid Becker |
44.1 s | 44.18 s | |
4th |
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Michèle Alayrangues Gabrielle Meyer Nicole Montandon Sylviane Telliez |
44.3 s | 44.32 s | |
5 |
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Debbie Miller Stephanie Berto Joan Hendry Irene Piotrowski |
44.7 s | 44.73 s | |
6th |
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Olajumoke Bodunrin Janet Omorogbe Mairo Jinadu Oyeronke Akindele |
45.2 s | 45.23 s | |
7th |
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Alma Rosa Martínez Mercedes Román Enriqueta Basilio Esperanza Girón |
47.0 s | 47.09 s | |
DSQ |
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Adlin Mair-Clarke Carmen Smith Una Morris Vilma Charlton |
Forward 2
space | Season | occupation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 |
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Wilma van den Berg Mieke Sterk Truus Hennipman Corrie Bakker |
43.4 s | 43.49 s | WRe |
2 |
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Lyudmila Sharkova Galina Bucharina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Samotjossowa |
43.6 s | 43.67 s | |
3 |
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Anita Neil Maureen Tranter Janet Simpson Lillian Board |
43.9 s | 43.98 s | |
4th |
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Marlene Elejarde Fulgencia Romay Violeta Quesada Miguelina Cobián |
44.1 s | 44.15 s | |
5 |
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Etelka Kispál Margit Nemesházi Györgyi Balogh Annamária Tóth |
44.6 s | 44.65 s | |
6th |
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Chi Cheng Yeh Chu-mei Lin Chun-yu Tien Ah-mei |
47.2 s | 47.24 s | |
7th |
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Danuta Straszyńska Mirosława Sarna Urszula Jóźwik Irena Szewińska |
53.0 s | 53.02 s |
final
space | Surname | nation | Official time hand-stopped |
Unofficial time electronically |
annotation |
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1 |
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Barbara Ferrell Margaret Bailes Mildrette Nice Wyomia Tyus |
42.8 s | 42.88 s | WR |
2 |
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Marlene Elejarde Fulgencia Romay Violeta Quesada Miguelina Cobián |
43.3 s | 43.36 s | |
3 |
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Lyudmila Sharkova Galina Bucharina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Samotjossowa |
43.4 s | 43.41 s | |
4th |
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Wilma van den Berg Mieke Sterk Truus Hennipman Corrie Bakker |
43.4 s | 43.44 s | |
5 |
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Jennifer Lamy Joyce Bennett Raelene Boyle Dianne Burge |
43.4 s | 43.50 s | |
6th |
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Renate Meyer Jutta Stöck Rita Jahn Ingrid Becker |
43.6 s | 43.70 s | |
7th |
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Anita Neil Maureen Tranter Janet Simpson Lillian Board |
43.7 s | 43.78 s | |
8th |
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Michèle Alayrangues Gabrielle Meyer Nicole Montandon Sylviane Telliez |
44.2 s | 44.30 s |
Date: October 20, 1968, 4:30 p.m.
As in all sprint competitions , the high altitude of the Mexican capital supported the athletes. The US sprinters managed to improve the world record both in the preliminary round and in the final. With the Olympic and silver medalists over 100 meters , Wyomia Tyus and Barbara Ferrell, they were the clearly favored team. Surprisingly, the Dutch season set the newly established world record for the US women in the second run.
In the final it then almost hailed new personal bests and national records. Final runner Wyomia Tyus secured the gold medal for her US team with a four-meter lead over Cuban Miguelina Cobián. The season undercut the world record by eight tenths of a second, making it the first women's season to stay below the 43-second mark. Cuba won the silver medal, bronze went to the USSR team. The Dutch women, who had set world records the day before, only got fourth place at the same time as the Soviet Union, both seasons with new European records. The fifth-placed Australians also remained below the world record from the preliminary races. The German relay, a further tenth of a second behind in sixth place, was just as fast as the Dutch and US-Americans the day before, setting a new German record.
Cuba and the Soviet Union won the first medals in this discipline.
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 394f
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on November 10, 2017
- Official report - summary p. 83f., English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 535, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 395
- ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 11, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 535, engl./frz. (PDF), accessed on November 10, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 10, 2017