1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 4 x 100 meter relay | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 60 athletes from 15 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Munich | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 9, 1972 (preliminary) September 10, 1972 (final) |
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The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 9 and 10, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. Sixty athletes took part in fifteen seasons.
The relay of the Federal Republic of Germany became Olympic champion in a new world record time with the cast of Christiane Krause , Ingrid Mickler-Becker , Annegret Irrgang and Heide Rosendahl . The GDR relay won silver with Evelin Kaufer , Christina Heinich , Bärbel Struppert and Renate Stecher , bronze went to Cuba ( Marlene Elejarde , Carmen Valdés , Fulgencia Romay , Silvia Chivás ).
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 42.88 s |
USA ( Margaret Bailes , Barbara Ferrell , Mildrette Netter , Wyomia Tyus ) |
Mexico City , Mexico | 20th October 1968 |
Olympic record | Mexico City Final , Mexico |
Comment on the records: In these years, electronic timekeeping was already used at many events. However, the records were usually still held in tenths of a second. They were a mixture of hand-timed and rounded electronically determined times. Since the manual timekeeping turned out to be one to two tenths of a second better due to the reaction times of the judges, one also began to keep separate, purely electronically determined record overviews.
In this discipline, the world and Olympic record holders are identical under both readings. The above The US relay ran electronically stopped as stated above for 42.88 seconds when it won the Olympic Games in Mexico City. When stopped by hand, the value was 42.8 seconds.
Conducting the competition
The relays completed two preliminary runs on September 9, from which the four best teams qualified for the final on September 10.
Time schedule
September 9
, 5.10 p.m . : Preliminaries September 10, 3.55 p.m .: Final
The qualified relays are highlighted in light blue.
Preliminary round
September 9, from 5.10 p.m .: Final
Forward 1
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
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1 | Cuba |
Marlene Elejarde Carmen Valdés Fulgencia Romay Silvia Chivás |
43.67 s | |
2 | Soviet Union |
Marina Sidorova Galina Bucharina Lyudmila Scharkowa Nadezhda Besfamilnaja |
43.77 s | |
3 | Australia |
Maureen Caird Pam Ryan Marion Hoffman Raelene Boyle |
44.03 s | |
4th | Poland |
Helena Fliśnik Barbara Bakulin Urszula Jóźwik Danuta Jędrejek |
44.19 s | |
5 | Italy |
Maddalena Grassano Alessandra Orselli Laura Nappi Cecilia Molinari |
44.62 s | |
6th | Finland |
Tuula Rautanen Mona-Lisa Strandvall Pirjo Wilmi Marika Eklund |
44.68 s | |
7th | Nigeria |
Emilia Edet Ashanti Obi Helen Olaye Modupe Oshikoya |
45.15 s | |
DSQ | Philippines |
Lucila Salao Carmen Torres Aida Mantawel Amelita Alanes |
Forward 2
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
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1 | GDR |
Evelin Kaufer Christina Heinich Bärbel Struppert Renate Stecher |
42.88 s | WRel eg |
2 | BR Germany |
Christiane Krause Ingrid Mickler-Becker Annegret Irrgang Heide Rosendahl |
42.97 s | |
3 | United States |
Martha Watson Mattiline Render Mildrette Netter Iris Davis |
43.07 s | |
4th | Great Britain |
Andrea Lynch Della Pascoe Judy Vernon Anita Neil |
43.76 s | |
5 | Bulgaria |
Diana Jorgowa Iwanka Walkowa Iwanka Wenkowa Jordanka Jankowa |
43.95 s | |
DSQ | Jamaica |
Leleith Hodges Vilma Charlton Carol Cummings Debbie Byfield |
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Sweden |
Anneli Olsson Gunhild Olsson Karin Lundgren Linda Haglund |
final
space | Season | occupation | time | annotation |
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1 | BR Germany |
Christiane Krause Ingrid Mickler-Becker Annegret Irrgang Heide Rosendahl |
42.81 s | WRel |
2 | GDR |
Evelin Kaufer Christina Heinich Bärbel Struppert Renate Stecher |
42.95 s | |
3 | Cuba |
Marlene Elejarde Carmen Valdés Fulgencia Romay Silvia Chivás |
43.36 s | |
4th | United States |
Martha Watson Mattiline Render Mildrette Netter Iris Davis |
43.39 s | |
5 | Soviet Union |
Marina Sidorova Galina Bucharina Lyudmila Scharkowa Nadezhda Besfamilnaja |
43.59 s | |
6th | Australia |
Maureen Caird Raelene Boyle Marion Hoffman Pam Ryan |
43.61 s | |
7th | Great Britain |
Andrea Lynch Della Pascoe Judy Vernon Anita Neil |
43.71 s | |
8th | Poland |
Helena Fliśnik Barbara Bakulin Urszula Jóźwik Danuta Jędrejek |
44.20 s |
September 10, 3:55 p.m .: Final
The two German teams from the GDR and the Federal Republic started as favorites. This duel was particularly explosive during the Cold War and the East-West conflict with the question of a better system between the GDR and the Federal Republic. With corresponding tension, which however among the viewers v. a. sporting aspects, the race was expected. The two teams met in the second run. There, the GDR was ahead by a good tenth of a second, setting the US world record of 1968 , which is evaluated according to electronic standards .
With Christiane Krause and Ingrid Mickler-Becker in the first two positions, the German relay team gained a small lead over the GDR with runners Evelin Kaufer and Christina Heinich. Annegret Irrgang - who later became Annegret Richter - then handed over the baton to the final runner Heide Rosendahl with a wafer-thin margin. The GDR switched from Bärbel Struppert to the sprint double Olympic champion Renate Stecher. At that point, the race seemed to be heading towards a GDR victory, because Rosendahl's lead over the overpowering Renate Stecher would actually have had to be significantly greater to enable the West German relay to win. But Heide Rosendahl astonished viewers and experts. She was able to keep the lead and bring her team to Olympic victory with a bit more than a tenth of a second ahead. The bronze medal behind the GDR was won by the relay runners from Cuba. They were four tenths of a second behind the GDR and only three hundredths of a second ahead of the Americans.
By electronic standards, the winning time was a new world and a new Olympic record. On the basis of the official rules, according to which times for records are to be rounded to tenths of a second, the existing world and Olympic records were equalized.
For the first time a German - here at the same time Federal German - relay won the gold medal.
literature
- Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 56
Video
- 1972 ORO DELL GERMANIA OVEST 4X100 FEMMINILE , in German, published on March 28, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on December 7, 2017
Web links
- SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed December 7, 2017
- Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 69, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 650 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on December 7, 2017
- ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 69, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 7, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 7, 2017