1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Women
Attendees	40 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 30, 1976 (preliminary) July 31, 1976 (final)
Medalists  GDR  FRG  URS

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 30 and 31, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 40 athletes took part in ten seasons.

The GDR relay team with Marlies Oelsner , Renate Stecher , Carla Bodendorf and Bärbel Eckert was the Olympic champion . Silver went to the squadron of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Elvira Possekel , Inge Helten , Annegret Richter , Annegret Kroniger ), bronze went to the Soviet squadron in the cast Tetjana Prorotschenko , Lyudmila Maslakowa , Nadeschda Besfamilnaja and Vera Anissimowa .

Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	42.50 s	GDR ( Marlies Göhr , Renate Stecher , Carla Bodendorf , Martina Blos )	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	May 29, 1976
Olympic record	42.81 s	Federal Republic of Germany ( Christiane Krause , Ingrid Mickler-Becker , Annegret Richter , Heide Rosendahl )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	September 10, 1972

Conducting the competition

The relays completed two preliminary runs on July 30th, in which the three best teams and the following two fastest teams qualified for the final on July 31st.

Time schedule

July 30th, 10 a.m .: Preliminary
July 31, 6.30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The directly qualified squadrons are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: July 30, 1976, from 10 a.m.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	BR Germany	Elvira Possekel Inge Helten Annegret Judge Annegret Kroniger	42.61 s	OR
2	Soviet Union	Tetjana Prorotschenko Lyudmila Maslakowa Nadezhda Besfamilnaja Vera Anissimowa	43.33 s
3	Great Britain	Wendy Clarke Denise Ramsden Sharon Colyear Andrea Lynch	43.44 s
4th	Australia	Barbara Wilson Debbie Wells Denise Robertson Raelene Boyle	43.67 s
5	France	Chantal Corbrejaud Catherine Delachanal Chantal Réga Sylviane Telliez	43.95 s

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	GDR	Marlies Oelsner Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Bärbel Eckert	43.00 s
2	United States	Martha Watson Evelyn Ashford Debra Armstrong Chandra Cheeseborough	43.46 s
3	Canada	Margaret Howe Patty Loverock Joanne McTaggart Marjorie Bailey	43.53 s
4th	Jamaica	Rosie Allwood Jacqueline Pusey Carol Cummings Leleith Hodges	43.88 s
5	Cuba	Isabel Taylor Carmen Valdés Fulgencia Romay Silvia Chivás	44.29 s

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	GDR	Marlies Oelsner Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Bärbel Eckert	42.55 s	OR
2	BR Germany	Elvira Possekel Inge Helten Annegret Judge Annegret Kroniger	42.59 s
3	Soviet Union	Tetjana Prorotschenko Lyudmila Maslakowa Nadezhda Besfamilnaja Vera Anissimowa	43.09 s
4th	Canada	Margaret Howe Patty Loverock Joanne McTaggart Marjorie Bailey	43.17 s
5	Australia	Barbara Wilson Debbie Wells Denise Robertson Raelene Boyle	43.18 s
6th	Jamaica	Leleith Hodges Rosie Allwood Carol Cummings Jacqueline Pusey	43.24 s
7th	United States	Martha Watson Evelyn Ashford Debra Armstrong Chandra Cheeseborough	43.35 s
8th	Great Britain	Wendy Clarke Denise Ramsden Sharon Colyear Andrea Lynch	43.79 s

Date: July 31, 1976, 6:00 p.m.

As in the 1972 Olympic Games , there was a German-German duel. That had already become apparent in the semi-finals, when the West German team improved their own Olympic record and the GDR relay won the second preliminary round.

The two top runners Renate Stecher from the GDR and Annegret Richter from the Federal Republic did not run directly against each other. Stecher was the second runner of the GDR relay, the West German team sent Richter as the third runner into the race. This was able to give her teammate Annegret Kroniger a slight lead over the GDR relay on the way. But Bärbel Eckert, the 200-meter Olympic champion, passed Kroniger and in the end won by four hundredths of a second. Both teams undercut the new Olympic record set in the semifinals. The victorious GDR runners missed the world record by just five hundredths of a second. Bronze went to the USSR, which finished half a second behind the Federal Republic of Germany and just under a tenth of a second ahead of Canada.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, pp. 253-255

Video

• 1976 Olympics Women's 4 × 100 meters sprint relay.mp4 , published June 29, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed December 19, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on December 19, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 40, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 561 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 19 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 40, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 19, 2017