1980 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 8 countries
Competition location	Luzhniki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 1, 1980
Medalists  GDR  URS  GBR

The women's 4-by-100-meter relay at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow was held on August 1, 1980 in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium. 32 athletes took part in eight seasons.

The GDR relay team ( Romy Müller , Bärbel Wöckel , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr ) was Olympic champion with a new world record time . The silver medal went to the relay of the Soviet Union with Vera Komissowa , Lyudmila Maslakowa , Wera Anissimowa and Natalja Botschina , Great Britain won the bronze medal in the cast Heather Hunte , Kathryn Smallwood , Beverley Goddard and Sonia Lannaman .

Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. The season of the BR Germany was also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Existing records

World record	41.85 s	GDR ( Marlies Göhr , Ingrid Auerswald , Bärbel Wöckel , Romy Müller )	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	July 13, 1980
Olympic record	42.55 s	GDR ( Marlies Göhr , Renate Stecher , Carla Bodendorf , Bärbel Wöckel )	Final of Montreal , Canada	July 31, 1976

Conducting the competition

Since only eight relays were involved in the competition, there was no qualifying round. The final race was held on August 1st at 5:00 p.m. Moscow time ( UTC + 3 ).

Result

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	GDR	Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	41.60 s	WR
2	Soviet Union	Vera Komissowa Lyudmila Maslakowa Vera Anissimowa Natalja Botschina	42.10 s
3	Great Britain	Heather Hunte Kathryn Smallwood Beverley Goddard Sonia Lannaman	42.43 s
4th	Bulgaria	Sofka Popowa Lilijana Panayotova Marija Schischkowa Galina Enteva	42.67 s
5	France	Veronique Grandrieux Chantal Réga Raymonde Naigre Emma Sulter	42.84 s
6th	Jamaica	Leleith Hodges Jacqueline Pusey Rosie Allwood Merlene Ottey	43.19 s
7th	Poland	Lucyna Langer Elżbieta Stachurska Zofia Bielczyk Grażyna Rabsztyn	44.49 s
DNF	Sweden	Linda Haglund Lena Möller Ann-Louise Skoglund Helena Pihl

Date: August 1, 1980, 5:00 p.m.

Because of the Olympic boycott, neither the Americans nor the Germans were there. With eight registered teams, this competition was extremely thin and could be carried out in a single race without any preliminary runs. The GDR relay with its top-class sprinters was the clear favorite relay . The Soviet team was given good chances, at the last European championships in 1978 they won the title and defeated the GDR. However, the 100-meter Olympic champion Lyudmila Kondratjewa was injured and could not run the relay.

The GDR team was extremely strong in terms of running and with Romy Müller was in the lead right from the start. Bärbel Wöckel expanded the leadership. Ingrid Auerswald switched to Marlies Göhr by a huge margin. But after the previous changes were not outstanding, the team lost a lot of time here compared to their competitors. Nevertheless, the GDR had a clear lead in the end and even won the gold medal in a new world record time . As expected, silver went to the USSR, while the British won the bronze medal ahead of Bulgaria and France.

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on January 3, 2018
• Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 80f, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018

Video

• 1980 Moscow Olympics Womens 4x100m relay , published April 25, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed January 3, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 650 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 3, 2018
2. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 17, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018
3. ↑ Moscow 1980 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 81, English / French (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on January 3, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed January 3, 2018