1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Women
Attendees	45 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 11, 1984
Medalists  United States  CAN  GBR

The women's 4-by-100-meter relay at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 11, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 45 athletes took part in eleven seasons.

The US season with Alice Brown , Jeanette Bolden , Chandra Cheeseborough and Evelyn Ashford became Olympic champions. The silver medal went to Canada ( Angela Bailey , Marita Payne , Angella Taylor , France Gareau ) and bronze to Great Britain with Simmone Jacobs , Kathy Cook , Beverley Callender and Heather Oakes .

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

Current titleholders

Olympic champions 1980	GDR ( Romy Müller , Bärbel Wöckel , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	41.60 s	Moscow 1980
World champions 1983	GDR ( Silke Möller , Marita Koch , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	41.76 s	Helsinki 1983
European champions 1982	GDR ( Gesine Walther , Bärbel Wöckel , Sabine Rieger , Marlies Göhr )	42.19 s	Athens 1982
Pan American champions 1983	USA ( Alice Jackson , Brenda Cliette , Jackie Washington , Randy Givens )	43.21 s	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean champions 1983	Bahamas	45.26 s	Havana 1983
South American champions 1983	Brazil (Elba Barbosa, Juraciara da Silva, Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia , Sheila de Oliveira)	45.4 s	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champions 1983	Thailand	46.12 s	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Kenya	46.77 s	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	41.53 s	GDR ( Silke Gladisch , Sabine Rieger , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	Berlin , GDR (now Germany )	July 31, 1983
Olympic record	41.60 s	GDR ( Romy Müller , Bärbel Wöckel , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	August 1, 1980

Preliminary round

Date: August 11, 1984

The eleven seasons of the preliminary round were drawn in two runs. The first three seasons of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified relays are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Wassana Panyapuek, who was used in the Thai relay, was the youngest participant overall in the Los Angeles Olympic athletics competitions at the age of 15.

The USA relay achieved the fastest lead time in run 2 with 42.59 s. The slowest directly qualified relay was the team of the BR Germany in run 2 with 44.30 s. The fastest relay that could not qualify was Ghana's relay with 45.20 s in run 2.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Jamaica	Janet Burke Grace Jackson Veronica Findlay Merlene Ottey-Page	43.05 s
2	Great Britain	Simmone Jacobs Kathy Cook Beverley Callender Heather Oakes	43.37 s
3	France	Rose-Aimée Bacoul Liliane Gaschet Marie-France Loval Raymonde Naigre	43.64 s
4th	Bahamas	Eldece Clarke Pauline Davis Deborah Greene Oralee Fowler	44.15 s
5	Thailand	Ratjai Sripet Wallapa Tangjitnusom Jaree Pararach Wassana Panyapuek	45.62 s

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Alice Brown Jeanette Bolden Chandra Cheeseborough Evelyn Ashford	42.59 s
2	Canada	Angela Bailey Marita Payne Angella Taylor France Gareau	43.53 s
3	BR Germany	Edith Oker Michaela Schabinger Heidi-Elke Gaugel Ute Thimm	44.30 s
4th	Trinidad and Tobago	Janice Bernard Gillian Forde Esther Hope-Washington Angela Williams	44.78 s
5	Ghana	Grace Armah Mary Mensah Cynthia Quartey Doris Wiredu	45.20 s
6th	Gambia	Jabou Jawo Amie Ndow Victoria Decka Georgiana Freeman	47.18 s

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Alice Brown Jeanette Bolden Chandra Cheeseborough Evelyn Ashford	41.65 s
2	Canada	Angela Bailey Marita Payne Angella Taylor France Gareau	42.77 s
3	Great Britain	Simmone Jacobs Kathy Cook Beverley Callender Heather Oakes	43.11 s
4th	France	Rose-Aimée Bacoul Liliane Gaschet Marie-France Loval Raymonde Naigre	43.15 s
5	BR Germany	Edith Oker Michaela Schabinger Heidi-Elke Gaugel Ute Thimm	43.57 s
6th	Bahamas	Eldece Clarke Pauline Davis Deborah Greene Oralee Fowler	44.18 s
7th	Trinidad and Tobago	Janice Bernard Gillian Forde Esther Hope-Washington Angela Williams	44.23 s
8th	Jamaica	Juliet Cuthbert Grace Jackson Veronica Findlay Merlene Ottey-Page	53.54 s

Date: August 11, 1984

The final was held on the same day as the prelims. Compared to the preliminary round, there was only one change in the line-up. In Jamaica, Juliet Cuthbert replaced the starting runner Janet Burke.

Due to the Olympic boycott, the best relay team at the time, the GDR team, was not there. Therefore, the US season was favored, especially in front of the home audience.

US runner Alice Brown got off to a good start, leading the field ahead of Canada and France. When Jamaica first switched between Juliet Cuthbert and Grace Jackson, the baton fell to the ground. So the team that won the bronze medal in 1980 had no chance. But Jackson picked up the baton and sprinted after the field. Finally, Jamaica finished eighth and last in the final. While Jeanette Bolden kept the distance for the USA to the next seasons the same, Chandra Cheeseborough was able to extend the lead. Evelyn Ashford as the last runner ensured the clear victory of the US relay before the Canadians. The British final runner Heather Oakes passed the French Raymonde Naigre, so the British won the bronze medal. Behind France, the German relay placed fifth in front of the three Caribbean teams from Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.

The USA's victory time of 41.65 s was the fastest time achieved by a team that did not come from the GDR. The performance was only five hundredths of a second behind the Olympic record and twelve hundredths of a second behind the world record of the GDR.

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 48

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on January 14, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 264, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018

Video

• 1984 Olympic Games Women's 4x100 Meter Relay , published July 9, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 14, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 803 , accessed on January 14, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 264, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on January 14, 2018