1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 400 meter relay
gender	Women
Attendees	47 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 10, 1984 (preliminary) August 11, 1984 (final)
Medalists  United States  CAN  FRG

The women's 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 10 and 11, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 47 athletes took part in ten seasons.

The US relay ( Lillie Leatherwood , Sherri Howard , Valerie Brisco-Hooks , Chandra Cheeseborough ) became Olympic champions. Diane Dixon and Denean Howard had also been used in advance . The silver medal went to Canada with Charmaine Crooks , Jillian Richardson , Molly Killingbeck and Marita Payne . Dana Wright was also used for Canada in the run-up. Bronze won the BR Germany with Heike Schulte-Mattler , Ute Thimm , Heidi-Elke Gaugel and Gaby Bußmann . Christina Sussiek and Nicole Leistenschneider also started here in advance .

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	Soviet Union ( Tetjana Prorotschenko , Tatjana Goischtschik , Nina Sjuskowa , Irina Nasarowa )	3: 20.12 min	Moscow 1980
World champions 1983	GDR ( Kerstin Walther , Sabine Busch , Marita Koch , Dagmar Rübsam )	3: 19.73 min	Helsinki 1983
European champions 1982	GDR ( Kirsten Siemon , Sabine Busch , Dagmar Rübsam , Marita Koch )	3: 19.05 min	Athens 1982
Pan American champions 1983	USA ( Alice Jackson , Judi Brown , Easter Gabriel , Kelia Bolton )	3: 29.97 min	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean champions 1983	Cuba	3: 34.97 min	Havana 1983
South American champions 1983	Brazil (Margit Weise, Maria do Carmo Fialho, Jucilene Garces, Elba Barbosa)	3: 40.0 min	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champions 1983	Thailand	3: 48.62 min	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Kenya	3: 43.8 min	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	3: 15.92 min	GDR ( Gesine Walther , Sabine Busch , Dagmar Rübsam , Marita Koch )	Erfurt , GDR (now Germany )	3rd June 1984
Olympic record	3: 19.23 min	GDR ( Doris Maletzki , Brigitte Rohde , Ellen Streidt , Christina Brehmer )	Montreal , Canada	July 31, 1976

Preliminary round

Date: August 10, 1984

In the preliminary round, the ten relays 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.

The US relay achieved the fastest lead time in run 1 with 3: 22.82 minutes. The slowest directly qualified relay was the Canadian team in run 2 with 3: 33.78 min.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Lillie Leatherwood Sherri Howard Diane Dixon Denean Howard	3: 22.82 min
2	Jamaica	Ilrey Oliver Catherine Rattray Andrea Thomas Grace Jackson	3: 26.56 min
3	Great Britain	Michelle Scutt Helen Barnett Gladys Taylor Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	3: 27.68 min
4th	India	Manathoor Valsamma Vandana Rao Shiny Abraham Pilavullakandi Usha	3: 33.85 min
5	Puerto Rico	Evelyn Mathieu Margaret de Jesús Angelita Lind Marie Lande Mathieu	3: 37.39 min

For Puerto Rico, instead of the reported Madeline de Jesús, who was injured in the long jump , her twin sister Margaret, who was not reported for the relay, ran. This inadmissible change initially went unnoticed, even by his own trainer. For this reason, the season did not appear in the finale despite qualifying. In the official result lists, Madeline de Jesús is usually still listed as the second runner, which is obviously incorrect and therefore corrected in the table below.

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	Italy	Patrizia Lombardo Cosetta Campana Giuseppina Cirulli Erica Rossi	3: 32.55 min
2	BR Germany	Christina Sussiek Heike Schulte-Mattler Nicole Leistenschneider Gaby Bußmann	3: 33.63 min
3	Canada	Dana Wright Jillian Richardson Charmaine Crooks Marita Payne	3: 33.78 min
4th	Antigua and Barbuda	Jocelyn Joseph Ruperta Charles Monica Stevens Laverne Bryan	3: 39.32 min
5	Ghana	Martha Appiah Mercy Addy Mary Mensah Grace Bakari	3: 40.38 min

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Lillie Leatherwood Sherri Howard Valerie Brisco-Hooks Chandra Cheeseborough	3: 18.29 min	OR
2	Canada	Charmaine Crooks Jillian Richardson Molly Killingbeck Marita Payne	3: 21.21 min
3	BR Germany	Heike Schulte-Mattler Ute Thimm Heidi-Elke Gaugel Gaby Bußmann	3: 22.98 min
4th	Great Britain	Michelle Scutt Helen Barnett Gladys Taylor Joslyn Hoyte-Smith	3: 25.51 min
5	Jamaica	Ilrey Oliver Cynthia Green Catherine Rattray Grace Jackson	3: 27.51 min
6th	Italy	Patrizia Lombardo Cosetta Campana Marisa Masullo Erica Rossi	3: 32.55 min
7th	India	Manathoor Valsamma Vandana Rao Shiny Abraham Pilavullakandi Usha	3: 32.49 min
DNS	Puerto Rico

Date: August 11, 1984

In the final on August 11, 1984 line-up changes were made in five teams.

• The US replaced Diane Dixon with Valerie Brisco-Hooks and Denean Howard with Chandra Cheeseborough.
• Canada put Molly Killingbeck on for Dana Wright.
• In the season of BR Germany, Ute Thimm and Heidi-Elke Gauge took the place of Christina Sussiek and Nicole Leistenschneider.
• In Jamaica, Cynthia Green ran for Andrea Thomas.
• Italy replaced Giuseppina Cirulli with Marisa Masullo.

The absence of the squadrons from the GDR and the Soviet Union made the US team a clear favorite.

In the first round in the final, however, led to the Canadians, who switched from the USA, the FR Germany and Great Britain. In the next two laps, the US runners worked their way forward and took the lead. At the last change, the USA was two and a half seconds ahead of Canada. Behind the Canadians there was a duel for the bronze medal between Great Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany. While the US relay won in a new Olympic record time and the Canadians won silver, the final runner Gaby Bußmann surprisingly managed to secure the bronze medal for the BR Germany relay ahead of Great Britain. The Jamaicans followed in fifth place, the Italians in sixth ahead of the Indians. The season from Puerto Rico did not start for the finale - see note on preroll 1 .

Valerie Brisco-Hooks won her third gold medal here in Los Angeles . This made her the most successful athlete in these games.

The relays of Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany won their first medals in this discipline.

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. 48f

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 400 m , accessed on January 14, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 265, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018

Video

• Olympics - 1984 Los Angeles - Track - Womens 4x400m Relay Finals - USA Gold imasportsphile , published on April 27, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on January 14, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 804 , accessed on January 14, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 265, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 14, 2018
3. ↑ The Puerto Rican Olympic Committee Friday banned two sisters ... on upi.com, accessed on January 14, 2018
4. ↑ SportsReference 4 × 400 m , accessed on January 14, 2018