1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 400 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 400 meter relay
gender	Women
Attendees	62 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 7, 1992 (preliminary round) August 8, 1992 (final)
Medalists  EUN  United States  GBR

The women's 4-by-400-meter relay at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was played in two rounds on August 7 and 8, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 62 athletes took part in fourteen seasons.

The relay of the United Team with Jelena Rusina , Lyudmyla Dschyhalowa , Olga Vladimirovna Nazarova and Olha Bryshina and in the heats also Marina Schmonina and Lilija Foatovna Nurutdinova became Olympic champions . The team started with female athletes from the former Soviet republics. Silver won the US season in the cast Natasha Kaiser , Gwen Torrence , Jearl Miles and Rochelle Stevens as well as Dannette Young and Denean Hill in the heats . Bronze went to the UK season ( Phylis Smith , Sandra Douglas , Jennifer Stoute , Sally Gunnell ).

The relay from Germany qualified for the final and finished sixth.
The team from Switzerland was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Teams from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champions in 1988	Soviet Union	3: 15.17 min	Seoul 1988
World champions 1991		3: 18.43 min	Tokyo 1991
European champions 1990	GDR	3: 21.02 min	Split 1990
Pan American champions 1991	United States	3: 24.21 min	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean champions 1991	Jamaica	3: 38.18 min	Xalapa 1991
South American champions 1991	Brazil	3: 32.59 min	Manaus 1991
Asian champions 1991	India	3: 33.50 min	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African champions in 1992	Nigeria	3: 33.13 min	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania champions 1990	Australia	3: 55.73 min	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	3: 15.17 min	Soviet Union ( Tazzjana Ljadouskaja , Olga Nasarowa , Marija Pinigina , Olha Bryshina )	Seoul , South Korea	October 1, 1988
Olympic record			Final from Seoul , South Korea

Preliminary round

Date: August 7, 1992

In the preliminary round, the fourteen relays were drawn in two runs. The first three teams per run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified relays are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United States	Denean Hill Jearl Miles Dannette Young Natasha Kaiser	3: 22.29 min
2	Jamaica	Catherine Scott Catherine Rattray-Williams Claudine Williams Juliet Campbell	3: 25.55 min
3	Australia	Susan Andrews Renée Poetschka Cathy Freeman Michelle Lock	3: 25.68 min
4th	Canada	Rosaline Edeh Karen Clarke Camille Noel Charmaine Crooks	3: 26.09 min
5	Hungary	Edit Molnár Ágnes Kozáry Éva Baráti Judit Forgács	3: 33.81 min
6th	Thailand	Saleerat Srimek Sukanya Sang-Nguen Srirat Chimrak Noodang Pimpol	3: 35.48 min
DSQ	Cuba	Nancy McLéon Odalmis Limonta Julia Duporty Ana Fidelia Quirot

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United team	Marina Schmonina Lyudmyla Dschyhalowa Jelena Rusina Lilija Nurutdinova	3: 22.91 min
2	Great Britain	Sandra Douglas Phylis Smith Jennifer Stoute Sally Gunnell	3: 25.20 min
3	Germany	Uta Rohländer Heike Meißner Linda Kisabaka Anja Rücker	3: 26.25 min
4th	Portugal	Marta Moreira Eduarda Coelho Elsa Amaral Lucrécia Jardim	3: 29.38 min
5	Switzerland	Kathrin Lüthi Regula Scalabrin Martha Grossenbacher Helen Burkart	3: 31.26 min
6th	Spain	Esther Lahoz Cristina Pérez Gregoria Ferrer Julia Merino	3: 31.35 min
7th	Bolivia	Jacqueline Solíz Sandra Antelo Gloria Burgos Moré Galetovic	3: 53.65 min

The Swiss runner-up Helen Burkart is of British origin. She started in Los Angeles in 1984 for the Great Britain team.

final

space	Season	occupation	time	annotation
1	United team	Jelena Rusina Lyudmyla Dschyhalowa Olga Vladimirovna Nazarova Olha Bryshina in the preliminary stages also: Marina Schmonina Lilija Foatovna Nurutdinova	3: 20.20 min
2	United States	Natasha Kaiser Gwen Torrence Jearl Miles Rochelle Stevens in the preliminary also: Dannette Young Denean Hill	3: 20.92 min
3	Great Britain	Phylis Smith Sandra Douglas Jennifer Stoute Sally Gunnell	3: 24.23 min
4th	Canada	Rosaline Edeh Charmaine Crooks Camille Noel Jill Richardson-Briscoe in the preliminary also: Karen Clarke	3: 25.20 min
5	Jamaica	Catherine Scott Catherine Rattray-Williams Juliet Campbell Sandie Richards in the preliminary also: Claudine Williams	3: 25.68 min
6th	Germany	Uta Rohländer Heike Meißner Linda Kisabaka Anja Rücker	3: 26.37 min
7th	Australia	Cathy Freeman Susan Andrews Renée Poetschka Michelle Lock	3: 26.42 min
8th	Portugal	Marta Moreira Lucrécia Jardim Elsa Amaral Eduarda Coelho	3: 36.85 min

Date: August 8, 1992

The following line-up changes were made in the final race:

• Jamaica - Sandie Richards for Claudine Williams
• Canada - Jill Richardson-Briscoe for Karen Clarke
• USA - Gwen Torrence for Dannette Young and Rochelle Stevens for Denean Hill
• United team - Olha Bryshina for Marina Schmonina and Olga Vladimirovna Nazarova for Lilija Foatovna Nurutdinova .

The favorites were mainly the relays from the USA and the United Team. Germany's team was significantly weakened by the suspension for violating the doping regulations for Grit Breuer . So Great Britain was traded as another medal candidate.

In the race, the expected duel between the two favorites developed. After the first change it was still very close. The united team moved to the inside track in a leading position. Great Britain was behind the USA and Canada. Before the finish curve, Gwen Torrence brought the US team to the top and even got a small lead shortly before the handover. Charmaine Crooks also showed a strong race for Canada and moved in second in front of the United Team and Great Britain. Now the gaps got bigger. Jearl Miles for the US season was clearly ahead of Olga Nazarova, who had put the United Team in second place. Canada followed even further behind. Behind them it got tighter, the British were still in fourth place just ahead of the other teams. But for the next two hundred meters the situation changed again. Nasarowa caught up with Miles, while Jennifer Stoute brought the British past Canada and passed the baton to the British final runner Sally Gunnell by a clear margin, almost 30 meters behind the two leading teams. The duel between the USA and the United Team continued at the top. Rochelle Stevens led for the USA, Olha Bryshina followed her. For Gunnell there were no more prospects of getting closer, the British woman herself had a few meters ahead of the following seasons from Canada, Germany and Jamaica. Bryshina attacked the leading Stevens while she was still on the finish line, but she fought hard. Seventy meters from the finish, Bryshina then pulled past and her team won the Olympic Games over the USA. Great Britain won the bronze medal ahead of Canada, Jamaica and the German relay.

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 400 m , accessed on February 18, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 76f, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 18, 2018

Video

• Women's 4x400m Relay Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 8, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 18, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 804 , accessed on February 18, 2018
2. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 76, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 18, 2018
3. ↑ Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 77, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 18, 2018
4. ↑ Chronology in the Krabbe case , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, report updated on June 27, 2001, accessed on February 18, 2018