2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Women
Attendees	65 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 26, 2004 (preliminary round) August 27, 2004 (final)
Medalists  JAM  RUS  FRA

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 26 and 27, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 65 athletes took part in 25 relays.

The relay from Jamaica in the line-up of Tayna Lawrence , Sherone Simpson , Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell-Brown was Olympic champion . Beverly McDonald was also used in advance . Russia won the silver medal with Olga Fjodorowa , Julija Tabakowa , Irina Chabarowa and Larissa Kruglowa , bronze went to France ( Véronique Mang . Muriel Hurtis , Sylviane Félix , Christine Arron ).
The runners used in the preliminary run for the medal winners - here only the Jamaica team with a sprinter - received the corresponding precious metal.

The German season was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Relays from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champions 2000	Bahamas	41.95 s	Sydney 2000
World champions 2003	France	41.78 s	Paris 2003
European champions 2002		42.46 s	Munich 2002
Pan American Champions 2003	United States	43.06 s	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003	Bahamas	43.06 s	St. George’s 2003
South American champions 2003	Brazil	44.16 s	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian champions 2003	Thailand	44.25 s	Manila 2003
African champions 2004	Nigeria	44.32 s	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania champions 2002	New Zealand	48.12 s	Christchurch 2002

Existing records

World record	41.37 s	GDR ( Silke Gladisch , Sabine Günther , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	Canberra , Australia	October 6, 1985
Olympic record	41.60 s	GDR ( Romy Müller , Bärbel Wöckel , Ingrid Auerswald , Marlies Göhr )	Fiale of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	August 1, 1980

Note: All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).

Preliminary round

A total of two preliminary runs were completed. The first three seasons of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified teams are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

August 26, 2004, 10:00 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	United States	Angela Williams Marion Jones Lauryn Williams LaTasha Colander	41.67
2	Bahamas	Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie Shandria Brown Chandra Sturrup Tamicka Clarke	43.02
3	Belgium	Kim Gevaert Élodie Ouédraogo Lien Huyghebaert Katleen De Caluwé	43.08	NO
4th	Brazil	Kátia Santos Lucimar de Moura Rosemar Coelho Neto Luciana dos Santos	43.12
5	Colombia	Norma González Digna Luz Murillo Felipa Palacios Melisa Murillo	43.30
6th	Germany	Katja Wakan-Tengel Birgit Rockmeier Marion Wagner Sina Schielke	43.64
7th	Ukraine	Shanna Block Tetjana Tkalitsch Marina Majdanowa Irina Koschemjakina	43.77
8th	Greece	Maria Karastamati Marina Vasarmidou Effrosini Patsou Georgia Kokloni	44.45

Forward 2

September 26, 2000, 10:09 p.m.

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Russia	Larissa Kruglowa Irina Khabarova Julija Tabakowa Olga Feodorova	42.12
2	Jamaica	Aleen Bailey Beverly McDonald Sherone Simpson Tayna Lawrence	42.20
3	France	Christine Arron Sylviane Félix Muriel Hurtis Véronique Mang	42.98
4th	Nigeria	Endurance Ojokolo Oludamola Osayomi Mercy Nku Gloria Ubiebor	43.12
5	Belarus	Aksana Drahun Alena Daniljuk-Neumjarschyzkaja Natallja Safronnikawa Julija Neszjarenka	43.06
6th	Cuba	Mileidys Lazo Ana López Roxana Díaz Virgen Benavides	43.60
DNF	Netherlands	Anna Maria Kramer Pascal van Assendelft Jacqueline Poelman Joan van den Akker
	Trinidad and Tobago	Ayanna Hutchinson Wanda Hutson Fana Ashby Kelly-Ann Baptiste

final

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Jamaica	Tayna Lawrence Sherone Simpson Aleen Bailey Veronica Campbell-Brown in advance also: Beverly McDonald	41.73	NO
2	Russia	Olga Fjodorowa Julija Tabakowa Irina Kabarowa Larissa Kruglowa	42.27
3	France	Véronique Mang Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron	42.54
4th	Bahamas	Tamicka Clarke Chandra Sturrup Shandria Brown Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie	42.69
5	Belarus	Julija Neszjarenka Natallja Safronnikawa Alena Daniljuk-Neumjarschyzkaja Aksana Drahun	42.94	NO
6th	Belgium	Katleen De Caluwé Lien Huyghebaert Élodie Ouédraogo Kim Gevaert	43.11
7th	Nigeria	Gloria Ubiebor Mercy Nku Oludamola Osayomi Endurance Ojokolo	43.42
DNF	United States	Angela Williams Marion Jones Lauryn Williams LaTasha Colander		'

September 27, 2000, 10:45 p.m.

The favorites were especially the relays of France - World Champions 2003 / European Champions 2002 and Vice World Champions 2001 , the USA - Vice World Champions 2003 - as well as Jamaica - three runners here in Athens in the final of the 100-meter run .

In the finals there was a change in line-up: in the Jamaica team, Veronica Campbell-Brown ran instead of Beverly McDonald.

In the final race, the Jamaicans took the lead first. With her second runner Marion Jones, the US season passed Jamaica. But Jones and Lauryn Williams completely screwed up the next move. Williams started too early and had to slow down, and Jones almost ran into them. Then Williams was already outside the transition area and stopped the race. After the last change, Jamaica was more than a meter ahead of Russia. Belarus, France and Belgium followed closely behind. The four teams behind Jamaica were close together. Beverly McDonald brought Jamaica's lead to the finish and secured her team Olympic victory in 41.73 s. Here, the winning team missed the since 1980 existing Olympic record just barely. Almost half a second later, Russia crossed the finish line in second place, while the French came in third. Bahamas last runner Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie pulled from behind the Belarusian Aksana Drahun and the Belgian Kim Gevaert to fourth place ahead of Belarus and Belgium.

It was Jamaica's first Olympic victory and France's first medal in the women's 4 x 100 meter relay .

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed on May 11, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on May 11, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 kB), accessed on May 11, 2018

Video

• 2004 Olympics Women's 4x100m Relay , published August 5, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 11, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 803 , accessed on May 11, 2018
2. ↑ Article in the Casper Star Tribune of August 28, 2004 , accessed on May 11, 2018