Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Women
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	67 athletes in 16 relays
Competition phase	August 21 and 22, 2008
Medalist
gold	Belgium
silver	Nigeria
bronze	Brazil

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay race at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 21 and 22, 2008 in the Beijing National Stadium. 67 athletes in 16 teams took part.

The relay from Belgium won the Olympic gold medal with Olivia Borlée , Hanna Mariën , Élodie Ouédraogo and Kim Gevaert . Nigeria won the silver medal in the line-up of Franca Idoko, Gloria Kemasuode , Halimat Ismaila and Oludamola Osayomi as well as Agnes Osazuwa, who was also used in the run-up . Bronze went to Brazil ( Rosemar Coelho Neto , Lucimar de Moura , Thaíssa Presti , Rosângela Santos ).

The runners used in the preliminary run for the medal winners - only the Nigerian team with a sprinter affected here - received the corresponding precious metal.

Current titleholders

Olympic champions 2004	Jamaica Tayna Lawrence , Sherone Simpson , Aleen Bailey , Veronica Campbell-Brown , also in advance: Beverly McDonald	41.73 s	Athens 2004
World champions 2007	USA Lauryn Williams , Allyson Felix , Mikele Barber , Torri Edwards	41.98 s	Osaka 2007
European champions 2006	Russia Julija Guschtschina , Natalja Russakowa , Irina Chabarowa , Jekaterina Grigorjewa	42.71 s	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champions 2007	Jamaica Sheri-Ann Brooks , Tracy-Ann Rowe , Aleen Bailey , Peta-Gaye Dowdie	43.48 min	Rio de Janeiro 2007
Central America and Caribbean Champions 2008	Trinidad and Tobago Semoy Hackett , Ayanna Hutchinson, Sasha Springer-Jones, Kelly-Ann Baptiste	43.43 min	Cali 2008
South American Champions 2007	Brazil Thaíssa Barbosa Presti, Luciana Alves dos Santos, Lucimar Aparecida de Moura , Thatiana Regina Ignâcio	43.43 min	São Paulo 2007
Asian champions 2007	Thailand Sangwan Jaksunin, Supavadee Khawpeag, Jutamass Tawoncharoen, Nongnuch Sanrat	44.31 min	Amman 2007
African champions 2008	Nigeria Endurance Ojokolo, Gloria Kemasuode , Susan Akene, Oludamola Osayomi	43.79 min	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania champions 2008	Papua New Guinea	47.27 min	Saipan 2008

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

doping

The Russian squadron was 2016 victory disallowed because final leg Julija Tschermoschanskaja positively to Turinabol and stanozolol was tested as retests had surrendered.

The squadrons placed behind each moved up one rank. The damage to the Chinese relay, which would have qualified for the finals if the Russian result had been canceled, was irreparable.

Preliminary round

The sixteen relays qualified for the Olympics also included Cuba and Finland. Both associations decided not to send a team. The teams from Nigeria and Thailand that were not qualified at first moved up.

There were two preliminary runs, from which the first three and the two fastest seasons qualified for the final. The directly qualified teams are highlighted in light blue, the relays that have qualified over time are highlighted in light green.

Forward 1

August 21, 2008 , 8:50 pm

space	nation	occupation	time	annotation
1	Belgium	Olivia Borlée Hanna Mariën Élodie Ouédraogo Kim Gevaert	42.92 s
2	Great Britain	Jeanette Kwakye Montell Douglas Emily Freeman Emma Ania	43.02 s
3	Brazil	Rosemar Coelho Neto Lucimar de Moura Thaíssa Presti Rosângela Santos	43.38 s
4th	Nigeria	Franca Idoko Gloria Kemasuode Agnes Osazuwa Oludamola Osayomi	43.43 s
5	Poland	Ewelina Ptak Daria Korczyńska Dorota Jędrusińska Marta Jeschke	43.47 s
6th	Belarus	Julija Neszjarenka Aksana Drahun Nastassja Schuljak Hanna Bahdanowitsch	43.69 s
DSQ	Italy	Anita Pistone Vincenza Calì Giulia Arcioni Audrey Alloh		Alternation fault under rule 170.14
	United States	Angela Williams Michelle Lewis Torri Edwards Lauryn Williams		Loss of baton according to rule 170.13

Forward 2

August 21, 2008 , 9:00 p.m.

space	nation	occupation	time	annotation
1	Jamaica	Shelly-Ann Fraser Sheri-Ann Brooks Aleen Bailey Veronica Campbell-Brown	42.24 s
2	Germany	Anne Cibis Verena Sailer Cathleen Tschirch Marion Wagner	43.59 s
3	People's Republic of China	Tao Yujia Wang Jing Jiang Lan Qin Wangping	43.78 s	actually qualified for the final
4th	Thailand	Sangwan Jaksunin Orranut Klomdee Jutamass Thavoncharoen Nongnuch Sanrat	44.38 s
DNF	France	Myriam Soumaré Muriel Hurtis-Houairi Lina Jacques-Sébastien Carima Louami
	Trinidad and Tobago	Wanda Hutson Kelly-Ann Baptiste Ayanna Hutchinson Semoy Hackett
DSQ	Ukraine	Natalija Pyhyda Natalija Pohrebnjak Irina Shepetyuk Oksana Shcherbak		Alternation fault under rule 170.14
DOP	Russia	Yevgenia Polyakova Alexandra Fedoriwa Yuliya Guschtschina Julija Tschermoschanskaja		in the final, later disqualified

final

space	nation	occupation	time	annotation
1	Belgium	Olivia Borlée Hanna Mariën Élodie Ouédraogo Kim Gevaert	42.54 s	NO
2	Nigeria	Franca Idoko Gloria Kemasuode Halimat Ismaila Oludamola Osayomi in the run-up also: Agnes Osazuwa	43.04 s
3	Brazil	Rosemar Coelho Neto Lucimar de Moura Thaíssa Presti Rosângela Santos	43.14 s
4th	Germany	Anne Cibis Verena Sailer Cathleen Tschirch Marion Wagner	43.28 s
DNF	Great Britain	Jeanette Kwakye Montell Douglas Emily Freeman Emma Ania
	Jamaica	Shelly-Ann Fraser Sherone Simpson Aleen Bailey Veronica Campbell-Brown in advance also: Sheri-Ann Brooks
DSQ	Poland	Ewelina Ptak Daria Korczyńska Dorota Jędrusińska Joanna Kocielnik in the preliminary run also: Marta Jeschke		Alternation fault under rule 170.14
DOP	Russia	Yevgenia Polyakova Alexandra Fedoriwa Yuliya Guschtschina Julija Tschermoschanskaja		Tschermoschanskaja doped

August 21, 2008 , 9:15 pm

In the final there were the following line-up changes compared to the preliminary stages:

• Nigeria - Halimat Ismaila ran in place of Agnes Osazuwa.
• Jamaica - Sherone Simpson replaced Sheri-Ann Brooks.
• Poland - Marta Jeschke has been replaced by Joanna Kocielnik.

The athletes from Jamaica were clearly the favorites. In the 100-meter individual run, they had achieved a triple success. They also had the Olympic champion over 200 meters in their ranks. Jamaica had also triumphed four years earlier at the Athens Games . The only real rivals were in the USA team. The US runners had been ahead at the World Championships in both 2005 and 2007 , with Jamaica taking second place. For the bronze medal still remaining after this calculation, European champions Russia, vice European champions Great Britain and the third Belgian women in the World Cup came into question.

The expected duel for gold and silver could not take place in the expected form, however, as the US-Americans had not survived the preliminary round due to the loss of baton.

Teams from Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Jamaica, Great Britain, Nigeria and Poland contested the finals. In addition, there were the Russians who were disqualified in 2016 for doping fraud in their final runner.

The favored Jamaicans only led to the second change in the final. Then, like the British, they lost the baton. Both seasons gave up the race and did not finish. Since Poland was disqualified for crossing an exchange mark and Russia for violating the doping regulations, only four teams were ultimately considered.

The Belgians were already ahead at the last change and won Olympic gold by a clear margin. In doing so, they set a new national record. Nigeria crossed the finish line as the second team, five tenths of a second behind. Another tenth of a second back, Brazil won the bronze medal. The German relay reached fourth place.

The Belgian relay ran with their Olympic victory for the first medal win in their country over 4 times 100 meters .

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 meters , accessed June 26, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 26, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 kB), accessed on June 26, 2018

Video

• Women's 4x100m Relay Final - Beijing 2008 Olympics , published August 10, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed June 26, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 26, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 26, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 kB), accessed June 26, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 kB), accessed on June 26, 2018
5. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 803 , accessed on June 26, 2018
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} IOC sanctions one athlete for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008. International Olympic Committee , March 1, 2017, accessed June 28, 2018 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} rules for athletics on retrolympics.de p. 22 (PDF, 580 kB). accessed on June 26, 2018