Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Women
Attendees	68 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 9, 2012 (preliminary round) August 10, 2012 (final)
Medalists  United States  JAM  UKR

The women's 4-by-100-meter relay at the 2012 Olympic Games in London took place on August 9 and 10, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 68 athletes took part in sixteen relays.

The US season with the cast Tianna Madison , Allyson Felix , Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter was Olympic champion , in the run-up also: Jeneba Tarmoh and Lauryn Williams . In the final, the team achieved a new world record . Silver went to Jamaica with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce , Sherone Simpson , Veronica Campbell-Brown and Kerron Stewart , in the run-up to: Samantha Henry-Robinson and Schillonie Calvert . Ukraine won bronze with Olessja Powch , Chrystyna Stuj , Marija Rjemjen and Jelysaweta Bryshina .

The runners from the United States and Jamaica who were nominated for the medal winners in the run-up also received corresponding precious metal. The world record, on the other hand, belonged to the four US finalists alone.

Germany's relay qualified for the final and finished fifth.
The Swiss relay was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Relays from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champions	Belgium	42.54 s	Beijing 2008
World champions	United States	41.70 s	Daegu 2011
European champions	Germany	42.51 s	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Trinidad and Tobago	43.47 s	Mayagüez 2011
South America champions	Colombia	44.11 s	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champions	Japan	44.05 s	Kobe 2011
African champions	Nigeria	43.21 s	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champions	Fiji	49.72 s	Cairns 2012

Existing records

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

Note: All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

Prelims

Two preliminary runs were carried out. 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 relays are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

August 9, 2012, 8:20 pm

space	nation	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	United States	Tianna Madison Jeneba Tarmoh Bianca Knight Lauryn Williams	41.64
2	Trinidad and Tobago	Michelle-Lee Ahye Kelly-Ann Baptiste Kai Selvon Semoy Hackett	42.31	NO
3	Netherlands	Kadene Vassell Dafne Schippers Eva Lubbers Jamile Samuel	42.45	NO
4th	Brazil	Ana Cláudia Silva Franciela Krasucki Evelyn dos Santos Rosângela Santos	42.55	SA
5	Nigeria	Christy Udoh Gloria Asumnu Oludamola Osayomi Blessing Okagbare	42.74
6th	Bahamas	Sheniqua Ferguson Chandra Sturrup Christine Amertil Anthonique Strachan	43.07
7th	Switzerland	Michelle Cueni Mujinga Kambundji Ellen Sprunger Léa Sprunger	43.54
8th	Japan	Anna Doi Kana Ichikawa Chisato Fukushima Yumeka Sano	44.25

Forward 2

August 9, 2012, 8:28 pm

space	nation	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Ukraine	Olessja Powch Chrystyna Stuj Marija Rjemjen Jelysaveta Bryshina	42.36
2	Jamaica	Samantha Henry-Robinson Sherone Simpson Schillonie Calvert Kerron Stewart	42.37
3	Germany	Leena Günther Anne Cibis Tatjana Pinto Verena Sailer	42.69
4th	Poland	Marika Popowicz Daria Korczyńska Marta Jeschke Ewelina Ptak	43.07
5	Colombia	Yomara Hinestroza Norma González Darlenys Obregón Eliecith Palacios	43.21
6th	Russia	Olga Belkina Natalja Russakowa Jelisaveta Sawlinis Alexandra Fedoriwa	43.24
7th	Belarus	Alina Talaj Katsiaryna Hanchar Alena Neumjarschyzkaja Julija Balykina	43.90
DSQ	France	Myriam Soumaré Ayodelé Ikuesan Lina Jacques-Sébastien Johanna Danois		IAAF Rule 170.7 trespassing the transition area

final

August 10, 2012, 8:40 pm

The seasons of the United States and Jamaica were considered favorites, with the US seasons being given slight advantages.

The following line-up changes were made for the finale:

• USA - Allyson Felix ran for Jeneba Tarmoh, Carmelita Jeter instead of Lauryn Williams.
• Jamaica - Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce replaced Samantha Henry-Robinson, Veronica Campbell-Brown replaced Schillonie Calvert.

Jamaica's starting runner, 100-meter Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce - running on lane 6 - was able to compensate for a small part of the curve set by the USA, which started on lane 7. But on the back straight, US runner Allyson Felix ran so well that her team was now ahead. In the second corner, Veronica Campbell-Brown brought Jamaica a little closer, but the final runner in the USA, Carmelita Jeter, was still two meters ahead. Jeter sprinted to the finish line, the US relay team was the first team ever to achieve a time under 41 seconds with 40.82 seconds. This broke the world record of the GDR squadron after 27 years. Silver went to Jamaica, whose time was only four hundredths of a second slower than the previous world record. The bronze medal went to the runners of Ukraine.

In the twentieth Olympic final, the US athletes won the tenth gold medal for their country.

For Ukraine it was the first medal win in the 4 x 100 meter relay .

space	nation	occupation	Time (s)	annotation
1	United States	Tianna Madison Allyson Felix Bianca Knight Carmelita Jeter in the lead also: Jeneba Tarmoh Lauryn Williams	40.82	WR
2	Jamaica	Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Sherone Simpson Veronica Campbell-Brown Kerron Stewart in the lead also: Samantha Henry-Robinson Schillonie Calvert	41.41	NO
3	Ukraine	Olessja Powch Chrystyna Stuj Marija Rjemjen Jelysaveta Bryshina	42.04	NO
4th	Nigeria	Christy Udoh Gloria Asumnu Oludamola Osayomi Blessing Okagbare	42.64
5	Germany	Leena Günther Anne Cibis Tatjana Pinto Verena Sailer	42.67
6th	Netherlands	Kadene Vassell Dafne Schippers Eva Lubbers Jamile Samuel	42.70
7th	Brazil	Ana Cláudia Silva Franciela Krasucki Evelyn dos Santos Rosângela Santos	42.91
DNF	Trinidad and Tobago	Michelle-Lee Ahye Kelly-Ann Baptiste Kai Selvon Semoy Hackett

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 Meter Women (English) , accessed September 22, 2018
• Official report (English), PDF , accessed on September 22, 2018
• The XXX Olympic Games, 4 × 100 Meters Relay women , accessed September 22, 2018

Videos

• Women's 4 × 100m Relay Round 1 - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 9, 2012, accessed September 22, 2018
• USA Break Women's 4 × 100m Relay World Record - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 10, 2012, accessed September 22, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 803 , accessed on September 22, 2018
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 99 (PDF) , accessed on September 22, 2018