1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadio Olimpico on September 5 and September 6.

Medals[]

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
United States Alice Brown Diane Williams Florence Griffith Pam Marshall	East Germany Silke Gladisch Cornelia Oschkenat Kerstin Behrendt Marlies Göhr	Soviet Union Irina Slyusar Natalya Pomoshchnikova Natalya German Olga Antonova

Results[]

All times shown are in seconds.

Final[]

Rank	Team	Name	Result	Notes
	United States	Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith, Pam Marshall	41.58	CR
	East Germany	Silke Gladisch, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr	41.95
	Soviet Union	Irina Slyusar, Natalya Pomoshchnikova, Natalya German, Olga Antonova	42.33
4	Bulgaria	Ginka Zagorcheva, Anelia Nuneva, Nadezhda Georgieva, Valya Demireva	42.71
5	West Germany	Silke-Beate Knoll, Ulrike Sarvari, Andrea Thomas, Ute Thimm	43.20
6	Canada	Angela Bailey, Angela Phipps, Angella Issajenko, Keturah Anderson	43.26
7	Cuba	Eusebia Riquelme, Aliuska López, Susana Armenteros, Liliana Allen	43.66
8	France	Françoise Leroux, Marie-Christine Cazier, Laurence Bily, Muriel Leroy	43.75

Heats[]

Heat 1[]

Rank	Team	Name	Result	Notes
1	East Germany	Silke Gladisch, Cornelia Oschkenat, Kerstin Behrendt, Marlies Göhr	42.96	Q
2	Canada	Angela Bailey, Angela Phipps, Angella Issajenko, Keturah Anderson	43.30	Q
3	West Germany	Silke-Beate Knoll, Ulrike Sarvari, Andrea Thomas, Ute Thimm	43.32	Q
4	Bulgaria	Ginka Zagorcheva, Anelia Nuneva, Nadezhda Georgieva, Valya Demireva	43.50	q
5	Nigeria	Beatrice Utondu, Tina Iheagwam, Mary Onyali, Falilat Ogunkoya	43.95
6	Ghana	Mercy Addy, Diana Yankey, Cynthia Quartey, Martha Appiah	44.28
**	Brazil	, , , Cleide Amaral	DNS

Heat 2[]

Rank	Team	Name	Result	Notes
1	United States	Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Florence Griffith, Pam Marshall	41.96	Q
2	Soviet Union	Irina Slyusar, Natalya Pomoshchnikova, Natalya German, Olga Antonova	42.47	Q
3	Cuba	Eusebia Riquelme, Aliuska López, Susana Armenteros, Liliana Allen	43.53	Q
4	France	Françoise Leroux, Marie-Christine Cazier, Laurence Bily, Muriel Leroy	43.59	q
5	Great Britain	, Joan Baptiste, Wendy Hoyte, Paula Dunn	44.21
6	Italy	Rita Angotzi, Patrizia Lombardo, Annarita Balzani, Marisa Masullo	44.49
7	India	Ashwini Nachappa, Vandana Shanbag, Sany Joseph, Vandana Rao	46.32

References[]

• IAAF results, heats
• IAAF results, final