2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the 2005 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The 4 x 400 metre relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.

Medals[]

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Russia Yuliya Pechonkina Olesya Krasnomovets Natalya Antyukh Svetlana Pospelova	Jamaica Shericka Williams Novlene Williams Ronetta Smith Lorraine Fenton	Great Britain Lee McConnell Donna Fraser Nicola Sanders Christine Ohuruogu

Qualifying[]

From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.

All times shown are in seconds.

• Q denotes automatic qualification.
• q denotes fastest losers.
• DNS denotes did not start.
• DNF denotes did not finish.
• AR denotes area record.
• NR denotes national record.
• PB denotes personal best.
• SB denotes season's best.

Heat 1[]

1. Russia (Olesya Krasnomovets, Natalya Antyukh, Tatyana Firova, Olesya Zykina) 3:20.32 Q (WL)
2. Poland (Anna Guzowska, Monika Bejnar, Grażyna Prokopek, Zuzanna Radecka) 3:26.04 Q
3. Belarus (Natalya Sologub, Yulyana Zhalniaruk, Anna Kozak, Ilona Usovich) 3:27.65 Q (SB)
4. Germany (Claudia Marx, Claudia Hoffman, Corinna Fink, Ulrike Urbansky) 3:27.96 q
5. Senegal (Aïda Diop, Fatou Bintou Fall, Aminata Diouf, Amy Mbacké Thiam) 3:29.03 (SB)
6. Romania (Angela Moroşanu, Mihaela Stancescu-Neacsu, Alina Râpanu, Maria Rus) 3:30.97
7. Bulgaria (Monika Gachevska, Mariyana Dimitrova, , ) 3:38.96

Heat 2[]

1. Great Britain (Lee McConnell, Donna Fraser, Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu) 3:26.19 Q (SB)
2. Brazil (Maria Laura Almirão, Geisa Aparecida Coutinho, Josiane Tito, Lucimar Teodoro) 3:26.82 Q (AR)
3. Ukraine (Antonina Yefremova, Oksana Ilyushkina, Liliya Pilyuhina, Natalya Pygyda) 3:27.23 Q
4. Jamaica (Shericka Williams, Novlene Williams, Ronetta Smith, Lorraine Fenton) 3:27.87 q (SB)
5. Mexico (Ruth Grajeda, Gabriela Medina, Mayra González, Magali Yañez) 3:31.41 (SB)
6. South Africa (Amanda Kotze, Dominique Koster, Surita Febbraio, Estie Wittstock) 3:31.71 (SB)

• United States (Suziann Reid, Monique Hennagan, Moushaumi Robinson, Monique Henderson) DSQ

Final[]

1. Russia (Yuliya Pechonkina, Olesya Krasnomovets, Natalya Antyukh, Svetlana Pospelova) 3:20.95
2. Jamaica (Shericka Williams, Novlene Williams, Ronetta Smith, Lorraine Fenton) 3:23.29 (SB)
3. Great Britain (Lee McConnell, Donna Fraser, Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu) 3:24.44 (SB)
4. Poland (Anna Guzowska, Monika Bejnar, Grażyna Prokopek, Anna Jesień) 3:24.49 (NR)
5. Ukraine (Antonina Yefremova, Oksana Ilyushkina, Liliya Pilyuhina, Natalya Pygyda) 3:28.00
6. Germany (Claudia Marx, Claudia Hoffman, Corinna Fink, Ulrike Urbansky) 3:28.39

• Brazil (Maria Laura Almirão, Geisa Aparecida Coutinho, Josiane Tito, Lucimar Teodoro) DSQ
• Belarus (Alena Nevmerzhitskaya, Natalya Sologub, Anna Kozak, Ilona Usovich) DSQ

External links[]

• IAAF results, heats
• IAAF results, final