Swimming at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay
at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay ; at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships
Dates	September 4, 1973
Nations	13
Winning time	4:16.844 WR
Medalists
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The women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay competition of the swimming events at the 1973 World Aquatics Championships took place on September 4.

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows.

World record	United States (USA) Melissa Belote Cathy Carr Deena Deardurff Sandy Neilson	4:20.75	Munich, West Germany	3 September 1972
Competition record	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

The following records were established during the competition:

Date	Event	Nation	Athletes	Time	Record
4 September	Heat	East Germany		4:25.879	CR
4 September	Final	East Germany	Ulrike Richter Renate Vogel Rosemarie Kother Kornelia Ender	4:16.844	WR

13 teams participated in 2 heats.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	1	-	East Germany		4:25.879	Q, CR
2	2	-	United States		4:26.889	Q
3	2	-	Sweden		4:29.029	Q
4	1	-			4:30.390	Q
5	2	-	West Germany		4:32.048	Q
6	2	-	Australia		4:33.745	Q
7	1	-	Canada		4:34.051	Q
8	1	-	Soviet Union		4:34.477	Q
9	1	-	Hungary		4:35.702
10	1	-	Great Britain	Margaret Kelly Joanne Atkinson	4:37.101
11	2	-	Italy		4:37.511
12	2	-	Brazil		4:43.651
13	2	-			4:50.198

The results of the final are below.

Rank	Lane	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	-	East Germany	Ulrike Richter (1:04.99) Renate Vogel Rosemarie Kother Kornelia Ender	4:16.844	WR
	-	United States	Melissa Belote Marcia Morey Deena Deardurff Shirley Babashoff	4:25.804
	-	West Germany	Angelika Grieser Petra Nows Gudrun Beckmann Jutta Weber	4:26.576
4	-		Enith Brigitha Alie te Riet	4:28.860
5	-	Canada	Wendy Cook Mary Stewart Patti Stenhouse Gail Amundrud	4:29.608
6	-	Sweden	Diana Olsson Britt-Marie Smedh Gunilla Andersson Eva Andersson	4:30.596
7	-	Soviet Union	Lyubov Rusanova	4:33.385
8	-	Australia	Beverley Whitfield Debra Cain	4:34.457

^ "For the Record" (pdf). Swimming World Magazine: 73. October 1973. Retrieved 14 May 2013.