Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
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| Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 100 m hurdles | women | |||
| 110 m hurdles | men | |||
| 400 m hurdles | men | |||
| 3000 m steeplechase |
men | |||
| 4×100 m relay | men | women | ||
| 4×400 m relay | men | women | ||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 20 km walk | men | |||
| 50 km walk | men | |||
| Field events | ||||
| Long jump | men | women | ||
| Triple jump | men | |||
| High jump | men | women | ||
| Pole vault | men | |||
| Shot put | men | women | ||
| Discus throw | men | women | ||
| Javelin throw | men | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Pentathlon | women | |||
| Decathlon | men | |||
These are the official results of the Women's 4 x 100m Relay event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. A total of 8 teams competed. The final was held on August 1, 1980.
Contents
Medalists
Records
These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics.
| World Record | 41.53 |  Christina Lathan Romy Muller Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr |
Torino (ITA) | August 4, 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Record | 42.55 | Marlies Oelsner Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Bärbel Eckert |
Montreal (CAN) | July 31, 1976 |
Final
- Held on Friday August 1, 1980
| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
 East Germany (GDR) |
• Romy Muller • Barbel Wockel • Ingrid Auerswald • Marlies Göhr |
41.60 |
 |
 Soviet Union (URS) |
• Vera Komisova • Lyudmila Maslakova • Vera Anisimova • Natalya Bochina |
42.10 |
 |
 Great Britain (GBR) |
• Heather Hunte • Kathy Smallwood-Cook • Beverley Goddard • Sonia Lannaman |
42.43 |
| 4. |  Bulgaria (BUL) |
• Sofka Popova • Liliana Panaiotova • Maria Shishkova • Galina Encheva |
42.67 |
| 5. | France (FRA) |
• Veronique Grandrieux • Chantal Réga • Raymonde Naigre • Emma Sulter |
42.84 |
| 6. |  Jamaica (JAM) |
• Leleith Hodges • Jacqueline Pusey • Rose Allwood • Merlene Ottey |
43.19 |
| 7. |  Poland (POL) |
• Lucyna Langer • Elzbieta Stachurska • Zofia Bielczyk • Grażyna Rabsztyn |
44.49 |
| – |  Sweden (SWE) |
• Linda Haglund • Lena Moller • Ann-Louise Skoglund • Helena Pihl |
DNF |
