These are the official results of the women's 4 × 100 m relay event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. Only 8 teams competed, thus there were no heats. The final was held on August 1, 1980.[1]
Medalists
editRecords
editThese were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics.
| World Record | 41.85 |  Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr
|
Potsdam (GDR) | July 13, 1980 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympic Record | 42.55 | Marlies Oelsner Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Bärbel Eckert
|
Montreal (CAN) | July 31, 1976 |
Final
edit- Held on Friday August 1, 1980
| RANK | NATION | ATHLETES | TIME |
|---|---|---|---|
|
 East Germany (GDR)
|
• Romy Müller • Bärbel Wöckel • 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 • 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 Möller • Ann-Louise Skoglund • Helena Pihl |
DNF |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2017.