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1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles - Women's 4 x 100 m

 

 

Host City: Los Angeles, United States Format: Top three in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the final.
Date Started: August 11, 1984  
Date Finished: August 11, 1984  
(Competitors: 45; Countries: 11; Finalists: 32/8)  
    Venue(s): Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California
Overview by IAAF   1984_olympic_stadium.jpg 
With a time of 42.59, the USA were nearly half a second faster than the next best qualifier – Jamaica. Poor changeovers on the first two legs meant that the USA were only slightly ahead of Canada when Cheeseborough took the baton, Jamaica having dropped the baton at the first exchange. Cheeseborough gained 2m on Taylor, and Gareau was no match for Ashford, who flew away to win by 10m in the fifthfastest time ever.
       
Summary by Sports-reference.com      
With the Soviet boycott, the best team in the world, the GDR (East Germany), was not present. They had won the 1983 World Championships and the 1982 European Championships, and had set the last eight world records, the most recent one in July 1983. In their absence, the United States was favored in front of the home crowd. Jamaica had won the bronze medal at the 83 Worlds, but dropped the baton on the first exchange of the final. They finished the race but were never a factor. Great Britain had been silver medalists at the 1983 World Championship, but the United States simply ran away from everyone, with 100 champion Evelyn Ashford running the anchor leg. The time of 41.65 was the fastest ever by a non-GDR team.
 

Records

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1984 Summer Olympics.

World Record 41.53 East Germany Silke Gladisch
East Germany Sabine Rieger
East Germany Ingrid Auerswald
East Germany Marlies Göhr
Berlin (GDR) July 31, 1983
Olympic Record 41.60 East Germany Romy Muller
East Germany Barbel Wockel
East Germany Ingrid Auerswald
East Germany Marlies Göhr
Moscow (URS) August 1, 1980
 
        Results        
 
4 x 100 m Women     Final 11 August      
                 
Rank Mark     Team Country NOC   Records
1 41.65     Alice Brown, Jeanette Bolden, Chandra Cheeseborough, Evelyn Ashford United States USA    
2 43.11     Simmone Jacobs, Kathy Cook, Bev Callender, Heather Oakes Great Britain GBR    
3 43.15     Rose-Aimée Bacoul, Liliane Gaschet, Marie-France Loval, Raimonde Naigré France FRA    
4 43.57     Edith Oker GER, Michaela Schabinger GER, Heide-Elke Gaugel GER, Ute Thimm GER West Germany FRG    
5 44.18     Eldece Clarke-Lewis, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Greene, Oralee Fowler Bahamas BAH    
6 44.23     Janice Bernard, Gillian Forde, Esther Washington, Angela Williams Trinidad and Tobago TTO    
7 53.54     Juliet Cuthbert, Grace Jackson Small, Veronica Findlay, Merlene Ottey SLO Jamaica JAM    
  DQ     Angela Bailey, Marita Payne, Angella Issajenko, France Gareau Canada CAN    
4 x 100 m Women     Heat 1 11 August      
                 
Rank Mark     Team Country NOC   Records
1 43.05     Janet Burke, Grace Jackson Small, Veronica Findlay, Merlene Ottey SLO Jamaica JAM    
2 43.47     Simmone Jacobs, Kathy Cook, Bev Callender, Heather Oakes Great Britain GBR    
3 43.64     Rose-Aimée Bacoul, Liliane Gaschet, Marie-France Loval, Raimonde Naigré France FRA    
4 44.15     Eldece Clarke-Lewis, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Greene, Oralee Fowler Bahamas BAH    
5 45.62     Ratjai Sripet, Walapa Tangjitnusorn, Jaree Patarach, Wassana Panyapuek Thailand THA    
4 x 100 m Women     Heat 2 11 August      
                 
Rank Mark     Team Country NOC   Records
1 42.59     Alice Brown, Jeanette Bolden, Chandra Cheeseborough, Evelyn Ashford United States USA    
2 43.53     Angela Bailey, Marita Payne, Angella Issajenko, France Gareau Canada CAN    
3 44.30     Edith Oker GER, Michaela Schabinger GER, Heide-Elke Gaugel GER, Ute Thimm GER West Germany FRG    
4 44.78     Janice Bernard, Gillian Forde, Esther Washington, Angela Williams Trinidad and Tobago TTO    
5 45.20     Grace Armah, Mary Mensah, Cynthia Quartey, Doris Wiredu Ghana GHA    
6 47.18     Jabou Jawo, Amie Ndow, Victoria Decka, Georgiana Freeman Gambia GAM    
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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