Athletics

4x100m Relay, Women 1928-2024

1928
1 Canada 48"4
(Fanny Rosenfeld, Ethel Smith, Florence Jane Bell, Myrtle Cook)
2 USA 48"8
(Mary Washburn, Jassie Cross, Loretta McNeil, Elizabeth Robinson)
3 Germany 49"0
(Rosa Kellner, Helene Schmidt, Anni Holdmann, Helene Junker)
4 France 49"6
5 Netherlands 49"8
6 Italy 53"6 
(Luisa Bonfanti, Giannina Marchini, Derna Polazzo, Vittorina Vivenza)

1932
1 USA 46"9
(Mary Carew, Evelyn Furtsch, Annette Rogers, Wilhelmina Von Bremen)
2 Canada 47"0
(Mildred Frizzel, Lilan Palmer, Mary Frizzel, Hilda Strike)
3 Great Britain 47"6
(Eileen Hiscock, Gwendolina Porter, Violet Webb, Nelle Halstead)
4 Netherlands 48"0
5 Japan 48"9
6 Germany "“

1936
1 USA 46"9
(Harriet Bland, Annette Rogers, Elizabeth Robinson, Helen Stephens)
2 Great Britain 47"6
(Eileen Hiscock, Violet Olney, Audrey Brown, Barbara Burke)
3 Canada 48"7
(Dorothy Brookshaw, Mildred Dolson, Hilda Cameron, Aileen Meagher)
4 Italy 48"7
(Lydia Bongiovanni, Trebisonda Valla, Fernanda Bullano, Claudia Testoni)
5 Netherlands 48"8
DSQ Germany 

1948
1 Netherlands 47"5
(Genta Blankers-Koen, Jeanette van der Kade-Kondijs, Xenia Stad-de Tong, Francina Blankers-Koen)
2 Australia 47"6
(Shirley Strickland, Joyce King, June Maston, Elizabeth McKinnon)
3 Canada 47"8
(Diane Foster, Nancy Mackay, Patricia Jones, Viola Myers)
4 Great Britain 48"0
5 Denmark 48"6
6 Austria 49"2
DNF Heat Italy (Mirella Avalle,Anna Maria Cantù, Marcella Jeandeau, Liliana Tagliaferri)

1952
1 USA 45"9
(H. Mae Faggs, Barbara Jones, Janet Moreau, Catherine Hardy)
2 Germany 45"9
(Ursula Knab, Maria Sander, Helga Klein, Marga Petersen)
3 Great Britain 46"2
(Sylvia Cheeseman, June Foulds, Jean Desforges, Heather Armitage)
4 USSR 46"3
5 Australia 46"6
6 Netherlands 47"8
Heat (3º) Italy 47"4
(Vittoria Cesarini, Mirella Greppi, Liliana Tagliaferri, Giuseppina Leone)

1956
1 Australia 44"5
(Shirley Strickland, Morma Croker, Fleur Mallor, Elizabeth Cuthbert)
2 Great Britain 44"7
(Anne Pashley, Jean Scrivens, June Paul Paul, Heather Armitage)
3 USA 44"9
(H. Mae Daniels, Margaret Faggs, Wilma Rudolph, Isabelle Matthews)
4 USSR 45"6
5 Italy 45"7
(Maria Musso, Letizia Bertone, Maria Greppi, Giuseppina Leone)
6 United Team of Germany 47"2

1960
1 USA 44"5
(Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph)
2 United Team of Germany 44"8
(Martha Langbein, Annie Biechel, Brunhilde Hendrix, Jutta Heine)
3 Poland 45"0
(Teresa Wieczorek, Barbara Janiszewska, Celina Jesionowska, Halina Richter)
4 USSR 45"2
5 Italy 45"6
(Letizia Bertoni, Sandra Valenti, Pier Tizzoni, Giuseppina Leone)
DNF Great Britain

1964
1 Poland 43"6
(Teresa Ciepla, Ilena Kirszenstein, Halina Gorecka, Ewa Klobukowska)
2 USA 43"9
(Willie White, Wyomia Tyus, Marilyn White, Edith McGuire)
3 Great Britain 44"0 Risultati 1896-2000
(Janet Simpson, Mary Rand, Daphne Arden, Dorothy Hyman)
4 USSR 44"4
5 United Team of Germany 44"7
6 Australia 45"0
7 Hungary 45"2
8 France 46"1

1968
1 USA 42"8
(Barbara Ferrell, Margaret Bailes, Mildrette Netter, Wyomia Tyus)
2 Cuba 43"3
(Marlene Elejarde, Fulgencia Romay, Violetta Quesada, Miguelina Cobian)
3 USSR 43"4
(Lyudmila Zharkova, Galina Bukharina, Vyera Popkova, Lyudmila Samotyesova)
4 Netherlands 43"4
5 Australia 43"4
6 West Germany 43"6
7 Great Britain 43"7
8 France 44"2

1972
1 West Germany 42"81
(Cristiane Krause, Ingrid Mickler, Annegret Richter, Heidemarie Rosendahl)
2 German Democratic Republic 42"95
(Evelyn Kaufer, Christina Heinich, Barbel Struppert, Renate Stecher-Meissner)
3 Cuba 43"36
(Marlene Elejarde, Carmen Valdes, Fulgencia Romay, Silvia Chivas)
4 USA 43"39
5 USSR 43"59
6 Australia 43"61
7 Great Britain 43"71
8 Poland 44"20
Heat (5º) Italia 42"62
(Maddalena Grassano, Alessandra Orselli, Laura Nappi,Cecilia Molinari)

1976
1 German Democratic Republic 42"55
(Marlies Oelsner, Renate Stecher, Carla Bodendorf, Barbel Eckert)
2 West Germany 42"59
(Elvira Possekel, Inge Helten, Annegret Richter, Annegret Kroniger)
3 USSR 43"09
(Tetyana Prorochenko, Lyudmila Maslakova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya, Vera Anisimova)
4 Canada 43"17
5 Australia 43"18
6 Jamaica 43"24
7 USA 43"35
8 Great Britain 43"76

1980
1 German Democratic Republic 41"60
(Romy Muller, Barbel Wockel, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Gohr)
2 USSR 42"10
(Vera Komisova, Lyudmila Maslakova, Vera Anisimova, Natalya Bochina)
3 Great Britain 42"43
(Heather Hunte, Kathryn Smallwood, Beverly Goddard, Sonia Lannaman)
4 Bulgaria 42"67
5 France 42"84
6 Jamaica 43"19
7 Poland 43"59
DNF Sweden 

1984
1 USA 41"65
(Alice Brown, Jeanette Bolden, Chandra Cheeseboroug, Evelyn Ashford)
2 Canada 42"77
(Angela Bailey, Marita Payne, Angella Taylor, France Gareau)
3 Great Britain 43"11
(K. Simmone Jacobs, Kathryn Cook, Beverly Callender, Heather Oakes)
4 France 43"15
5 West Germany 43"57
6 Bahamas 44"18
7 Trinidad & Tobago 44"23
8 Jamaica 53"54

1988
1 USA 41"98
(Aalice Brown, Sheila Echols, Florence Griffith, Evelyn Ashford)
2 German Democratic Republic 42"09
(Silke Moeller, Kerstin Behrendt, Ingrid Lange, Marlies Goehr)
3 USSR 42"75
(Lyudmila Kondratieva, Galina Waltchougina, Marina Jirova, Natalya Pomochtchinkova)
4 West Germany 42"76
5 Bulgaria 43"02
6 Poland 43"95
7 France 44"02
DNS Jamaica
SF (7º) Italy 43"97
(Rita Angotzi, Rossella Tarolo, Daniela Ferrian, Marisa Masullo)

1992
1 USA 42"11
(Evelyn Ashford, Esther Jones, Carlette Guidry, Gwendolyn Torrence)
2 Unified Team 42"16
(Olga Bogoslovskaya, Galina Malchugina, Marina Trandenkova, Irma Privalova)
3 Nigeria 42"81
(Beatrice Utondu, Faith Idehen, Christy Thompson, Mary Onyali)
4 France 42"85
5 Germany 43"12
6 Australia 43"77
DNF Jamaica, Cuba

1996
1 USA 41"95
(Gaiens Chryste, Devers Gail, Miller Inger, Torrence Gwen)
2 Bahamas 42"14 
(Clarke Eldece, Sturrup Cahndra, Fynes Sevatheda, Davis Pauline)
3 Jamaica 42"24
(Freeman Michelle, Cuthbert Juliet, Mitchell Nikole, Ottey Merlene)
4 Russian Federation 42"27
5 Nigeria 42"56
6 France 42"76
7 Australia 43"70
8 Great Britain 43"93

2000
1 Bahamas 41"95
(Eldece Clarke-Lewis, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Sevaheda Fynes)
2 Jamaica 42"13
(Tayna Lawrence, Veronica Campbell, Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer)
3 USA 42"20
(Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Nanceen Perry, Passion Richardson)
4 France 42"42
5 Russian Federation 43"02
6 Germany 43"11
7 Nigeria 44"05
8 China 44"87

2004
1 Jamaica 41"73
(Tayna Lawrence, Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey, Veronica Campbell)
2 Russian Federation 42"27
(Olga Fyodorova, Yuliya Tabakova, Irina Khabarova, Larisa Kruglova)
3 France 42"54
(Veronique Mang, Muriel Hurtis, Sylviane Felix, Christine Arron)
4 Bahamas 42"69
5 Belarus 42"94
6 Belgium  43"11
7 Nigeria 43"42
DNF USA 

2008
1 Belgium 42"54
(Olivia Borlee, Hanna Marien, Elodie Ouedraogo, Kim Gevaert)
2 Nigeria 43"04
(Franca Idoko, Gloria Kemasuode, Halimat Ismaila, Oludamola Osayomi)
3 Brasil 43"14
(Rosemar Coelho Neto, Lucimar de Moura, Thaissa Presti, Rosângela Santos)
4 Germany 43"28
DNF Great Britain, Jamaica, Poland 
DSQ Italy (Anita Pistone, Vincenza Calì, Giulia Arcioni, Audrey Alloh)

 Yuliya Chermoshanskaya RUS (42"31 with teammates Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina) has been disqualified due to anti-doping violations. 

2012
1 USA 40"82
(Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, Carmelita Jeter)
2 Jamaica 41"41
(Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, Sherron Simpson, Veronica Campbell, Kerron Stewart)
3 Ukraine 42"04
(Olesya Povh, Hrystyna Stuy, Marya Ryemyen, Elyzaveta Bryzgina)
4 Nigeria 42"64
5 Germany 42"67
6 Netherlands 42"70
7 Brasil 42"91
DNF Trinidad & Tobago  

2016
1 USA 41"01
(Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix, English Gardner, Tori Bowie)
2 Jamaica 41"36
(Christania Williams, Elaine Thompson, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly-Ahn Fraser-Pryce)
3 Great Britain 41"77
(Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita)
4 Germany 42"10
5 Trinidad & Tobago 42"12
6 Ukraine 42"36
7 Canada 43"15
8 Nigeria 43"21

2020
1 Giamaica 41”02
(Briana Williams, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Price, Shericka Jackson)
2 USA 41”45
(Javianne Oliver, Teahna Daniels, Jenna Prandini, Gabrielle Thomas)
3 Great Britain 41”88
(Asha Philip, Imani Lansiquot, Dina Asher- Smith, Daryll Neita)
4 Switzerland 42”88
5 Germany 42”12
6 People's Republic of China 42”71
7 France 42”89
DNF Netherlands
9 Italy 42”84
(Irene Siragusa, Gloria Hooper, Anna Bongiorni, Vittoria Fontana)

2024
1 USA 41”78
(Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Gabrielle Thomas, Sha’carri Richardson)
2 Great Britain 41’85”
(Dina Asher-Smith, Imani Lansiquot, Amy Hunt, Daryll Neita)
3 Germany 41”97
(Alexandra Burghardt, Lisa Mayer, Gina Lueckenkemper, Rebekka Haase)
4 France 42”23
5 Jamaica 42”29
6 Canada 42”69
7 Netherlands 42”74
DQ Switzerland
13 Italy 43”03
(Zaynab Dosso, Dalia Kaddari, Irene Siragusa, Arianna de Masi)