1991 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay
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These are the official results of the Women's 4x400 metres
Relay race
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event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships
1991 World Championships in Athletics
The 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1 and athletes from 167 countries participated in the event.The event is best-remembered for the...

in Tokyo, Japan. Their final was held on Sunday September 1, 1991.

Schedule

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    Semi-Final
    31.08.1991 – 19:45h
    Final
    01.09.1991 – 17:50h



Final

RANK NATION ATHLETES TIME
 Soviet Union Tatyana Ledovskaya
Tatyana Ledovskaya
Tatyana Mikhailovna Ledovskaya is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres hurdles. She represented the Soviet Union, training in Minsk....


Lyudmila Dzhigalova
Lyudmila Dzhigalova
Lyudmyla Stanislavivna Dzhyhalova is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres...


Olga Nazarova
Olga Nazarova
Olga Nazarova is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union.She competed for the USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 400m where she won the bronze medal...


• Olga Vladykina-Bryzgina
3:18.43
 United States Rochelle Stevens
Rochelle Stevens
Rochelle Stevens was a 1996 Olympic gold medalist for the United States in the women's 4x400-meter relay...


Diane Dixon
Diane Dixon
Diane Lynn Dixon is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the Silver medal with her team mates Denean Howard, Valerie Brisco-Hooks and Florence Griffith...


• Jearl Miles
Lillie Leatherwood
Lillie Leatherwood
Lillie Mae Leatherwood is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for the United States in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, U.S...

3:20.15
 Germany Uta Rohländer
Uta Rohländer
Uta Rohländer, married Fromm is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay with her teammates Linda Kisabaka, Anja Rücker and Grit Breuer.Her personal best time is 50.33 seconds, achieved in...


Katrin Krabbe
Katrin Krabbe
Katrin Krabbe is a female athlete who competed for the German Democratic Republic and Germany thereafter...


Christine Wachtel
Christine Wachtel
Christine Wachtel , is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the 800 metres run...


Grit Breuer
Grit Breuer
Grit Breuer is a former East German athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x400m events....

3:21.25
4.  United Kingdom • Lorraine Hanson
Phylis Smith
Phylis Smith
Phylis Smith is a former sprinter from Great Britain who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992 and a Commonwealth Gold Medal in the 1994 Commonwealth Games, also with the relay. She specialized in the 400 metres event, and had a personal best of 50.40...


Sally Gunnell
Sally Gunnell
Sally Jane Janet Gunnell OBE is a former British Olympic champion in the 400 m hurdles...


Linda Keough
Linda Keough
Linda Keough-Staines is a former British 400 metre athlete. She competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul in both the 400m and 4 x 400m relay. She won an individual silver medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.Keough missed the 1992 Summer Olympics due to injuries...

3:22.01
5.  Nigeria Fatima Yusuf
Fatima Yusuf
Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju is a retired Nigerian athlete, who competed mainly in the 400 metres during her career. She won 400 metres race in the 1991 All-Africa Games and was second in the 200 metres race. She is married to Adewale Olukoju.She later competed in the 200 meters at the World Championship...


• Mary Onyali
Airat Bakare
Airat Bakare
Airat Bakare is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Bakare finished fifth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1991 World Championships, together with teammates Fatima Yusuf, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi and Charity Opara....


Charity Opara
Charity Opara
Charity Opara is a former Nigerian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. She was in particular a successful relay runner, winning the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics....

3:24.45
6.  Canada Rosey Edeh
Rosey Edeh
Rosey Edeh is a Canadian television personality, currently a correspondent for the entertainment newsmagazine series ET Canada.Edeh was born in London, England...


Karen Clarke
Karen Clarke
Karen Clarke is an Australian netball player. Clarke formerly played with the Queensland Firebirds during the Commonwealth Bank Trophy. Clarke also played in New Zealand's National Bank Cup in 2005, playing for the Canterbury Flames. She retired from the Firebirds after the 2007 season.-References:...


• Cheryl Allen
Charmaine Crooks
Charmaine Crooks
Charmaine Crooks , is a Canadian athlete, five-time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medalist . Charmaine was born in Mandeville, Jamaica, but represented Canada for close to 20 years in athletics...

3:27.42
7.  Spain • Julia Merino
• Blanca Lacambra
Sandra Myers
Sandra Myers
Sandra Myers is a retired 400 metres sprinter who represented Spain after switching from the United States. She became US champion in 400 metres in 1981, but received Spanish nationality in 1987 and competed for Spain since...


• Gregoria Ferrer
3:27.57
8.  Hungary • Edit Molnár
• Agnes Kozary
• Noémi Bátori
• Judit Forgács
3:29.07



Semifinals

  • Held on Saturday 1991-08-31
    RANK HEAT 1 ATHLETES TIME
    1.  United States Rochelle Stevens
    Rochelle Stevens
    Rochelle Stevens was a 1996 Olympic gold medalist for the United States in the women's 4x400-meter relay...


    Diane Dixon
    Diane Dixon
    Diane Lynn Dixon is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for the United States in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the Silver medal with her team mates Denean Howard, Valerie Brisco-Hooks and Florence Griffith...


    • Natasha Kaiser-Brown
    Lillie Leatherwood
    Lillie Leatherwood
    Lillie Mae Leatherwood is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.She competed for the United States in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, U.S...

    2:24.92
    2.  Germany Uta Rohlander
    Uta Rohländer
    Uta Rohländer, married Fromm is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, she won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay with her teammates Linda Kisabaka, Anja Rücker and Grit Breuer.Her personal best time is 50.33 seconds, achieved in...


    • Annet Hesselbarth
    Christine Wachtel
    Christine Wachtel
    Christine Wachtel , is a German track and field athlete who won the silver medal for East Germany at the 1988 Olympic summer games in Seoul in the 800 metres run...


    • Kathrin Schreiter
    2:25.93
    3.  Canada Rosey Edeh
    Rosey Edeh
    Rosey Edeh is a Canadian television personality, currently a correspondent for the entertainment newsmagazine series ET Canada.Edeh was born in London, England...


    Karen Clarke
    Karen Clarke
    Karen Clarke is an Australian netball player. Clarke formerly played with the Queensland Firebirds during the Commonwealth Bank Trophy. Clarke also played in New Zealand's National Bank Cup in 2005, playing for the Canterbury Flames. She retired from the Firebirds after the 2007 season.-References:...


    • Cheryl Allen
    Charmaine Crooks
    Charmaine Crooks
    Charmaine Crooks , is a Canadian athlete, five-time Olympian and Olympic Silver Medalist . Charmaine was born in Mandeville, Jamaica, but represented Canada for close to 20 years in athletics...

    2:27.15
    4.  Hungary • Edit Molnar
    • Agnes Kozary
    • Noemi Batori
    • Judit Forgacs
    2:28.38
    5.  Switzerland • Kathrin Luthi
    • Regula Zurcher-Scalabrin
    • Martha Grossenbacher
    Anita Protti
    Anita Protti
    Anita Protti is a retired athlete from Switzerland who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles. Her greatest achievement was the 1990 European Championships silver medal....

    2:30.32
    6.  Norway • Trine Rugsveen
    • Lisbeth Pettersen
    • MonaKarin Riisnes
    • Solvi Olsen-Meinseth
    2:32.76


RANK HEAT 2 ATHLETES TIME
1.  Soviet Union • Anna Chuprina-Knoroz
Lyudmila Dzhigalova
Lyudmila Dzhigalova
Lyudmyla Stanislavivna Dzhyhalova is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres...


Tatyana Alekseyeva
Tatyana Alekseyeva
Tatyana Alekseyeva is a former 400 metres runner from Russia. Her personal best result was 49.98.- Achievements :-External reference:...


Olga Nazarova
Olga Nazarova
Olga Nazarova is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union.She competed for the USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 400m where she won the bronze medal...

2:23.38
2.  United Kingdom Phylis Smith
Phylis Smith
Phylis Smith is a former sprinter from Great Britain who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992 and a Commonwealth Gold Medal in the 1994 Commonwealth Games, also with the relay. She specialized in the 400 metres event, and had a personal best of 50.40...


• Lorraine Hanson
Linda Keough
Linda Keough
Linda Keough-Staines is a former British 400 metre athlete. She competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul in both the 400m and 4 x 400m relay. She won an individual silver medal at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland.Keough missed the 1992 Summer Olympics due to injuries...


Sally Gunnell
Sally Gunnell
Sally Jane Janet Gunnell OBE is a former British Olympic champion in the 400 m hurdles...

2:23.89
3.  Nigeria Charity Opara
Charity Opara
Charity Opara is a former Nigerian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. She was in particular a successful relay runner, winning the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics....


Airat Bakare
Airat Bakare
Airat Bakare is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.Bakare finished fifth in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1991 World Championships, together with teammates Fatima Yusuf, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi and Charity Opara....


• Omotayo Akinremi
Fatima Yusuf
Fatima Yusuf
Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju is a retired Nigerian athlete, who competed mainly in the 400 metres during her career. She won 400 metres race in the 1991 All-Africa Games and was second in the 200 metres race. She is married to Adewale Olukoju.She later competed in the 200 meters at the World Championship...

2:26.29
4.  Spain • Blanca Lacambra
• Julia Merino
• Esther Lahoz
Sandra Myers
Sandra Myers
Sandra Myers is a retired 400 metres sprinter who represented Spain after switching from the United States. She became US champion in 400 metres in 1981, but received Spanish nationality in 1987 and competed for Spain since...

2:29.12
5.  Cuba Lency Montelier
Lency Montelier
Lency Montelier Ellacia is a retired female track and field athlete from Cuba, best known for winning the gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba.-References:*...


• Odalmis Limonta
Nancy McLeon
Nancy McLeón
Nancy McLeón is a retired female track and field athlete from Cuba who competed in the sprint events during his career. She won the gold medal in the women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1995 Pan American Games, alongside teammates Idalmis Bonne, Surella Morales and Julia Duporty.-References:...


Ana Fidelia Quirot
Ana Fidelia Quirot
Ana Fidelia Quirot is a female athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 m but was also successful over 400 m....

2:31.43
6.  Japan • Yumiko Tokuda
• Masayo Kitagawa
• Ryoko Sato
• Keiko Amano
2:35.82
7.  India Ashwini Nachappa
Ashwini Nachappa
Ashwini Nachappa Kannada: ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ ನಾಚಪ್ಪ is an accomplished athlete from Karnataka, India. She gained fame at the turn of the 1980s when she outran P.T. Usha on two separate occasions. She has since been referred to as India's FloJo and in 1990 she received the prestigious Arjuna award...


• Alphonsa Rayen
• Sylvina Cecil Pais
• Saramma Kutty
2:38.54

See also

  • 1988 Women's Olympic 4x400m Relay (Seoul)
  • 1990 Women's European Championships 4x400m Relay (Split)
    1990 European Championships in Athletics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay
    These are the official results of the Women's 4x400 metres event at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia.-Final:-See also:* 1988 Women's Olympic 4x400m Relay * 1991 Women's World Championships 4x400m Relay...

  • 1992 Women's Olympic 4x400m Relay (Barcelona)
  • 1993 Women's World Championships 4x400m Relay (Stuttgart)
    1993 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay
    These are the official results of the Women's 4x400 metres event at the 1993 IAAF World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. Their final was held on Sunday 1993-08-22.-Final:-Heat 1:-Heat 2:-See also:* 1988 Women's Olympic 4x400m Relay...

  • 1994 Women's European Championships 4x400m Relay (Helsinki)


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