1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

Medals

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Heats

All times shown are in minutes.

Heat 1

1.  Soviet Union (Aelita Yurchenko, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina) 3:20.75 Q
2.  United States (Diane Dixon, Denean Howard, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Lillie Leatherwood) 3:22.32 Q
3.  Canada (Charmaine Crooks, Molly Killingbeck, Marita Payne-Wiggins, Jillian Richardson) 3:24.50 Q
4.  France (Nathalie Simon, Nadine Debois, Helene Huart, Fabienne Ficher) 3:27.76 Q
5.  Cuba (Ester Petitón, Odalys Hernandez, Tania Fernandez, Ana Fidelia Quirot) 3:29.78
6.  Kenya (Geraldine Shitandayi, Florence Wanjiru, Esther Kavaya, Francisca Chepkurui) 3:30.16
7.  Brazil (Suzete Montalvao, Maria Do Carmo Fialho, Soraya Vieira Telles, Maria Magnólia Souza Figueiredo) 3:30.91 (AR)
8.  India (Vandana Shanbag, Vandana Rao, Shiny Wilson, P.T. Usha) 3:31.55 (AR)

Heat 2

1.  East Germany (Kirsten Emmelmann, Dagmar Neubauer, Cornelia Ullrich, Petra Muller) 3:22.97 Q
2.  Bulgaria (Malena Andonova, Rositsa Stamenova, Pepa Pavlova, Yuliana Marinova) 3:25.85 Q
3.  West Germany (Karin Lix, Helga Arendt, Gudrun Abt, Gisela Kinzel) 3:26.75 Q
4.  Jamaica (Cathy Rattray-Williams, Sandie Richards, Sandra Farmer-Patrick, Ilrey Oliver) 3:27.13 Q
5.  Hungary (Erzsebet Szabo, Erika Szopori, Noémi Bátori, Judit Forgács) 3:31.56
6.  Italy (Rossana Morabito, Cosetta Campana, Nevia Pistrino, Erica Rossi) 3:31.72
7.  Spain (Rosa Colorado, Cristina Pérez, Montserrat Pujol, Blanca Lacambra) 3:32.01
8.  Ireland (Michelle Walsh-Carroll, Barbara Johnson, Patricia Walsh, Patricia Amond) 3:32.56

Final

1.  East Germany (Dagmar Neubauer, Kirsten Emmelmann, Petra Muller, Sabine Busch) 3:18.63 (CR)
2.  Soviet Union (Aelita Yurchenko, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina) 3:19.50
3.  United States (Diane Dixon, Denean Howard-Hill, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Lillie Leatherwood) 3:21.04
4.  Canada (Charmaine Crooks, Molly Killingbeck, Marita Payne-Wiggins, Jillian Richardson) 3:24.11
5.  West Germany (Ute Thimm, Helga Arendt, Gudrun Abt, Gisela Kinzel) 3:24.94
6.  Jamaica (Cathy Rattray-Williams, Sandra Farmer-Patrick, Ilrey Oliver, Sandie Richards) 3:27.51
7.  France (Nathalie Simon, Nadine Debois, Helene Huart, Fabienne Ficher) 3:27.60
8.  Bulgaria (Tsvetanka Ilieva, Rositsa Stamenova, Pepa Pavlova, Yuliana Marinova) 3:30.24