1971 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

Events at the 1971 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Richter Ingrid Mickler West Germany
Silver	Karin Balzer Renate Stecher Petra Vogt Ellen Stropahl East Germany
Bronze	Lyudmila Zharkova Galina Bukharina Marina Sidorova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Soviet Union

Results

Final

15 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
01 !	West Germany	Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Richter Ingrid Mickler	43.28	AR
02 !	East Germany	Karin Balzer Renate Stecher Petra Vogt Ellen Stropahl	43.62
03 !	Soviet Union	Lyudmila Zharkova Galina Bukharina Marina Sidorova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya	44.45
4	Poland	Danuta Jędrejek Barbara Bakulin Urszula Jóźwik Helena Fliśnik	44.75
5	Hungary	Ilona Bruzsenyák Margit Markó-Nemesházi Györgyi Balogh Katalin Papp	44.78
6	United Kingdom	Valerie Peat Margaret Critchley Madeleine Cobb Elizabeth Johns	44.87
7	France	Gabrielle Meyer Michele Beugnet Nicole Pani Odette Ducas	45.50
8	Sweden	Anneli Olsson Gun Olsson Karin Lundgren Elisabeth Randerz	46.12

Heats

14 August

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	West Germany	Elfgard Schittenhelm Inge Helten Annegret Richter Ingrid Mickler	44.37	Q
2	Soviet Union	Lyudmila Zharkova Galina Bukharina Marina Sidorova Nadezhda Besfamilnaya	44.62	Q
3	Poland	Danuta Jędrejek Barbara Bakulin Urszula Jóźwik Helena Fliśnik	44.75	Q
4	Sweden	Anneli Olsson Gun Olsson Karin Lundgren Elisabeth Randerz	45.30	NR Q
5	Italy	Maddalena Grassano Alessandra Orselli Laura Nappi Cecilia Molinari	45.71

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	East Germany	Karin Balzer Renate Stecher Petra Vogt Ellen Stropahl	44.13	Q
2	Hungary	Ilona Bruzsenyák Margit Markó-Nemesházi Györgyi Balogh Katalin Papp	44.87	Q
3	United Kingdom	Valerie Peat Margaret Critchley Madeleine Cobb Elizabeth Johns	45.09	Q
4	France	Gabrielle Meyer Michele Beugnet Nicole Pani Odette Ducas	45.63	Q
5	Austria	Karoline Käfer Christine Kepplinger Monika Holzschuster Helga Kapfer	45.82	NR

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

Hungary (4)
Italy (4)
Poland (4)

Soviet Union (4)
Sweden (4)

United Kingdom (4)
West Germany (4)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 412–420, retrieved 13 August 2014

4 × 100 metres relay at the European Athletics Championships

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