1998 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the 1998 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		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held at the Népstadion on 22 and 23 August.

Medalists

Gold	Anke Feller Uta Rohländer Silvia Rieger Grit Breuer  Germany
Silver	Natalya Khrushcheleva Svetlana Goncharenko Yekaterina Bakhvalova Olga Kotlyarova  Russia
Bronze	Donna Fraser Vicki Jamison Katharine Merry Allison Curbishley  Great Britain

Results

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	2	Russia	Svetlana Goncharenko, Yekaterina Kulikova, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Natalya Khrushcheleva	3:26.21	Q
2	2	Romania	Otilia Ruicu, Alina Ripanu, Mariana Florea, Ionela Târlea	3:28.60	Q
3	2	Italy	Monika Niederstätter, Francesca Carbone, Fabiola Piroddi, Virna De Angeli	3:29.14	Q
4	2	France	Francine Landre, Anita Mormand, Marie-Francoise Opheltes, Fabienne Ficher	3:29.67	q
5	1	Czech Republic	Jitka Burianová, Ludmila Formanová, Hana Benešová, Helena Fuchsová	3:29.83	Q
6	1	Germany	Anke Feller, Anja Knippel, Martina Breu, Silvia Rieger	3:29.84	Q, SB
7	1	Great Britain	Vicki Jamison, Melanie Thomas, Tasha Danvers, Allison Curbishley	3:29.90	Q
8	1	Hungary	Annamaria Bori, Barbara Petráhn, Orsolya Dóczi, Judit Szekeres	3:30.24	q
9	2	Belarus	Natallia Solohub, Nelli Voronkova, Tanya Kurochkina, Anna Kozak	3:37.55

Final

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Germany	Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer, Silvia Rieger, Grit Breuer	3:23.03	SB
	Russia	Natalya Khrushcheleva, Svetlana Goncharenko, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Olga Kotlyarova	3:23.56	SB
	Great Britain	Donna Fraser, Vicki Jamison, Katharine Merry, Allison Curbishley	3:25.66	SB
4	Romania	Otilia Ruicu, Alina Ripanu, Mariana Florea, Ionela Târlea	3:27.24	NR
5	Czech Republic	Jitka Burianová, Ludmila Formanová, Hana Benešová, Helena Fuchsová	3:27.54	SB
6	France	Francine Landre, Anita Mormand, Marie-Francoise Opheltes, Viviane Dorsile	3:27.61	SB
7	Italy	Patrizia Spuri, Francesca Carbone, Fabiola Piroddi, Virna De Angeli	3:29.31
8	Hungary	Annamaria Bori, Barbara Petráhn, Orsolya Dóczi, Judit Szekeres	3:31.83

References

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