1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

The women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 8–9.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Russia Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Tatyana Alekseyeva Natalya Sharova* Yekaterina Bakhvalova*	United States Shanelle Porter Natasha Kaiser-Brown Anita Howard Jearl Miles Clark Carlette Guidry*	Germany Anja Rücker Anke Feller Heike Meißner Grit Breuer Anja Knippel*

* Runners who participated in the heats only and received medals.

Results

Heats

First 2 teams of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	2	Russia	Tatyana Chebykina, Natalya Sharova, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Alekseyeva	3:29.85	Q, WL
2	2	Ukraine	Tatyana Movchan, Aelita Yurchenko, Galyna Misiruk, Olga Moroz	3:31.11	Q
3	2	Czech Republic	Naděžda Koštovalová, Ludmila Formanová, Helena Fuchsová, Hana Benešová	3:31.11	q
4	1	Germany	Anja Knippel, Anke Feller, Heike Meißner, Anja Rücker	3:31.56	Q
5	2	United States	Anita Howard, Carlette Guidry, Natasha Kaiser-Brown, Jearl Miles Clark	3:31.87	q
6	1	Great Britain	Michelle Thomas, Jennifer Stoute, Donna Fraser, Sally Gunnell	3:35.36	Q
7	1	France	Marie-Line Scholent, Sandrine Thiébaud, Nicole Delars, Marie-Françoise Opheltès	3:35.39

Final

^[2]

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Russia	Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Olga Kotlyarova, Tatyana Alekseyeva	3:26.84	WR
	United States	Shanelle Porter, Natasha Kaiser-Brown, Anita Howard, Jearl Miles Clark	3:27.66	AR
	Germany	Anja Rücker, Anke Feller, Heike Meißner, Grit Breuer	3:28.39
4	Czech Republic	Naděžda Koštovalová, Ludmila Formanová, Helena Fuchsová, Hana Benešová	3:28.47
5	Ukraine	Tatyana Movchan, Aelita Yurchenko, Galyna Misiruk, Olga Moroz	3:30.43	NR
6	Great Britain	Phylis Smith, Sally Gunnell, Michelle Thomas, Donna Fraser	3:32.25	NR

References