1997 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

The 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 8 and August 9.

Results
All times shown are in seconds.

Heat 1

 * 1) 🇺🇸 united states (Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller, Gail Devers) 41.52 Q (WL)
 * 2) 🇫🇷 france (Frédérique Bangué, Christine Arron, Delphine Combe, Sylviane Félix) 42.53 Q (NR)
 * 3) 🇳🇬 nigeria (Beatrice Utondu, Endurance Ojokolo, Angela Atede, Chioma Ajunwa) 43.00 Q
 * 4) 🇬🇷 greece (Maria Tsoni, Ekaterini Koffa, Marina Vasarmidou, Ekaterini Thanou) 43.15
 * 5) 🇦🇺 australia (Nova Peris, Lauren Hewitt, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Cathy Freeman) 43.21 (SB)
 * 6) 🇧🇷 brazil (Rita da Cassia Araujo Gomes, Katia Regina Santos, Cleide Amaral, Lucimar Aparecida de Moura) 43.89 (NR)
 * 7) 🇮🇹 italy (Elena Sordelli, Giada Gallina, Manuela Grillo, Manuela Levorato) 44.16
 * 🇺🇦 ukraine (Oksana Kaydash, Viktoriya Fomenko, Iryna Pukha, Anzhela Kravchenko) DQ

Heat 2

 * 1) 🇧🇸 bahamas (Eldece Clarke-Lewis, Savatheda Fynes, Debbie Ferguson, Pauline Davis-Thompson) 42.19 Q
 * 2) 🇯🇲 jamaica (Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly Grant) 42.31 Q (SB)
 * 3) 🇩🇪 germany (Melanie Paschke, Esther Möller, Birgit Rockmeier, Andrea Philipp) 42.51 Q (SB)
 * 4) 🇷🇺 russia (Olga Povtaryova, Galina Malchugina, Marina Trandenkova, Yekaterina Leshchova) 42.69 q (SB)
 * 5) 🇨🇳 china (Pei Fang, Yan Jiankui, Liu Xiaomei, Li Xuemei) 42.92 q (AR)
 * 6) 🇨🇴 colombia (Sandra Borrero, Felipa Palacios, Patricia Rodríguez, Mirtha Brock) 43.51 (SB)
 * 7) 🇫🇮 finland (Sanna Koivisto, Johanna Manninen, Sanna Hernesniemi-Kyllönen, Anu Pirttimaa) 44.08 (SB)
 * 8) 🇯🇵 japan (Hideko Kijinami, Kaori Yoshida, Toshie Iwamoto, Motoka Arai) 44.56

Final

 * 1) 🇺🇸 united states (Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller, Gail Devers) 41.47 (CR)
 * 2) 🇯🇲 jamaica (Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly Grant) 42.10 (SB)
 * 3) 🇫🇷 france (Patricia Girard, Christine Arron, Delphine Combe, Sylviane Félix) 42.21 (NR)
 * 4) 🇩🇪 germany (Melanie Paschke, Esther Möller, Birgit Rockmeier, Andrea Philipp) 42.44 (SB)
 * 5) 🇷🇺 russia (Olga Povtaryova, Galina Malchugina, Marina Trandenkova, Yekaterina Leshchova) 42.50 (SB)
 * 6) 🇧🇸 bahamas (Eldece Clarke-Lewis, Savatheda Fynes, Debbie Ferguson, Pauline Davis-Thompson) 42.77
 * 7) 🇳🇬 nigeria (Beatrice Utondu, Endurance Ojokolo, Angela Atede, Falilat Ogunkoya) 43.27
 * 8) 🇨🇳 china (Pei Fang, Yan Jiankui, Liu Xiaomei, Li Xuemei) 43.32