2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay



The 4 × 100 metre relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.

Qualifying
From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.

All times shown are in seconds.
 * Q denotes automatic qualification.
 * q denotes fastest losers.
 * DNS denotes did not start.
 * DNF denotes did not finish.
 * AR denotes area record.
 * NR denotes national record.
 * PB denotes personal best.
 * SB denotes season's best.

Heat 1

 * 1) [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]] United States (Angela Daigle, Muna Lee, Me'Lisa Barber, Lauryn Williams) 42.16s Q (WL)
 * 2) [[Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg|20px]] Nigeria (Gloria Kemasuode, Endurance Ojokolo, Oludamola Osayomi, Mercy Nku) 43.53s Q (SB)
 * 3) [[Image:Flag of Sweden.svg|20px]] Sweden (Emma Rienas, Carolina Klüft, Jenny Kallur, Susanna Kallur) 43.67s (NR)
 * 4) [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|20px]] Great Britain (Emily Freeman, Emma Ania, Laura Turner, Katherine Endacott) 43.83 (SB)
 * [[Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg|20px]] Netherlands (Pascal van Assendelft, Jacqueline Poelman, Annemarie Kramer, Judith Baarssen) DQ
 * [[Image:Flag of the Bahamas.svg|20px]] Bahamas (Tamicka Clarke, Chandra Sturrup, Savatheda Fynes, Philippa Arnett-Willie) DNF

Heat 2

 * 1) [[Image:Flag of France.svg|20px]] France (Patricia Buval, Lina Jacques-Sébastien, Fabe Dia, Christine Arron) 42.86 Q (SB)
 * 2) [[Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg|20px]] Jamaica (Daniele Browning, Sherone Simpson, Beverly McDonald, Aleen Bailey) 42.97s Q (SB)
 * 3) [[Image:Flag of Colombia.svg|20px]] Colombia (Melisa Murillo, Felipa Palacios, Darlenis Obregón, Norma Gonzalez) 43.03s q ()
 * 4) [[Image:Flag of Brazil.svg|20px]] Brazil (Raquel Martins da Costa, Lucimar Aparecida de Moura, Thatiana Regina Ignâcio, Luciana Alves dos Santos) 43.22s q (SB)
 * 5) [[Image:Flag of Italy.svg|20px]] Italy (Elena Sordelli, Vincenza Calì, Manuela Grillo, Maria Aurora Salvagno) 44.03s
 * [[Image:Flag of Finland.svg|20px]] Finland (Ilona Ranta, Katja Salivaara, Sari Keskitalo, Heidi Hannula) DNF

Heat 3

 * 1) [[Image:Flag of Belarus.svg|20px]] Belarus (Yulia Nesterenko, Natalya Sologub, Alena Nevmerzhitskaya, Oksana Dragun) 42.80s Q (NR)
 * 2) [[Image:Flag of Poland.svg|20px]] Poland (Iwona Dorobisz, Daria Onyśko, Dorota Dydo, Iwona Brzezińska) 43.37s Q (SB)
 * 3) [[Image:Flag of Belgium.svg|20px]] Belgium (Katleen De Caluwé, Nancy Callaerts, Élodie Ouédraogo, Kim Gevaert) 43.40s (SB)
 * 4) [[Image:Flag of Ukraine.svg|20px]] Ukraine (Iryna Kozhemyakina, Iryna Shepetyuk, Iryna Shtanhyeyeva, Olena Pastushenko-Sinyavina) 43.62s (SB)
 * 5) [[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|20px]] Japan (Tomoko Ishida, Ayumi Suzuki, Yuka Sato, Sakie Nobuoka) 44.52s (SB)
 * [[Image:Flag of Russia.svg|20px]] Russia (Yekaterina Kondratyeva, Yuliya Gushchina, Irina Khabarova, Larisa Kruglova) DNF

Final

 * 1) [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]] United States (Angela Daigle, Muna Lee, Me'Lisa Barber, Lauryn Williams) 41.78s (WL)
 * 2) [[Image:Flag of Jamaica.svg|20px]] Jamaica (Daniele Browning, Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey, Veronica Campbell) 41.99s (SB)
 * 3) [[Image:Flag of Belarus.svg|20px]] Belarus (Yulia Nesterenko, Natalya Sologub, Alena Nevmerzhitskaya, Oksana Dragun) 42.56s (NR)
 * 4) [[Image:Flag of France.svg|20px]] France (Patricia Buval, Lina Jacques-Sébastien, Fabe Dia, Christine Arron) 42.85 (SB)
 * 5) [[Image:Flag of Brazil.svg|20px]] Brazil (Raquel Martins da Costa, Lucimar Aparecida de Moura, Thatiana Regina Ignâcio, Luciana Alves dos Santos) 42.99s (SB)
 * 6) [[Image:Flag of Colombia.svg|20px]] Colombia (Melisa Murillo, Felipa Palacios, Darlenis Obregón, Norma Gonzalez) 43.07s
 * 7) [[Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg|20px]] Nigeria (Gloria Kemasuode, Endurance Ojokolo, Oludamola Osayomi, Mercy Nku) 43.25s (SB)
 * 8) [[Image:Flag of Poland.svg|20px]] Poland (Iwona Dorobisz, Daria Onyśko, Dorota Dydo, Iwona Brzezińska) 43.49s