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Host City: Montréal, Canada

Format: Top three in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the final.

Date Started: July 30, 1976

Date Finished: July 31, 1976

(Competitors: 40; Countries: 10; Finalists: 32/8)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec

Overview by IAAF

The FRG team won the first heat with an Olympic record 42.61, well ahead of the USSR team (43.33), while the GDR won the other heat in 43.00. The excellent changeovers of the FRG team, and the speed of Helten and Richter on the middle two legs gave FRG a margin of a metre at the last changeover. Eckert was too quick for Possekel over the final 100m, taking the GDR team home to win by just under half a metre.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

As in 1972, the final again came down to a close match race between the two German teams. East Germany had Renate Stecher, who had won the 100 and 200 in 1972 and was the silver medalist in the 1976 100, while West Germany was led by Annegret Richter, who won the 1976 100 gold medal. But neither ran the anchor leg, as Stecher ran the second leg and Richter the third leg for their teams. The GDR anchor runner was Bärbel Eckert, who had won the 200 title in Montréal. At the final exchange, the FRG had a small lead, but Eckert overcame their anchor runner, Annegret Kroniger, to win by ½-metre.

Records

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics.

World Record	42.50	Marlies Göhr Renate Stecher Carla Bodendorf Martina Blos	Karl-Marx-Stadt (GDR)	June 29, 1974
Olympic Record	42.88	Margaret Bailes Barbara Ferrell Mildrette Netter Wyomia Tyus	Mexico City (MEX)	October 20, 1968

		Results

*4 x 100 m*	Women	Final	31 July

Rank	Mark	Team	Country	NOC	Records
1	42.55	Marlies Göhr GER, Renate Stecher GER, Carla Bodendorf GER, Bärbel Wöckel GER	East Germany	GDR
2	42.59	Elvira Poßekel GER, Inge Helten GER, Annegret Richter GER, Annegret Kroniger GER	West Germany	FRG
3	43.09	Tatyana Prorochenko, Lyudmila Maslakova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya RUS, Vera Anisimova	Soviet Union	URS
4	43.17	Margaret Howe, Patty Loverock, Joanne McTaggart, Marjorie Bailey	Canada	CAN
5	43.18	Barbara Wilson, Debbie Wells, Denise Boyd, Raelene Boyle	Australia	AUS
6	43.24	Leleith Hodges, Rose Allwood, Carol Cummings, Jackie Pusey	Jamaica	JAM
7	43.35	Martha Watson, Evelyn Ashford, Debra Armstrong, Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	USA
8	43.79	Wendy Hoyte, Denise Ramsden, Sharon Colyear, Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	GBR
*4 x 100 m*	Women	Heat 1	30 July

Rank	Mark	Team	Country	NOC	Records
1	42.61	Elvira Poßekel GER, Inge Helten GER, Annegret Richter GER, Annegret Kroniger GER	West Germany	FRG
2	43.33	Tatyana Prorochenko, Lyudmila Maslakova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya RUS, Vera Anisimova	Soviet Union	URS
3	43.44	Wendy Hoyte, Denise Ramsden, Sharon Colyear, Andrea Lynch	Great Britain	GBR
4	43.67	Barbara Wilson, Debbie Wells, Denise Boyd, Raelene Boyle	Australia	AUS
5	43.95	Chantal Corbrejaud, Catherine Delachanal, Chantal Réga, Sylviane Telliez	France	FRA
*4 x 100 m*	Women	Heat 2	30 July

Rank	Mark	Team	Country	NOC	Records
1	43.00	Marlies Göhr GER, Renate Stecher GER, Carla Bodendorf GER, Bärbel Wöckel GER	East Germany	GDR
2	43.46	Martha Watson, Evelyn Ashford, Debra Armstrong, Chandra Cheeseborough	United States	USA
3	43.53	Margaret Howe, Patty Loverock, Joanne McTaggart, Marjorie Bailey	Canada	CAN
4	43.88	Leleith Hodges, Rose Allwood, Carol Cummings, Jackie Pusey	Jamaica	JAM
5	44.29	Isabel Taylor, Carmen Laura Valdés, Fulgencia Romay, Silvia Chivás	Cuba	CUB