1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

None The 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics was held in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 10. Although this event was won by the East German team, it is generally accepted that those athletes were part of a programme of performance-enhancing drug usage (doping in East Germany). There are strong calls for the Great Britain team to be awarded the gold medal since they can be considered to have been the real winners, as is often the case involving those who lost out to East German drug cheats in the 1980s.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/22274305 GB robbed of gold by drug cheats? BBC Sport __NOTOC__ Medals Gold: Silver: Bronze:East GermanySilke GladischMarita KochIngrid AuerswaldMarlies GöhrGreat BritainJoan BaptisteKathy CookBeverley CallenderShirley ThomasJamaicaLeleith HodgesJacqueline PuseyJuliet CuthbertMerlene Ottey Records Existing records at the start of the event. World recordGDR41.53Berlin, GermanyJuly 31, 1983Championship recordNew event Results Heats All times shown are in seconds. Heat 1 Great Britain (Joan Baptiste, Kathy Cook, Beverley Callender, Shirley Thomas) 43.06 Q Bulgaria 1971 (Ginka Zagorcheva, Anelia Nuneva, Nadezhda Georgieva, Pepa Pavlova) 43.19 Q Soviet Union (Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Yelena Vinogradova, Irina Olkhovnikova, Olga Antonova) 43.51 Q Czechoslovakia (Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková, Štěpánka Sokolová, Radislava Šoborová, Eva Murková) 43.89 Q West Germany (Monika Hirsch, Elke Vollmer, Michaela Schabinger, Ute Thimm) 44.21 Italy (Carla Mercurio, Erica Rossi, Daniela Ferrian, Marisa Masullo) 44.46 Finland (Sisko Markkanen-Hanhijoki, Helinä Marjamaa, Margareete Honkaharju, Riitta Ketonen) 44.77 Denmark (Britt Hansen, Lisbet Nissen-Petersen, Helle Theil, Dorthe A. Rasmussen) 45.04 NR Danish Heat 2 East Germany (Silke Gladisch, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr) 42.59 Q Jamaica (Leleith Hodges, Jacqueline Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, Merlene Ottey) 43.10 Q France (Marie-France Loval, Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo, Rose-Aimée Bacoul, Liliane Gaschet) 43.52 Q Canada (Angela Bailey, Marita Payne-Wiggins, Tanya Brothers, Molly Killingbeck) 44.19 Q United States (Alice Brown, Diane Williams, Chandra Cheeseborough, Randy Givens) 44.20 Bahamas (Shonel Ferguson, Pauline Davis, Whelma Colebrook, Oralee Fowler) 44.76 Ghana (Grace Armah, Mercy Addy, Elisabeth Wilson, Mary Mensah) 47.51 Final East Germany (Silke Gladisch, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr) 41.76 Great Britain (Joan Baptiste, Kathy Cook, Beverley Callender, Shirley Thomas) 42.71 Jamaica (Leleith Hodges, Jacqueline Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, Merlene Ottey) 42.73 Bulgaria 1971 (Ginka Zagorcheva, Anelia Nuneva, Nadezhda Georgieva, Pepa Pavlova) 42.93 Canada (Angela Bailey, Marita Payne-Wiggins, Tanya Brothers, Molly Killingbeck) 43.05 Soviet Union (Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Yelena Vinogradova, Irina Olkhovnikova, Olga Antonova) 43.22 France (Marie-France Loval, Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo, Rose-Aimée Bacoul, Liliane Gaschet) 43.40 Czechoslovakia (Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková, Štěpánka Sokolová, Radislava Šoborová, Eva Murková) 43.78 References IAAF results, heats IAAF results, final 4 x 100 metres relay women Category:Relays at the World Athletics Championships Category:4 × 100 metres relay