Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

Women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	31 July & 1 August
Competitors	from 20 nations
Medalists
01 ! Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Nina Ziuskova, Irina Nazarova  Soviet Union 02 ! Barbara Krug, Gabriele Löwe, Christina Lathan, Marita Koch  East Germany 03 ! Linsey MacDonald, Michelle Probert, Joslyn Hoyte-Smith, Donna Hartley  Great Britain
← 1976 1984 →

01 !		Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Nina Ziuskova, Irina Nazarova	Soviet Union
02 !		Barbara Krug, Gabriele Löwe, Christina Lathan, Marita Koch	East Germany
03 !		Linsey MacDonald, Michelle Probert, Joslyn Hoyte-Smith, Donna Hartley	Great Britain

These are the official results of the Women's 4x400m Relay event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. A total of 11 nations competed. The final was held on August 1, 1980. The event was won by the Soviet Union team of Tatyana Prorochenko, Tatyana Goyshchik, Nina Ziuskova and Irina Nazarova, which beat the East German team by fraction of a second. Great Britain came third, narrowly beating Romania.

These were the standing World and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics.