Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
| Women's 4×400 metres relay at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
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| Venue | Athens Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
| Dates | 27–28 August | |||||||||
| Competitors | 64 from 16 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 3:19.01 | |||||||||
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 United States (USA)DeeDee Trotter, Monique Henderson, Sanya Richards, Monique Hennagan, Moushaumi Robinson* |
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 Russia (RUS)Olesya Krasnomovets, Natalya Nazarova, Olesya Zykina, Natalya Antyukh, Tatyana Firova*, Natalia Ivanova* |
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* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats. |
Jamaica (JAM)
Novlene Williams, Michelle Burgher, Nadia Davy, Sandie Richards, Ronetta Smith*
The women's 4×400 metres relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 27 to 28. The sixteen teams competed in a two-heat qualifying round in which the first three teams from each heat, together with the next two fastest teams, were given a place in the final race.
Russian Olesya Krasnomovets was out hard down the backstretch, passing Britain's Donna Fraser on her outside and opening up a lead over American DeeDee Trotter chasing to the inside. But Trotter did not let Krasnomovets go, gaining steadily through the second turn and speeding down the final straightaway to draw even by the handoff to Monique Henderson, giving the U.S. the lead. Novlene Williams put Jamaica in strong contention a couple of metres behind the Russians. Through her leg, Henderson expanded the American gap to six metres. Natalya Nazarova also opened up a little more space on Jamaica.
During the second handoff while in sixth place, Greece's Dimitra Dova was given an inadvertent flat tire by Maria Rus. Dova tried to fix her shoe, then stepped into the infield in frustration, returning to the track after a seeming eternity. Greece would eventually finish 17 seconds behind the next to last finisher.
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