World Track and Field Championships

Helsinki, Finland - Day 9

August 14th, 2005

August 13th, 2005

USATF REPORT DAY 9

Team USA sets all-time World Champs record with 14 gold medals

HELSINKI, Finland - The U.S. men's 4x400m relay team won the gold medal Sunday night and put an exclamation point on Team USA's outstanding performance at the 2005 World Track & Field Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

Team USA set an all-time record in winning 14 gold medals, bettering by one its previous record of 13 set in 1993 in Stuttgart, Germany. In addition to the 14 gold medals, Team USA won eight silver medals and three bronze medals, which equals the 25 medals won at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Team USA's 25 medals equals its second-best medal tally in World Outdoor Championships history (1993, Stuttgart), and is one shy of the all-time record of 26 at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo.

Russia finished second in the medal count with 20 (7-8-5), with Ethiopia third with 9 medals (3-4-2).

Rock, Brew, Williamson & Wariner win 4x400m relay gold

In winning the men's 4x400m relay world title for the seventh time at a World Outdoor Championship in 10 tries, Andrew Rock (Stratford, Wis.), Derrick Brew (Spring, Texas), Darold Williamson (Waco, Texas) and Jeremy Wariner (Grand Prairie, Texas) had to work hard to defeat a strong quartet from the Bahamas.

Rock, the 2005 World Outdoor Championships silver medalist, led off for the Americans and was in fourth place when he handed the baton to Brew, the 2004 Olympic bronze medalist, who promptly took the lead and ran a 44.59 split before presenting the baton, and a slight lead, to 2004 Olympic 4x400m relay gold medalist Williamson.

Williamson ran his third leg in 44.32, with Andrae Williams of the Bahamas right on his heels. The issue was still in doubt when Wariner, the 2004 Olympic champion and reigning world champion, began his anchor leg. Wariner opened up a small lead and beat Christopher Brown of the Bahamas to the finish line win the gold medal in a world-leading time of 2 minutes, 56.91 seconds. The Bahamas set a national record in winning the silver medal in 2:57.32, with Jamaica (2:58.07) winning the bronze medal.

Team USA's clocking of 2:56.91 was its fourth-fastest gold medal winning time in World Championships history.

Hemingway places 11th in men's high jump

2005 Olympic silver medalist Matt Hemingway (Littleton, Colo.) finished tied for 11th Sunday evening with Finland's Oskari Frosen.

The 2005 USA Outdoor champion, Hemingway cleared 2.20 meters/7 feet, 2.50 inches on his second attempt, before missing three times at 2.25m/7-4.50.

Team USA marathoners finish sixth in World Marathon Cup

Team USA's marathoners finished sixth in the World Marathon Cup, accumulating a time of 7 hours, 49 minutes, 44 seconds. The performance equals Team USA's best finish ever when it finished sixth at the 1999 Worlds in Seville, Spain.

Team USA was led by Turena Johnson Lane (Muncie, Ind.) who finished 26th in posting a personal best time of 2:34:43, the third-fastest time run by an American in the 22-year history of the World Championships.

Following Johnson Lane was Jill Boaz (Los Osos, Calif.) who finished 30th in 2:36:29.

Rounding out the American scorers was Emily Levan (Wicasset, Maine), who placed 35th in 2:38:32.

Jenny Crain (Milwaukee, Wis.) finished 36th in 2:39:02, and Mary Akor (Gardena, Calif.) was 50th in 2:57.18.

Paula Radcliffe of Great Britain won the race in a championship record time of 2:20:57.

Catherine Ndereba of Kenya finished second in 2:22:01, while Constantina Tomescu of Romania was third in 2:23:19.

Ndereba led Kenya to the World Marathon Cup team title, in a team time of 7:12:37. Japan placed second in 7:16:35, while Great Britain captured the team bronze medal in 7:27:04.

Team USA Medal Tally As of August 14 Gold (14) Justin Gatlin (Raleigh, N.C.), M100, 9.88 Justin Gatlin (Raleigh, N.C.), M200, 20.04 Jeremy Wariner (Grand Prairie, Tex.), M400, 43.93 Bershawn Jackson (Raleigh, N.C.), M400mH, 47.30 Adam Nelson (Athens, Ga.), MSP, 21.73m/71-3.50 Bryan Clay (Azusa, Calif.), MDecathlon, 8,732 points Dwight Phillips (Kennesaw, Ga.), MLJ, 8.60m/28-2.75 Walter Davis (Baton Rouge, La.), MTJ, 17.57m/57-7.75 Lauryn Williams (Miami, Fla.), W100, 10.93 Allyson Felix (Santa Clarita, Calif.), W200, 22.16 Michelle Perry (Los Angeles), W100H, 12.66 Tianna Madison (Knoxville, Tenn.), WLJ, 6.89m/22-7.25 W4x100m relay - Angela Daigle (Carson, Calif.), Muna Lee (Baton Rouge, La.), Lisa Barber (Raleigh, N.C.), Lauryn Williams (Miami, Fla.), 41.78

M4x400m relay - Andrew Rock ( Stratford , Wis. ), Derrick Brew (Springs, Texas ),

Darold Williamson (Waco, Texas), Jeremy Wariner (Grand Prairie, Texas), Miles Smith (Cape Girardeau, Missouri), LaShawn Merritt (Portsmouth, Va.), 2:56.91 Silver (8) Wallace Spearmon (Fayetteville, Ark.), M200, 20.20 Andrew Rock (LaCrosse, Wis.), M400, 44.35 James Carter (Hampton, Va.), M400H, 47.43 Brad Walker (Seattle, Wash.), MPV, 5.75m/18-10.75 Rachelle Boone-Smith (Norfolk, Va.), 22.31 Sanya Richards (Austin, Texas), W400, 49.74 Lashinda Demus (Columbia, S.C.), W400H, 53.27 Chaunte Howard (Atlanta), WHJ, 2.0m/6-6.75 Bronze (3) John Capel (Gainesville, Fla.), M200, 20.31 Allen Johnson (Irmo, S.C.), M110H, 13.10 Sandra Glover (Sugarland, Texas), W400H, 53.32

IAAF Report Day 9

Helsinki 2005 – Highlights, Day 9 – FINAL session
Sunday 14 August 2005

Helsinki, Finland - Osleidys Menéndez extended her recent domination of the Javelin. The Cuban had won the Olympic title with a throw just one centimetre less than her World record of 71.54 metres in 2001. Those were the only two throws over 70 metres. Now there are four! Christina Obergfoll of Germany amazed herself and us when she threw a European record of 70.03 metres in round two. But Menéndez had already trumped that, with the second World record of the week, 71.70 metres with her first throw. Steffi Nerius won a second medal for Germany, bronze with 65.96 metres.

Radcliffe gets her gold at last

Paula Radcliffe finally won the major title that her talent and tenacity deserve, when she ran away from the field to win the marathon through the streets of the Finnish capital, in 2:20:57. That is the fastest time ever run in a major championship Marathon, and the fact that most of her pursuers set either a personal best or ran close to it is entirely due to Radcliffe’s uncompromising approach. As usual, she set off with the intention of running the legs of the competition and, in contrast to the Olympic Games last year, she succeeded admirably.

Radcliffe thus adds the World title to the superlative World record of 2:15:25 that she set in the London Marathon two years ago. She was followed home, as on several occasions in the past by Catherine Ndereba of Kenya, who was the previous World record holder, and also the defending champion. In finishing second in 2:22:01, Ndereba thus failed by over a minute to emulate the men’s champion, Jouad Gharib of Morocco, who successfully defended his title, in the modest time of 2:10:10 on Saturday. Third in the women’s race was Constantina Dita-Tomescu of Romania, whose eccentric tactics – dropping back then surging through the field - finally won her a medal, bronze in 2:23:19.

Radcliffe’s victory can never expunge the disaster of Athens when, as firm favourite, yet hampered by injury, she dropped out of the Olympic marathon at 36 kilometres. But, despite the occasional drawbacks, usually in track races, where her metronomic pace is not sufficient to ensure victory, this is another title to add to those which started with her breakthrough in winning the World Junior Cross Country title in 1992, and has included a European 10,000 and Commonwealth 5000 metres victory; in addition to a half dozen major marathon successes, which have netted her well over two million dollars.

Ramzi takes historic double

Rashid Ramzi created a little bit of history when the Moroccan-born Bahraini won the first ever middle distance double of the championships, taking the shorter race in 1:44.24, largely due to the incompetence of the Olympic champion, Yuriy Borzakovskiy, who conspired to get boxed in when he should have been preparing his final sprint. When the Russian did get going, it was only good enough for silver, in 1.44.51. William Yiampoy of Kenya won the struggle for third, in 1.44.55. So, a year after competing dismally in the Athens, when he was one of the fastest of the season at the 1500 metres, Ramzi has assumed the mantle of Hicham El Guerrouj, and proved a winner at 800 metres, a distance at which he was barely competent at outdoors when he arrived in Helsinki despite being an World Indoor medallist.

Russia’s night despite disqualification

‘Borza’s compatriots in the 1500 metres made no mistake. Well, it didn’t seem so, until later. Yuliya Chizhenko was the fastest of the season, but defending champion, Tatyana Tomashova had looked good and confident in the semi-finals. We were all intrigued to see what the former Zenelch Tola of Ethiopia, now Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain could do, especially after Ramzi’s performance. Jamal had clocked superfast times for 800, 1500 and 5000 metres, but chose just the metric mile.

Jamal surged into a lead with 250 metres to run in a rapid race, but the Russian quartet ambushed her within 50 metres. It looked for a long time as if the Russians were going to get first four, as the US had in the men’s 200, and the Ethiopians in the women’s 5000 metres. But with ‘Tomo’ taking off for a repeat win, in 4.00.35, with Chizhenko in second in 4.00.93, and Olga Yegorova third in 4.01.46, Yelena Soboleva conceded fourth place in the final strides to Bouchra Ghezielle of France. However, after an appeal by Bahrain was upheld, Chizhenko was DQ’d, and Ghezielle promoted to bronze.

Limo wins 5000m lottery

You do have to wonder at the Kenyan team tactics, or lack of them! Yes, Ben Limo won the 5000 metres, but with four of the best/fastest men in the field, they really should not have left it to the lottery of the last lap. Sileshi Sihine of Ethiopia was the first man to break after a sedate 11 and a half laps, followed by defending champion, Eliud Kipchoge. Craig Mottram of Australia got in on the act, but Limo, vying with Mottram as the tallest man in the field strolled down the straight to win in 13.32.55, from Sihine, 13.32.81, and Mottram striking back at Kipchoge in the last five metres, to take bronze in 13.32.96.

Ukraine tops unexpected High Jump

The High Jump got off to a storming start on a pleasant evening, with all 13 men clearing 2.20 metres. But by the time they got to 2.29 metres, things were slowing down – only eight men over! Then the rot really set in. Seven men failed at 2.32 metres, leaving Olympic champion, Stefan Holm of Sweden worst of that bunch. Victor Moya of Cuba and Yaroslav Rybakov shared silver on the count-back. And the last man left standing with the bar intact at 2.32 metres – but only on the third attempt – was Yuriy Krymarenko of Ukraine, who won his country’s only gold, indeed, only medal.

Relays go to Russia and USA

And so to the relays…. One of them, curiously enough, without the USA (I know, it’s an old joke, but it keeps everybody else laughing!). The Russians did get all four medals in the 4x400 metres relay, an emphatic win in 3.20.95, with Jamaica second on 3.23.29, and Britain third on 3.24.49, a national record.

The biggest surprise of the men’s 4x400 was that Christopher Brown of the Bahamas and Davian Clarke of Jamaica were right behind Jeremy Wariner with just 200 metres to run. Then Wariner woke up, and duly delivered the goods, victory and the 14th gold of the champs to Uncle Sam. Bahamas finished second as they had done, to the USA, in Edmonton 2001, and Jamaica was third.

10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Helsinki 06/14-Aug-2005

14 08 2005 Results MEN
Official Results - 800 Metres - Men - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 19:30
Pos Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark Records
1 3 113 Rashid Ramzi BRN 1:44.24 (PB)
2 6 803 Yuriy Borzakovskiy RUS 1:44.51
3 1 573 William Yiampoy KEN 1:44.55
4 5 553 Wilfred Bungei KEN 1:44.98
5 8 14 Djabir Saïd-Guerni ALG 1:45.31
6 2 308 Mehdi Baala FRA 1:45.32
7 7 111 Belal Mansoor Ali BRN 1:45.55
8 4 137 Gary Reed CAN 1:46.20

Intermediate Pos Bib Athlete Nat Mark
400m
1 111 Belal Mansoor Ali BRN 52.48

 

Official Results - 5000 Metres - Men - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 20:20
Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark Records
1 565 Benjamin Limo KEN 13:32.55
2 274 Sileshi Sihine ETH 13:32.81
3 32 Craig Mottram AUS 13:32.96
4 560 Eliud Kipchoge KEN 13:33.04
5 15 Ali Saïdi-Sief ALG 13:33.25
6 558 John Kibowen KEN 13:33.77
7 263 Tariku Bekele ETH 13:34.76
8 264 Dejene Birhanu ETH 13:34.98
9 587 Moukheld Al-Outaibi KSA 13:35.29
10 571 Isaac Kiprono Songok KEN 13:37.10
11 932 Boniface Kiprop UGA 13:37.73
12 691 Marius Bakken NOR 13:38.63
13 765 James Kwalia C'Kurui QAT 13:38.90
14 217 Zersenay Tadesse ERI 13:40.27
15 905 Fabiano Joseph Naasi TAN 13:42.50

Intermediate Pos Bib Athlete Nat Mark
1000m
1 565 Benjamin Limo KEN 2:54.47
2000m
1 905 Fabiano Joseph Naasi TAN 5:39.40
3000m
1 905 Fabiano Joseph Naasi TAN 8:27.74
4000m
1 691 Marius Bakken NOR 11:06.41

 

Official Results - High Jump - Men - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 18:35
Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark Records
1 942 Yuriy Krymarenko UKR 2.32
2 181 Víctor Moya CUB 2.29 (PB)
2 829 Yaroslav Rybakov RUS 2.29
4 125 Mark Boswell CAN 2.29 (SB)
5 463 Nicola Ciotti ITA 2.29
5 187 Jaroslav Bába CZE 2.29
7 883 Stefan Holm SWE 2.29
8 836 Vyacheslav Voronin RUS 2.29
9 843 Dragutin Topic SCG 2.25
10 185 Kyriakos Ioannou CYP 2.25
11 284 Oskari Frösén FIN 2.20
11 992 Matt Hemingway USA 2.20
13 949 Andriy Sokolovskyy UKR 2.20

Athlete 2.15 2.20 2.25 2.29 2.32

Yuriy Krymarenko O O XO O XXO
Yaroslav Rybakov - O O O XXX
Víctor Moya O O O O XXX
Mark Boswell - O XO O XXX
Jaroslav Bába - O O XO XXX
Nicola Ciotti O O O XO XXX
Stefan Holm - O XO XO XXX
Vyacheslav Voronin - XO O XXO XXX
Dragutin Topic XO O O XXX
Kyriakos Ioannou O O XO XXX
Matt Hemingway - XO XXX
Oskari Frösén - XO XXX
Andriy Sokolovskyy - XXO - XXX

 

Official Results - 4x400 Metres Relay - Men - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 21:20 - Revised
Pos Lane Team Country Mark Records
1 3 United States USA 2:56.91 (WL)
(Rock Andrew, Brew Derrick, Williamson Darold, Wariner Jeremy)
2 5 Bahamas BAH 2:57.32 (NR)
(McKinney Nathaniel, Moncur Avard, Williams Andrae, Brown Christopher)
3 4 Jamaica JAM 2:58.07 (SB)
(Ayre Sanjay, Simpson Brandon, Spence Lansford, Clarke Davian)
4 6 Great Britain & N.I. GBR 2:58.82 (SB)
(Benjamin Timothy, Rooney Martyn, Tobin Robert, Davis Malachi)
5 7 Poland POL 3:00.58
(Marciniszyn Marcin, Mackowiak Robert, Rysiukiewicz Piotr, Klimczak Piotr)
6 1 France FRA 3:03.10
(Djhone Leslie, Keïta Naman, El Haouzy Abderrahim, Raquil Marc)
7 8 Russia RUS 3:03.20
(Forshev Dmitriy, Rudnitskiy Andrey, Mishukov Oleg, Lebedev Yevgeniy)
2 Trinidad and Tobago TRI DQ
(Modibo Ato, Raeburn Julieon, Quow Renny, Barry Damion)

Team Nat Reaction Time
Jamaica JAM 0.151
Bahamas BAH 0.152
France FRA 0.154
Trinidad and Tobago TRI 0.157
Russia RUS 0.163
Great Britain & N.I. GBR 0.175
Poland POL 0.189
United States USA 0.231

 

Official Results - 200m Wheelchair - Men - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 19:10 Wind: -0.3 m/s
Pos Lane Bib Athlete Country Mark Records React
1 4 1097 David Weir GBR 25.47
2 3 1093 Kenny van Weeghel NED 25.80
3 2 1092 Supachai Koysub THA 26.03
4 5 1098 Leo-Pekka Tahti FIN 26.06
5 7 1087 Yoshifumi Nagao JPN 26.32
6 8 1096 Sebastian Cleem GER 26.63
7 6 1088 Jeffrey Adams CAN 26.75
8 1 1099 Colin Mathieson CAN 26.91

 

14 08 2005 Results WOMEN

 

Official Results - 1500 Metres - Women - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 19:55 - Revised
Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark Records
1 668 Tatyana Tomashova RUS 4:00.35 (SB)
2 673 Olga Yegorova RUS 4:01.46
3 250 Bouchra Ghezielle FRA 4:02.45
4 667 Yelena Soboleva RUS 4:02.48
5 77 Maryam Yusuf Jamal BRN 4:02.49
6 196 Natalia Rodríguez ESP 4:03.06 (SB)
7 549 Anna Jakubczak POL 4:03.38 (SB)
8 201 Gelete Burika Bati ETH 4:04.77 (PB)
9 95 Carmen Douma-Hussar CAN 4:05.08
10 265 Helen Clitheroe GBR 4:05.19 (SB)
11 474 Irina Krakoviak LTU 4:08.18
623 Yuliya Chizhenko RUS DQ

Intermediate Pos Bib Athlete Nat Mark
400m
1 667 Yelena Soboleva RUS 1:06.28
800m
1 667 Yelena Soboleva RUS 2:12.68
1200m
1 667 Yelena Soboleva RUS 3:19.97

 

Official Results - Marathon - Women - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 14:20
Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark Records
1 281 Paula Radcliffe GBR 2:20:57 (CR)
2 456 Catherine Ndereba KEN 2:22:01 (SB)
3 601 Constantina Tomescu ROM 2:23:19
4 214 Derartu Tulu ETH 2:23:30 (PB)
5 125 Chunxiu Zhou CHN 2:24:12
6 423 Yumiko Hara JPN 2:24:20
7 449 Rita Sitienei Jeptoo KEN 2:24:22 (PB)
8 425 Harumi Hiroyama JPN 2:25:46 (SB)
9 450 Helen Kimutai KEN 2:26:14 (SB)
10 439 Megumi Oshima JPN 2:26:29
11 499 Madaí Pérez MEX 2:26:50 (PB)
12 51 Halina Karnatsevich BLR 2:27:14 (PB)
13 547 Dorota Gruca POL 2:27:46 (PB)
14 580 Yong-Ok Jong PRK 2:29:43 (SB)
15 440 Mari Ozaki JPN 2:30:28
16 207 Asha Gigi ETH 2:30:38
17 421 Ryoko Eda JPN 2:31:16
18 288 Mara Yamauchi GBR 2:31:26 (PB)
19 374 Rosaria Console ITA 2:32:47
20 633 Alina Ivanova RUS 2:32:53
21 587 Aurica Buia ROM 2:33:20 (SB)
22 206 Shitaye Gemechu ETH 2:34:01
23 581 Song-Suk Oh PRK 2:34:07
24 582 Gum-Hwa Ryang PRK 2:34:35
25 278 Hayley Haining GBR 2:34:41 (PB)
26 803 Turena Johnson-Lane USA 2:34:43 (PB)
27 166 Anna Pichrtová CZE 2:34:45
28 529 Kirsten Melkevik Otterbu NOR 2:35:08
29 459 Beatrice Omwanza KEN 2:35:48
30 778 Jill Boaz USA 2:36:29 (SB)
31 186 Isabel Eizmendi ESP 2:36:41
32 573 Ana Dias POR 2:36:50
33 533 Shireen Crumpton NZL 2:37:03 (PB)
34 651 Irina Permitina RUS 2:38:16
35 808 Emily Levan USA 2:38:32 (PB)
36 785 Jennifer Crain USA 2:39:02 (SB)
37 215 Dire Tune ETH 2:39:13
38 520 Nadezhda Wijenberg NED 2:39:36 (SB)
39 536 Liza Hunter-Galvan NZL 2:39:47
40 454 Tegla Loroupe KEN 2:39:58
41 76 Nadia Ejjafini BRN 2:41:51 (SB)
42 230 Maija Oravamäki FIN 2:43:31 (SB)
43 481 Clarisse Rasoarizay MAD 2:43:58 (SB)
44 466 Jung-Hee Oh KOR 2:47:42
45 537 Rebecca Moore NZL 2:50:36
46 677 Epiphanie Nyirabarame RWA 2:52:11
47 487 Hafida Narmouch MAR 2:52:41
48 211 Mulu Seboka ETH 2:53:08
49 366 Nili Avramski ISR 2:54:08
50 774 Mary Akor USA 2:57:18
51 473 Mamokete Lechela LES 3:03:26 (SB)
279 Debbie Mason GBR DNF
488 Kenza Wahbi MAR DNF
721 Fabiola William John TAN DNF
539 Kay Ulrich NZL DNF
595 Nuta Olaru ROM DNF
486 Zhor El Kamch MAR DNF
175 Sandra Ruales ECU DNS
727 Agueda Amaral TLS DNS

Official Results - Javelin Throw - Women - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 19:25
Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark Records
1 154 Osleidys Menéndez CUB 71.70 (WR)
2 311 Christina Obergföll GER 70.03 (AR)
3 310 Steffi Nerius GER 65.96
4 170 Christina Scherwin DEN 63.43 (NR)
5 369 Zahra Bani ITA 62.75 (PB)
6 234 Paula Tarvainen FIN 62.64 (SB)
7 146 Sonia Bisset CUB 61.75
8 336 Aggelikí Tsiolakoúdi GRE 57.99
9 225 Mikaela Ingberg FIN 57.54
10 25 Laverne Eve BAH 57.10
11 84 Rumyana Karapetrova BUL 57.06
12 283 Goldie Sayers GBR 54.44

Athlete 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

Osleidys Menéndez 71.70 X - 65.53 63.80 -
Christina Obergföll 61.55 70.03 - - - 59.67
Steffi Nerius 65.96 X X 64.26 64.35 X
Christina Scherwin 59.36 62.32 60.04 63.43 X X
Zahra Bani 55.28 60.71 54.06 X 56.16 62.75
Paula Tarvainen 62.64 X X X 56.89 X
Sonia Bisset X 59.55 59.71 58.62 61.75 60.57
Aggelikí Tsiolakoúdi 57.30 57.99 56.78 X X 56.63
Mikaela Ingberg 56.77 55.70 57.54 NM NM NM
Laverne Eve X 51.96 57.10 NM NM NM
Rumyana Karapetrova 57.06 53.54 55.73 NM NM NM
Goldie Sayers 54.44 54.16 52.94 NM NM NM

 

Official Results - 4x400 Metres Relay - Women - Final

Sunday, August 14, 2005 - 20:55
Pos Lane Team Country Mark Records
1 5 Russia RUS 3:20.95
(Pechonkina Yuliya, Krasnomovets Olesya, Antyukh Natalya, Pospelova Svetlana)
2 1 Jamaica JAM 3:23.29 (SB)
(Williams Shericka, Williams Novlene, Smith Ronetta, Fenton Lorraine)
3 3 Great Britain & N.I. GBR 3:24.44 (SB)
(McConnell Lee, Fraser Donna, Sanders Nicola, Ohuruogu Christine)
4 6 Poland POL 3:24.49 (NR)
(Guzowska Anna, Bejnar Monika, Prokopek Grazyna, Jesien Anna)
5 8 Ukraine UKR 3:28.00
(Yefremova Antonina, Ilyushkina Oksana, Pilyuhina Liliya, Pyhyda Nataliya)
6 2 Germany GER 3:28.39
(Marx Claudia, Hoffmann Claudia, Fink Corinna, Urbansky Ulrike)
4 Brazil BRA DQ
(Almirão Maria Laura, Coutinho Geisa Aparecida, Tito Josiane, Teodoro Lucimar)
7 Belarus BLR DQ
(Nevmerzhitskaya Alena, Sologub Natalya, Kozak Anna, Usovich Ilona)