Women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	30–31 July 1976
Competitors	from 20 nations
Medalists
Doris Maletzki, Brigitte Rohde, Ellen Streidt, Christina Brehmer  East Germany Debra Sapenter, Sheila Ingram, Pamela Jiles, Rosalyn Bryant  United States Inta Kļimoviča, Lyudmila Aksyonova, Natalya Sokolova, Nadezhda Ilyina  Soviet Union
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Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event was held on 30 and 31 July 1976. There were a total number of 11 nations competing.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
East Germany (GDR) Doris Maletzki Brigitte Rohde Ellen Streidt Christina Brehmer	United States (USA) Debra Sapenter Sheila Ingram Pamela Jiles Rosalyn Bryant	Soviet Union (URS) Inta Kļimoviča Lyudmila Aksyonova Natalya Sokolova Nadezhda Ilyina

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

World Record	3:22.95	Dagmar Käsling Rita Kühne Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt	Munich (FRG)	10 September 1972
Olympic Record	3:22.95	Dagmar Käsling Rita Kühne Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt	Munich (FRG)	10 September 1972

• Held on 31 July 1976

RANK	NATION	ATHLETES	TIME
	East Germany (GDR)	• Doris Maletzki • Brigitte Rohde • Ellen Streidt • Christina Brehmer	3:19.23 (WR)
	United States (USA)	• Debra Sapenter • Sheila Ingram • Pamela Jiles • Rosalyn Bryant	3:22.81
	Soviet Union (URS)	• Inta Kļimoviča • Lyudmila Aksyonova • Natalya Sokolova • Nadezhda Ilyina	3:24.24
4.	Australia (AUS)	• Judy Canty • Verna Burnard • Charlene Rendina • Bethanie Nail	3:25.56
5.	West Germany (FRG)	• Claudia Steger • Dagmar Fuhrmann • Elke Barth • Rita Wilden	3:25.71
6.	Finland (FIN)	• Marika Lindholm • Pirjo Häggman • Mona-Lisa Pursiainen • Riitta Salin	3:25.87
7.	Great Britain (GBR)	• Liz Barnes • Gladys Taylor • Verona Elder • Donna Murray	3:28.01
8.	Canada (CAN)	• Margaret Stride • Joyce Yakubowich • Rachelle Campbell • Yvonne Saunders	3:28.91

• Held on 30 July 1976

RANK	NATION	ATHLETES	TIME
1.	Soviet Union (URS)	• Inta Kļimoviča • Lyudmila Aksyonova • Natalya Sokolova • Nadezhda Ilyina	3:24.54
2.	United States (USA)	• Debra Sapenter • Sheila Ingram • Pamela Jiles • Rosalyn Bryant	3:25.15
3.	Finland (FIN)	• Pirjo Häggman • Marika Lindholm • Mona-Lisa Pursiainen • Riitta Salin	3:26.30
4.	West Germany (FRG)	• Claudia Steger • Rita Wilden • Dagmar Fuhrmann • Elke Barth	3:26.31
—	Jamaica (JAM)	• Helen Blake • Carol Cummings • Jacqueline Pusey • Ruth Williams-Simpson	DSQ

RANK	NATION	ATHLETES	TIME
1.	East Germany (GDR)	• Doris Maletzki • Brigitte Rohde • Ellen Streidt • Christina Brehmer	3:23.38
2.	Australia (AUS)	• Judy Canty • Verna Burnard • Charlene Rendina • Bethanie Nail	3:25.98
3.	Great Britain (GBR)	• Liz Barnes • Gladys Taylor • Verona Elder • Donna Murray	3:27.09
4.	Canada (CAN)	• Margaret Stride • Joyce Yakubowich • Rachelle Campbell • Yvonne Saunders	3:28.81
5.	Bulgaria (BUL)	• Yordanka Ivanova • Svetla Zlateva • Ivanka Bonova • Liliana Tomova	3:31.08
6.	Belgium (BEL)	• Lea Alaerts • Regine Berg • Anne-Marie Van Nuffel • Rita Thijs	3:32.87

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