Athletics Olympic Games 1976 at Montréal (can) Women: 4 x 100 m Relay July 31: Final: 1. East Germany (Marlies Ölsner, Renate Stecher, Carla Bodendorf, Bärbel Eckert) 42.55 2. West Germany (Elvira Possekel, Inge Helten, Annegret Richter, Annegret Kroniger) 42.59 3. Soviet Union (Tetyana Prorochenko, Lyudmila Maslakova-Zharkova, Nadezhda Besfamilnaya, Vera Anisimova) 43.09 4. Canada (Margaret Howe, Patty Loverock, Joanne McTaggart, Marjorie Bailey) 43.17 5. Australia (Barbara Wilson, Deborah Wells, Denise Robertson, Raelene Boyle) 43.18 6. Jamaica (Leleith Hodges, Rose Allwood, Carol Cummings, Jacqueline Pusey) 43.24 7. USA (Martha Watson, Evelyn Ashford, Debra Armstrong, Chandra Cheeseborough) 43.35 8. Great Britain (Wendy Clarke, Denise Ramsden, Sharon Colyear, Andrea Lynch) 43.79