The women's 4 × 200 metres relay at the 2017 IAAF World Relays was held at the Thomas Robinson Stadium on 22–23 April.
The heats were held only to eliminate one team to make a field of eight. That team turned out to be Kenya, whose national record still fell almost 6 seconds behind as a time qualifier.
After being beaten by Nigeria two years earlier, Jamaica took this race seriously. Out of the blocks Jura Levy opened up a gap on the US to her inside and gained on Trinidad and Tobago's Kamaria Durant to her outside. Passing to Shericka Jackson well into the second turn of the four turn stagger race, Jamaica had already made up the offset on both teams to their outside. Jackson slightly pulled away from the last visible competitor, China's Liang Xiaojing already down a full lap's stagger two lanes away. Jackson passed to Sashalee Forbes almost alone. More than 10 metres behind, Germany's Tatjana Pinto passed to Rebekka Haase and USA's Tiffany Townsend passed to Felicia Brown about even. Through the next leg Forbes was all alone while Hasse caught and edge ahead of Townsend to her outside before Townsend caught back up. Out front, Forbes passed to Elaine Thompson before any other team's anchor runner even had started to move. With almost a 15-metre lead, and the double Olympic Champion on anchor, victory was assured. Townsend regained her stagger advantage and a little more going into the USA handoff to Shalonda Solomon but Germany's Gina Lückenkemper quickly gained through the turn opening up a 2-metre lead. Thompson merely extended lead for an easy Jamaican win. Behind her, Solomon accelerated but was only able to close down less than a metre, Lückenkemper getting silver for Germany.
Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record Blue(LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones)1:27.46 Philadelphia, United States29 April 2000Championship record(Shalonda Solomon, Tawanna Meadows, Bianca Knight, Kimberlyn Duncan)1:29.45 Nassau, Bahamas25 May 2014World Leading Tumbleweed Track Club(Desiree Henry , Anyika Onuora , Tianna Bartoletta , Dafne Schippers )1:28.77 Gainesville, United States1 April 2017African Record(Blessing Okagbare, Regina George, Dominique Duncan, Christy Udoh)1:30.52 Nassau, Bahamas2 May 2015Asian Record(Yuan Qiqi, Kong Lingwei, Liang Xiaojing, Lin Huijun)1:34.89 Nassau, Bahamas2 May 2015North, Central American and Caribbean record Blue(LaTasha Jenkins, LaTasha Colander, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones)1:27.46 Philadelphia, United States29 April 2000South American RecordNo official recordEuropean Record(Marlies Göhr, Romy Müller, Bärbel Wöckel, Marita Koch)1:28.15 Jena, East Germany9 August 1980Oceanian recordNo official record
Schedule Date Time Round22 April 2017 21:40 Heat 1
Results KEY:WLWorld leadingARArea recordNRNational recordSBSeasonal best
Heats Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) advanced to the final. Rank Heat 1 Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes 1 1 4 Dezerea Bryant, Tiffany Townsend, Felicia Brown, Phyllis Francis 1:31.04 Q 2 1 3 Lara Matheis, Alexandra Burghardt, Rebekka Haase, Lisa Mayer 1:31.16 Q, 3 2 4 Elaine Thompson, Shericka Jackson, Jura Levy, Anastasia Le-Roy 1:31.29 Q, 4 1 5 Kamaria Durant, Semoy Hackett, Reyare Thomas, Michelle-Lee Ahye 1:32.62 Q, NR 5 2 3 Jennifer Madu, Patience George, Dominique Duncan, Ugonna Ndu 1:33.78 Q, 6 2 6 Tao Yujia, Zhou Yanbing, Tian Wen, Wei Yongli 1:33.99 Q, AR 7 1 7 Jennifer Galais, Estelle Raffai, Fanny Peltier, Estelle Perrossier 1:34.18 q, 8 2 4 Nelda Huggins, Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, Karene King, Ashley Kelly 1:34.92 q, NR 9 1 6 Maximila Imali, Mary Chepkoech, Peris Wairimu Chege, Damaris Akoth 1:40.65 NR
Final The final was started at 23:32. Rank Lane Nation Athletes Time Notes Points 6 Jura Levy, Shericka Jackson, Sashalee Forbes, Elaine Thompson, 1:29.04 8 3 Lara Matheis, Tatjana Pinto, Rebekka Haase, Gina Lückenkemper 1:30.68 7 4 Dezerea Bryant, Tiffany Townsend, Felicia Brown, Shalonda Solomon 1:30.87 6 4 7 Kamaria Durant, Semoy Hackett, Reyare Thomas, Kai Selvon 1:32.63 5 5 5 Jennifer Madu, Patience George, Dominique Duncan, Ugonna Ndu 1:33.08 4 6 1 Jennifer Galais, Estelle Raffai, Fanny Peltier, Estelle Perrossier 1:35.11 3 7 2 Nelda Huggins, Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, Karene King, Ashley Kelly 1:35.35 2 8 5 Tao Yujia, Liang Xiaojing, Tian Wen, Yuan Qiqi 1:37.60 1
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