The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held over two rounds at the Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States, on 23 and 24 July 2022. It was the eighteenth time this event had been contested at the World Athletics Championships. Sixteen national teams could qualify at the 2021 World Relays or through their ranking.

Fifteen national teams eventually competed in round 1, where eight teams qualified for the final, which was won by the team of the United States in 3:17.79 minutes, followed by the Jamaican team in second place in 3:20.74 min and the British team in third place in 3:22.64 min.

Background

In the women's 4 × 400 metres relay, a team consists of four female athletes who consecutively run a lap on a 400-metre track while passing a baton between them. The world championship for this event was introduced in 1983 and had been contested seventeen times at the World Athletics Championships before 2022.

At the start of the 2022 championships, the team of Soviet Union held the world record of 3:15.17 min set during the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the team of the United States held the championship record of 3.16.71 min set during the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgard, Germany, and the team of the Kentucky Wildcats from the United States had the world leading performance of the 2022 season until then of 3:21.93 min set during the 2022 Southeastern Conference Championship in Oxford, Mississippi, United States."Toplists – All time Top lists – Senior 4x400 Metres Relay Women", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025."4 × 400 Metres Relay Women − Records", World Athletics. Retrieved 9 July 2022."Toplists – All time Top lists – Senior 4x400 Metres Relay Women – 2022", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025.

+ Global records before the 2022 World Athletics Championships Record Nation (athletes) Location Date World record(Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina) 3:15.17 Seoul, South Korea 1 October 1988 Championship record(Gwen Torrence, Maicel Malone, Natasha Kaiser, Jearl Miles Clark) 3:16.71 Stuttgart, Germany 22 August 1993 World leading Kentucky Wildcats(Karimah Davis, Dajour Miles, Abby Steiner, Alexis Holmes) 3:21.93 Oxford, Mississippi, United States 14 May 2022

+ Area records before the 2022 World Athletics Championships Record Nation (athletes) Location Date African record" Toplists – All time Top lists – Senior 4x400 Metres Relay Women – Africa", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025.(Olabisi Afolabi, Fatimat Yusuf, Charity Opara, Falilat Ogunkoya) 3:21.04 Atlanta, Georgia, United States 3 August 1996 Asian record"Toplists – All time Top lists – Senior 4x400 Metres Relay Women – Asia", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025. Hebei(Bai Xiaoyun, Cao Chunying, Ma Yuqin, An Xiaohong) 3:24.28 Beijing, China 13 September 1993 European record"Toplists – All time Top lists – Senior 4x400 Metres Relay Women – Europe", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025.(Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Bryzgina) 3:15.17 Seoul, South Korea 1 October 1988 North, Central American and Caribbean record"Toplists – All time Top lists – Senior 4x400 Metres Relay Women – North and Central America", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025.(Denean Howard, Diane Dixon, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Florence Griffith Joyner) 3:15.51 Seoul, South Korea 1 October 1988 Oceanian record"Toplists – All time Top lists – Senior 4x400 Metres Relay Women – Oceania", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025.(Nova Peris-Kneebone, Tamsyn Manou, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Cathy Freeman) 3:23.81 Sydney, Australia 30 September 2000 South American record"Toplists – All time Top lists – Senior 4x400 Metres Relay Women – South America", World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2025.Tropic Thunder 3:26.33 Gainesville, Florida, United States 3 April 2010

Qualification The standard to qualify automatically for entry was to finish in the first ten at 2021 World Relays, completed by six top lists' teams."World Athletics Championships 2022 qualifying standards: How Dutee Chand, Hima Das can make the cut", Olympics.com, 3 April 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2025.

Results Round 1

Fifteen national teams competed in the two heats of round 1 on 23 July, starting at 17:11 (UTC−7) in the afternoon. The first three teams in each heat () and the next two fastest teams overall () qualified for the final. In the first heat, five teams had a season's best time () and the team of the Netherlands was disqualified () for a fault at recovering a dropped baton (). In the second heat, four teams had a season's best time () and the team of The Bahamas did not start ()."Results – 4 x 400 Metres Relay Women – Round 1", World Athletics, 23 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2025.

+ Results of round 1 Rank Heat Lane Nation Athletes Notes 1 1 2 Talitha Diggs, Allyson Felix, Kaylin Whitney, Jaide Stepter Baynes 3:23.38 , 2 1 1 Ama Pipi, Laviai Nielsen, Victoria Ohuruogu, Nicole Yeargin 3:23.92 , 3 2 8 Stacey-Ann Williams, Junelle Bromfield, Tiffany James, Charokee Young 3:24.23 , 4 2 2 Naomi Van den Broeck, Imke Vervaet, Helena Ponette, Camille Laus 3:28.02 , 5 2 6 Micha Powell, Aiyanna Stiverne, Kyra Constantine, Natassha McDonald 3:28.49 , 6 2 4 Anna Polinari, Ayomide Folorunso, Virginia Troiani, Alice Mangione 3:28.72 , 7 1 3 Sokhna Lacoste, Shana Grebo, Sounkamba Sylla, Amandine Brossier 3:28.89 , 8 1 8 Silke Lemmens, Julia Niederberger, Annina Fahr, Yasmin Giger 3:29.11 , 9 1 7 Kateryna Karpyuk, Anastasiya Bryzhina, Viktoriya Tkachuk, Anna Ryzhykova 3:29.25 10 2 7 Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Iga Baumgart-Witan, Kinga Gacka, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik 3:29.34 11 1 4 Corinna Schwab, Elisa Lechleitner, Judith Franzen, Alica Schmidt 3:30.48 12 2 1 Astri Ertzgaard, Elisabeth Slettum, Linn Oppegaard, Amalie Iuel 3:32.00 13 2 3 Eva Santidrián, Aauri Lorena Bokesa, Laura Hernández, Carmen Avilés 3:32.87 14 1 5 Miranda Charlene Coetzee, Marlie Viljoen, Gontse Martha Morake, Zenéy van der Walt 3:46.68 1 6 Hanneke Oosterwegel, Lieke Klaver, Cathelijn Peeters, Femke Bol 2 5

Final

Eight national teams competed in the final at 19:53 (UTC−7) on 24 July. At the end of the first leg, Talitha Diggs of the United States was the first to hand over de baton, followed by Victoria Ohuruogu of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Candice McLeod of Jamaica. At the end of the second leg, Abby Steiner of the United States had kept her nation in the lead, but Janieve Russell of Jamaica had moved from third to second position and Nicole Yeargin of Great Britain and Northern Ireland had moved from second to third. In the third and fourth leg, the Britton Wilson and Sydney McLaughlin of the United States stayed in first position at the changeovers, Stephenie Ann McPherson and Charokee Young of Jamaica stayed in second position, and Jessie Knight and Laviai Nielsen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland stayed in third position. The race was won by the team of the United States in a world leading time () of 3:17.79 min, followed by the Jamaican team in second place in 3:20.74 min and the British team in third place in 3:22.64 min. All teams that competed in the final had a season's best time (). The fastest split time was 47.91 s by McLaughlin."Results – 4 x 400 Metres Relay Women – Final", World Athletics, 24 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2025.

+ Results of the final Rank Lane Nation Athletes Notes 5 Talitha Diggs, Abby Steiner, Britton Wilson, Sydney McLaughlin 3:17.79 4 Candice McLeod, Janieve Russell, Stephenie Ann McPherson, Charokee Young 3:20.74 6 Victoria Ohuruogu, Nicole Yeargin, Jessie Knight, Laviai Nielsen 3:22.64 4 7 Natassha McDonald, Aiyanna Stiverne, Zoe Sherar, Kyra Constantine 3:25.18 5 8 Sokhna Lacoste, Shana Grebo, Sounkamba Sylla, Amandine Brossier 3:25.81 6 3 Helena Ponette, Imke Vervaet, Paulien Couckuyt, Camille Laus 3:26.29 7 2 Anna Polinari, Ayomide Folorunso, Virginia Troiani, Alice Mangione 3:26.45 8 1 Silke Lemmens, Julia Niederberger, Annina Fahr, Yasmin Giger 3:27.81

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