title: 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
text: # 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
  
  The 4 × 100 metre relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.
  
  ## Medals
  
  | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
  | - | - | - |
  | United States Angela Daigle Muna Lee Me'Lisa Barber Lauryn Williams | Jamaica Daniele Browning Sherone Simpson Aleen Bailey Veronica Campbell | Belarus Yulia Nesterenko Natalya Sologub Alena Nevmerzhitskaya Oksana Dragun |
  
  ## Qualifying
  
  From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.
  
  All times shown are in seconds.
  
  * Q denotes automatic qualification.
  * q denotes fastest losers.
  * DNS denotes did not start.
  * DNF denotes did not finish.
  * AR denotes area record.
  * NR denotes national record.
  * PB denotes personal best.
  * SB denotes season's best.
  
  ## Heats
  
  ### Heat 1
  
  * United States (Angela Daigle, Muna Lee, Me'Lisa Barber, Lauryn Williams) 42.16s Q (WL)
  * Nigeria (Gloria Kemasuode, Endurance Ojokolo, Oludamola Osayomi, Mercy Nku) 43.53s Q (SB)
  * Sweden (Emma Rienas, Carolina Klüft, Jenny Kallur, Susanna Kallur) 43.67s (NR)
  * Great Britain (Emily Freeman, Emma Ania, Laura Turner, Katherine Endacott) 43.83 (SB)
  * Netherlands (Pascal van Assendelft, Jacqueline Poelman, Annemarie Kramer, Judith Baarssen) DQ
  * Bahamas (Tamicka Clarke, Chandra Sturrup, Savatheda Fynes, Philippa Arnett-Willie) DNF
  
  ### Heat 2
  
  * France (Patricia Buval, Lina Jacques-Sébastien, Fabe Dia, Christine Arron) 42.86 Q (SB)
  * Jamaica (Daniele Browning, Sherone Simpson, Beverly McDonald, Aleen Bailey) 42.97s Q (SB)
  * Colombia (Melisa Murillo, Felipa Palacios, Darlenis Obregón, Norma Gonzalez) 43.03s q (NR)
  * Brazil (Raquel Martins da Costa, Lucimar Aparecida de Moura, Thatiana Regina Ignâcio, Luciana Alves dos Santos) 43.22s q (SB)
  * Italy (Elena Sordelli, Vincenza Calì, Manuela Grillo, Maria Aurora Salvagno) 44.03s
  * Finland (Ilona Ranta, Katja Salivaara, Sari Keskitalo, Heidi Hannula) DNF
  
  ### Heat 3
  
  * Belarus (Yulia Nesterenko, Natalya Sologub, Alena Nevmerzhitskaya, Oksana Dragun) 42.80s Q (NR)
  * Poland (Iwona Dorobisz, Daria Onyśko, Dorota Dydo, Iwona Brzezińska) 43.37s Q (SB)
  * Belgium (Katleen De Caluwé, Nancy Callaerts, Élodie Ouédraogo, Kim Gevaert) 43.40s (SB)
  * Ukraine (Iryna Kozhemyakina, Iryna Shepetyuk, Iryna Shtanhyeyeva, Olena Pastushenko-Sinyavina) 43.62s (SB)
  * Japan (Tomoko Ishida, Ayumi Suzuki, Yuka Sato, Sakie Nobuoka) 44.52s (SB)
  * Russia (Yekaterina Kondratyeva, Yuliya Gushchina, Irina Khabarova, Larisa Kruglova) DNF
  
  ## Final
  
  * United States (Angela Daigle, Muna Lee, Me'Lisa Barber, Lauryn Williams) 41.78s (WL)
  * Jamaica (Daniele Browning, Sherone Simpson, Aleen Bailey, Veronica Campbell) 41.99s (SB)
  * Belarus (Yulia Nesterenko, Natalya Sologub, Alena Nevmerzhitskaya, Oksana Dragun) 42.56s (NR)
  * France (Patricia Buval, Lina Jacques-Sébastien, Fabe Dia, Christine Arron) 42.85 (SB)
  * Brazil (Raquel Martins da Costa, Lucimar Aparecida de Moura, Thatiana Regina Ignâcio, Luciana Alves dos Santos) 42.99s (SB)
  * Colombia (Melisa Murillo, Felipa Palacios, Darlenis Obregón, Norma Gonzalez) 43.07s
  * Nigeria (Gloria Kemasuode, Endurance Ojokolo, Oludamola Osayomi, Mercy Nku) 43.25s (SB)
  * Poland (Iwona Dorobisz, Daria Onyśko, Dorota Dydo, Iwona Brzezińska) 43.49s
  