title: 2002 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
text: # 2002 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
  
  The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 10–11.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - |
  | Germany Florence Ekpo-Umoh Birgit Rockmeier Claudia Marx Grit Breuer Nancy Kette | Russia Natalya Antyukh Natalya Nazarova Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Olesya Zykina Yekaterina Bakhvalova Tatyana Levina | Poland Zuzanna Radecka Grażyna Prokopek Małgorzata Pskit Anna Olichwierczuk Justyna Karolkiewicz |
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Heats
  
  Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.
  
  | Rank | Heat | Nation | Athlete | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 1 | Germany | Florence Ekpo-Umoh, Nancy Kette, Claudia Marx, Grit Breuer | 3:28.48 | Q |
  | 2 | 1 | Poland | Zuzanna Radecka, Justyna Karolkiewicz, Anna Olichwierczuk, Grażyna Prokopek | 3:29.20 | Q |
  | 3 | 2 | Russia | Natalya Antyukh, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Levina, Natalya Nazarova | 3:30.94 | Q |
  | 4 | 1 | Belarus | Yekaterina Stankevich, Iryna Khliustava, Anna Kozak, Sviatlana Usovich | 3:30.95 | Q |
  | 5 | 1 | France | Marie-Louise Bévis, Solene Désert, Sylvanie Morandais, Peggy Babin | 3:31.57 | q |
  | 6 | 2 | Great Britain | Helen Karagounis, Helen Frost, Melanie Purkiss, Lee McConnell | 3:33.88 | Q |
  | 7 | 2 | Sweden | Beatrice Dahlgren, Lena Udd, Ellinor Stuhrmann, Nadja Petersen | 3:34.15 | Q |
  | 8 | 2 | Greece | Dimitra Dova, Hariklia Bouda, Maria Papadopoulou, Hrisoula Goudenoudi | 3:35.02 | q |
  | 9 | 2 | Portugal | Patrícia Lopes, Sandra Teixeira, Severina Cravid, Carmo Tavares | 3:35.36 | |
  | 10 | 1 | Spain | María Paz Maqueda, Miriam Bravo, Mayte Martínez, Julia Alba | 3:37.08 | |
  
  ### Final
  
  | Rank | Nation | Athletes | Time | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Germany | Florence Ekpo-Umoh, Birgit Rockmeier, Claudia Marx, Grit Breuer | 3:25.10 | EL |
  | | Russia | Natalya Antyukh, Natalya Nazarova, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Olesya Zykina | 3:25.59 | SB |
  | | Poland | Zuzanna Radecka, Grażyna Prokopek, Małgorzata Pskit, Anna Olichwierczuk | 3:26.15 | SB |
  | 4 | Great Britain | Helen Karagounis, Helen Frost, Melanie Purkiss, Lee McConnell | 3:26.65 | SB |
  | 5 | France | Solene Désert, Peggy Babin, Sylvanie Morandais, Marie-Louise Bévis | 3:31.71 | |
  | 6 | Belarus | Yekaterina Stankevich, Iryna Khliustava, Anna Kozak, Sviatlana Usovich | 3:32.46 | |
  | 7 | Sweden | Beatrice Dahlgren, Lena Udd, Ellinor Stuhrmann, Nadja Petersen | 3:32.65 | |
  | 8 | Greece | Dimitra Dova, Hariklia Bouda, Maria Papadopoulou, Hrisoula Goudenoudi | 3:37.38 | |
  