Women's 4 x 400 metres relay event at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece. <br /><br />1 Germany Anke Feller, Uta Rohlander, Anja Rucker, Grit Breuer 3:20.92 WL <br />2 United States Maicel Malone-Wallace, Kim Graham, Kim Batten, Jearl Miles-Clark 3:21.03 SB <br />3 Jamaica Inez Turner, Lorraine Graham, Deon Hemmings, Sandie Richards 3:21.30 NR <br />4 Russia Tatyana Chebykina, Olga Kotlyarova, Yekaterina Kulikova, Tatyana Alekseyeva 3:21.57 SB <br />5 Czech Republic Naděžda Koštovalová, Ludmila Formanová, Hana Benešová, Helena Dziurova-Fuchsová 3:23.73 <br />6 Great Britain Allison Curbishley, Michelle Pierre, Michelle Thomas, Donna Fraser 3:26.27 <br />7 Nigeria Olabisi Afolabi, Fatima Yusuf, Doris Jacob, Falilat Ogunkoya 3:30.04 <br />8 Italy Patrizia Spuri, Francesca Carbone, Carla Barbarino, Virna De Angeli