The 4 x 100 metres relay final at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 9. <br /><br />1. United States (Chryste Gaines, Marion Jones, Inger Miller, Gail Devers) 41.52 (CR) <br />2. Jamaica (Beverly McDonald, Merlene Frazer, Juliet Cuthbert, Beverly Grant) 42.10 (SB) <br />3. France (Patricia Girard, Christine Arron, Delphine Combe, Sylviane Félix) 42.21 (NR) <br />4. Germany (Melanie Paschke, Esther Möller, Birgit Rockmeier, Andrea Philipp) 42.44 (SB) <br />5. Russia (Olga Povtaryova, Galina Malchugina, Marina Trandenkova, Yekaterina Leshchova) 42.50 (SB) <br />6. Bahamas (Eldece Clarke-Lewis, Savatheda Fynes, Debbie Ferguson, Pauline Davis-Thompson) 42.77 <br />7. Nigeria (Beatrice Utondu, Endurance Ojokolo, Angela Atede, Falilat Ogunkoya) 43.27 <br />8. China (Pei Fang, Yan Jiankui, Liu Xiaomei, Li Xuemei) 43.32
