Athletics Olympic Games 1972 at München (wge) Women: 4 x 400 m Relay September 10: Final: 1. East Germany (Dagmar Käsling, Rita Kühne, Helga Seidler, Monika Zehrt) * 3:22.95 (WR) 2. USA (Mable Fergerson, Madeline Manning, Cheryl Toussaint, Kathy Hammond) 3:25.15 3. West Germany (Anette Rückes, Inge Bödding, Hildegard Falck, Rita Wilden-Jahn) 3:26.51 4. France (Martine Duvivier, Colette Besson, Bernadette Martin, Nicole Duclos) 3:27.52 5. Great Britain (Verona Bernard, Janet Simpson, Janette Roscoe, Rosemary Stirling) 3:28.74 6. Australia (Alison Rose-Edwards, Raelene Boyle, Cheryl Peasley, Charlene Rendina) 3:28.84 7. Finland (Marika Eklund, Pirjo Wilmi, Tuula Rautanen, Mona-Lisa Strandvall) 3:29.44 8. Soviet Union (Lyubov Runtso, Olga Syrovatskaya, Natalya Chistyakova, Nadezhda Kolesnikova) 3:37.90 * 3:28.48 (WR) in heats