Athletics Olympic Games 1976 at Montréal (can) Women: 4 x 400 m Relay July 31: Final: 1. East Germany (Doris Maletzki, Brigitte Rohde, Ellen Streidt-Strophal, Christina Brehmer) 3:19.23 (WR) 2. USA (Debra Sapenter, Sheila Ingram, Pamela Jiles, Rosalyn Bryant) 3:22.81 3. Soviet Union (Inta Klimovicha, Lyudmyla Aksenova, Natalya Sokolova, Nadezhda Ilyina) 3:24.24 4. Australia (Judith Canty, Verna Burnard, Charlene Rendina, Bethanie Nail) 3:25.56 5. West Germany (Claudia Steger, Dagmar Fuhrmann, Elke Barth, Rita Wilden) 3:25.71 6. Finland (Marika Lindholm, Pirjo Häggman-Wilmi, Mona-Lisa Pursiainen-Strandvall, Riita Salin) 3:25.87 7. Great Britain (Elizabeth Barnes, Gladys Taylor, Verona Elder-Bernard, Donna Murray) 3:28.01 8. Canada (Margaret Stride, Joyce Yakubowich, Rachelle Campbell, Yvonne Saunders) 3:28.91