Quick Facts Women's 4×100 metres relay at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, Venue ...

Women's 4×100 metres relay at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Venue	Stadium Australia
Winning time	41.95
Medalists
Bahamas Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson Eldece Clarke-Lewis*  Jamaica Tayna Lawrence Veronica Campbell Beverly McDonald Merlene Ottey Merlene Frazer*  United States Chryste Gaines Torri Edwards Nanceen Perry Marion Jones Passion Richardson* *Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats.
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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay races at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held on Friday, 29 September and Saturday, 30 September.^[1]

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes:seconds) prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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World Record	41.37 s	East Germany	Silke Gladisch-Möller Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr Sabine Rieger	Canberra, (Australia)	6 October 1985
Olympic Record	41.60 s	East Germany	Romy Müller Bärbel Wöckel Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	Moscow, (USSR)	1 August 1980

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On 23 November 2007, the IAAF recommended to the IOC Executive Board to disqualify the USA women's 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m relay teams after Marion Jones admitted to having taken performance-enhancing drugs prior to the Games. On 12 December, the IOC disqualified Jones and stripped her of her relay medals but it did not disqualify the U.S. relay teams. On 10 April 2008, the IOC disqualified both U.S. relay teams and asked for Jones' teammates' medals to be returned.^[2] France (Linda Ferga, Muriel Hurtis, Fabe Dia, Christine Arron, Sandra Citte*) finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay in a time of 42.42, and Nigeria (Olabisi Afolabi, Opara Charity, Rosemary Okafor, Falilat Ogunkoya-Osheku, Doris Jacob*) finished fourth in the 4 × 400 m relay in a time of 3:23.80. All members of the U.S. relay teams except Nanceen Perry then appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport who on 16 July 2010 ruled in favor of them due to the fact that, according to the rules at the time, a team should not be disqualified because of a doping offense of one athlete.^[3] Their medals were then restored to them.

* Athletes who participated in the heats only, and also received medals.

Bahamas was so enamored by their winning team, they celebrated their "Golden Girls" with a very visible mural at the Nassau airport.^[4]