# 1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

The Women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadio Olímpico de Sevilla on August 28 and August 29.

## Medals

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Russia Tatyana Chebykina Svetlana Goncharenko Olga Kotlyarova Natalya Nazarova | United States Suziann Reid Maicel Malone-Wallace Michelle Collins Jearl Miles Clark | Germany Anke Feller Uta Rohländer-Fromm Anja Rücker Grit Breuer |

## Results
### Heats

All times shown are in minutes.
* AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)
* DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) | Q = qualification by place in heat | q = qualification by overall place

#### Heat 1

* Russia (Natalya Sharova, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko) 3:24.51 Q (WL)
* Australia (Tamsyn Lewis, Lee Naylor, Susan Andrews, Cathy Freeman) 3:27.31 Q
* Cuba (Julia Duporty, Zulia Calatayud, Yudalis Díaz, Idalmis Bonne) 3:27.54 q
* Canada (Karlene Haughton, LaDonna Antoine-Watkins, Candice Jones, Foy Williams) 3:28.47 (SB)
* Senegal (Aïda Diop, Mame Tacko Diouf, Aminata Diouf, Amy Mbacké Thiam) 3:30.99 (NR)
* Spain (Elena Córcoles, Yolanda Reyes, Miriam Bravo, Lisette Ferri) 3:36.28

#### Heat 2

* Germany (Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer-Fromm, Anja Knippel, Anja Rücker) 3:24.80 Q (SB)
* Czech Republic (Jitka Burianová, Hana Benešová, Ludmila Formanová, Helena Fuchsová) 3:25.58 Q (SB)
* Jamaica (Beverly Grant, Charmaine Howell, Tracey Barnes, Claudine Williams) 3:27.78 q (SB)
* Great Britain (Donna Fraser, Helen Frost, Michelle Thomas, Sinead Dudgeon) 3:27.99 (SB)
* Cameroon (Mireille Nguimgo, Myriam Léonie Mani, Stéphanie Nicole Zanga, Claudine Komgang) 3:33.51 (NR)
* Liberia (Jocelyn Harris, Grace Dinkins, Joetta Dweh, Hannah Cooper) 3:55.30 (NR)

#### Heat 3

* United States (Suziann Reid, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Andrea Anderson, Michelle Collins) 3:25.10 Q (SB)
* Italy (Danielle Perpoli, Patrizia Spuri, Monika Niederstätter, Virna De Angeli) 3:31.67 Q
* Barbados (Andrea Blackett, Melissa Straker, Lucy-Ann Richards, Joanne Durant) 3:34.37
* India (M. K. Asha, K. Mathews Beenamol, Rosa Kutty, Jincy Phillip) 3:36.54
** Nigeria (Falilat Ogunkoya, Charity Opara, Olabisi Afolabi, Mabel Madojemu) DNS
** Romania (Otilia Ruicu-Esanu, Ionela Târlea, Andrea Burlacu, Ana Maria Barbu) DNS

### Final

* Russia (Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Olga Kotlyarova, Natalya Nazarova) 3:21.98 (WL)
* United States (Suziann Reid, Maicel Malone-Wallace, Michelle Collins, Jearl Miles Clark) 3:22.09 (SB)
* Germany (Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer-Fromm, Anja Rücker, Grit Breuer) 3:22.43 (SB)
* Czech Republic (Jitka Burianová, Hana Benešová, Ludmila Formanová, Helena Fuchsová) 3:23.82 (SB)
* Jamaica (Beverly Grant, Lorraine Fenton, Claudine Williams, Deon Hemmings) 3:24.83 (SB)
* Australia (Tania Van Heer, Lee Naylor, Susan Andrews, Cathy Freeman) 3:28.04
* Cuba (Julia Duporty, Zulia Calatayud, Yudalis Díaz, Idalmis Bonne) 3:29.19
* Italy (Virna De Angeli, Patrizia Spuri, Francesca Carbone, Monika Niederstätter) 3:29.56