# 1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

The Women's 4 × 100 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: |
| Bahamas Savatheda Fynes Chandra Sturrup Pauline Davis-Thompson Debbie Ferguson | France Patricia Girard Muriel Hurtis Katia Benth Christine Arron | Jamaica Aleen Bailey Merlene Frazer Beverly McDonald Peta-Gaye Dowdie |

## Results
### Heats

All times shown are in seconds.
* 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

* United States (Cheryl Taplin, Nanceen Perry, Inger Miller, Gail Devers) 42.28 Q (WL)
* Jamaica (Aleen Bailey, Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald, Peta-Gaye Dowdie) 42.36 Q (SB)
* Great Britain (Marcia Richardson, Shani Anderson, Christine Bloomfield, Joice Maduaka) 43.31 q (SB)
* Finland (Petra Söderström, Sanna Hernesniemi-Kyllönen, Johanna Manninen, Heidi Hannula) 43.86 (SB)
* South Africa (Charlene Lawrence, Heide Seyerling, Leanie Van Der Walt, Wendy Hartman) 44.35 (SB)
* Greece (Paraskevi Patoulidou, Ekaterini Koffa, Marina Vasarmidou, Ekaterini Thanou) 44.68
* Cameroon (Esther Mvondo, Myriam Léonie Mani, Anne Marie Mouri-Nkeng, Fouda Edwige Abena) 45.37

#### Heat 2

* Bahamas (Eldece Clarke-Lewis, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Savatheda Fynes) 42.40 Q (SB)
* Germany (Andrea Philipp, Gabi Rockmeier, Esther Möller, Marion Wagner) 42.74 Q (SB)
* Canada (Angela Bailey, Philomena Mensah, Tara Perry, Martha Adusei) 43.27 q (SB)
* Spain (Carmen Blay, Julia Alba, Arantxa Iglesias, Cristina Sanz) 45.14
** Puerto Rico (Heysha Ortiz, Jennifer Caraballo, Zuleika Almodovar, Jessenia Rivera) DQ
** Russia (Natalya Ignatova, Oksana Ekk, Irina Khabarova, Marina Trandenkova)

#### Heat 3

* France (Katia Benth, Muriel Hurtis, Fabe Dia, Christine Arron) 42.30 Q (SB)
* Poland (Marzena Pawlak, Joanna Balcerczak, Monika Borejza, Zuzanna Radecka) 43.73 Q
* Ukraine (Iryna Pukha, Anzhela Kravchenko, Oksana Kaydash, Anzhelika Shevchuk) 43.80
* Madagascar (Lantoniana Ramalalanirina, Ony Paule Ratsimbazafy, Rosa Rakotozafy, Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe) 44.36 (SB)
* Japan (Toshie Iwamoto, Motoka Arai, Kaori Sakagami, Yvonne Kanazawa) 44.80
** Nigeria (Glory Alozie, Joan Uduak Ekah, Mercy Nku, Endurance Ojokolo) DQ

### Final

* Bahamas (Savatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson) 41.92 (WL)
* France (Patricia Girard, Muriel Hurtis, Katia Benth, Christine Arron) 42.06 (NR)
* Jamaica (Aleen Bailey, Merlene Frazer, Beverly McDonald, Peta-Gaye Dowdie) 42.15 (SB)
* United States (Cheryl Taplin, Nanceen Perry, Inger Miller, Gail Devers) 42.30
* Germany (Andrea Philipp, Gabi Rockmeier, Esther Möller, Marion Wagner) 42.63 (SB)
* Canada (Angela Bailey, Philomena Mensah, Tara Perry, Martha Adusei) 43.39
* Poland (Zuzanna Radecka, Irena Sznajder, Monika Borejza, Joanna Balcerczak) 43.51
* Great Britain (Marcia Richardson, Shani Anderson, Christine Bloomfield, Joice Maduaka) 43.52