2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
# 2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

The 4 × 400 metre relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.

## Medals

| Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: |
| - | - | - |
| Russia Yuliya Pechonkina Olesya Krasnomovets Natalya Antyukh Svetlana Pospelova | Jamaica Shericka Williams Novlene Williams Ronetta Smith Lorraine Fenton | Great Britain Lee McConnell Donna Fraser Nicola Sanders Christine Ohuruogu |

## Qualifying

From the initial two heats the first three teams in each plus two fastest losers progressed through to the final.

All times shown are in seconds.

* Q denotes automatic qualification.
* q denotes fastest losers.
* DNS denotes did not start.
* DNF denotes did not finish.
* AR denotes area record.
* NR denotes national record.
* PB denotes personal best.
* SB denotes season's best.

### Heat 1

* Russia (Olesya Krasnomovets, Natalya Antyukh, Tatyana Firova, Olesya Zykina) 3:20.32 Q (WL)
* Poland (Anna Guzowska, Monika Bejnar, Grażyna Prokopek, Zuzanna Radecka) 3:26.04 Q
* Belarus (Natalya Sologub, Yulyana Zhalniaruk, Anna Kozak, Ilona Usovich) 3:27.65 Q (SB)
* Germany (Claudia Marx, Claudia Hoffman, Corinna Fink, Ulrike Urbansky) 3:27.96 q
* Senegal (Aïda Diop, Fatou Bintou Fall, Aminata Diouf, Amy Mbacké Thiam) 3:29.03 (SB)
* Romania (Angela Moroșanu, Mihaela Stancescu-Neacsu, Alina Râpanu, Maria Rus) 3:30.97
* Bulgaria (Monika Gachevska, Mariyana Dimitrova, Nedyalka Nedkova, Monika Ivanova) 3:38.96

### Heat 2

* Great Britain (Lee McConnell, Donna Fraser, Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu) 3:26.19 Q (SB)
* Brazil (Maria Laura Almirão, Geisa Aparecida Coutinho, Josiane Tito, Lucimar Teodoro) 3:26.82 Q (AR)
* Ukraine (Antonina Yefremova, Oksana Ilyushkina, Liliya Pilyuhina, Natalya Pygyda) 3:27.23 Q
* Jamaica (Shericka Williams, Novlene Williams, Ronetta Smith, Lorraine Fenton) 3:27.87 q (SB)
* Mexico (Ruth Grajeda, Gabriela Medina, Mayra González, Magali Yañez) 3:31.41 (SB)
* South Africa (Amanda Kotze, Dominique Koster, Surita Febbraio, Estie Wittstock) 3:31.71 (SB)
* United States (Suziann Reid, Monique Hennagan, Moushaumi Robinson, Monique Henderson) DSQ

### Final

* Russia (Yuliya Pechonkina, Olesya Krasnomovets, Natalya Antyukh, Svetlana Pospelova) 3:20.95
* Jamaica (Shericka Williams, Novlene Williams, Ronetta Smith, Lorraine Fenton) 3:23.29 (SB)
* Great Britain (Lee McConnell, Donna Fraser, Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu) 3:24.44 (SB)
* Poland (Anna Guzowska, Monika Bejnar, Grażyna Prokopek, Anna Jesień) 3:24.49 (NR)
* Ukraine (Antonina Yefremova, Oksana Ilyushkina, Liliya Pilyuhina, Natalya Pygyda) 3:28.00
* Germany (Claudia Marx, Claudia Hoffman, Corinna Fink, Ulrike Urbansky) 3:28.39
* Brazil (Maria Laura Almirão, Geisa Aparecida Coutinho, Josiane Tito, Lucimar Teodoro) DSQ
* Belarus (Alena Nevmerzhitskaya, Natalya Sologub, Anna Kozak, Ilona Usovich) DSQ
