| 2021 | ||||
| (Tokyo, August 6) | ||||
| 1. | Jamaica | 41.02 | ||
| (Briana Williams, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson) | ||||
| 2. | United States | 41.45 | ||
| (Javianne Oliver, Teahna Daniels, Jenna Prandini, Gabby Thomas) | ||||
| 3. | Great Britain | 41.88 | ||
| (Asha Philip, Imani Lansiquot, Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita) | ||||
| 4. | Switzerland | 42.08 | ||
| (Riccarda Dietsche, Ajla Del Ponte, Mujinga Kambundji, Salomé Kora) | ||||
| 5. | Germany | 42.12 | ||
| (Rebekka Haase, Alexandra Burghardt, Tatjana Pinto, Gina Lückenkemper) | ||||
| 6. | China | 42.71 | ||
| (Xiaojing Liang, Manqi Ge, Guifen Huang, Yongli Wei) | ||||
| 7. | France | 42.89 | ||
| (Carolle Zahi, Orlann Ombissa-Dzangue, Gemima Joseph, Cynthia Leduc) | ||||
| dnf. | Netherlands | |||
| (Nadine Visser, Dafne Schippers, Marije van Hunenstijn, Naomi Sedney) | ||||
| 2016 | ||||
| (Rio de Janeiro, August 19) | ||||
| 1 | United States | 41.01 | (lane 1 record) | |
| Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix, English Gardner, Tori Bowie | ||||
| 2 | Jamaica | 41.36 | ||
| Christania Williams, Elaine Thompson, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Shelly- | ||||
| 3 | Great Britain | 41.77 | ||
| Asha Phillip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith, Daryll Neita | ||||
| 4 | Germany | 42.10 | ||
| Tatjana Pinto, Lisa Mayer, Gina Lückenkemper, Rebekka Haase | ||||
| 5 | Trinidad | 42.12 | ||
| Semoy Hackett, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Kelly-Ann Baptiste, Khalifa St. Fort | ||||
| 6 | Ukraine | 42.36 | ||
| Olesya Povh, Nataliya Pohrebnyak, Mariya Ryemyen, Yelizaveta Bryzgina | ||||
| 7 | Canada | 43.15 | ||
| Farah Jacques, Crystal Emmanuel, Phylicia George, Khamica Bingham | ||||
| 8 | Nigeria | 43.21 | ||
| Gloria Asumnu, Blessing Okagbare, Jennifer Madu, Agnes Osazuwa | ||||
| 2012 | ||||
| (August 10) | ||||
| 1 | United States | 40.82 | WR, AR, OR | |
| (Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, Carmelita Jeter) | ||||
| 2 | Jamaica | 41.41 | ||
| (Fraser-Pryce, Simpson, Campbell-Brown, Stewart); | ||||
| 3 | Ukraine | 42.04 | ||
| (Povh, Stuy, Ryemyen, Bryzhina) | ||||
| 4 | Nigeria | 42.64 | ||
| (Osayomi, Asumnu, Abinuwa, Okagbare) | ||||
| 5 | Germany | 42.67 | ||
| (Günther, Cibis, Pinto, Sailer) | ||||
| 6 | Holland | 42.70 | ||
| (Vassell, Schippers, Lubbers, Samuel) | ||||
| 7 | Brazil | 42.91 | ||
| (da Silva, Krasucki, dos Santos, Santos) | ||||
| … dnf—Trinidad | ||||
| (Ahyee, Baptiste, Selvon, Hackett) | ||||
| 2008 | ||||
| 1 | Russia | 42.31 | ||
| (Polyakova, Fedoriva, Gushchina, Chermoshanskaya) | ||||
| 2 | Belgium | 42.54 | ||
| (Borlée, Mariën, Ouédraogo, Gevaert) | ||||
| 3 | Nigeria | 43.04 | ||
| (Idoko, Kemasuode, Ismaila, Osayomi) | ||||
| 4 | Brazil | 43.14 | ||
| (Neto, de Moura, Presti, Santos) | ||||
| 5 | Germany | 43.28 | ||
| (Möllinger, Sailer, Tschirch, Wagner) | ||||
| DNF—Great Britain | ||||
| (Kwakye, Douglas, Freeman, Ania) | ||||
| DNF—Jamaica | ||||
| (Fraser, Simpson, Stewart, Campbell-Brown) | ||||
| DQ—Poland | ||||
| (Klocek, Korczyńska, Jędrusińska, Kocielnik) | ||||
| [USA (Angela Williams, Mechelle Lewis, Torri Edwards, Lauryn | ||||
| Williams) DQ in heat] | ||||
| 2004 | ||||
| 1 | Jamaica | 41.73 | ||
| (Lawrence, Simpson, Bailey, Campbell-Brown) | ||||
| 2 | Russia | 42.27 | ||
| (Fyodorova, Tabakova, Khabarova, Kruglova) | ||||
| 3 | France | 42.54 | ||
| (Mang, Hurtis, Félix, Arron) | ||||
| 4 | Bahamas | 42.69 | ||
| (Clarke, Sturrup, Brown, Ferguson McKenzie) | ||||
| 5 | Belarus | 42.94 | ||
| (Nesterenko, Safronnikova, Nevmerzhitskaya, Dragun) | ||||
| 6 | Belgium | 43.11 | ||
| (De Caluwé, Huyghebaert, Ouédraogo, Gevaert) | ||||
| 7 | Nigeria | 43.42 | ||
| (Kemasuode, Nku, Osayomi, Ojokolo) | ||||
| DNF[may become a Jones drug DQ]—United States | ||||
| (Angela Williams, Marion Jones, Lauryn Williams, LaTasha | ||||
| Colander) | ||||
| 2000 | ||||
| 1 | Bahamas | 41.95 | ||
| (Fynes, Sturrup, Davis, Ferguson McKenzie) | ||||
| 2 | Jamaica | 42.13 | ||
| (Lawrence, Campbell-Brown, McDonald, Ottey) | ||||
| 3 | United States | 42.20 | ||
| (Chryste Gaines, Torri Edwards, Nanceen Perry, Marion Jones) | ||||
| (even though Jones was a subsequent drug DQ) | ||||
| 4 | France | 42.42 | ||
| (Ferga, Hurtis, Dia, Arron) | ||||
| 5 | Russia | 43.02 | ||
| (Ignatova, Trandenkova, Khabarova, Voronova) | ||||
| 6 | Nigeria | 44.05 | ||
| (Alozie, Ajudua, Nku, Onyali) | ||||
| 7 | Germany | 43.11 | ||
| (G. Rockmeier, Mulrain, Philipp, Wagner) | ||||
| 8 | China | 44.87 | ||
| (Zeng, Liu, Qin, Li) | ||||
| 1996 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 41.95 | ||
| (Chryste Gaines 11.57, Gail Devers 10.03, Inger Miller 10.38, | ||||
| Gwen Torrence 9.97) | ||||
| 2 | Bahamas | 42.14 | ||
| (Clarke 11.56, Sturrup 10.02, Fynes 10.46, Davis 10.10) | ||||
| 3 | Jamaica | 42.24 | ||
| (Freeman 11.72, Cuthbert 10.11, Mitchell 10.58, Ottey 9.83) | ||||
| 4 | Russia | 42.27 | ||
| (Leshchova 11.52, Malchugina 10.34, Voronova 10.26, Privalova | ||||
| 10.15) | ||||
| 5 | Nigeria | 42.56 | ||
| (Ajunwa 11.61, Tombiri-Shirey 10.42, Opara-Thompson 10.63, | ||||
| Onyali 9.90) | ||||
| 6 | France | 42.76 | ||
| (Citté 11.78, Sidibé 10.39, Girard 10.50, | ||||
| Pérec 10.09) | ||||
| 7 | Australia | 43.70 | ||
| (Cripps 12.11, Hanigan 10.61, Hewitt 10.35, Lambert 10.63) | ||||
| 8 | Great Britain | 43.93 | ||
| (Thorp 11.85, Richardson 10.82, Jacobs 10.70, Merry 10.56) | ||||
| 1992 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 42.11 | ||
| (Evelyn Ashford 11.31, Esther Jones 10.31, Guidry 10.76, | ||||
| Torrence 9.73) | ||||
| 2 | Russia | 42.16 | ||
| (Bogoslovskaya, Malchugina, Trandenkova, Privalova 9.94) | ||||
| 3 | Nigeria | 42.81 | ||
| (Utondu, Idehen, Opara-Thompson, Onyali) | ||||
| 4 | France | 42.85 | ||
| (Girard, Sidibé, Bily, Pérec) | ||||
| 5 | Germany | 43.12 | ||
| (Philipp, Knoll, Thomas, Günther) | ||||
| 6 | Australia | 43.77 | ||
| (Moore, Gainsford, Sambell, Johnson) | ||||
| DNF—Cuba | ||||
| (Riquelme, López, Bonne, Allen) | ||||
| DNF—Jamaica | ||||
| (Freeman, Cuthbert, Duhaney, Ottey) | ||||
| 1988 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 41.98 | ||
| (Alice Brown, Sheila Echols, Florence Griffith Joyner, Evelyn | ||||
| Ashford 10.06) | ||||
| 2 | East Germany | 42.09 | ||
| (Möller, Behrendt, Lange, Göhr 10.26) | ||||
| 3 | Soviet Union | 42.75 | ||
| (Kondratyeva, Malchugina, Zhirova, Pomoshchnikova 10.75) | ||||
| 4 | West Germany | 42.76 | ||
| (Richter, Sarvari, Thomas, Thimm 10.42) | ||||
| 5 | Bulgaria | 43.02 | ||
| (Ilieva, Demireva, Georgieva, Donkova 10.26) | ||||
| 6 | Poland | 43.93 | ||
| (Smolarek, Janota, Pisiewicz, Siwek 10.70) | ||||
| 7 | France | 44.02 | ||
| (Leroux, Leroy, Bily, Girard) | ||||
| DNC—Jamaica | ||||
| 1984 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 41.65 | ||
| (Alice Brown 11.38, Jeanette Bolden 10.18, Chandra | ||||
| Cheeseborough 10.32, Evelyn Ashford 9.77) | ||||
| 2 | Canada | 42.77 | ||
| (A. Bailey, Payne, Issajenko, Gareau 10.57) | ||||
| 3 | Great Britain | 43.11 | ||
| (Jacobs, Cook, Callender, Oakes 10.36) | ||||
| 4 | France | 43.15 | ||
| (Bacoul, Gaschet, Loval, Naigré 10.48) | ||||
| 5 | West Germany | 43.57 | ||
| (Oker, Schabinger, Gaugel, Thimm 10.49) | ||||
| 6 | Bahamas | 44.18 | ||
| (Clarke, Davis, Greene, Fowler 10.77) | ||||
| 7 | Trinidad | 44.23 | ||
| (Bernard, Forde, Hope-Washington, Williams 10.50) | ||||
| 8 | Jamaica | 53.54 | ||
| (Cuthbert, Jackson, Findlay, Ottey 15.27) | ||||
| 1980 | ||||
| 1 | East Germany | 41.60 | ||
| (Müller 11.41, Wöckel 10.03, Lange 10.20, Göhr | ||||
| 9.96) | ||||
| 2 | Soviet Union | 42.10 | ||
| (Komisova, Maslakova, Anisimova, Bochina) | ||||
| 3 | Great Britain | 42.43 | ||
| (Oakes, Cook, Callender, Lannaman) | ||||
| 4 | Bulgaria | 42.67 | ||
| (Popova, Panayotova, Shishkova, Encheva) | ||||
| 5 | France | 42.84 | ||
| (Grandrieux, Rega, Naigre, Sulter) | ||||
| 6 | Jamaica | 43.19 | ||
| (Hodges, Pusey, Allwood, Ottey) | ||||
| 7 | Poland | 43.59 | ||
| (Langer, Stachurska, Bielczyk, Rabsztyn) | ||||
| DNF—Sweden | ||||
| (Haglund, Möller, Skoglund, Pihl) | ||||
| [East Germany 41.60 WR, OR] | ||||
| 1976 | ||||
| 1 | East Germany | 42.55 | ||
| (Göhr, Stecher, Bodendorf, Wöckel) | ||||
| 2 | West Germany | 42.59 | ||
| (Possekel, Helten, Richter, Kroniger) | ||||
| 3 | Soviet Union | 43.09 | ||
| (Prorochenko, Maslakova, Besfamilnaya, Anisimova) | ||||
| 4 | Canada | 43.17 | ||
| (Howe, Loverock, McTaggart, M. Bailey) | ||||
| 5 | Australia | 43.18 | ||
| (Wilson, Wells, Robertson, Boyle) | ||||
| 6 | Jamaica | 43.24 | ||
| (Hodges, Allwood, Cummings, Pusey) | ||||
| 7 | United States | 43.35 | ||
| (Martha Watson, Evelyn Ashford, Debra Armstrong, Chandra | ||||
| Cheeseborough) | ||||
| 8 | Great Britain | 43.79 | ||
| (Clarke, Ramsden, Colyear, Lynch) | ||||
| [West Germany 42.61 OR {heat}; East Germany 42.55 OR] | ||||
| 1972 | ||||
| 1 | West Germany | 42.81 | ||
| (Krause, Mickler, Richter, Rosendahl) | ||||
| 2 | East Germany | 42.95 | ||
| (Kaufer, Heinich, Struppert, Stecher) | ||||
| 3 | Cuba | 43.36 | ||
| (Elejarde, Valdés, Romay, Chivás) | ||||
| 4 | United States | 43.39 | ||
| (Martha Watson, Mattline Render, Mildrette Netter, Iris Davis) | ||||
| 5 | Soviet Union | 43.59 | ||
| (Sidorova, Bukharina, Maslakova, Besfamilnaya) | ||||
| 6 | Australia | 43.61 | ||
| (Caird, Boyle, Hoffman, Gillies) | ||||
| 7 | Great Britain | 43.71 | ||
| (Lynch, Pascoe, Vernon, Neil) | ||||
| 8 | Poland | 44.20 | ||
| (Flisnik, Bakulin, Józwik, Jędrejek) | ||||
| [West Germany 42.81 WR, OR] | ||||
| 1968 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 42.8(A) | (42.88) | |
| (Barbara Ferrell, Margaret Bailes, Mildrette Netter, Wyomia | ||||
| Tyus) | ||||
| 2 | Cuba | 43.3 | (43.36) | |
| (Elejarde, Romay, Quesada, Cobian) | ||||
| 3 | Soviet Union | 43.4 | (43.41) | |
| (Maslakova, Bukharina, Popkova, Samotyesova) | ||||
| 4 | Holland | 43.4 | (43.44) | |
| (Hennipman, Sterk, Bakker, van den Berg) | ||||
| 5 | Australia | 43.4 | (43.50) | |
| (Lamy, Bennett, Boyle, Burge) | ||||
| 6 | West Germany | 43.6 | (43.70) | |
| (Meyer, Stöck, Wilden, Mickler) | ||||
| 7 | Great Britain | 43.7 | (43.78) | |
| (Neil, Tranter, Simpson, Board) | ||||
| 8 | France | 44.2 | (44.30) | |
| (Alayrangues, Meyer, Montandon, Telliez) | ||||
| [United States 43.4 (43.50) WR, OR {heat}; Holland 43.4 {43.49} | ||||
| =WR, =OR {heat}; United States 42.8 WR, OR] | ||||
| 1964 | ||||
| 1 | Poland | 43.6 | (43.69) | |
| (Ciepła, Szewinska, Górecka, Kłobukowska) | ||||
| 2 | United States | 43.9 | (43.92) | |
| (Willye White, Wyomia Tyus, Marilyn White, Edith McGuire) | ||||
| 3 | Great Britain | 44.0 | (44.09) | |
| (Simpson, Rand, Arden, Hyman) | ||||
| 4 | Soviet Union | 44.4 | (44.44) | |
| (Gaide, Latse, Samotyesova, Popova) | ||||
| 5 | West Germany | 44.7 | ||
| (Frisch, Pollmann, Pensberger, Heine) | ||||
| 6 | Australia | 45.0 | ||
| (Bowering, Black, Burvill, Bennett) | ||||
| 7 | Hungary | 45.2 | ||
| (Heldt, Markó, Munkácsi, Such) | ||||
| 8 | France | 46.1 | ||
| (Canguio, Gueneau, Lurot, Guenard) | ||||
| [Poland 43.6 WR, OR] | ||||
| 1960 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 44.5 | (44.72) | |
| (Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph) | ||||
| 2 | West Germany | 44.8 | (45.00) | |
| (Pensberger, Biechl, Hendrix, Heine) | ||||
| 3 | Poland | 45.0 | (45.19) | |
| (Ciepła, Sobotta, Jesionowska, Górecka) | ||||
| 4 | Soviet Union | 45.2 | (45.39) | |
| (Krepkina, Maslovskaya, Itkina, I. Press) | ||||
| 5 | Italy | 45.6 | (45.80) | |
| (Bertoni, Valenti, Tizzoni, Leone) | ||||
| DNF—Great Britain | ||||
| (Quinton, Hyman, Smart, Rand) | ||||
| [United States 44.4 (44.51) WR, OR {heat}] | ||||
| 1956 | ||||
| 1 | Australia | 44.5 | (44.65) | |
| (de la Hunty, Croker, Mellor, Cuthbert) | ||||
| 2 | Great Britain | 44.7 | (44.70) | |
| (Pashley, Scrivens, Paul, Armitage) | ||||
| 3 | United States | 44.9 | (45.04) | |
| (Mae Faggs, Margaret Matthews, Wilma Rudolph, Isabelle Daniels) | ||||
| 4 | Soviet Union | 45.6 | (45.81) | |
| (Krepkina, Rechikova, Itkina, Bochkaryova) | ||||
| 5 | Italy | 45.7 | (45.90) | |
| (Musso, Bertoni, Greppi, Leone) | ||||
| 6 | Germany | 47.2 | (47.29) | |
| (Sander [WG], Stubnick, Köhler, Mayer [all EG]) | ||||
| [Australia 44.9 (45.00) WR, OR {heat}; Germany 44.9 (45.07) | ||||
| =WR, =OR {heat}; Australia 44.5 WR, OR] | ||||
| 1952 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 45.9 | (46.14) | |
| (Mae Faggs, Barbara Jones, Janet Moreau, Catherine Hardy) | ||||
| 2 | West Germany | 45.9 | (46.18) | |
| (Knab, Sander, Klein, Petersen) | ||||
| 3 | Great Britain | 46.2 | (46.41) | |
| (Cheeseman, Paul, Desforges, Armitage) | ||||
| 4 | Soviet Union | 46.3 | (46.42) | |
| (Turova, Sechenova, Khnykina, Krepkina) | ||||
| 5 | Australia | 46.6 | (46.86) | |
| (de la Hunty, Johnson, Cripps, Jackson) | ||||
| 6 | Holland | 47.8 | (47.16) | |
| (de Jongh, Brouwer, Büch, Lust) | ||||
| [Australia 46.1 (46.23) WR, OR {heat}; United States 45.9 | ||||
| (46.14) WR, OR; West Germany 45.9 =WR, =OR] | ||||
| 1948 | ||||
| 1 | Holland | 47.5 | ||
| (Stad-de Jongh, Witziers-Timmer, Koudijs, Blankers-Koen) | ||||
| 2 | Australia | 47.6 | (0.09 back) | |
| (de la Hunty, King, Maston, McKinnon) | ||||
| 3 | Canada | 47.8 | (0.48) | |
| (Foster, Mackay, Jones, Myers) | ||||
| 4 | Great Britain | 48.0 | (0.55) | |
| (Manley, Pletts, Walker, Gardner) | ||||
| 5 | Denmark | 48.2 | (0.63) | |
| (Lövsöe-Nielsen, Bergendorff, Nielsen, Nissen) | ||||
| 6 | Austria | 49.2 | (1.65) | |
| (Jenny, Steurer, Pavlousek, Oberbreyer) | ||||
| [United States (Nell Jackson, Theresa Manuel, Audrey Patterson, | ||||
| Mabel Walker) 3rd in heat] | ||||
| 1936 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 46.9 | ||
| (Harriet Bland, Annette Rogers, Betty Robinson, Helen Stephens) | ||||
| 2 | Great Britain | 47.6 | ||
| (Hiscock, Olney, Brown, Burke) | ||||
| 3 | Canada | 47.8 | ||
| (Brookshaw, Dolson, Cameron, Meagher) | ||||
| 4 | Italy | 48.7 | ||
| (Bongiovanni, Valla, Bullano, Testoni) | ||||
| 5 | Holland | 48.8 | ||
| (ter Braake, Blankers-Koen, de Vries, Koning) | ||||
| DNF—Germany | ||||
| (Albus, Krauss, Dollinger, Dörffeldt) | ||||
| [Germany 46.4 WR {heat}] | ||||
| 1932 | ||||
| 1 | United States | 46.9 (46.86) | ||
| (Mary Carew, Evelyne Furtsch, Annette Rogers, Billie von Bremen) | ||||
| 2 | Canada | 47.0 | ||
| (Mi. Frizel, Palmer, Ma. Frizel, Strike) | ||||
| 3 | Great Britain | 47.6 | ||
| (Hiscock, Porter, Webb, Halstead) | ||||
| 4 | Holland | nt | ||
| (Dalmolen, Aalten, du Mee, Schurrmann) | ||||
| 5 | Japan | nt | ||
| (Muraoka, Nakanishi, Dogura, Watanabe) | ||||
| 6 | Germany | 50.0 | ||
| (Heublein, Braumüller, Fleischer, Dollinger) | ||||
| [United States 46.9 WR, OR] | ||||
| 1928 | ||||
| 1 | Canada | 48.4 | ||
| (Smith, Rosenfeld, Bell, Cook) | ||||
| 2 | United States | 48.6 | ||
| (Mary Washburn, Jessie Cross, Loretta McNeil, Betty Robinson) | ||||
| 3 | Germany | 49.0 | ||
| (Kellner, Schmidt, Holdmann, Junker) | ||||
| 4 | France | 49.6 | ||
| (Gagneux, Plancke, Radideau, Velu) | ||||
| 5 | Holland | 49.8 | ||
| (Aengenendt, Briejer, Grooss, ter Horst) | ||||
| 6 | Italy | 53.6 | ||
| (Bonfanti, Marchini, Polazzo, Vivenza) | ||||
| [Canada 49.3 WR, OR {heat}, 48.4 WR, OR] | ||||