Fastest relay 4 x 800 metres (female)

According to Official Guinness Records,

The fastest women’s 4 x 800 m is 7 minutes 50.17 seconds, by a team representing the USSR (Nadezhda Olizarenko, Lyubov Gurina, Lyudmila Borisova, Irina Podyalovskaya) in Moscow, Russia, on 5 August 1984.

For a complete list of 1984 records, please visit 1984 Guinness Records in Russia.

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