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Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 26 July 1981.

Results※

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	United States	Michelle Glover, Carol Lewis, Jackie Washington, Benita Fitzgerald	43.66
	Great Britain	Yvette Wray, Kathy Smallwood, Sue Hearnshaw, Beverley Goddard	43.86
	Italy	Antonella Capriotti, Carla Mercurio, Patrizia Lombardo, Marisa Masullo	44.43
4	Romania	Lucia Negovan, Niculina Chiricuţă, Doina Ciolan, Adele Alexa	45.56
	Soviet Union	Olga Zolotaryova, Olga Korotkova, Olga Nasonova, Raisa Makhova	DQ
	Lebanon		DQ

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