2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships will be held at the Ataköy Athletics Arena on 11 March.Perri Shakes-Drayton held off individual champion Sanya Richards-Ross to claim Great Britain's first ever medal in this event. Ukraine originally finished fourth, but were later disqualified as their first leg runner inadvertently knocked Hanna Tashpulatava to the ground.
Medalists
Records
Schedule
Results
Final
Started at 16:40.| Rank | Nation | Athletes | Time | Notes |
| Shana Cox, Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu, Perri Shakes-Drayton | 3:28.76 | WL | ||
| Leslie Cole, Natasha Hastings, Jernail Hayes, Sanya Richards-Ross | 3:28.79 | SB | ||
| Yuliya Gushchina, Kseniya Ustalova, Marina Karnaushchenko, Aleksandra Fedoriva | 3:29.55 | SB | ||
| 4 | Angela Moroşanu, Alina Panainte, Adelina Pastor, Elena Mirela Lavric | 3:33.41 | SB | |
| 5 | Hanna Tashpulatava, Yulyana Yushchanka, Iryna Khliustava, Sviatlana Usovich | 3:33.73 | SB | |
| Yelizaveta Bryzhina, Iuliia Olishevska, Olha Zemlyak, Nataliya Pyhyda | R 163.3 |