| Women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Games of the XVII Olympiad |
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium |
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| Dates | September 7 (heats) September 8 (final) |
| Medalists | |
| «1956 | 1964» |
| Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics |
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | women | ||
| 400 m | men | |||
| 800 m | men | women | ||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 80 m hurdles | women | |||
| 110 m hurdles | men | |||
| 400 m hurdles | men | |||
| 3000 m steeplechase |
men | |||
| 4×100 m relay | men | women | ||
| 4×400 m relay | men | |||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 20 km walk | men | |||
| 50 km walk | men | |||
| Field events | ||||
| Long jump | men | women | ||
| Triple jump | men | |||
| High jump | men | women | ||
| Pole vault | men | |||
| Shot put | men | women | ||
| Discus throw | men | women | ||
| Javelin throw | men | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Decathlon | men | |||
The Women's 4 x 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.
Contents |
The fastest three teams in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Carole Quinton Dorothy Hyman Jenny Smart Mary Bignal-Rand |
Great Britain | 45.92 | |
| 2 | Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine |
Germany | 45.96 | |
| 3 | Letizia Bertoni Sandra Valenti Piera Tizzoni Giuseppina Leone |
Italy | 46.76 | |
| 4 | Erzsébet Heldtné Bartos Mária Bácskai Antónia Munkácsi Ildikó Jónás |
Hungary | 47.54 | |
| 5 | Nancy Lewington Sally McCallum Valerie Jerome Eleanor Haslam |
Canada | 48.05 |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph |
United States | 44.50 | WR |
| 2 | Vera Kalashnikova-Krepkina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Irina Press |
Soviet Union | 45.15 | |
| 3 | Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter |
Poland | 45.40 | |
| 4 | Silvia Hunte Carlota Gooden Lorraine Dunn Jean Holmes-Mitchell |
Panama | 46.66 | |
| - | Marlene Mathews-Willard Norma Thrower Norma Croker-Fleming Pat Duggan |
Australia | [47.59] | DQ |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph |
United States | 44.72 | ||
| Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine |
Germany | 45.00 | ||
| Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter |
Poland | 45.19 | ||
| 4 | Vera Kalashnikova-Krepkina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Irina Press |
Soviet Union | 45.39 | |
| 5 | Letizia Bertoni Sandra Valenti Piera Tizzoni Giuseppina Leone |
Italy | 45.80 | |
| - | Carole Quinton Dorothy Hyman Jenny Smart Mary Bignal-Rand |
Great Britain | DNF |
Key: WR = world record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish
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