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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