Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
| Women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Olympic Stadium |
| Dates | September 7 (heats) September 8 (final) |
| Medalists | |
| Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| 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 × 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.[1]
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]The fastest three teams in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carole Quinton Dorothy Hyman Jenny Smart Mary Rand |
 Great Britain |
45.92 | |
| 2 | Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine |
 United Team of Germany |
45.96 | |
| 3 | Letizia Bertoni Sandra Valenti Piera Tizzoni Giuseppina Leone |
 Italy |
46.76 | |
| 4 | Erzsébet Heldt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph |
 United States |
44.50 | WR |
| 2 | Vera 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 Norma Thrower Norma Croker Pat Duggan |
 Australia |
[47.59] | DQ |
Final
[edit]Key: WR = world record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
