Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
Women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the Games of the XIV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Dates | August 7 (heats & final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
Teams | 11 | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 47.5 | ||||||||||||
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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on August 7. The Dutch team won with a time of 47.5.[1]
Records
Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record Olympic record | Germany (Emmy Albus, Marie Dollinger, Ilse Dörffeldt, Käthe Krauß) | 46.4 | Berlin, Germany | 8 August 1936 |
Schedule
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
Date | Time | Round |
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Saturday, 7 August 1948 | 15:15 | Round 1 |
Saturday, 7 August 1948 | 16:40 | Final |
Results
Round 1
Round 1 took place on 7 August. The first two teams from each heat advanced to the final.
Heat 1
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | Canada | Diane Foster, Patricia Jones, Nancy Mackay, Viola Myers | 47.9 | Q |
2 | Australia | Joyce King, June Maston, Betty McKinnon, Shirley Strickland | 48.0 | Q |
3 | France | Rosine Faugouin, Jeanine Moussier, Liliane Sprécher, Jeanine Toulouse | 48.1 | |
4 | Brazil | Benedicta de Oliveira, Melânia Luz, Gertrudes Morg, Lucila Pini | 49.0 |
Heat 2
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | Great Britain | Maureen Gardner, Dorothy Manley, Muriel Pletts, Margaret Walker | 48.4 | Q |
2 | Austria | Grete Jenny, Maria Oberbreyer, Grete Pavlousek, Elfriede Steurer | 50.0 | Q |
3 | Chile | Marion Huber, Betty Kretschmer, Adriana Millard, Annegret Weller-Schneider | 51.5 | |
4 | Italy | Mirella Avalle, Anna Maria Cantù, Marcella Jeandeau, Liliana Tagliaferri | DNF |
Heat 3
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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1 | Netherlands | Fanny Blankers-Koen, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Netti Witziers-Timmer | 47.6 | Q |
2 | Denmark | Bente Bergendorff, Grethe Lovsø Nielsen, Birthe Nielsen, Hilde Nissen | 48.1 | Q |
3 | United States | Nell Jackson, Theresa Manuel, Mickey Patterson, Mabel Walker | 48.5 |
Final
Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
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Netherlands | Fanny Blankers-Koen, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Netti Witziers-Timmer | 47.5 | ||
Australia | Joyce King, June Maston, Betty McKinnon, Shirley Strickland | 47.6 | ||
Canada | Diane Foster, Patricia Jones, Nancy Mackay, Viola Myers | 47.8 | ||
4 | Great Britain | Maureen Gardner, Dorothy Manley, Muriel Pletts, Margaret Walker | 48.0 | |
5 | Denmark | Bente Bergendorff, Grethe Lovsø Nielsen, Birthe Nielsen, Hilde Nissen | 48.2 | |
6 | Austria | Grete Jenny, Maria Oberbreyer, Grete Pavlousek, Elfriede Steurer | 49.2 |
Wind: 0.2 m/s
References
- ^ "Athletics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
External links
- Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.