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 | ||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | |||||||||
Dates | September 7 (heats) September 8 (final) | |||||||||
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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.[1]
Results
Heats
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 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 |
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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
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 | United Team of Germany | 45.00 | ||
Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter | Poland | 45.19 | ||
4 | Vera 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 Rand | Great Britain | DNF |
Key: WR = world record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish
References
- ^ "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.