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) | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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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 × 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.
Categories:
- Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Relay foot races at the Olympics
- 4 × 100 metres relay
- 1960 in women's athletics
- Women's events at the 1960 Summer Olympics