Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 7 and September 8.

Results

Heats

The fastest three teams in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Carole QuintonDorothy HymanJenny SmartMary Rand 45.92 2 Martha LangbeinAnni BiechlBrunhilde HendrixJutta Heine 45.96 3 Letizia BertoniSandra ValentiPiera TizzoniGiuseppina Leone 46.76 4 Erzsébet HeldtMária BácskaiAntónia MunkácsiIldikó Jónás 47.54 5 Nancy LewingtonSally McCallumValerie JeromeEleanor Haslam 48.05

Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Martha HudsonLucinda WilliamsBarbara JonesWilma Rudolph 44.50 WR 2 Vera KrepkinaValentina MaslovskayaMariya ItkinaIrina Press 45.15 3 Teresa CiepłyBarbara JaniszewskaCelina JesionowskaHalina Richter 45.40 4 Silvia HunteCarlota GoodenLorraine DunnJean Holmes-Mitchell 46.66 - Marlene MathewsNorma ThrowerNorma CrokerPat Duggan [47.59] DQ

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Martha HudsonLucinda WilliamsBarbara JonesWilma Rudolph 44.72 Martha LangbeinAnni BiechlBrunhilde HendrixJutta Heine 45.00 Teresa CiepłyBarbara JaniszewskaCelina JesionowskaHalina Richter 45.19 4 Vera KrepkinaValentina MaslovskayaMariya ItkinaIrina Press 45.39 5 Letizia BertoniSandra ValentiPiera TizzoniGiuseppina Leone 45.80 - Carole QuintonDorothy HymanJenny SmartMary Rand DNF

Key: WR = world record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish

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