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

Women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 7 (heats) September 8 (final)
Medalists
Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph  United States Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine  United Team of Germany Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter  Poland

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 x 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between 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 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 Heldtné Bartos Mária Bácskai Antónia Munkácsi Ildikó Jónás	Hungary	47.54
5	Nancy Lewington Sally McCallum Valerie Jerome Eleanor Haslam	23x15px 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

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	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

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Women's 4x100 metre relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-16.