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 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
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Carole Quinton
Dorothy Hyman
Jenny Smart
Mary Rand
45.92
2Martha Langbein
Anni Biechl
Brunhilde Hendrix
Jutta Heine
45.96
3Letizia Bertoni
Sandra Valenti
Piera Tizzoni
Giuseppina Leone
46.76
4Erzsébet Heldt
Mária Bácskai
Antónia Munkácsi
Ildikó Jónás
47.54
5Nancy Lewington
Sally McCallum
Valerie Jerome
Eleanor Haslam
48.05

Heat two
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Martha Hudson
Lucinda Williams
Barbara Jones
Wilma Rudolph
44.50WR
2Vera Krepkina
Valentina Maslovskaya
Mariya Itkina
Irina Press
45.15
3Teresa Ciepły
Barbara Janiszewska
Celina Jesionowska
Halina Richter
45.40
4Silvia Hunte
Carlota Gooden
Lorraine Dunn
Jean Holmes-Mitchell
46.66
-Marlene Mathews
Norma Thrower
Norma Croker
Pat Duggan
DQ

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Martha Hudson
Lucinda Williams
Barbara Jones
Wilma Rudolph
44.72
Martha Langbein
Anni Biechl
Brunhilde Hendrix
Jutta Heine
45.00
Teresa Ciepły
Barbara Janiszewska
Celina Jesionowska
Halina Richter
45.19
4Vera Krepkina
Valentina Maslovskaya
Mariya Itkina
Irina Press
45.39
5Letizia Bertoni
Sandra Valenti
Piera Tizzoni
Giuseppina Leone
45.80
-Carole Quinton
Dorothy Hyman
Jenny Smart
Mary Rand
DNF

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