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

Event:	Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
Games:	1960 Summer
Venue:	Olympic Stadium
Dates:	September 7 (heats) September 8 (final)
Longnames:	yes
Gold:	Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine
Silvernoc:	EUA
Bronze:	Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter
Bronzenoc:	POL
Prev:	1956
Next:	1964

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

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph		44.50	WR
2	Vera Krepkina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Irina Press		45.15
3	Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter		45.40
4	Silvia Hunte Carlota Gooden Lorraine Dunn Jean Holmes-Mitchell		46.66
-	Marlene Mathews Norma Thrower Norma Croker Pat Duggan		[47.59]	DQ

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			44.72
			45.00
			45.19
4			45.39
5			45.80
-				DNF

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Athletics at the 1960 Rome Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174050/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/ATH/womens-4-x-100-metres-relay.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 14 August 2017 . sports-reference.com.