| Event: | Women's 4 × 100 metres relay |
| Games: | 1964 Summer |
| Venue: | Olympic Stadium |
| Dates: | 20–21 October 1964 |
| Competitors: | 60 |
| Nations: | 15 |
| Win Value: | 43.6 |
| Goldnoc: | POL |
| Silvernoc: | USA |
| Bronzenoc: | GBR |
| Prev: | 1960 |
| Next: | 1968 |
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay was the only women's relay on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 20 October and 21 October 1964. 15 teams, for a total of 60 athletes, from 15 nations competed. The first round was held on 20 October with the final on 21 October.[1] The world record time of the Polish team was erased in 1969, after Ewa Klobukowska failed a gendertest in Kiev, but their gold medal result was allowed to stand.
The top four teams in each of the 2 heats advanced.
| Place | Nation | Athletes | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=left | 44.6 | |||
| 2 | align=left | align=left | 44.9 | |||
| 3 | align=left | align=left | 44.9 | |||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 45.2 | |||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 46.0 | |||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | 47.6 | |||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | 50.1 |
| Place | Nation | Athletes | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=left | 44.8 | |||
| 2 | align=left | align=left | 45.0 | |||
| 3 | align=left | align=left | 45.9 | |||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 46.0 | |||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 46.7 | |||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | 47.0 | |||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | 48.8 | |||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | 50.3 |
All three medallist teams broke the world record in the final.
| Place | Nation | Athletes | Time | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=left | Teresa Ciepły, Irena Kirszenstein, Halina Górecka, Ewa Kłobukowska | 43.6 | ||
| 2 | align=left | align=left | Willye White, Wyomia Tyus, Marilyn White, Edith McGuire | 43.9 WR | ||
| 3 | align=left | align=left | Janet Simpson, Mary Rand, Daphne Arden, Dorothy Hyman | 44.0 | ||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | Galina Gayda, Renāte Lāce, Lyudmila Samotyosova, Galina Popova | 44.4 | ||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | Karin Frisch, Erika Pollmann, Martha Pensberger, Jutta Heine | 44.7 | ||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | Dianne Bowering, Marilyn Black, Margaret Burvill, Joyce Bennett | 45.0 | ||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | Erzsébet Bartos, Margit Nemesházi, Antónia Munkácsi, Ida Such | 45.2 | ||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | Marlene Canguio, Daniele Gueneau, Michele Lurot, Denise Guenard | 46.1 |