Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

Women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Dates	December 1 (heats, final)
Teams	9
Winning time	45.9
Medalists
Norma Croker Betty Cuthbert Fleur Mellor Shirley Strickland de la Hunty  Australia Heather Armitage Anne Pashley June Foulds Jean Scrivens  Great Britain Isabelle Daniels Mae Faggs Margaret Matthews Wilma Rudolph  United States

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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay was an event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. There were nine nations competing, with France, Poland and Canada failing to reach the final. The Australian team won in a world record time of 44.5 seconds.^[1]

Final classification

RANK	NATION	NAME ATHLETES	HEAT	TIME
	Australia (AUS)	Norma Croker Betty Cuthbert Fleur Mellor Shirley Strickland de la Hunty	44.9 WR	44.5 WR
	Great Britain (GBR)	Heather Armitage Anne Pashley June Foulds Jean Scrivens	45.3	44.7
	United States (USA)	Isabelle Daniels Mae Faggs Margaret Matthews Wilma Rudolph	45.4	44.9
4.	Soviet Union (URS)	Irina Botchkareva Maria Itkina Vera Krepkina Galina Rezchikova	46.1	45.6
5.	Italy (ITA)	Letizia Bertoni Milena Greppi Giuseppina Leone Maria Musso	45.9	45.7
6.	United Team of Germany (EUA)	Gisela Köhler Bärbel Mayer Maria Sander Christa Stubnick	44.9 WR	47.2
—	France (FRA)	Catherine Capdeville Micheline Fluchot Simone Henry Angèle Picado	46.3	DNQ
—	Poland (POL)	Maria Kusion Barbara Lerczak Genowefa Minicka Halina Richter	46.5	DNQ
—	Canada (CAN)	Eleanor Haslam Dorothy Kozak Diane Matheson Maureen Rever	46.6	DNQ

References

1. "Athletics at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 13 August 2017.

External links

• Official Report
• Results