Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

Women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 7 (heats & final)
Competitors	from 11 nations
Teams	11
Winning time	47.5
Medalists
Xenia Stad-de Jong Netty Witziers-Timmer Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands Shirley Strickland June Maston Betty McKinnon Joyce King  Australia Viola Myers Nancy Mackay Diane Foster Patricia Jones  Canada

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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on August 7. The Dutch team won with a time of 47.5.^[1]

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record Olympic record

Germany (Emmy Albus, Marie Dollinger, Ilse Dörffeldt, Käthe Krauß)

46.4

Berlin, Germany

8 August 1936

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Saturday, 7 August 1948	15:15	Round 1
Saturday, 7 August 1948	16:40	Final

Results

Round 1

Round 1 took place on 7 August. The first two teams from each heat advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Canada	Diane Foster, Patricia Jones, Nancy Mackay, Viola Myers	47.9	Q
2	Australia	Joyce King, June Maston, Betty McKinnon, Shirley Strickland	48.0	Q
3	France	Rosine Faugouin, Jeanine Moussier, Liliane Sprécher, Jeanine Toulouse	48.1
4	Brazil	Benedicta de Oliveira, Melânia Luz, Gertrudes Morg, Lucila Pini	49.0

Heat 2

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Great Britain	Maureen Gardner, Dorothy Manley, Muriel Pletts, Margaret Walker	48.4	Q
2	Austria	Grete Jenny, Maria Oberbreyer, Grete Pavlousek, Elfriede Steurer	50.0	Q
3	Chile	Marion Huber, Betty Kretschmer, Adriana Millard, Annegret Weller-Schneider	51.5
4	Italy	Mirella Avalle, Anna Maria Cantù, Marcella Jeandeau, Liliana Tagliaferri	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Netherlands	Fanny Blankers-Koen, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Netti Witziers-Timmer	47.6	Q
2	Denmark	Bente Bergendorff, Grethe Lovsø Nielsen, Birthe Nielsen, Hilde Nissen	48.1	Q
3	United States	Nell Jackson, Theresa Manuel, Mickey Patterson, Mabel Walker	48.5

Final

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Netherlands	Fanny Blankers-Koen, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Netti Witziers-Timmer	47.5
	Australia	Joyce King, June Maston, Betty McKinnon, Shirley Strickland	47.6
	Canada	Diane Foster, Patricia Jones, Nancy Mackay, Viola Myers	47.8
4	Great Britain	Maureen Gardner, Dorothy Manley, Muriel Pletts, Margaret Walker	48.0
5	Denmark	Bente Bergendorff, Grethe Lovsø Nielsen, Birthe Nielsen, Hilde Nissen	48.2
6	Austria	Grete Jenny, Maria Oberbreyer, Grete Pavlousek, Elfriede Steurer	49.2

Wind: 0.2 m/s

References

1. "Athletics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2017.

External links

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.