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

Women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 7 (heats & final)
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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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

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

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)

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 Fauqouin, Jeanine Moussier, Liliane Sprécher, Jeanine Toulouse	48.1
4	Brazil	Benedita 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 Overbreyer-Trösch, 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
01 !	Netherlands	Fanny Blankers-Koen, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Netti Witziers-Timmer	47.5
02 !	Australia	Joyce King, June Maston, Betty McKinnon, Shirley Strickland	47.6
03 !	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 Overbreyer-Trösch, Grete Pavlousek, Elfriede Steurer	49.2

Wind: 0.2 m/s

References

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's 4x100 metre relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-09-20.
• 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.