Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates20–21 October
Competitors60 from 15 nations
Medalists
 
 
 
Athletics at the
1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
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
20 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
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

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. The world record time of the Polish team was erased in 1969, after Ewa Klobukowska failed a gendertest in Kiev.

Results

First round

The top four teams in each of the 2 heats advanced.

First round, heat 1

Place Nation Athletes Time
1 Poland Teresa Ciepły, Irena Kirszenstein, Halina Górecka, Ewa Kłobukowska 44.6 seconds
2 Great Britain Janet Simpson, Mary Rand, Daphne Arden, Dorothy Hyman 44.9 seconds
3 Soviet Union Galina Gaida, Renata Latse, Ludmila Samotesova, Galina Popova 44.9 seconds
4 Australia Dianne Bowering, Marilyn Black, Margaret Burvill, Joyce Bennett 45.2 seconds
5 Jamaica Adlin Mair, Una Morris, Vilma Charlton, Carmen Smith 46.0 seconds
6 Panama Delceita Oakley, Lorraine Dunn, Jean Mitchell, Marcela Daniel 47.6 seconds
7 South Korea Park Hi Sook, Han Myung Hee, Lee Hak Ja, Song Yang Ja 50.1 seconds

First round, heat 2

Place Nation Athletes Time
1 United States Willye White, Wyomia Tyus, Marilyn White, Edith McGuire 44.8 seconds
2 United Team of Germany Karin Frisch, Erika Pollmann, Martha Pensberger, Jutta Heine 45.0 seconds
3 Hungary Heldt Bartoss, Marko Nemeshazi, Antonia Munkacsi, Ida Such 45.9 seconds
4 France Marlene Canguio, Daniele Gueneau, Michele Lurot, Denise Guenard 46.0 seconds
5 Argentina Maria Formeiro, Susana Ritchie, Evelia Farina, Alicia Kaufmanas 46.7 seconds
6 Japan Ezoe Reiko, Yoda Ikuko, Miyamoto Etsuko, Inoguchi Takako 47.0 seconds
7 Philippines Aida Molinos, Loretta Barcenas, Nelly Restar, Mona Sulaiman 48.8 seconds
8 Thailand Preya Dechdumrong, Kusolwan Soraja, Busbong Yimploy, Samroey Charanggool 50.3 seconds

Final

Daphne Arden and Dorothy Hyman (UK), Willye White and Edith McGuire (USA), and Halina Górecka and Ewa Kłobukowska (Poland) compete in the final

All three medallist teams broke the world record in the final.

Place Nation Athletes Time
1 Poland Teresa Ciepły, Irena Kirszenstein, Halina Górecka, Ewa Kłobukowska 43.6 seconds
2 United States Willye White, Wyomia Tyus, Marilyn White, Edith McGuire 43.9 seconds WR
3 Great Britain Janet Simpson, Mary Rand, Daphne Arden, Dorothy Hyman 44.0 seconds
4 Soviet Union Galina Gaida, Renata Latse, Ludmila Samotesova, Galina Popova 44.4 seconds
5 United Team of Germany Karin Frisch, Erika Pollmann, Martha Pensberger, Jutta Heine 44.7 seconds
6 Australia Dianne Bowering, Marilyn Black, Margaret Burvill, Joyce Bennett 45.0 seconds
7 Hungary Heldt Bartoss, Marko Nemeshazi, Antonia Munkacsi, Ida Such 45.2 seconds
8 France Marlene Canguio, Daniele Gueneau, Michele Lurot, Denise Guenard 46.1 seconds

References

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