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.

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

World recordOlympic record(Emmy Albus, Marie Dollinger, Ilse Dörffeldt, Käthe Krauß)46.4Berlin, Germany8 August 1936

Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Date Time RoundSaturday, 7 August 1948 15:15Round 1Saturday, 7 August 1948 16:40Final

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 Notes1 Diane Foster, Patricia Jones, Nancy Mackay, Viola Myers 47.9 Q2 Joyce King, June Maston, Betty McKinnon, Shirley Strickland 48.0 Q3 Rosine Faugouin, Jeanine Moussier, Liliane Sprécher, Jeanine Toulouse 48.1 4 Benedicta de Oliveira, Melânia Luz, Gertrudes Morg, Lucila Pini 49.0

Heat 2 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes1 Maureen Gardner, Dorothy Manley, Muriel Pletts, Margaret Walker 48.4 Q2 Grete Jenny, Maria Oberbreyer, Grete Pavlousek, Elfriede Steurer 50.0 Q3 Marion Huber, Betty Kretschmer, Adriana Millard, Annegret Weller-Schneider 51.5 4 Mirella Avalle, Anna Maria Cantù, Marcella Jeandeau, Liliana Tagliaferri DNF

Heat 3 Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes1 Fanny Blankers-Koen, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Netti Witziers-Timmer 47.6 Q2 Bente Bergendorff, Grethe Lovsø Nielsen, Birthe Nielsen, Hilde Nissen 48.1 Q3 Nell Jackson, Theresa Manuel, Mickey Patterson, Mabel Walker 48.5

Final

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

Wind: 0.2 m/s

References

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.