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

Athletics at the 1956 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
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
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Women's 4x100m Relay 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 win in a world record time of 44.5 seconds.

Final classification

RANK	NATION	NAME ATHLETES	HEAT	TIME
	Australia (AUS)	Norma Croker Betty Cuthbert Fleur Mellor Shirley Strickland de la Hunty	44.9	44.5
	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 Barbara Mayer Maria Sander Christa Stubnick	44.9	47.2
—	France (FRA)	Catherine Capdeville Micheline Fluchot Simone Henry Angele 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

• Official Report
• Results