Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

Athletics at the 1959 Summer Universiade

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon	men
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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1959 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale di Torino in Turin on 6 September 1959.^[1]^[2]

Results

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Soviet Union	Nelli Yeliseyeva, Larisa Kuleshova, Tamara Makarova, Lyudmila Nechayeva	46.9
	Italy	Anna Doro, Fausta Galluzzi, Giuseppina Leone, Nadia Mecocci	47.5
	West Germany	Ilsabe Heider, Antje Gleichfeld, Kristianne Foss, Inge Fuhrmann	48.1
4	France	Micheline Fluchot, Nicole Gouilleux, Simone Henry, Catherine Capdevielle	48.3	^[3]
5	Great Britain	Janet Simpson, Francie Edington, Anita Follows, Helen Mason	49.2
6	Poland	Jarosława Jóźwiakowska, Barbara Janiszewska, Elżbieta Krzesińska, Maria Ciastowska	49.2

References

^ García, Gerardo (7 September 1959). "Terminaron los Juegos de la Universiada" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 6. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
^ "Resultados Universiada - 1959" (PDF). Atletismo (in Spanish). November 1959: 17. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^ French results

v t e 4 × 100 metres relay at the Universiade
Men's	1955 1957 1959 1961 1963 1965 1967 1970 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2023
Women's	1955 1957 1959 1961 1963 1965 1967 1970 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2023

World University Games champions in women's 4 × 100 metres relay

1959: Soviet Union (Yeliseyeva, Kuleshova, Makarova, Nechayeva)
1961: Soviet Union (Press, Shchelkanova, Koshelyova, Kuleshova)
1963: Soviet Union (Chernyshova, Lāce, Popkova, Shchelkanova)
1965: Soviet Union (Popkova, Lāce, Shchelkanova, Samotyosova)
1967: France (Grosse, Masse, Alayrangues, Meyer)
1970: Soviet Union (Zharkowa, Nikiforova, Golomazova, Kondrasheva)
1973: Soviet Union (Chernikova, Zharkova, Sidorova, Besfamilnaya)
1975: Soviet Union (Kļimoviča, Anisimova, Sidorova, Zharkova)
1977: Soviet Union (Maslakova, Anisimova, Sidorova, Prorochenko)
1979: Soviet Union (Komisova, Prorochenko, Anisimova, Korotkova)
1981: United States (Glover, Lewis, Washington, Fitzgerald)
1983: United States (Nedd, Washington, Cliette, Givens)
1985: United States (Wallace, Finn, Cliette, Torrence)
1987: United States (Wendy Vereen, Washington, Young, Torrence)
1989: United States (Finn, Howard, Miller, Jones)
1991: United States (James, Saldana, Gaines, Howard)
1993: United States (Braddock, Taplin, Harris, Gaines)
1995: United States (Taplin, Miller, Ball, Walton)
1997: United States (Ball, Sergent, Anderson, Richardson)
1999: United States (Williams, Edwards, Backus, Perry)
2001: China (Li, Chen, Zeng, Yan)
2003: China (Chen, Zhu, Ni, Qin)
2005: Russia (Polyakova, Khalandyreva, Yakovleva, Chermoshanskaya)
2007: Finland (Hannula, Keskitalo, Ranta, Manninen)
2009: Italy (Alloh, Tomasini, Arcioni, Salvagno)
2011: Ukraine (Titimets, Pohrebnyak, Stuy, Bryzhina)
2013: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Piatachenko)
2015: Kazakhstan (Tulapina, Ivanchukova, Rakhmanova, Zyabkina)
2017: Switzerland (Del Ponte, Kora, Halbheer, von Jackowski)
2019: Switzerland (Kora, Atcho, Del Ponte, Dagry)
2021: China (Liang, Ge, Cai, Li)