Women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 7 (heats) September 8 (final)
Medalists
Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph  United States Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine  United Team of Germany Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter  Poland
← 1956 1964 →

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
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
Decathlon	men
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The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.^[1]

The fastest three teams in each of the two heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Carole Quinton Dorothy Hyman Jenny Smart Mary Rand	Great Britain	45.92
2	Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine	United Team of Germany	45.96
3	Letizia Bertoni Sandra Valenti Piera Tizzoni Giuseppina Leone	Italy	46.76
4	Erzsébet Heldt Mária Bácskai Antónia Munkácsi Ildikó Jónás	Hungary	47.54
5	Nancy Lewington Sally McCallum Valerie Jerome Eleanor Haslam	Canada	48.05

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph	United States	44.50	WR
2	Vera Krepkina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Irina Press	Soviet Union	45.15
3	Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter	Poland	45.40
4	Silvia Hunte Carlota Gooden Lorraine Dunn Jean Holmes-Mitchell	Panama	46.66
-	Marlene Mathews Norma Thrower Norma Croker Pat Duggan	Australia	[47.59]	DQ

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph	United States	44.72
	Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine	United Team of Germany	45.00
	Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter	Poland	45.19
4	Vera Krepkina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Irina Press	Soviet Union	45.39
5	Letizia Bertoni Sandra Valenti Piera Tizzoni Giuseppina Leone	Italy	45.80
-	Carole Quinton Dorothy Hyman Jenny Smart Mary Rand	Great Britain		DNF

Key: WR = world record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish