Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 7 and September 8.
Results
Heats
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 | 45.92 | ||
| 2 | Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine | 45.96 | ||
| 3 | Letizia Bertoni Sandra Valenti Piera Tizzoni Giuseppina Leone | 46.76 | ||
| 4 | Erzsébet Heldt Mária Bácskai Antónia Munkácsi Ildikó Jónás | 47.54 | ||
| 5 | Nancy Lewington Sally McCallum Valerie Jerome Eleanor Haslam | 48.05 |
Heat two
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph | 44.50 | WR | |
| 2 | Vera Krepkina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Irina Press | 45.15 | ||
| 3 | Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter | 45.40 | ||
| 4 | Silvia Hunte Carlota Gooden Lorraine Dunn Jean Holmes-Mitchell | 46.66 | ||
| - | Marlene Mathews Norma Thrower Norma Croker Pat Duggan | DQ |
Final
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph | 44.72 | |||
| Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine | 45.00 | |||
| Teresa Ciepły Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter | 45.19 | |||
| 4 | Vera Krepkina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Irina Press | 45.39 | ||
| 5 | Letizia Bertoni Sandra Valenti Piera Tizzoni Giuseppina Leone | 45.80 | ||
| - | Carole Quinton Dorothy Hyman Jenny Smart Mary Rand | DNF |
Key: WR = world record; DQ = disqualified; DNF = did not finish