Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

The women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on 4 and 6 August at the Empire Pool.[1] This swimming event used freestyle as a relay, with swimmers typically using the front crawl. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool. The first swimmer had to touch the wall before the second could leave the starting block; timing of the starts was thus important.

Swimming at the
1948 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
200 mmenwomen
Freestyle relay
4×100 mwomen
4×200 mmen

Medalists
Gold Silver Bronze
 United States
Marie Corridon
Thelma Kalama
Brenda Helser
Ann Curtis		  Denmark
Eva Arndt
Karen Harup
Greta Andersen
Fritze Carstensen		  Netherlands
Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher
Margot Marsman
Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen
Hannie Termeulen

Results

Heats
Heat One
PlaceSwimmersTimeQual.
1 Eva Arndt-Riise, Karen Margrethe Harup, Greta Andersen, Fritze Carstensen and Elvi Svendsen (DEN)4:33.5QQ
2 Marie Corridon, Thelma Kalama, Brenda Helser, and Ann Curtis (USA)4:34.1QQ
3 Patricia Nielsen, Margaret Wellington, Lillian Preece, and Cathie Gibson (GBR)4:36.1QQ
4 Josette Arène, Gisèle Vallerey, Colette Thomas, Ginette Jany-Sendral and Marie Foucher-Creteau (FRA)4:50.0QQ
5 Enriqueta Duarte, Liliana Gonzalias, Adriana Camelli and Eileen Holt (ARG)4:59.5
6 Kay McNamee, Joyce Court, Vivian King and Irene Strong (CAN)5:04.5
Heat Two
PlaceSwimmersTimeQual.
1 Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Margot Marsman, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen and Hannie Termeulen (NED)4:31.3QQ
2 Gisela Thidholm, Elisabeth Ahlgren, Marianne Lundquist and Ingegerd Fredin (SWE)4:38.5QQ
3 Mária Littomeritzky, Ilona Novák, Judit Temes and Éva Székely (HUN)4:47.5QQ
4 Eleonora Schmitt, Maria da Costa, Talita Rodrígues and Piedade Coutinho-Tavares (BRA)4:51.4QQ
5 Maria Huybrechts, Maria Oeyen, Maria Van Den Brand and Fernande Caroen (BEL)4:54.9

Final
PlaceSwimmersTimeQual.
 Marie Corridon, Thelma Kalama, Brenda Helser, and Ann Curtis (USA)4:29.2OR
 Eva Arndt-Riise, Karen Margrethe Harup, Greta Andersen, Fritze Carstensen (DEN)4:29.6
 Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Margot Marsman, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen and Hannie Termeulen (NED)4:31.6
4 Patricia Nielsen, Margaret Wellington, Lillian Preece, and Cathie Gibson (GBR)4:34.7
5 Mária Littomeritzky, Ilona Novák, Judit Temes and Éva Székely (HUN)4:44.8
6 Eleonora Schmitt, Maria da Costa, Talita Rodrígues and Piedade Coutinho-Tavares (BRA)4:49.1
7 Josette Arène, Gisèle Vallerey, Colette Thomas, Ginette Jany-Sendral (FRA)4:49.8
 Gisela Thidholm, Elisabeth Ahlgren, Marianne Lundquist and Ingegerd Fredin (SWE)DQ

References
  1. "Swimming at the 1948 London Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
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