Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

The women's 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place on August 8 and August 9.[1] The American team won with a time of 46.9 s after the German team, which had been in the lead, dropped the baton on the final leg.

Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
DatesAugust 8 (heats), August 9 (final)
Competitors from 8 nations
Teams8
Winning time46.9
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Harriet Bland
Annette Rogers
Betty Robinson
Helen Stephens
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Eileen Hiscock
Violet Olney
Audrey Brown
Barbara Burke
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Dorothy Brookshaw
Mildred Dolson
Hilda Cameron
Aileen Meagher
 Canada
← 1932
1948 →

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Country Competitors Time Notes
1   United States Harriet Bland, Annette Rogers, Betty Robinson, Helen Stephens 47.1 Q
2   Canada Dorothy Brookshaw, Jeanette Dolson, Hilda Cameron, Aileen Meagher 48.0 Q
3   Netherlands Kitty ter Braake, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Alida de Vries, Elisabeth Koning 48.4 Q
4   Austria Charlotte Machmer, Johanna Vancura, Grete Neumann, Veronika Kohlbach 49.9

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 2

Rank Country Competitors Time Notes
1   Germany Emmy Albus, Käthe Krauß, Marie Dollinger, Ilse Dörffeldt 46.4 Q, WR
2   Great Britain Eileen Hiscock, Violet Olney, Audrey Brown, Barbara Burke 47.5 Q
3   Italy Lidia Bongiovanni, Ondina Valla, Fernanda Bullano, Claudia Testoni 48.6 Q
4   Finland Irja Lipasti, Ebba From, Raili Halttu, Rauni Essman 49.5

Key: Q = Qualified, WR = World record

Final

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Rank Country Competitors Time Notes
    United States Harriet Bland, Annette Rogers, Betty Robinson, Helen Stephens 46.9
    Great Britain Eileen Hiscock, Violet Olney, Audrey Brown, Barbara Burke 47.6
    Canada Dorothy Brookshaw, Jeanette Dolson, Hilda Cameron, Aileen Meagher 47.8
4   Italy Lidia Bongiovanni, Ondina Valla, Fernanda Bullano, Claudia Testoni 48.7
5   Netherlands Kitty ter Braake, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Alida de Vries, Elisabeth Koning 48.8
  Germany Emmy Albus, Käthe Krauß, Marie Dollinger, Ilse Dörffeldt DSQ

Key: DSQ = Disqualified

In the heats, the German team set a world record of 46.4 s.[2] In the final, they built a commanding lead, but their fourth runner, Ilse Dörffeldt, dropped the baton.[3][4] The American team won in 46.9 s.[4][5][6][7]

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  2. ^ Report: Games of the Olympiad, New York: United States Olympic Committee, 1936, OCLC 17760969, p. 159.
  3. ^ Bud Greenspan, 100 Greatest Moments in Olympic History, Los Angeles: General Publication Group, 1995, ISBN 9781881649663, p. 33.
  4. ^ a b Duff Hart-Davis, Hitler's games: the 1936 Olympics, New York: Harper, 1986, ISBN 9780060155544, p. 200.
  5. ^ Louise Mead Tricard, American Women's Track and Field: A History, 1895 through 1980, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1996, ISBN 9780786402199, p. 227.
  6. ^ Reinhard Rürup, ed., 1936, die Olympischen Spiele und der Nationalsozialismus: eine Dokumentation, Berlin: Argon, 1996, ISBN 9783870243500, p. 144 (in German)
  7. ^ Guy Walters, Berlin Games: How Hitler Stole the Olympic Dream, London: Hodder-John Murray, ISBN 978-0-7195-6783-4, pp. 268–69, wrongly stating that the time of 46.9 s was half a second faster than the record 46.4.