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

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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

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.

Medalists

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

Results

Heats

[2]

Heat One
Place Swimmers Time Qual.
1  
Eva Arndt-Riise, Elvi Svendsen, Fritze Carstensen and Greta Andersen (DEN
)		 4:33.5 QQ
2  Marie Corridon, Thelma Kalama, Brenda Helser, and Ann Curtis (USA) 4:34.1 QQ
3  
Cathie Gibson (GBR
)		 4:36.1 QQ
4  Josette Arène, Colette Thomas, Marie Foucher-Creteau and Ginette Jany-Sendral (FRA) 4:50.0 QQ
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
Place Swimmers Time Qual.
1  Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Margot Marsman, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen and Hannie Termeulen (NED) 4:31.3 QQ
2  
Ingegerd Fredin (SWE
)		 4:38.5 QQ
3  Mária Littomeritzky, Judit Temes, Éva Székely and Ilona Novák (HUN) 4:47.5 QQ
4  
Piedade Coutinho-Tavares (BRA
)		 4:51.4 QQ
5  Maria Huybrechts, Maria Oeyen, Maria Van Den Brand and Fernande Caroen (BEL) 4:54.9

Final

[3]

Place Swimmers Time Qual.
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Marie Corridon, Thelma Kalama, Brenda Helser, and Ann Curtis (USA) 4:29.2 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  
Karen Margrethe Harup, Greta Andersen, Fritze Carstensen (DEN
)		 4:29.6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Margot Marsman, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen and Hannie Termeulen (NED) 4:31.6
4  
Cathie Gibson (GBR
)		 4:34.7
5  Mária Littomeritzky, Ilona Novák, Judit Temes and Éva Székely (HUN) 4:44.8
6  
Piedade Coutinho-Tavares (BRA
)		 4:49.1
7  Josette Arène, Gisèle Vallerey, Colette Thomas, Ginette Jany-Sendral (FRA) 4:49.8
 
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.
  2. ^ Heats Summary
  3. ^ Final
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