European Athletics Championships 1938/4 × 100 m women

1st European Women's Athletics Championships
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay for women
city	Vienna
Stadion	Prater Stadium
Participants	8 relays with 32 athletes
Competition phase	September 18 (final)
Medalists
gold	German Empire
silver	Poland
bronze	Italy

Prater Stadium on an aerial photo, 1932

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was held on September 18, 1938 in Vienna's Prater Stadium.

The German season with the cast of Josefine Kohl , Käthe Krauss , Emmy Albus and Ida Kühnel became European champions . Poland won the silver medal with Jadwiga Gawrońska, Barbara Książkiewicz, Otylia Kałuża and Stanisława Walasiewicz . Bronze went to Italy (Maria Alfero, Maria Apollonio, Rosetta Cattaneo, Italia Lucchini).

Existing records

World record	46.4 s	German Empire ( Emmy Albus , Käthe Krauß , Marie Dollinger , Ilse Dörffeldt )	OS Berlin , Germany	August 8, 1936
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

Conducting the competition

There were only six nations participating in this competition. So the seasons went to the finals without any preliminary runs.

final

The winning German team ( from left to right ): Josefine Kohl, Käthe Krauss, Emmy Albus, Ida Kühnel

September 18, 1938

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	German Empire	Josefine Kohl Käthe Krauss Emmy Albus Ida Kühnel	46.8 CR
2	Poland	Jadwiga Gawrońska Barbara Książkiewicz Otylia Kałuża Stanisława Walasiewicz	48.2
3	Italy	Maria Alfero Maria Apollonio Rosetta Cattaneo Italia Lucchini	49.4
4th	Hungary	Ilona Balla Anna Lörinczi Sarolta Fehér Rózalia Nagy	50.8
5	Norway	Ella Undli Aashild Brandvold Solveig Wennewold Sigfrid Sivertsen	51.1
DSQ	Great Britain	Lillian Chalmers Audrey Brown Dorothy Saunders Betty Lock

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 14, 2019
• Women 4x100m Relay European Championships 1938 Paris (FRA) on todor66.com, accessed March 14, 2019
• II European Championship, Vienna 1938 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, 4 × 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 14, 2019
• 1st European Women's Athletics Championships 1938 in Vienna, Austria from ifosta.de, accessed on March 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ After the annexation of Austria by Germany at the time of these European championships, the German flag from that time must be used as a symbol. For a limited period of time, the Republic of Austria did not exist and was part of the German Empire. In Vienna itself, the corresponding flag was waved everywhere, and it is now being used here - even if, as in all other cases, with a certain degree of discomfort.
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m women , accessed on March 14, 2019