European Athletics Championships 1946/4 × 100 m women

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of women
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Participants	6 relays with 24 athletes
Competition phase	August 25
Medalists
gold	Netherlands
silver	France
bronze	Soviet Union

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

The Netherlands became European champions with Gerda Koudijs , Nettie Timmer , Martha Adema and Fanny Blankers-Koen . The relay from France won the silver medal in the cast Léa Caurla , Anne-Marie Colchen , Claire Brésolles and Monique Drilhon . Bronze went to the Soviet Union ( Yevgenia Setschenowa , Walentina Fokina , Elene Gokieli , Walentina Wassiljewa ).

Existing records

World record	46.4 s	German Empire ( Emmy Albus , Käthe Krauß , Marie Dollinger , Ilse Dörffeldt )	OS Berlin , Germany	August 8, 1936
European record
EM record	46.8 s	German Empire ( Josefine Kohl , Käthe Krauss , Emmy Albus , Ida Kühnel )	EM Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

final

August 25, 1946

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

space	Season	occupation	Time (s)
1	Netherlands	Gerda Koudijs Nettie Timmer Martha Adema Fanny Blankers-Koen	47.8
2	France	Léa Caurla Anne-Marie Colchen Claire Brésolles Monique Drilhon	48.5
3	Soviet Union	Yevgenia Setschenowa Valentina Fokina Elene Gokieli Valentina Vasilieva	48.7
4th	Great Britain	Joyce Judd Sylvia Cheeseman Maureen Gardner Winifred Jordan	48.7
5	Sweden	Greta Magnusson Kerstin Josefsson Ulla-Britt Althin Ann-Britt Leyman	49.3
6th	Poland	Irena Hejducka Stanisława Walasiewicz Mieczysława Moder Jadwiga Słomczewska	50.6

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 25, 2019
• Women 4x100m Relay European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 25, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, 4 × 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 25, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m women , accessed March 25, 2019