European Athletics Championships 1950/4 × 100 m for women

4. European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of women
city	Brussels
Stadion	Heysel Stadium
Participants	6 relays with 24 athletes
Competition phase	August 27
Medalists
gold	Great Britain
silver	Netherlands
bronze	Soviet Union

The Heysel Stadium in Brussels in an aerial photo from 1935

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .

Great Britain became European champions with Elspeth Hay , Jean Desforges , Dorothy Hall and June Foulds . The season from the Netherlands won the silver medal in the cast Xenia Stad-de Jong , Bertha Brouwer , Grietje de Jongh and Fanny Blankers-Koen . Bronze went to the Soviet Union ( Elene Gokieli , Sofja Malschina , Soja Duchowitsch , Evgenija Setschenowa ).

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 EM record that has existed since the first European Championships for women remained unchanged at these European Championships.

final

August 27, 1950

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	Great Britain	Elspeth Hay Jean Desforges Dorothy Hall June Foulds	47.4
2	Netherlands	Xenia Stad-de Jong Bertha Brouwer Grietje de Jongh Fanny Blankers-Koen	47.4
3	Soviet Union	Elene Gokieli Sofja Malschina Soja Duchowitsch Yevgenia Setschenowa	47.5
4th	France	Raisin Faugouin Micheline Ostermeyer Colette Aitelli Yvette Monginou	48.5
5	Italy	Maria Musso Laura Sivi Micaela Bora Vittoria Cesarini	48.7
6th	Yugoslavia	Spomenka Koledin Milica Sumak Mira Tuce Alma Butja	49.8

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on April 1, 2019
• Women 4x100m Relay European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed April 1, 2019
• IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, 4 × 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 1, 2019
• 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on April 1, 2019

References and comments

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