European Athletics Championships 1954/4 × 100 m women

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of women
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Participants	11 relay teams with 44 athletes
Competition phase	August 28th (preliminary) August 29th (final)
Medalists
gold	Soviet Union
silver	BR Germany
bronze	Italy

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 28 and 29, 1954 in the Neufeld stadium in Bern .

The European champion was the Soviet Union ( Wera Krepkina , Rimma Ulitkina, Marija Itkina , Irina Turowa ). The Federal Republic of Germany won the silver medal with Irmgard Egert , Charlotte Böhmer , Irene Brütting and Maria Sander . Bronze went to Italy with Maria Musso , Giuseppina Leone , Letizia Bertoni and Milena Greppi.

Records

Existing records

World record	45.6 s	Soviet Union ( Wera Kalaschnikowa , Sinaida Safronowa, Nadeschda Chnykina , Irina Turowa )	Budapest , Hungary	20th September 1953
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

Record improvement

The existing EM record was set once at these European championships and improved twice:

• Record setting:
  • 46.8 s - Italy ( Maria Musso , Giuseppina Leone , Letizia Bertoni, Milena Greppi) , 1st preliminary, August 28th 
• Record improvements
  • 46.1 s - Soviet Union ( Wera Krepkina , Rimma Ulitkina, Marija Itkina , Irina Turowa ) , 1st preliminary, August 28th 
  • 45.8s - Soviet Union ( Wera Krepkina , Rimma Ulitkina, Marija Itkina , Irina Turowa ) , final, August 29th 

Preliminary round

August 28, 1954, 6.15 p.m.

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Italy	Maria Musso Giuseppina Leone Letizia Bertoni Milena Greppi	46.8 CRe / NO
2	BR Germany	Irmgard Egert Charlotte Böhmer Irene Brütting Maria Sander	47.1
3	Poland	Maria Piątkowska Barbara Sobotta Celina Gerwin Maria Bibro	47.3 NO
4th	France	Henriette Robert Yvette Monginou Monique Jacquet Denise Laborie	47.4 NO
5	Hungary	Olga Gyarmati Ida Dénes Ibolya Greminger Vera Neszmélyi	48.5
6th	Switzerland	Edith Jakob Trudy Hanseler Gretel Bolliger Sonja Pretot	48.8 NO

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Soviet Union	Wera Krepkina Rimma Ulitkina Marija Itkina Irina Turowa	46.1 CR
2	Great Britain	Heather Armitage Jean Desforges Shirley Pirie Anne Pashley	46.7
3	Czechoslovakia	Zlata Ptackova Jana Rabova Anna Kovaříková Libuse Strejckova	48.3
4th	Austria	Trude Wareka Elfriede Steurer Elfriede Geist Friedrike Harasek	48.3 NO
5	Saarland	Inge Eckel Helga Hoffmann Trudi Schaller Ursula Finger	48.3 NO

final

August 29, 1954

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Soviet Union	Wera Krepkina Rimma Ulitkina Marija Itkina Irina Turowa	45.8 CR
2	BR Germany	Irmgard Egert Charlotte Böhmer Irene Brütting Maria Sander	46.3
3	Italy	Maria Musso Giuseppina Leone Letizia Bertoni Milena Greppi	46.6 NO
4th	Great Britain	Heather Armitage Jean Desforges Shirley Pirie Anne Pashley	46.7
5	Poland	Maria Piątkowska Barbara Sobotta Celina Gerwin Maria Bibro	47.1 NO
6th	Czechoslovakia	Zlata Ptackova Jana Rabova Anna Kovaříková Libuse Strejckova	48.5

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 20, 2019
• Women 4x100m Relay European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed on April 20, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, 4 × 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 20, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m women , accessed April 20, 2019