1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 4 × 100 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	4 x 100 meter relay
gender	Women
Attendees	60 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 20, 1964 (preliminary) October 21, 1964 (final)
Medalists  POLE  United States  GBR

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held on October 20 and 21, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 60 athletes took part in 15 relays.

The Olympic champion was the Polish relay with Teresa Ciepły , Irena Kirszenstein , Halina Herrmann and Ewa Kłobukowska, ahead of the US ( Willye White , Wyomia Tyus , Marilyn White , Edith McGuire ) and Great Britain relay with Janet Simothypson , Mary Rand , Daphne Arden and Dorothy Hyman .

The German relay qualified for the final and finished fifth. Relays from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	44.3 s	USA ( Willye White , Ernestine Pollards , Vivianne Brown , Wilma Rudolph )	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 15, 1961
Olympic record	44.4 s	USA ( Martha Hudson , Lucinda Williams , Barbara Jones , Wilma Rudolph )	Advance from Rome , Italy	September 7, 1960

On September 13, 1964, a Polish squadron with Ewa Kłobukowska on the anchor leg with 44.2 was s the US women in their world record in 1961. This time was faster than the Poles from the IAAF but disallowed as a world record in 1969 because Kłobukowska officially classified as intersex after a test in 1967 .

Conducting the competition

The relays competed on October 20 for a total of two preliminary runs. The best four seasons qualified for the final on October 21st.

Time schedule

October 20, 10:10 a.m .: preliminary runs

October 21, 2:20 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The relays qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

Date: October 20, 1964, from 10:10 a.m.

Weather conditions: rain, 13 ° C, humidity approx. 90%

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Poland	Teresa Ciepły Irena Kirszenstein Halina Herrmann Ewa Kłobukowska	44.6 s	44.62 s
2	Great Britain	Janet Simpson Mary Rand Daphne Arden Dorothy Hyman	44.9 s	44.96 s
3	Soviet Union	Galina Gaida Renāte Lāce Lyudmila Samotjossowa Galina Popowa	44.9 s	44.98 s
4th	Australia	Dianne Bowering Marilyn Black Margaret Burvill Joyce Bennett	45.2 s	45.28 s
5	Jamaica	Adlin Mair Una Morris Vilma Charlton Carmen Smith	46.0 s	k. A.
6th	Panama	Delceita Oakley Lorraine Dunn Jean Mitchell Marcela Daniel	47.6 s
7th	South Korea	Park Hi-sook Han Myung-hee Lee Hak-ja Song Yang-ja	50.1 s

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	United States	Willye White Wyomia Tyus Marilyn White Edith McGuire	44.8 s	44.83 s
2	Germany	Karin Frisch Erika Pollmann Martha Pensberger Jutta Heine	45.0 s	45.01 s
3	Hungary	Erzsébet Bartos Margit Nemesházi Antónia Munkácsi Ida Such	45.9 s	45.91 s
4th	France	Marlène Canguio Danielle Guéneau Michèle Lurot Denise Guénard	46.0 s	k. A.
5	Argentina	Margarita Formeiro Susana Ritchie Evelia Farina Alicia Kaufmanas	46.7 s	k. A.
6th	Japan	Reiko Ezoe Ikuko Yoda Etsuko Miyamoto Takako Inoguchi	47.0 s
7th	Philippines	Aida Molinos Loretta Barcenas Nelly Restar Mona Sulaiman	48.8 s
8th	Thailand	Preya Dechdumrong Kusolwan Sorut Budsabong Yimploy Samruay Charonggool	50.3 s

final

Last change in the final: in front the US season (Marilyn White to Edith McGuire), in the red trousers the Polish women (Halina Herrmann to Ewa Kłobukowska), in the back the British women (Daphne Arden to Dorothy Hyman)

space	Surname	nation	Official time hand-stopped	Unofficial time electronically	annotation
1	Poland	Teresa Ciepły Irena Kirszenstein Halina Herrmann Ewa Kłobukowska	43.6 s	43.69 s
2	United States	Willye White Wyomia Tyus Marilyn White Edith McGuire	43.9 s	43.92 s	WR
3	Great Britain	Janet Simpson Mary Rand Daphne Arden Dorothy Hyman	44.0 s	44.09 s
4th	Soviet Union	Galina Gaida Renāte Lāce Lyudmila Samotjossowa Galina Popowa	44.4 s	44.44 s
5	Germany	Karin Frisch Erika Pollmann Martha Pensberger Jutta Heine	44.7 s	k. A.
6th	Australia	Dianne Bowering Marilyn Black Margaret Burvill Joyce Bennett	45.0 s
7th	Hungary	Erzsébet Bartos Margit Nemesházi Antónia Munkácsi Ida Such	45.2 s
8th	France	Marlène Canguio Danielle Guéneau Michèle Lurot Denise Guénard	46.1 s

Date: October 21, 1964, 2:20 p.m.

Weather conditions: cloudy, approx. 20 ° C, humidity approx. 78%

The clear favorites were the Americans with the Olympic champions over 100 and 200 meters Wyomia Tyus and Edith McGuire as well as 100-meter fourth Marilyn White. The Polish women were rated as strong.

The finale was surprisingly clear for the Polish quartet. Until the last change, the Polish women were only just ahead of the US team and the outcome was completely open. But that final move between Marilyn White and Edith McGuire didn't work out well. Ewa Kłobukowska immediately put a few meters between herself and her US competitor. She couldn't take this clear lead until the finish line.

The first three seasons, including Great Britain on bronze, undercut the world record that had existed up to that point . A few years later there was a correction: after a sex test before the European Athletics Cup in 1967 , Ewa Kłobukowska was classified as intersex . In 1969 the World Athletics Federation Kłobukowskas canceled world records, including the one from this final in Tokyo . The Polish relay remained Olympic champion, but the world record has now been awarded to the second-placed US relay, which, like the British relay, was faster than the then current world record.

Poland's first medal in this discipline was also the first Olympic victory.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 310

Video

• Olimpiada Tokyo 1964 cz.1 , range 0:00 min - 1:06 min, published June 1, 2012 on youtube.com, accessed October 30, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 4 × 100 m , accessed October 30, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 pp. 95–97 engl. (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 650 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 30 October 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 30, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 95f (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 30, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 96 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 30, 2017