Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
Breaststroke
200 m	men		women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m			women
4×200 m	men

The women's 4×100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on July 30 and August 1 at the Swimming Stadium. This swimming event used freestyle as a relay, with swimmers typically using the front crawl. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool. The first swimmer had to touch the wall before the second could leave the starting block; timing of the starts was thus important.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hungary Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szöke	Netherlands Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Koosje van Voorn Hannie Termeulen Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher	United States Jackie LaVine Marilee Stepan Jody Alderson Evelyn Kawamoto

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Heat 2

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics results: Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-10-25.