Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay
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The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on 30 July and 1 August at the Swimming Stadium.[1] 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 |
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![]() Ilona Novák Judit Temes Éva Novák Katalin Szöke Mária Littomeritzky | ![]() Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen Koosje van Voorn Hannie Termeulen Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher | ![]() Jackie LaVine Marilee Stepan Jody Alderson Evelyn Kawamoto |
Results
Heats
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- Heat One
Place | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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1 | ![]() | 4:32.5 | |
2 | ![]() | 4:36.0 | |
3 | ![]() | 4:36.4 | |
4 | ![]() | 4:42.7 | |
5 | ![]() | 4:52.6 | |
6 | ![]() | 4:54.0 | NR |
- Heat Two
Place | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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1 | ![]() | 4:28.1 | |
2 | ![]() | 4:30.6 | |
3 | ![]() | 4:38.1 | |
4 | ![]() | 4:42.0 | |
5 | ![]() | 4:54.8 | |
6 | ![]() | 4:54.8 | |
7 | ![]() | 4:56.0 |
Final
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Place | Swimmers | Time | Notes |
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![]() | ![]() | 4:24.4 | WR |
![]() | ![]() | 4:29.0 | |
![]() | ![]() | 4:30.1 | |
4 | ![]() | 4:36.2 | |
5 | ![]() | 4:37.8 | |
6 | ![]() | 4:39.0 | |
7 | ![]() | 4:40.3 | |
8 | ![]() | 4:44.1 |