Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay

Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 m	men		women
400 m	men		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men		women
Breaststroke
200 m	men		women
Butterfly
100 m			women
200 m	men
Freestyle relay
4×100 m			women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men		women

The women's 4×100 metre medley relay event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on August 30 (qualification) and September 2 (final). This swimming event uses medley swimming as a relay. Because an Olympic size swimming pool is 50 metres long, each of the four swimmers completed two lengths of the pool, each using a different stroke. The first on each team used the backstroke, the second used the breaststroke, the third used the butterfly stroke, and the final swimmer used freestyle (restricted to not allow any of the first three strokes to be used, though nearly all swimmers use front crawl regardless).

The first swimmer must touch the wall before the next can leave the starting block, and so forth; timing of the starts is thus important.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States Lynn Burke Patty Kempner Carolyn Schuler Chris von Saltza	Australia Marilyn Wilson Rosemary Lassig Jan Andrew Dawn Fraser	Germany Ingrid Schmidt Ursula Küper Bärbel Fuhrmann Ursel Brunner

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Heat 2

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2009-11-07.