Athletics Olympic Games 1948 at London (gbr) Women: 4 x 100 m Relay August 7: Final: 1. Netherlands (Xenia Stad-de Jong, Nettie Witziers-Tmmer, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Francina Blankers-Koen) 47.5 2. Australia (Shirley Strickland, June Maston, Elizabeth McKinnon, Joyce King) 47.6 3. Canada (Viola Myers, Nancy MacKay, Diane Foster, Patricia Jones) 47.8 4. Great Britain (Dorothy Manley, Muriel Pletts, Margaret Walker, Maureen Gardner) 48.0 5. Denmark (Grete Løvsø-Nielsen, Bente Bergendorff, Birte Nielsen, Hildegard Nissen) 48.2 6. Austria (Grete Jenny, Elfi Steurer, Grete Pavlousek, Maria Oberbreyer) 49.2