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Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay

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Swimming at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Freestyle
100 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
Backstroke
100 mmenwomen
Breaststroke
200 mmenwomen
Butterfly
100 mwomen
200 mmen
Freestyle relay
4 × 100 mwomen
4 × 200 mmen

The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1956 Olympic Games took place on 4 and 6 December.[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.

The Australian gold medal winning quartet: Sandra Morgan, Dawn Fraser, Lorraine Crapp and Faith Leech.

Medalists

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Gold Silver Bronze
 Australia
Dawn Fraser
Faith Leech
Sandra Morgan
Lorraine Crapp 		 United States
Sylvia Ruuska
Shelley Mann
Nancy Simons
Joan Rosazza 		 South Africa
Natalie Myburgh
Susan Roberts
Moira Abernethy
Jeanette Myburgh

Results

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Heats

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Heat One
Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Natalie Myburgh, Susan Roberts, Moira Abernethy and Jeanette Myburgh (RSA) 4:26.8
2  Betty Brey, Nancy Simons, Kay Knapp and Marley Shriver (USA) 4:27.3
3  Ingrid Künzel, Hertha Haase, Kati Jansen and Birgit Klomp (GER) 4:27.5
4  Frances Hogben, Margaret Girvan, Fearne Ewart and Judith Grinham (GBR) 4:34.6
5  Odile Vouaux, Viviane Gouverneur, Ginette Jany-Sendral and Héda Frost (FRA) 4:36.6
Heat Two
Place Swimmers Time Notes
1  Margaret Gibson, Sandra Morgan, Elizabeth Fraser and Faith Leech (AUS) 4:25.0
2  Judit Temes, Mária Littomeritzky, Katalin Szőke and Valéria Gyenge (HUN) 4:28.1
3  Virginia Grant, Gladys Priestley, Sara Barber and Helen Stewart (CAN) 4:29.3
4  Anita Hellström, Birgitta Wängberg, Karin Larsson and Kate Jobson (SWE) 4:30.1
5  Hitomi Jinno, Eiko Wada, Yoshiko Sato and Yukiko Otaka (JPN) 4:35.8 NR

Final

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Place Nation Swimmers Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Australia Dawn Fraser (1:04.0)
Faith Leech (1:05.3)
Sandra Morgan (1:04.7)
Lorraine Crapp (1:03.1)		 4:17.1 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States Sylvia Ruuska (1:06.3)
Shelley Mann (1:03.9)
Nancy Simons (1:04.6)
Joan Rosazza (1:04.4)		 4:19.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  South Africa Natalie Myburgh (1:07.7)
Susan Roberts (1:05.3)
Moira Abernethy (1:08.0)
Jeanette Myburgh (1:04.7)		 4:25.7
4  United Team of Germany Ingrid Künzel (1:06.6)
Hertha Haase (1:06.7)
Kati Jansen (1:05.7)
Birgit Klomp (1:07.1)		 4:26.1
5  Canada Helen Stewart (1:07.1)
Gladys Priestley (1:07.1)
Sara Barber (1:07.5)
Virginia Grant (1:06.6)		 4:28.3
6  Sweden Anita Hellström (1:08.8)
Birgitta Wängberg (1:07.7)
Karin Larsson (1:07.4)
Kate Jobson (1:06.1)		 4:30.0
7  Hungary Mária Littomeritzky (1:09.9)
Katalin Szőke (1:06.7)
Judit Temes (1:06.7)
Valéria Gyenge (1:07.8)		 4:31.1
8  Great Britain Frances Hogben (1:08.8)
Judy Grinham (1:09.0)
Margaret Girvan (1:09.4)
Fearne Ewart (1:08.6)		 4:35.8

References

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  1. ^ "Swimming at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Women's 4 × 100 metres Freestyle Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 22 April 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  2. ^ 4 x 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Women
  3. ^ "Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 Metre Freestyle Relay Final Results" (PDF). Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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