Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

Women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 7 (heats & final)
Competitors	from 11 nations
Teams	11
Winning time	47.5
Medalists
01 ! Xenia Stad-de Jong Netty Witziers-Timmer Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands 02 ! Shirley Strickland June Maston Betty McKinnon Joyce King  Australia 03 ! Viola Myers Nancy Mackay Diane Foster Patricia Jones  Canada
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01 !		Xenia Stad-de Jong Netty Witziers-Timmer Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs Fanny Blankers-Koen	Netherlands
02 !		Shirley Strickland June Maston Betty McKinnon Joyce King	Australia
03 !		Viola Myers Nancy Mackay Diane Foster Patricia Jones	Canada

The women's 4 x 100 metres relay event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place on August 7. The Dutch team won with a time of 47.5.

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Round 1 took place on 7 August. The first two teams from each heat advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Wind: 0.2 m/s