1950 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

1950 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Brussels, Belgium, at Stade du Heysel on 27 August 1950.^[1]

Gold	Elspeth Hay Jean Desforges Dorothy Hall June Foulds  Great Britain
Silver	Xenia Stad-de Jong Bertha Brouwer Grietje de Jongh Fanny Blankers-Koen  Netherlands
Bronze	Elene Gokieli Sofya Malshina Zoya Dukhovich Yevgeniya Sechenova  Soviet Union

27 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Great Britain	Elspeth Hay Jean Desforges Dorothy Hall June Foulds	47.4
	Netherlands	Xenia Stad-de Jong Bertha Brouwer Grietje de Jongh Fanny Blankers-Koen	47.4
	Soviet Union	Elene Gokieli Sofya Malshina Zoya Dukhovich Yevgeniya Sechenova	47.5
4	France	Rosine Faugouin Micheline Ostermeyer Colette Aitelli Yvette Monginou	48.5
5	Italy	Maria Musso Laura Sivi Micaela Bora Vittoria Cesarini	48.7
6	Yugoslavia	Spomenka Koledin Milica Šumak Mira Tuce Alma Butja	49.8

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 6 countries participated in the event.