1962 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay

1962 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
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
20 km walk	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 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 15 and 16 September 1962.^[1]

Gold	Teresa Ciepły Maria Piątkowska Barbara Sobotta Elżbieta Szyroka  Poland
Silver	Erika Fisch Martha Pensberger Maren Collin Jutta Heine  West Germany
Bronze	Ann Packer Dorothy Hyman Daphne Arden Mary Rand  Great Britain

16 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Poland	Teresa Ciepły Maria Piątkowska Barbara Sobotta Elżbieta Szyroka	44.5	AR
	West Germany	Erika Fisch Martha Pensberger Maren Collin Jutta Heine	44.6	NR
	Great Britain	Ann Packer Dorothy Hyman Daphne Arden Mary Rand	44.9	NR
4	Yugoslavia	Olga Šikovec Nadja Simic Zdenka Leskovac Draga Stamejčič	46.4	NR
	Soviet Union	Lyudmila Motina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Galina Popova	DQ
	Italy	Donata Govoni Daniela Spampani Letizia Bertoni Nadia Mecocci	DQ

15 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	Poland	Teresa Ciepły Maria Piątkowska Barbara Sobotta Elżbieta Szyroka	45.1	CR Q
2	Great Britain	Ann Packer Dorothy Hyman Daphne Arden Mary Rand	45.4	Q
3	Italy	Donata Govoni Daniela Spampani Letizia Bertoni Nadia Mecocci	46.6	Q
4	France	Marlène Canguio Renée Enjalbert Claudette Actis Denise Guénard	52.9

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
1	West Germany	Renate Bronnsack Maren Collin Martha Pensberger Jutta Heine	45.4	Q
2	Soviet Union	Lyudmila Motina Valentina Maslovskaya Mariya Itkina Galina Popova	45.5	Q
3	Yugoslavia	Olga Šikovec Nadja Simic Zdenka Leskovac Draga Stamejčič	46.7	NR Q
4	Hungary	Antónia Munkácsi Erzsébet Heldt Teréz Bata Ida Such	47.1

According to an unofficial count, 33 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.