Athletics Olympic Games 1956 at Melbourne (aus) Women: 4 x 100 m Relay December 1: Final: 1. Australia (Shirley Strickland-de la Hunty, Norma Croker, Fleur Mellor, Betty Cuthbert) * 44.5 (WR) 2. Great Britain (Anne Pashley, Jean Scrivens, June Paul-Foulds, Heather Armitage) 44.7 3. USA (Mae Faggs, Margaret Matthews, Wilma Rudolph, Isabelle Daniels) 44.9 4. Soviet Union (Vira Krepkina, Galina Reschikova, Mariya Itkina, Irina Botchkaryova) 45.6 5. Italy (Maria Musso, Letizia Bertoni, Maria Greppi, Giuseppina Leone) 45.7 6. Germany (Maria Sander, Christa Stubnick, Gisela Köhler, Barbara Mayer) * 47.2 * 44.9 (WR) in heats