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Date: 7 August 1948
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Xenia Stad de Jong; Jeannette Witziers-Timmer; Gerda Van der Kade-Koudijs; Fanny Blankers-Koen | NED | 47.5 |
| 2 | Shirley Strickland; June Maston; Elizabeth McKinnon; Joyce King | AUS | 47.6 |
| 3 | Violet Myers; Nancy Mackay; Dianne Foster; Patricia Jones | CAN | 47.8 |
| 4 | Dorothy Manley; Muriel Pletts; Margaret Walker; Maureen Gardner | GBR | 48.0 |
| 5 | Grete Lovso Nielsen; Bente Bergendorff; Birte Nielsen; Hildegard Nissen | DEN | 48.2 |
| 6 | Grete Jenny; Elfi Steurer; Grete Pavlousek; Maria Oberbreyer | AUT | 49.2 |
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| 7 | Janine Toulouse; Rosine Faugouin; Liliane Sprecher; Jeanine Moussier | FRA | 48.1 |
| 8 | Nell Jackson; Theresa Manuel; Audrey Patterson; Mabel Walker | USA | 48.3 |
| 9 | Benedita de Oliveira; Lucila Pini; Melania Luz; Gertrudes Morg | BRA | 49.0 |
| 10 | Marion Huber; Betty Kretschmer; Adriana Millard; Annegret Weller-Schneider | CHI | 51.5 |