| | Event type
4 x 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Women
| Date | 12 August 1932 — 16:35 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Olympic Park Swimming Stadium, Los Angeles, California | |
| Participants | 20 from 5 countries | |
| Format | Final only. | |
Only five countries sent relay teams to Los Angeles so only a straight final was required. The American team was far superior to the other four winning by ten seconds although the Dutch team also dipped below the existing world record. Two members of the US team, Helene Madison and Josephine McKim went on to brief careers in Hollywood although neither made more than a handful of movies.
| Pos | Lane | Swimmer | NOC | Time | Exchange (Pos) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | United States |  USA | 4:38.0 | Gold | |||
| Josephine McKim | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Helen Johns | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Eleanor Garatti-Saville | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Helene Madison | – | – (–) | ||||||
| 2 | – | Netherlands |  NED | 4:47.5 | Silver | |||
| Rie Vierdag | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Puck Oversloot | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Corrie Laddé | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Willy den Ouden | – | – (–) | ||||||
| 3 | – | Great Britain |  GBR | 4:52.4 | Bronze | |||
| Valerie Davies | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Helen Varcoe | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Joyce Cooper | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Edna Hughes | – | – (–) | ||||||
| 4 | – | Canada |  CAN | 5:05.7 | ||||
| Irene Pirie | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Irene Mullen | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Ruth Kerr | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Betty Edwards | – | – (–) | ||||||
| 5 | – | Japan |  JPN | 5:06.7 | ||||
| Kazue Kojima | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Hatsuko Morioka | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Misao Yokota | – | – (–) | ||||||
| Yukie Arata | – | – (–) |