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Date: 3 September 1960 / 5 September 1960
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Wilma Rudolph | USA | 24.0 |
| 2 | Jutta Heine | GER | 24.4 |
| 3 | Dorothy Hyman | GBR | 24.7 |
| 4 | Maria Itkina | URS | 24.7 |
| 5 | Barbara Janiszewska | POL | 24.8 |
| 6 | Giuseppina Leone | ITA | 24.9 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 7 | Norma Fleming | AUS | 24.3 |
| 8 | Jennifer Smart | GBR | 24.6 |
| 8 | Valentina Maslovskaia | URS | 24.6 |
| 10 | Gisela Birkemeyer | GER | 24.9 |
| 10 | Catherine Capdevielle | FRA | 24.9 |
| 12 | Lucinda Williams | USA | 25.0 |
| 13 | Celina Jesionowska | POL | 25.3 |
| 14 | Halina Richter | POL | |
| Heats | |||
| 15 | Hannelore Raepke | GER | 24.2 |
| 16 | Antonia Munkacsi | HUN | 24.4 |
| 17 | Ernestine Pollards | USA | 24.5 |
| 17 | Eleanor Haslam | CAN | 24.5 |
| 19 | Ulla-Britt Wieslander | SWE | 24.6 |
| 20 | Jean Hiscock | GBR | 24.7 |
| 20 | Patricia Duggan | AUS | 24.7 |
| 20 | Ljudmila Ignatieva | URS | 24.7 |
| 20 | Alena Stolzova | TCH | 24.7 |
| 24 | Olga Sikovec | YUG | 24.8 |
| 25 | Maeve Kyle | IRL | 24.9 |
| 26 | Valerie Morgan | NZL | 25.2 |
| 27 | Erzsebet Heldt | HUN | 25.4 |
| 28 | Mona Solaiman | PHI | 25.8 |
| 29 | Ilana Karashik | ISR | 26.5 |
| Did not start | |||
| Carlota Gooden | PAN | ||
| Jean Holmes | PAN | ||
| Maria Ionescu | ROU | ||
| Snejana Kerkova | BUL | ||
| Betty Cuthbert | AUS | ||
| Christiana Boateng | GHA | ||
| Stephi D'Souza | IND | ||