European Athletics Championships 1938 / Women's discus throw

1st European Women's Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Vienna
Stadion	Prater Stadium
Attendees	11 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	September 18
Medalists
gold	Gisela Mauermayer ( GER )
silver	Hilde Sommer ( GER )
bronze	Paula Mollenhauer ( GER )

Prater Stadium on an aerial photo, 1932

The women's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 was held on September 18, 1938 in Vienna's Prater Stadium.

There was a three-fold German success in this competition. Gisela Mauermayer became European champion . Hilde Sommer won the silver medal . Paula Mollenhauer came in third place.

Existing records

World record	48.31 s	Gisela Mauermayer	Berlin , Germany	July 11, 1936
Championship record	There was not yet a European championship record.

execution

On the IAAF website there is only one result list for all technical disciplines with the final result for all participants. A qualification is not listed there for any jumping, pushing or throwing competition. Accordingly, all eleven discus throwers started together in a group for the final. It is not clear how many attempts were available to the athletes and whether after the third round, as was common at the Olympic Games at the time, for example, the best six throwers went into a final with three more rounds.

At the Olympic Games during this time, it was common practice in the technical disciplines to first conduct a qualifying round on the morning of the competition day, if the number of participants was not too small. This preliminary round was held in two groups. The final took place with the qualified female athletes, usually in the afternoon of the same day.

final

In this photo of the top four athletes in the shot put , European discus champion Gisela Mauermayer is second from the left - she finished second in the shot put

September 18, 1938

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gisela Mauermayer	German Empire	44.80 CR
2	Hilde Sommer	German Empire	40.95 PB
3	Paula Mollenhauer	German Empire	39.81 PB
4th	Birgit Lundström	Sweden	38.11 PB
5	Genowefa Cejzik	Poland	36.51 PB
6th	Gabre Gabric	Italy	35.53 SB
7th	To sneeze	Netherlands	35.48 SB
8th	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	34.19 PB
9	Britta Awall	Sweden	33.26 PB
10	Kathleen Dyer-Tilley	Great Britain	33.18 PB
11	Ágnes Nadányi	Hungary	31.08 PB

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  Birgit Lundström took fourth place

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  Genowefa Cejzik - Fifth in the discus throw / Seventh in the shot put

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  Gabre Gabric finished sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 14, 2019
• Women Discus Throw European Championship 1938 Vienna on todor66.com, accessed on March 14, 2019
• I European Championship, Vienna 1938 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 14, 2019
• 1st European Women's Athletics Championships 1938 in Vienna, Austria from ifosta.de, accessed on March 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ After the annexation of Austria by Germany at the time of these European championships, the German flag from that time must be used as a symbol. For a limited period of time, the Republic of Austria did not exist and was part of the German Empire. In Vienna itself, the corresponding flag was waved everywhere, and it is now being used here - even if, as in all other cases, with a certain degree of discomfort.
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus women , accessed March 14, 2019
3. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 , accessed on March 14, 2019