European Athletics Championships 1938 / Women's Shot Put

1st European Women's Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Women
city	Vienna
Stadion	Prater Stadium
Attendees	12 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	17th of September
Medalists
gold	Hermine Schröder ( GER )
silver	Gisela Mauermayer ( GER )
bronze	Wanda Flakowicz ( POL )

Prater Stadium on an aerial photo, 1932

The shot put women at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was on 17 September 1938 in Vienna Prater Stadium discharged.

Two athletes from Germany achieved a double victory in this discipline. Hermine Schröder became the European champion . Second place went to Gisela Mauermayer . The Polish Wanda Flakowicz won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	14.38 s	Gisela Mauermayer	Warsaw , Poland	July 15, 1934
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 twelve shot putters started together in one 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, the best six participants 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

September 17, 1938

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Hermione Schröder	German Empire	13.29 CR
2	Gisela Mauermayer	German Empire	13.27 SB
3	Wanda Flakowicz	Poland	12.55 PB
4th	Helma Wessel	German Empire	12.55 PB
5	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	12.10 PB
6th	Pūce Aldzere-Lavīze	Latvia	11.70 PB
7th	Genowefa Cejzik	Poland	11.68 PB
8th	Irja Lipasti	Finland	11.64 PB
9	Amelia Piccinini	Italy	11.30 SB
10	Britta Awall	Sweden	10.96 PB
11	To sneeze	Netherlands	10.66 SB
12	Kathleen Dyer-Tilley	Great Britain	10.49 PB

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  The four first placed athletes in the shot put ( from left to right ): Wanda Flakowicz, Gisela Mauermayer, Hermine Schröder, Helma Wessel

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  Genowefa Cejzik reached seventh place, in the shot put she finished fifth the next day

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on March 15, 2019
• Women Shot Put European Championship 1938 Vienna on todor66.com, accessed on March 15, 2019
• I European Championship, Vienna 1938 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1938, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on March 15, 2019
• 1st European Athletics Championships for women 1938 in Vienna, Austria from ifosta.de, accessed on March 15, 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. ↑ ^{a b c} Note on the event date: Two different dates are mentioned in the sources:
   • The official EAA homepage names September 17th ( European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 on the EAA homepage, accessed on March 15, 2019)
   • September 18 is shown on todor66.com ( Women Shot Put European Championship 1938 Vienna on todor66.com, accessed on March 15, 2019)
   The date of the EAA's official homepage is listed throughout this article.
3. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed March 15, 2019
4. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Vienna 1938 , accessed on March 15, 2019