European Athletics Championships 1946 / Women's discus throw

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Participants	9 athletes from 6 countries
Competition phase	August 23 (qualification / final)
Medalists
gold	Nina Dumbadse ( URS )
silver	Ans Niesink ( NED )
bronze	Jadwiga Wajs ( POL )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The women's discus throw at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1946 in the Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital, Oslo .

The European champion was the Soviet thrower Nina Dumbadze . She won ahead of Ans Niesink from the Netherlands . Bronze went to Jadwiga Wajs from Poland .

Records

Existing records

World record	48.31 m	Gisela Mauermayer	Berlin , Germany	July 11, 1936
European record
Championship record	44.80 m	Gisela Mauermayer	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 18, 1938

Record improvement

Nina Dumbadse equalized the existing championship record in the qualification. In the final, she became European champion with a width that was 28 centimeters shorter.

qualification

August 23, 1946

The nine participants took part in a qualification carried out together in a group. The eight best throwers qualified for the final - highlighted in light blue. The distances achieved in the qualification were not counted for the final result like today.

Edera Cordiale was eliminated from the qualification without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Nina Dumbadze	Soviet Union	44.80 CRe
2	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	39.96 PB
3	Tatiana Sevryukova	Soviet Union	38.55 PB
4th	To sneeze	Netherlands	37.48
5	Gudrun Eklund	Sweden	36.55
6th	Helena Stachowicz	Poland	32.92 PB
7th	Irena Dobrzańska	Poland	31.97
8th	Kathleen Dyer	Great Britain	28.60
NM	Edera Cordiale	Italy	without space

final

August 23, 1946

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Nina Dumbadze	Soviet Union	44.52
2	To sneeze	Netherlands	40.46 PB
3	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	39.37
4th	Gudrun Eklund	Sweden	36.90 PB
5	Irena Dobrzańska	Poland	36.30 PB
6th	Tatiana Sevryukova	Soviet Union	34.05
7th	Helena Stachowicz	Poland	31.81
8th	Kathleen Dyer	Great Britain	31.34 SB

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  European champion Nina Dumbadze

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  Bronze medalist Jadwiga Wajs

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 25, 2019
• Women Discus Throw European Championship 1946 Oslo on todor66.com, accessed March 25, 2019
• III European Championship, Oslo 1946 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed March 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1946, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on March 25, 2019
• 3rd European Athletics Championships 1946 in Oslo, Norway from ifosta.de, accessed on March 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed March 26, 2019