European Athletics Championships 1946 / Women's shot put

3. European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Women
city	Oslo
Stadion	Bislett Stadium
Participants	15 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 22nd (qualification / final)
Medalists
gold	Tatiana Sevryukova ( URS )
silver	Micheline Ostermeyer ( FRA )
bronze	Amelia Piccinini ( ITA )

The Bislett Stadium in Oslo shortly after the European Championships

The shot put women at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was on 22 August 1946 at Bislett Stadium in the Norwegian capital Oslo held.

European champion was Tatyana Sevryukova from the USSR. Micheline Ostermeyer from France won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Italian Amelia Piccinini .

Records

Existing records

World record	14.38 s	Gisela Mauermayer	Warsaw , Poland	July 15, 1934
European record
Championship record	13.29 m	Hermione Schröder	EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria )	September 17, 1938

Record improvement

European champion Tatjana Sevryukova improved Hermine Schröder's championship record by 87 centimeters to 14.16 meters.  

execution

Given the number of participants of fifteen athletes, no qualification was obviously required. So all shot putters went to the final together. It is not clear from the sources whether there were three attempts for all participants and then three more shots for the six best, as is usual at the Olympic Games, for example, or whether a different mode was used.

final

Vice European champion Micheline Ostermeyer - fifth high jump on the same day - became Olympic champion in the shot put and  discus two years later

August 22, 1946, 5:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tatiana Sevryukova	Soviet Union	14.16 CR
2	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	12.84 SB
3	Amelia Piccinini	Italy	12.21 SB
4th	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	11.65 PB
5	Eivor Olson	Sweden	11.43 SB
6th	To sneeze	Netherlands	11.35 PB
7th	Maria Kwaśniewska	Poland	11.06 PB
8th	Liv Paulsen	Norway	10.37 PB
9	Jaroslava Křítková	Czechoslovakia	10.11 SB
10	Kathleen Dyer	Great Britain	09.83 PB
11	Stella Møllgaard	Denmark	09.75 PB
12	Aase Kjølseth	Norway	09.73 PB
NM	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	without space
	Sona Reichová	Czechoslovakia
	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland

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  The fourth-placed Jadwiga Wajs won bronze in the discus throw the following day 

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  Eivor Olson finished fifth

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  Maria Kwaśniewska - seventh in the shot put, two days later in sixth place in the javelin throw

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  Stanisława Walasiewicz was also involved in the shot put, but remained without a valid attempt

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Oslo 1946 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed March 25, 2019
• Women Shot Put 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, women's shot put 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. Shot put women , accessed March 25, 2019