European Athletics Championships 1950 / Women's discus throw
4. European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's discus throw |
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Stadion | Heysel Stadium |
Participants | 12 athletes from 7 countries |
Competition phase | August 25 |
Medalists | |
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Nina Dumbadse ( URS )
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Rimma Shumskaya ( URS )
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Edera Cordiale ( ITA )
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The women's discus throw at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held on August 25, 1950 in the Heysel Stadium in the Belgian capital, Brussels .
In this discipline there was a double victory for the Soviet throwers. The European champion was defending champion Nina Dumbadze . Silver went to Rimma Schumskaja. Third place went to the Italian Edera Cordiale .
Records
Existing records
World record | 53.25 m |
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Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia ) | August 8, 1948 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 44.80 m |
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EM in Vienna , then Germany (now Austria ) | September 18, 1938 |
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EM in Oslo , Norway | August 23, 1946 |
Record improvement
European champion Nina Dumbadse improved the existing championship record by 3.23 m to 48.03 m.
final
August 25, 1950, 4:40 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Nina Dumbadze |
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48.03 CR |
2 | Rimma Shumskaya |
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45.79 PB |
3 | Edera Cordiale |
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44.77 PB |
4th | Micheline Ostermeyer |
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41.22 SB |
5 | Julija Matej |
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40.58 SB |
6th | Paulette Veste |
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37.86 PB |
7th | Gabre Gabric-Calvesi |
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37.73 PB |
8th | Lotte Haidegger |
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37.40 SB |
9 | Đurđa Borovec |
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37.07 PB |
10 | Anna Andreeva |
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36.26 PB |
11 | Gretel Bolliger |
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31.46 SB |
12 | Jaroslava Jungrová |
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27.17 PB |
Bronze medalist Edera Cordiale - at the European Championships in 1946 she was eliminated without a valid attempt in qualification
The 1948 Olympic champion Micheline Ostermeyer finished fourth - also third over 80 m hurdles and in the shot put
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Brussels 1950 from the European Athletics homepage , accessed on April 2, 2019
- Women Discus Throw. European Championship 1950 Brussels on todor66.com, accessed April 2, 2019
- IV European Championship, Brussels 1950 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 2, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1950, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 2, 2019
- 4th European Athletics Championships 1950 in Brussels, Belgium from ifosta.de, accessed on April 2, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed April 2, 2019