European Athletics Championships 1954 / Women's discus throw

5th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Bern
Stadion	Neufeld Stadium
Participants	17 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 27
Medalists
gold	Nina Ponomarjowa ( URS )
silver	Irina Beglyakova ( URS )
bronze	Galina Sybina ( URS )

Grandstand of the Neufeld stadium in Bern

The women's discus throw at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27, 1954 in the Neufeld stadium in Bern .

In this competition there was a triple victory for the Soviet Union. The European champion was the 1952 Olympic champion Nina Ponomarjowa . In second place came Irina Beglyakova , two years later also Olympic runner-up. Bronze went to the European shot put champion Galina Sybina .

Existing records

World record	57.04 m	Nina Dumbadze	Tbilisi , then Soviet Union (now Georgia )	October 18, 1952
European record
Championship record	48.03 m		EM in Brussels , Belgium	August 25, 1950

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved. The winner Nina Ponomarjowa was only one centimeter missing.

execution

The competition was conducted without prior qualification. All seventeen participants went to the joint final.

final

August 27, 1954, 3:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	48.02 SB
2	Irina Beglyakova	Soviet Union	45.79 SB
3	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	44.77 PB
4th	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	44.37 SB
5	Jiřina Vobořilová	Czechoslovakia	44.33 SB
6th	Julija Matej	Yugoslavia	43.95 PB
7th	Lia Manoliu	Romania	43.86 SB
8th	Karen Sonneck	BR Germany	43.86
9	Zsuzsa Serédi	Hungary	42.15 PB
10	Anni Poell	Austria	41.45 SB
11	Marianne Werner	BR Germany	41.36 PB
12	Jolanda Mayr	BR Germany	39.65 PB
13	Helena Dmowska	Poland	39.44 SB
14th	Simone Saenen	Belgium	39.37 SB
15th	Ilona Józsá	Hungary	37.98 SB
16	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	37.45 PB
17th	Herlinde Peyker	Austria	33.43 SB

The series of the following athletes are known:

• Nina Ponomarjowa: x - 48.02 m - 42.39 m - 45.24 m - 46.48 m - 40.18 m
• Stepánka Mertová: 36.14 m - 44.37 m - 40.89 m - 38.81 m - 39.45 m - 43.58 m

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  Lia Manoliu achieved her second top placement at an international championship here in seventh place after her sixth place at the 1952 Olympic Games , and in 1968 she was finally Olympic champion

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  Marianne Werner, shot put fifth, took eleventh place in the discus throw - in the photo on the far right during the award ceremony as a silver medalist in the shot put at the 1952 Olympic Games

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Bern 1954 at european-athletics.org, accessed on April 20, 2019
• Women Discus Throw European Championship 1954 Bern on todor66.com, accessed April 20, 2019
• V European Championship, Bern 1954 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1954, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on April 20, 2019
• 5th European Athletics Championships 1954 in Bern, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on April 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed April 20, 2019