European Athletics Championships 1958 / Women's discus throw

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Stockholm
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	18 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 20th (qualification) August 22nd (final)
Medalists
gold	Tamara Press ( URS )
silver	Stepánka Mertová ( TCH )
bronze	Jerzy Pławczyk ( POL )

Official postcard of the Stockholm Olympic Stadium from 1912

The women's discus throw at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 20 and 22, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the Soviet thrower Tamara Press . She won ahead of the Czechoslovak Stepánka Mertová. Bronze went to the German athlete Kriemhild Hausmann , later Kriemhild Limberg.

Records

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

Record improvement

The existing EM record was improved three times at these European championships:

• 49.36 m - Štěpánka Mertová, qualification on August 20
• 51.20 m - Tamara Press , final on August 22nd, 1st round 
• 52.31 m - Tamara Press , final on August 22, 6th round 

qualification

August 20, 1958, 11.30 a.m.

The eighteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualifying distance for direct entry into the final was also set so low in this competition at 42.00 meters that only three athletes did not reach this mark. The fifteen qualified throwers (highlighted in light blue) competed together for the final two days later.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	49.36 CR
2	Irina Beglyakova	Soviet Union	49.06
3	Doris Müller	Germany	47.32
4th	Helena Dmowska	Poland	45.98
5	Elivia Ricci	Italy	45.59 PB
6th	Irene Schuch	Germany	45.26
7th	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	44.78
8th	Kriemhild Hausmann	Germany	44.77
9	Virginia Mikhailova	Bulgaria	44.76 SB
10	Antonina Solotuchina	Soviet Union	44.55
11	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	43.21
12	Dorli court judge	Austria	43.13
13	Anni Poell	Austria	42.84
14th	Kazimiera Sobocińska	Poland	42.57
15th	Simone Saenen	Belgium	42.08 PB
16	Karin-Inge Halkier	Denmark	41.54 PB
17th	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	36.61 SB
18th	Sofia Leriou	Greece	35.96 SB

final

European champion Tamara Press, for whom an extremely successful career as a shot putter and discus thrower began

August 22, 1958, 3:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	52.32 CR
2	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	52.19 SB
3	Kriemhild Hausmann	Germany	50.99 SB
4th	Irina Beglyakova	Soviet Union	50.87 SB
5	Irene Schuch	Germany	49.54 PB
6th	Doris Müller	Germany	49.32 SB
7th	Helena Dmowska	Poland	47.81 PB
8th	Antonina Solotuchina	Soviet Union	46.60 SB
9	Kazimiera Sobocińska	Poland	45.94 PB
10	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	45.41 PB
11	Elivia Ricci	Italy	45.11
12	Dorli court judge	Austria	44.71 SB
13	Virginia Mikhailova	Bulgaria	42.76
14th	Simone Saenen	Belgium	39.82
15th	Anni Poell	Austria	39.44

The series of the European champion Tamara Press is known: 51.20 m - 50.73 m - 49.96 m - 48.10 m - 40.36 m - 52.32 m

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  Irene Schuch reached fifth place

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  Doris Müller came in sixth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 5, 2019
• Women Discus Throw European Championship 1958 Stockholm on todor66.com, accessed May 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1958 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1958, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 5, 2019
• 6th European Athletics Championships 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden from ifosta.de, accessed on May 5, 2019

References and comments

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