European Athletics Championships 1958 / Women's Shot Put
| 6th European Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| discipline | Shot Put Women |
| city |
 Stockholm
|
| Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
| Participants | 12 athletes from 9 countries |
| Competition phase | August 23 |
| Medalists | |
 gold |
Marianne Werner ( GER )
 |
 silver |
Tamara Tyschkewitsch ( URS )
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 bronze |
Tamara Press ( URS )
|
The shot put women at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was on August 23, 1958 at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium held.
With silver and bronze, there were two medals for female athletes from the USSR in this competition. The German athlete Marianne Werner became European champion . Second place went to 1956 Olympic champion Tamara Tyschkewitsch . Bronze went to Tamara Press , who won the discus throw the day before .
Records
Existing records
| World record | 16.76 s |
Galina Sybina
|
Tashkent , then Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan ) | October 13, 1956 |
| European record | ||||
| EM record | 15.65 m | EM in Bern , Switzerland | August 28, 1954 |
Record improvement
European champion Marianne Werner improved the championship record on August 23 by nine centimeters to 15.74 m.
execution
With only twelve participants, the organizers waived a qualification. All the athletes entered the final together.
final
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August 23, 1958, 3:15 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marianne Werner |
Germany
|
15.74 CR |
| 2 | Tamara Tyschkewitsch |
Soviet Union
|
15.54 SB |
| 3 | Tamara Press |
Soviet Union
|
15.53 SB |
| 4th | Johanna Lüttge |
Germany
|
15.19 SB |
| 5 | Suzanne Allday |
 Great Britain
|
14.66 PB |
| 6th | Ana Roth |
.svg){kind=small} Romania
|
14.55 SB |
| 7th | Hannelore Klute |
Germany
|
14.48 PB |
| 8th | Milena Usenik |
.svg){kind=small} Yugoslavia
|
14.20 PB |
| 9 | Karin-Inge Halkier |
 Denmark
|
12.91 PB |
| 10 | Simone Saenen |
 Belgium
|
12.05 PB |
| 11 | Anni Poell |
 Austria
|
11.74 SB |
| 12 | Fry Frischknecht |
 Switzerland
|
11.50 |
The bronze medalist Tamara Press (to the left of her sister Irina Press) had won the discus throw the day before and had an extremely successful career as a shot putter and discus thrower ahead of her
Johanna Lüttge took fourth place
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 5, 2019
- Women Shot Put 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, women's shot put 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed May 5, 2019