European Athletics Championships 1958 / Women's discus throw
6th European Athletics Championships | |
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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 ) |
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) |
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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
August 22, 1958, 3:15 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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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
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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed April 20, 2019