European Athletics Championships 1958 / women's javelin
6th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's javelin throw |
city | Stockholm |
Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Participants | 16 athletes from 10 countries |
Competition phase | August 19 (qualification / final) |
Medalists | |
gold | Dana Zátopková ( TCH ) |
silver | Birutė Zalogaitytė ( URS ) |
bronze | Jutta Neumann ( GER ) |
The women's javelin at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19, 1958 in the Stockholm Olympic Stadium.
European champion was the Czechoslovak Olympic champion from 1952 and defending champion Dana Zátopková , who improved her own European record in the final. She won ahead of Birutė Zalogaitytė , later Birutė Kalėdienė, from the USSR. The German thrower Jutta Neumann won the bronze medal.
Records
Existing records
World record | 57.40 m | Anna Pazera | Cardiff , UK | July 24, 1958 |
European record | 55.73 m | Dana Zátopková | Prague , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic ) | June 1, 1958 |
EM record | 52.91 m | EM in Bern , Switzerland | August 25, 1954 |
Record improvement
European champion Dana Zátopková improved her own championship record in the final on August 19 by 3.11 m to 56.02 m. At the same time, she increased her European record , which she had set on June 1st of the EM year, by 29 centimeters.
qualification
August 19, 1958, 3 p.m.
The sixteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 43.00 m. Fourteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and entered the final on the evening of the same day. Only two female throwers were eliminated - a qualification that is probably superfluous in this form.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Almut Brömmel | Germany | 49.96 PB |
2 | Ingrid Almqvist | Sweden | 49.49 SB |
3 | Dana Zátopková | Czechoslovakia | 49.29 |
4th | Birutė Zalogaitytė | Soviet Union | 49.14 |
5 | Urszula Figwer | Poland | 47.55 |
6th | Jutta Neumann | Germany | 47.02 |
7th | Eleonora Bogun | Soviet Union | 46.95 |
8th | Liselotte Kipp | Germany | 46.85 |
9 | Maria Grabowska | Poland | 46.68 |
10 | Irena Starzyńska | Poland | 45.11 PB |
11 | Tamara Tsvetkova | Soviet Union | 44.35 |
12 | Averil Williams | Great Britain | 43.96 |
13 | Maria Diţi | Romania | 43.86 |
14th | Cmiljka Kalušević | Yugoslavia | 43.10 |
15th | Lise Kock | Denmark | 41.60 PB |
16 | Unn Thorvaldsen | Norway | 39.28 PB |
final
August 19, 1958, 5:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Dana Zátopková | Czechoslovakia | 56.02 ER |
2 | Birutė Zalogaitytė | Soviet Union | 51.30 |
3 | Jutta Neumann | Germany | 50.50 PB |
4th | Eleonora Bogun | Soviet Union | 49.88 PB |
5 | Maria Grabowska | Poland | 49.77 PB |
6th | Urszula Figwer | Poland | 49.48 SB |
7th | Maria Diţi | Romania | 49.03 SB |
8th | Almut Brömmel | Germany | 48.85 |
9 | Ingrid Almqvist | Sweden | 46.90 |
10 | Liselotte Kipp | Germany | 46.89 PB |
11 | Tamara Tsvetkova | Soviet Union | 45.62 PB |
12 | Cmiljka Kalušević | Yugoslavia | 45.42 SB |
13 | Irena Starzyńska | Poland | 45.10 |
14th | Averil Williams | Great Britain | 44.04 PB |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Stockholm 1958 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 5, 2019
- Women Javelin 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, javelin 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. Javelin women , accessed May 5, 2019
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Javelin Women , p. 67 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 5, 2019