European Athletics Championships 1969 / Women's discus throw
9th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's discus throw |
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Stadion | Karaiskakis Stadium |
Participants | 9 athletes from 6 countries |
Competition phase | September 19th |
Medalists | |
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Tamara Danilowa ( URS )
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Lyudmila Muravjowa ( URS )
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Karin Illgen ( GDR )
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The women's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1969 was held on September 19, 1969 in the Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens .
In this discipline there was a double victory for the athletes from the USSR. European champion was Tamara Danilowa . She won by four centimeters over Lyudmila Muravjowa . The GDR athlete Karin Illgen won bronze.
Records
Existing records
World record | 62.70 m |
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Berlin , FR Germany (now Germany ) | June 18, 1969 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 57.76 m |
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EM Budapest , Hungary | September 1, 1966 |
Record improvement
European champion Tamara Danilowa improved the existing championship record in the final on September 19 by 1.48 m to 59.24 m.
execution
This competition was very thin with only nine athletes. With such a small number of participants, there was no qualification and all throwers competed together for the final.
final
September 19, 1969, 7:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Tamara Danilova |
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59.28 CR |
2 | Lyudmila Muravyova |
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59.24 SB |
3 | Karin Illgen |
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58.66 PB |
4th | Lia Manoliu |
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57.38 SB |
5 | Antonina Popova |
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56.66 PB |
6th | Olimpia Cataramă |
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56.62 SB |
7th | Gabriele Hinzmann |
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52.32 SB |
8th | Judit Stugner |
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52.00 SB |
9 | Rosemary Payne |
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50.30 SB |
The 1968 Olympic champion Lia Manoliu reached fourth place - her career marked by many successes had already started internationally with sixth place at the 1952 Olympic Games
Gabriele Hinzmann came in seventh place - there were two third places for her later at the European Championships in 1974 and the Olympic Games in 1976
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1969 from european-athletics.org, accessed June 16, 2019
- Women Discus Throw European Championship 1969 Athens on todor66.com, accessed June 16, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1969 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 16, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Discus Throw Jump European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 411 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 16, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1969, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 16, 2019
- 9th European Athletics Championships 1969 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on June 16, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed June 16, 2019