European Athletics Championships 1971 / Women's discus throw

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	August 11 (qualification) August 12 (final)
Medalists
gold	Faina Melnik ( URS )
silver	Liesel Westermann ( FRG )
bronze	Lyudmila Muravjowa ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The discus throw of women in the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 11 and 12 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

Two medals, gold and bronze, went to the throwers from the Soviet Union. Faina Melnik became European champion . In the final, she achieved a new world record. In second place came the previous world record holder and Olympic runner-up in 1968, Liesel Westermann from the Federal Republic of Germany. Bronze went to the Vice European Champion from 1969 Lyudmila Muravjowa .

Records

Existing records

World record	63.96 m	Liesel Westermann	Hamburg , FR Germany (now Germany )	September 27, 1969
European record
EM record	59.24 m	Tamara Danilova	EM Athens , Greece	19th September 1969

Record improvement

European champion Faina Melnik improved the existing championship record in the final on August 12th by 4.98 m to 64.22 m. With this, Faina Melnik set a new world record.

The 1968 Olympic champion Lia Manoliu, who had been there since 1952 with numerous top placings and medals, was eliminated from the qualification this time

Karin Illigen did not reach the final

qualification

August 11, 1971, 11:00 a.m.

Sixteen participants took part in the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 55.00 m. Since only seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 52.98 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tamara Danilova	Soviet Union	57.52
2	Lyudmila Muravyova	Soviet Union	56.84
3	Argentina Menis	Romania	56.38
4th	Jolán Kleiber	Hungary	56.12
5	Liesel Westermann	BR Germany	55.94
6th	Brigitte Berendonk	BR Germany	55.24
7th	Olimpia Cataramă	Romania	55.16
8th	Faina Melnik	Soviet Union	54.58
9	Judit Abaházi	Hungary	54.56
10	Anni Mickler	GDR	53.76
11	Christine Spielberg	GDR	53.44
12	Rosemary Payne	Great Britain	52.98
13	Lia Manoliu	Romania	52.26
14th	Judit Bognár	Hungary	52.12
15th	Karin Illgen	GDR	50.60
16	Despina Kafenidou	Greece	47.30

final

August 12, 1971, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Faina Melnik	Soviet Union	64.22 WR
2	Liesel Westermann	BR Germany	61.68
3	Lyudmila Muravyova	Soviet Union	59.48
4th	Argentina Menis	Romania	59.04
5	Tamara Danilova	Soviet Union	58.28
6th	Olimpia Cataramă	Romania	57.22
7th	Anni Mickler	GDR	57.00
8th	Christine Spielberg	GDR	56.20
9	Jolán Kleiber	Hungary	55.06
10	Brigitte Berendonk	BR Germany	54.48
11	Judit Abaházi	Hungary	51.88
12	Rosemary Payne	Great Britain	50.20

European champion Faina Melnik's litters showed the following series:
60.50 m - x - x - x - x - 64.22 m WR

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  European champion Faina Melnik - here on an Armenian postage stamp

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  Argentina Menis came in fourth

Web links

• European Championship 1971 Helsinki, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed July 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 5, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 418f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed July 5, 2019