European Athletics Championships 1974 / Women's discus throw

11th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Rome
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	11 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	September 6th
Medalists
gold	Faina Melnik ( URS )
silver	Argentina Menis ( ROM )
bronze	Gabriele Hinzmann ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Rome in 2009

The women's discus throw at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6, 1974 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome .

The defending champion and Olympic champion of 1972 Faina Melnik from the USSR became European champion . She won Argentina Menis before the Romanian Olympic runner-up in 1972 . Bronze went to the GDR thrower Gabriele Hinzmann .

Records

Existing records

World record	69.90 m	Faina Melnik	Prague , Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	May 27, 1974
European record
EM record	64.22 m		EM Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1971

Record improvement

European champion Faina Melnik improved her own championship record in the final on September 6th by 4.78 m to 69.00 m.

execution

With only eleven participants, there was no qualification, all athletes entered the final together.

final

Faina Melnik became European champion for the second time in a row; the year before she had won the Olympic gold medal , and in the following year she was the first female thrower to exceed the 70-meter mark

September 6, 1974, 4:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Faina Melnik	Soviet Union	69.00 CR
2	Argentina Menis	Romania	64.62 SB
3	Gabriele Hinzmann	GDR	62.50 SB
4th	Maria Petkova	Bulgaria	61.92
5	Karin Höldke	GDR	58.92 PB
6th	Olimpia Cataramă	Romania	58.30 PB
7th	Liesel Westermann	BR Germany	57.40 SB
8th	Wassilka Stoewa	Bulgaria	57.12 SB
9	Helena Vyhnalova	Czechoslovakia	55.24 PB
10	Svetla Boschkowa	Bulgaria	54.28 SB
11	Rosemary Payne	Great Britain	49.16 SB

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  After finishing fourth at the European Championships in 1971 and the Olympic silver medal in 1972 , Argentina Menis also won the silver medal here

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  Bronze medalist Gabriele Hinzmann, EC seventh from 1969 and Olympic sixth from 1972 - 1976 she was Olympic third

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Rome 1974 from european-athletics.org, accessed July 24, 2019
• European Championship 1974 Rome, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed July 24, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1974 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 24, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 1974 Rome, p. 426 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 24, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1974, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 24, 2019
• 11th European Athletics Championships 1974 in Rome, Italy from ifosta.de, accessed on July 24, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed July 24, 2019