European Athletics Championships 1974 / Women's discus throw
11th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's discus throw |
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Stadion | Olympic Stadium |
Participants | 11 athletes from 7 countries |
Competition phase | September 6th |
Medalists | |
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Faina Melnik ( URS )
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Argentina Menis ( ROM )
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Gabriele Hinzmann ( GDR )
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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 |
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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
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September 6, 1974, 4:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Faina Melnik |
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69.00 CR |
2 | Argentina Menis |
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64.62 SB |
3 | Gabriele Hinzmann |
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62.50 SB |
4th | Maria Petkova |
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61.92 |
5 | Karin Höldke |
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58.92 PB |
6th | Olimpia Cataramă |
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58.30 PB |
7th | Liesel Westermann |
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57.40 SB |
8th | Wassilka Stoewa |
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57.12 SB |
9 | Helena Vyhnalova |
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55.24 PB |
10 | Svetla Boschkowa |
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54.28 SB |
11 | Rosemary Payne |
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49.16 SB |
After finishing fourth at the European Championships in 1971 and the Olympic silver medal in 1972 , Argentina Menis also won the silver medal here
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
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed July 24, 2019