Mihaela Peneș

Mihaela Peneș (1964)

Mihaela Peneș , actually Michaela Dappen, (born July 22, 1947 in Bucharest ), is a former Romanian athlete . At a height of 1.84 m, her competition weight was 94 kg.

When Mihaela Peneș took on the javelin final at the Tokyo Olympics on October 16, 1964 , she was 17 years old. In the qualification in the morning, Jelena Gorchakova from the Soviet Union set a new world record with 62.40 m. Peneș threw the spear in the first attempt at 60.54 m. This litter was enough to win the Olympics ahead of the Hungarian Márta Rudas and Gorchakova.

At the Summer Universiade in Budapest in 1965 , she became student world champion.

At the European Championships in Budapest in 1966 , Mihaela Peneș won silver with 56.94 m behind Marion Lüttge from the GDR with 58.74 m.

At the age of 21, Peneș wanted to defend her title at the 1968 Olympic Games . As four years before, she achieved the best throw of 59.92 m in the first attempt. But the Hungarian Angéla Németh was able to counter in the second attempt with 60.36 m and won gold in front of Mihaela Peneș and Eva Janko from Austria.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ adevarul.ro

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Documentation e. V.