1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	9 athletes from 4 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 2, 1932
Medalists Lillian Copeland ( USA )   Ruth Osburn ( USA )   Jadwiga Wajs ( POL )

The women's discus throw at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 2, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Nine athletes took part.

The US American Lillian Copeland was Olympic champion ahead of her compatriot Ruth Osburn . The Pole Jadwiga Wajs won the bronze medal.

Existing records

• World record : 42.43 m - Jadwiga Wajs ( Poland ), Łódź , June 19, 1932
• Olympic record : 39.62 m - Halina Konopacka ( Poland ), Olympic final in Amsterdam , July 31, 1928

The Polish world record holder Jadwiga Wajs won the bronze medal

Conducting the competition

Because of the small number of starters, there was no qualifying round. All participants contested the final together on August 2nd.

final

Date: August 2, 1932

The discus throw was not a competition with technically mature performances. The Polish Jadwiga Vajsowna, who had set a new world record with 42.43 m in June , was only a shadow of herself and just won the bronze medal with 38.74 m, because the German Grete Heublein did not already have her before achievements shown and was fifth. Gold and silver surprisingly made the two Americans Ruth Osburn and Lillian Copeland between themselves. The test series can no longer be determined. It is known that Ruth Osburn took the lead with 40.12 m in the first attempt. Until the last round, the only 18-year-old Osburn maintained her top position. Not even half a year before the Games, she had picked up a disc for the first time, but she was already victorious in the US Olympic qualifications. With her last attempt, Copeland was able to counter and won the gold medal with a new Olympic record . Osburn and Copeland were the only female throwers who got more than forty yards.

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Lillian Copeland	United States	40.58 m	OR
2	Ruth Osburn	United States	40.12 m
3	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	38.74 m
4th	Tilly Fleischer	German Empire	36.12 m
5	Grete Heublein	German Empire	34.66 m
6th	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	33.60 m
7th	Mitsue Ishizu	Japan	33.52 m
8th	Ellen Braumüller	German Empire	33.15 m
9	Margaret Jenkins	United States	30.22 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 250f

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed September 19, 2017
• Official report . 473-474, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 19, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 647 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)