1932 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	8 athletes from 4 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	July 31, 1932
Medalists Mildred Didrikson ( USA )   Ellen Braumüller ( DEU )   Tilly Fleischer ( DEU )

The women's javelin throw at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on July 31, 1932 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Only eight athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of this discipline.

The American Mildred Didrikson was Olympic champion ahead of the Germans Ellen Braumüller and Tilly Fleischer .

Existing records

• World record : 46.745 m - Nan Gindele ( USA ), Chicago , June 18, 1932
• The discipline was on the Olympic program for the first time. That is why there was no Olympic record yet .

Conducting the competition

Because of the small number of starters, there was no qualifying round. All participants contested the final together on July 31st.

final

Date: July 31, 1932

The top favorite was the American Nan Gindele, who had set a world record with 46.745 m in June of the Olympic year . The German champion Tilly Fleischer was also in the favorites field due to her preliminary performances. In the first attempt, Mildred Didrikson set a new Olympic record of 43.69 m , which everyone else struggled with. The two Germans Ellen Braumüller and Tilly Fleischer came close to the Olympic record length with 43.50 m and 43.01 m respectively, but Didrikson won her first gold medal, Braumüller and Fleischer won silver and bronze, while the world record holder Nan Gindele was almost fifth stayed nine meters below her world record. In front of her was the Japanese Masako Shinpo in fourth place.
The test series are unknown.

Mildred Didrikson (1938)

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Mildred Didrikson	United States	43.69 m	OR
2	Ellen Braumüller	German Empire	43.50 m
3	Tilly Fleischer	German Empire	43.01 m
4th	Masako Shinpo	Japan	39.08 m
5	Nan Gindele	United States	37.95 m
6th	Gloria Russell	United States	36.74 m
7th	Maria Uribe	Mexico	33.66 m
8th	Mitsue Ishizu	Japan	30.81 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 Javelin , Retrieved September 19, 2017
• Official report p. 475, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 19, 2017
• Babe Didrikson at Los Angeles 1932, Epic Olympic Moments , published December 19, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed September 19, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 648 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)