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 | ||||||||
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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.
space | Surname | nation | Expanse | annotation |
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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
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 648 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)