1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	14 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	August 2, 1936
Medalists Tilly Fleischer ( GER ) Luise Krüger ( GER ) Maria Kwaśniewska ( POL )
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The women's javelin at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 2, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 14 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the German Tilly Fleischer . Her compatriot Luise Krüger won the silver medal, bronze went to Maria Kwaśniewska from Poland .

Existing records

• World record : 46.75 m - Nan Gindele ( USA ), Chicago , June 18, 1936
• Olympic record : 43.69 m - Mildred Didrikson ( USA ), Los Angeles final , July 31, 1932

Conducting the competition

On August 2nd there was a preliminary round, from which the six best participants after three rounds had three more attempts in a subsequent final round.

result

The medal winners (from left to right): Luise Krüger (DEU), Maria Kwaśniewska (POL), Tilly Fleischer (DEU)

August 2, 1936, 3 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, 18–19 ° C, headwind of approx. 2.3 m / s.

The favorites were the Austrian Herma Bauma and the Germans Luise Krüger and Tilly Fleischer.

The two German throwers put their excellent performances from the German championships in July into practice here in the first competition of these Olympic Games. With her second attempt and a new Olympic record , Fleischer took the lead, which she was able to extend in the fifth round. Krüger improved to second place with her third litter. This order stayed that way until the end. The Polish Maria Kwaśniewska and Bauma in third and fourth place couldn't get close to the two leaders.

Maria Kwaśniewska won the first Polish medal in the women's javelin .

Note: The best sizes are printed in bold.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tilly Fleischer	German Empire	38.60 m	44.69 m	43.01 m	38.87 m	45.18 m	42.19 m	45.18 m	OR
2	Luise Kruger	German Empire	40.78 m	39.24 m	43.29 m	40.69 m	37.94 m	42.96 m	43.29 m
3	Maria Kwaśniewska	Poland	41.80 m	38.49 m	39.75 m	39.45 m	40.10 m	37.77 m	41.80 m
4th	Herma Bauma	Austria	33.42 m	38.43 m	41.66 m	40.15 m	39.90 m	39.73 m	41.66 m
5	Sadako Yamamoto	Japan	40.88 m	38.44 m	41.18 m	39.52 m	41.24 m	41.45 m	41.45 m
6th	Lydia Eberhardt	German Empire	36.26 m	41.00 m	39.18 m	39.91 m	41.37 m	40.68 m	41.37 m
7th	Gertrude Wilhelmsen	United States	32.91 m	31.84 m	37.35 m				37.35 m
8th	Gien de Kock	Netherlands	36.93 m	34.77 m	35.03 m				36.93 m
9	Martha Worst	United States	35.86 m	36.69 m	35.80 m				36.69 m
10	Irja Lipasti	Finland	33.58 m	32.67 m	33.69 m				33.69 m
11	Jeanne van Kesteren	Belgium	27.30 m	33.13 m	27.16 m				33.13 m
12	Jelica Stanojevic	Yugoslavia	24.37 m	29.06 m	29.88 m				29.88 m
13	Elizebeth Burch	United States	27.92 m	28.84 m	25.98 m				28.84 m
14th	Kathleen Connall	Great Britain	27.80 m	26.53 m	26.98 m				27.80 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 310f

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed September 22, 2017
• Official report pp. 698–699, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 22, 2017
• 1936, Javelin, Women, Olympic Games, Berlin , published July 27, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 648 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Official report p. 698, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)