1936 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	19 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Olympiastadion Berlin
Competition phase	4th August 1936
Medalists Gisela Mauermayer ( GER ) Jadwiga Wajs ( POL ) Paula Mollenhauer ( GER )
← 1932 1948 →

The women's discus throw at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin was held on August 4, 1936 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. 19 athletes took part.

The German Gisela Mauermayer was Olympic champion ahead of the Polish Jadwiga Wajs . The bronze medal went to the German Paula Mollenhauer .

Existing records

• World record : 48.31 m - Gisela Mauermayer ( Germany ), Dresden , July 11, 1936
• Olympic record : 40.58 m - Lillian Copeland ( USA ), Los Angeles final , August 2, 1932

Conducting the competition

On August 4th there was a qualifying round in which each participant had three attempts. The best six starters then went on to the final with another three attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

The Italian Gabre Gabric failed as tenth in the qualification.

August 4, 1936, 3.15 p.m.
Weather conditions: clear to cloudy, approx. 19.5 ° C, lateral tail wind at approx. 3.7 m / s.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
1	Gisela Mauermayer	German Empire	47.63 m	41.64 m	40.70 m	47.63 m
2	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	44.69 m	31.99 m	46.22 m	46.22 m
3	Paula Mollenhauer	German Empire	38.59 m	37.45 m	33.27 m	38.59 m
4th	Ko Nakamura	Japan	35.84 m	37.21 m	38.24 m	38.24 m
5	Hide Mineshima	Japan	37.04 m	37.45 m	35.25 m	37.45 m
6th	Birgit Lundström	Sweden	35.82 m	33.97 m	31.84 m	35.82 m
7th	To sneeze	Netherlands	34.03 m	35.21 m	32.64 m	35.21 m
8th	Gertrude Wilhelmsen	United States	33.68 m	34.43 m	x	34.43 m
9	Helen Stephens	United States	34.33 m	31.58 m	32.76 m	34.33 m
10	Gabre Gabric	Italy	27.09 m	34.31 m	28.64 m	34.31 m
11	Margarethe Held	Austria	x	33.15 m	34.05 m	34.05 m
12	Margaréta Schieferová	Czechoslovakia	x	34.03 m	x	34.03 m
13	Veronika Kohlbach	Austria	34.00 m	33.68 m	31.86 m	34.00 m
14th	Lucienne Velu	France	29.92 m	29.51 m	33.95 m	33.95 m
15th	Fumi Kojima	Japan	33.66 m	31.97 m	30.42 m	33.66 m
16	Jantina Koopmans	Netherlands	30.03 m	33.50 m	33.20 m	33.20 m
17th	Vera Neferović	Yugoslavia	x	33.02 m	27.67 m	33.02 m
18th	Evelyn Ferrara	United States	29.50 m	32.52 m	31.07 m	32.52 m
19th	Anna Hagemann	German Empire	28.48 m	x	x	28.48 m

final

Jadwiga Wajs from Poland won the silver medal.

August 4, 1936
Weather conditions: clear to cloudy, approx. 19.5 ° C, lateral tail wind at approx. 3.7 m / s.

The top favorites were Gisela Mauermayer and Jadwiga Wajs. The Polish woman had broken the world record five times between 1932 and 1934 . Then the German broke the record five times before the games in Berlin .

With her first attempt, Wajs clearly exceeded the existing Olympic record . Mauermayer countered with her first throw and thus established the final score. Both athletes were the outstanding discus throwers of those years. This was also expressed in the result. The bronze medalist Paula Mollenhauer was almost six and a half meters behind Wajs, Mauermayer and the Pole were the only ones in this competition to surpass the 40-meter mark.

Gisela Mauermayer won the first German gold medal in the women's discus throw .

Note: The best sizes are printed in bold.

				final
space	Surname	nation	Qualification range	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Gisela Mauermayer	German Empire	47.63 m	36.27 m	43.53 m	44.26 m	47.63 m	OR
2	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	46.22 m	43.36 m	x	42.89 m	46.22 m
3	Paula Mollenhauer	German Empire	38.59 m	35.82 m	x	39.80 m	39.80 m
4th	Ko Nakamura	Japan	38.24 m	31.39 m	32.73 m	33.98 m	38.24 m
5	Hide Mineshima	Japan	37.35 m	35.73 m	32.72 m	33.98 m	37.35 m
6th	Birgit Lundström	Sweden	35.82 m	35.92 m	31.33 m	34.42 m	31.33 m
7th	To sneeze	Netherlands	35.21 m	not in the final			35.21 m
8th	Gertrude Wilhelmsen	United States	33.43 m				33.43 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 3

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed September 22, 2017
• Official report pp. 700–702, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 22, 2017
• High Jump, Women, Olympic Games, Berlin , published on July 27, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on September 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 309
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report p. 700, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)