1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Shot Put (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	19 athletes from 12 countries
Competition location	Wembley Stadium
Competition phase	4th August 1948
Medalists Micheline Ostermeyer ( FRA )   Amelia Piccinini ( ITA )   Ine Schäffer ( AUT )

The shot put women at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was on August 4, 1948 in Wembley Stadium discharged. 19 athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of this discipline of women's athletics.

The first Olympic champion was Micheline Ostermeyer from France . She won ahead of the Italian Amelia Piccinini and the Austrian Ine Schäffer .

Existing records

• Official world record : 14.38 m - Gisela Mauermayer ( Germany ), Warsaw , July 15, 1934 / unofficial: 14.89 m - Tatjana Sevrjukowa ( Soviet Union ), Frunze , October 14, 1945 - not recognized as the Soviet Union was not yet a member at the time the IAAF was On the day of the Olympic competition, August 4, 1948, Tatiana Sevryukova scored 14.59 m. This width has been recognized as a world record.
• There was still no Olympic record for the shot put , as this competition was held in London for the first time.

Conducting the competition

The participants entered a qualifying round on August 4th. The required qualification distance was 12.30 meters. All athletes who managed this distance qualified for the final on the same day. If less than 12 athletes have made the distance, the final field was filled up to 12 athletes based on the distances.

qualification

August 4, 1948, 11 a.m.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The order and length of the attempts in qualification are unknown. Not all the best scores have been passed down. It was measured in the British system (feet, inches), so half a centimeter is also given

space	Surname	nation	Expanse	annotation
1	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	13,140 m	OR
2	Eivor Olson	Sweden	12,620 m
3	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	12,570 m
4th	Anni Bruk	Austria	k. A.
4th	Jaroslava Komárková	Czechoslovakia	k. A.
4th	Paulette Laurent	France	k. A.
4th	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	k. A.
4th	Amelia Piccinini	Italy	k. A.
4th	Marija Radosavljević	Yugoslavia	k. A.
4th	Ine Schäffer	Austria	k. A.
4th	Marianne Schläger	Austria	k. A.
4th	Paulette Veste	France	k. A.
13	Elizabeth Mueller	Brazil	11,870 m
14th	Frances Kaszubski	United States	11,310 m
15th	To Panhorst-Niesink	Netherlands	11,180 m
16	Dorothy Dodson	United States	11,055 m
17th	Elspeth Whyte	Great Britain	10.755 m
18th	Liv Paulsen	Norway	10,200 m
19th	Margaret Birtwistle	Great Britain	9,740 m

final

space	Surname	nation	Best	annotation
1	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	13,750 m	OR
2	Amelia Piccinini	Italy	13,095 m
3	Ine Schäffer	Austria	13,080 m
4th	Paulette Veste	France	12.985 m
5	Jaroslava Komárková	Czechoslovakia	12,920 m
6th	Anni Bruk	Austria	12,500 m
7th	Marija Radosavljević	Yugoslavia	12.355 m
8th	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	12,170 m
9	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	12,085 m
10	Paulette Laurent	France	12,030 m
11	Eivor Olson	Sweden	11,840 m
12	Marianne Schläger	Austria	11.775 m

August 4, 1948, 5 p.m.

Note: The test series are not known, only the best results have been transmitted. It was measured in the British system (feet, inches), so half a centimeter is also given.

Three French women, including Micheline Ostermeyer, who also competed as a high jumper , discus thrower and sprinter , and three Austrian women took half of the final places. The athletes from the Soviet Union , who would have started here with the best chances, were not there. The reigning European champion Tatiana Sevryukova was active in a competition in Moscow , where she set a world record that exceeded the winning distance of these games in London by 84 centimeters. Ostermeyer became Olympic champion with the Olympic record distance of 13.75 m. After winning the discus, this was Ostermeyer's second gold medal in London. The other medal winners Anna Piccini and Ine Schäffer just surpassed the 13-meter mark. All other participants stayed below this width.

Micheline Ostermeyer was also a world-famous pianist. She continued her career as a musician for a long time after her sporting career ended.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 48f

Web links

• SportsReference Shot Put , accessed August 24, 2017
• Official report p. 284. engl. (PDF), accessed on August 24, 2017
• Micheline Ostermeyer: del piano al podio olímpico , published on July 28, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on August 24, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 646 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 48
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 241, engl. (PDF)
4. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)