1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	21 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Wembley Stadium
Competition phase	July 30, 1948
Medalists Micheline Ostermeyer ( FRA )   Edera Gentile ( ITA )   Jacqueline Mazéas ( FRA )

Edera Gentile (later Cordiale), silver medalist for Italy

Jadwiga Wajs (POL): After bronze in Los Angeles and silver in Berlin, now 4th place

The Italian Gabre Gabric reached rank 17

The women's discus throw at the 1948 Olympic Games in London was played at Wembley Stadium on July 30, 1948 . 21 athletes took part. The final was the first decision in athletics in London.

The Olympic champion was Micheline Ostermeyer from France . She won ahead of the Italian Edera Gentile and the French Jacqueline Mazéas .

Existing records

• Official world record : 48.31 m - Gisela Mauermayer ( Germany ), Berlin , July 1, 1936 / unofficial: 50.50 m - Nina Dumbadse ( Soviet Union ), Sarpsborg , August 29, 1946 - not recognized as the Soviet Union was not a member at the time the IAAF was
• Olympic record : 47.63 m - Gisela Mauermayer ( Germany ), Berlin final , August 4, 1936

Conducting the competition

The participants competed on July 30th. There was no qualifying round.

Bottom line

July 30, 1948, 3:30 p.m.

Note: Only the best size has been recorded. The order and length of the trials are unknown.

In the absence of the Soviet athletes, especially the European champion Nina Dumbadse , the French Micheline Ostermeyer managed to win a competition whose victory distance was almost seven meters shorter than the world record . Even Gisela Wall Mayers Olympic record was far from being reached. The winner Micheline Ostermeyer would have finished third with her performance in Berlin in 1936 . In a film, she tells how she picked up a disc just a few weeks before the games in London . The French team was looking for a third female thrower for this discipline and Ostermeyer won this place. It is all the more astonishing that she won the Olympic gold medal with her last litter.

All medalists won their countries first medals in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	Best	annotation
1	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	41.92 m
2	Edera Gentile	Italy	41.17 m
3	Jacqueline Mazéas	France	40.47 m
4th	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	39.30 m
5	Lotte Haidegger	Austria	38.81 m
6th	To Panhorst-Niesink	Netherlands	38.74 m
7th	Majken Åberg	Sweden	38.48 m
8th	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	38.44 m
9	Frieda Tiltsch	Austria	37.19 m
10	Paulette Veste	France	36.84 m
11	Frances Kaszubski	United States	36.50 m
12	Gudrun Arenander	Sweden	36.25 m
13	Nel Roos-Lodder	Netherlands	36.15 m
14th	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	35.84 m
15th	Marianne Schläger	Austria	34.79 m
16	Dorothy Dodson	United States	34.69 m
17th	Gabre Gabric	Italy	34.17 m
18th	Pak Bong-sik	South Korea	33.80 m
19th	Margaret Birtwistle	Great Britain	33.02 m
20th	Elspeth Whyte	Great Britain	32.46 m
21st	Julija Matej	Yugoslavia	30.25 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 49

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed August 24, 2017
• Official report p. 283, (PDF), accessed on August 24, 2017
• Micheline Ostermeyer - Discus, Shot Put & Artist | London 1948 Olympics , published January 15, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed August 24, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 647 ( 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. 49
3. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
4. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)
5. ↑ Micheline Ostermeyer: del piano al podio olímpico , published on July 28, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on August 24, 2017