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