1948 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	15 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Wembley Stadium
Competition phase	July 31, 1948
Medalists Herma Bauma ( AUT )   Kaisa Parviainen ( FIN )   Lily Carlstedt ( DEN )

The javelin throw of women in the 1948 Olympic Games in London was on 31 July 1948 in Wembley Stadium discharged. 15 athletes took part.

The Austrian Herma Bauma was Olympic champion ahead of the Finnish Kaisa Parviainen . Bronze went to Lily Carlstedt from Denmark .

Existing records

• Official world record : 48.21 m - Herma Bauma ( Austria ), Vienna , June 29, 1947 / unofficial: 50.32 m - Klawdija Majutschaja ( Soviet Union ), Moscow , September 23, 1947 - not recognized because the Soviet Union was not yet recognized Was a member of the IAAF
• Olympic record : 45.18 m - Tilly Fleischer ( Germany ), Berlin final , August 2, 1936

Conducting the competition

The participants started the competition on July 31st. There was no qualifying round.

Bottom line

space	Surname	nation	Best	annotation
1	Herma Bauma	Austria	45.57 m	OR
2	Kaisa Parviainen	Finland	43.79 m
3	Lily Carlstedt	Denmark	42.08 m
4th	Dorothy Dodson	United States	41.96 m
5	Jo Teunissen-Waalboer	Netherlands	40.92 m
6th	Johanna Koning	Netherlands	40.33 m
7th	Dana Zátopková	Czechoslovakia	39.94 m
8th	Elly Dammers	Netherlands	38.23 m
9	Gerda Schilling	Austria	38.01 m
10	Ingrid Almqvist	Sweden	37.26 m
11	Melania Sinoracka	Poland	35.74 m
12	Theresa Manuel	United States	33.82 m
13	Nicole Saeys	Belgium	31.77 m
14th	Kay Long	Great Britain	30.29 m
15th	Gladys Clarke	Great Britain	29.59 m

July 31, 1948, 2:30 p.m.

Note: Only the best size has been recorded. The order and length of further attempts in qualification are unknown.

In the javelin throw , as in the shot put and discus throw, the absence of the Soviet throwers was noticeable. They could at least have offered the Austrian Herma Bauma, who dominated the competition, strong competition. However, the result in the javelin throw was significantly better than in the other two throwing disciplines. Bauma improved Tilly Fleischer's Olympic record and stayed only about one meter below the winning distance of the Soviet thrower Klawdija Majutschaja , with whom she had become European champion in 1946 . Bauma, who won the Olympics in Berlin in 1936 , won the gold medal ahead of the Finn Kaisa Parviainen and the Danish Lily Carlstedt.

Herma Bauma won the only Austrian gold medal in athletics to date.
Kaisa Parviainen won the first Finnish medal in the women's javelin.
Lily Carlstedt won the first Danish medal in women's athletics.

literature

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

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed August 24, 2017
• Official report p. 285, engl. (PDF), accessed on August 24, 2017

Videos

• Herma Bauma - Olympic victory 1948 , published on March 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on August 24, 2017
• Herma Bauma - Olympic Champion 1948 , published July 19, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed August 24, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 648 ( 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. 50
3. ^ Official report "Athletic Timetable" p. 240, engl. (PDF)
4. ↑ SportsReference, engl.