1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 20, 1952
Medalists Nina Romaschkowa ( URS )   Yelisaveta Bagrjanzewa ( URS )   Nina Dumbadse ( URS )

The women's discus throw at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was played on July 20, 1952. Twenty athletes took part.

For the first time there was a triple Soviet triumph at the Olympic Games. Nina Romaschkowa won ahead of Jelisaveta Bagrjanzewa and Nina Dumbadze .

Existing records

World record	53.37 m	Nina Dumbadze ( Soviet Union )	Gori , Georgian SSR ( Soviet Union )	May 27, 1951
Olympic record	47.63 m	Gisela Mauermayer ( German Empire )	Final of Berlin , Germany	4th August 1936

Conducting the competition

The participants took part in a qualifying round on July 20, the qualifying distance was 36.00 meters. All qualified athletes contested the final on the same day. The results achieved in this qualification were not counted for the final.

In the final, all throwers initially had three attempts. The six best athletes could then make three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

July 20, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

July 20, 5:35 p.m .: Final

qualification

The Italian Edera Cordiale reached place 14 in the final.

Date: July 20, 1952, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
01	Nina Romashkova	Soviet Union	45.05 m	-	-	45.05 m
02	Nina Dumbadze	Soviet Union	43.20 m	-	-	43.20 m
03	Marianne Werner	BR Germany	41.37 m	-	-	41.37 m
04th	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	x	41.32 m	-	41.32 m
05	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	x	40.91 m	-	40.91 m
06th	Yelisaveta Bagrjanzeva	Soviet Union	x	40.73 m	-	40.73 m
07th	Libuše Nováková	Czechoslovakia	39.89 m	-	-	39.89 m
08th	Toyoko Yoshino	Japan	39.75 m	-	-	39.75 m
09	Lotte Haidegger	Austria	34.29 m	35.22 m	39.54 m	39.54 m
10	Frieda Tiltsch	Austria	39.75 m	-	-	39.75 m
11	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	34.84 m	34.81 m	38.20 m	38.20 m
12	Dezsőné Józsa	Hungary	37.75 m	-	-	37.75 m
13	Lia Manoliu	Romania	37.58 m	-	-	37.58 m
14th	Paulette Veste	France	32.35 m	30.03 m	37.47 m	37.47 m
15th	Edera Cordiale	Italy	37.40 m	-	-	37.40 m
16	Ingeborg Pfüller	Argentina	x	36.61 m	11.50 m	36.61 m
17th	Kaarina Koivuniemi	Finland	36.56 m	-	-	36.56 m
18th	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	36.37 m	-	-	36.37 m
19th	Olga Winterberg	Israel	25.97 m	35.79 m	24.09 m	35.79 m
20th	Esther Brand	South African Union	x	x	34.18 m	34.18 m

Finale and final result

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Nina Romashkova	Soviet Union	45.16 m	50.84 m	51.42 m	47.24 m	44.66 m	49.37 m	51.42 m	OR
2	Yelisaveta Bagrjanzeva	Soviet Union	43.58 m	47.08 m	44.26 m	43.97 m	44.58 m	43.00 m	47.08 m
3	Nina Dumbadze	Soviet Union	45.85 m	40.24 m	44.10 m	46.29 m	45.10 m	41.05 m	46.29 m
4th	Toyoko Yoshino	Japan	41.71 m	42.67 m	37.15 m	41.58 m	43.81 m	42.02 m	43.81 m
5	Lotte Haidegger	Austria	35.66 m	43.49 m	40.02 m	x	x	41.32 m	43.49 m
6th	Lia Manoliu	Romania	41.57 m	42.65 m	41.48 m	36.05 m	41.21 m	40.79 m	42.65 m
7th	Ingeborg Pfüller	Argentina	37.05 m	40.32 m	41.73 m	not in the final of the six best throwers			41.73 m
8th	Dezsőné Józsa	Hungary	x	39.58 m	41.61 m				41.61 m
9	Marianne Werner	BR Germany	39.77 m	x	41.03 m				41.03 m
10	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	40.48 m	32.95 m	40.38 m				40.48 m
11	Kaarina Koivuniemi	Finland	40.33 m	32.72 m	40.05 m				40.33 m
12	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	39.04 m	37.84 m	37.24 m				39.04 m
13	Libuše Nováková	Czechoslovakia	38.17 m	x	38.83 m				38.83 m
14th	Edera Cordiale	Italy	38.22 m	x	37.03 m				38.22 m
15th	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	34.54 m	37.34 m	37.96 m				37.96 m
16	Paulette Veste	France	37.64 m	28.94 m	33.28 m				37.64 m
17th	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	35.34 m	36.36 m	36.24 m				36.36 m
18th	Frieda Tiltsch	Austria	x	27.84 m	x				27.84 m

Date: July 20, 1952, 5:35 p.m.

18 of the 20 female throwers who competed were able to qualify for the final. The Soviet world record holder and European champion Nina Dumbadse was considered the favorite. Dumbadse's teammate Nina Romaschkowa, later Nina Ponomarjowa, took the lead from the second round and remained unchallenged there. Dumbadze was also defeated by the third Soviet female thrower, Yelisaveta Bagrjanzewa. These three athletes clearly dominated the competition. The only 50-meter thrower, however, was Romaschkowa, who exceeded this mark twice. In addition, Romaschkowa's discus flew over Gisela Mauermayer's existing Olympic record in three attempts and each of her four best throws was enough for a gold medal

For the first time, the Romanian thrower Lia Manoliu took part in the Olympic Games, where she finished sixth. Twelve years later she became an Olympic champion.

Not only was this the first Soviet triple win at the Olympics, it was also the first ever triple win in women's athletics.

Note: The best size is printed in bold.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 108–110

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed September 30, 2017
• Official report p. 344, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 30, 2017

Videos

• Yvette Williams wins gold in the Long Jump 1952 , published August 4, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed September 30, 2017
• Nina Romashkova Wins Discus Gold - USSR's First Olympic Gold - Helsinki 1952 Olympics , published July 19, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 647 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (Eng.)