1952 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	21 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 24, 1952
Medalists Dana Zátopková ( TCH )   Alexandra Tschudina ( URS )   Jelena Gorchakova ( URS )

The women's javelin at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki was held on July 24, 1952. 21 athletes took part.

The Czechoslovakian Dana Zátopková became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Soviet throwers Alexandra Tschudina and Jelena Gorchakova .

Existing records

World record	Natalja Smirnitskaja ( Soviet Union )	53.41 m	Moscow , Soviet Union	August 5, 1949
Olympic record	Herma Bauma ( Austria )	45.57 m	London , UK	July 31, 1948

Conducting the competition

The participants started a qualification round on July 24th, the qualifying distance was 38.00 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 participants 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 24, 11:30 a.m .: Qualification

July 24, 4:45 p.m .: Final

qualification

Date: July 24, 1952, 11:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	result	annotation
01	Alexandra Tschudina	Soviet Union	46.17 m	-	-	46.17 m	OR
02	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	45.95 m	-	-	45.95 m
03	Dana Zátopková	Czechoslovakia	45.57 m	-	-	45.57 m
04th	Jelena Gorchakova	Soviet Union	45.18 m	-	-	45.18 m
05	Marlies Muller	BR Germany	44.99 m	-	-	44.99 m
06th	Jutta Neumann	BR Germany	43.43 m	-	-	43.43 m
07th	Herma Bauma	Austria	37.10 m	43.07 m	-	43.07 m
08th	Marjorie Larney	United States	41.44 m	-	-	41.44 m
09	Inge Bausenwein	BR Germany	x	x	40.53 m	40.53 m
10	Anni Rättyä	Finland	36.74 m	40.47 m	-	40.47 m
11	Estrella Puente	Uruguay	x	x	40.10 m	40.10 m
12	Maria Ciach	Poland	39.96 m	-	-	39.96 m
13	Lily Carlstedt	Denmark	39.61 m	-	-	39.61 m
14th	Diane Coates	Great Britain	39.45 m	-	-	39.45 m
15th	Ada Turci	Italy	39.31 m	-	-	39.31 m
16	Elsa Torikka	Finland	37.38 m	39.27 m	-	39.27 m
17th	Kaisa Parviainen	Finland	x	37.38 m	39.10 m	39.10 m
18th	Gerda Martín	Chile	x	36.94 m	35.05 m	36.94 m
19th	Amalia Yubi	Mexico	33.05 m	33.51 m	35.59 m	35.59 m
ogV	Gerda Staniek	Austria	x	x	x		without space
	Edith Thomas	Chile	x	x	x

Finale and final result

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Dana Zátopková	Czechoslovakia	50.47 m	41.34 m	46.28 m	43.45 m	45.62 m	47.63 m	50.47 m	OR
2	Alexandra Tschudina	Soviet Union	46.71 m	45.20 m	47.50 m	x	49.61 m	50.01 m	50.01 m
3	Jelena Gorchakova	Soviet Union	46.67 m	49.76 m	48.27 m	45.28 m	43.10 m	43.28 m	49.76 m
4th	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	44.86 m	48.35 m	47.24 m	47.94 m	47.81 m	45.95 m	48.35 m
5	Lily Carlstedt	Denmark	46.23 m	40.90 m	45.30 m	42.38 m	44.82 m	44.77 m	46.23 m
6th	Marlies Muller	BR Germany	x	44.37 m	x	43.21 m	x	43.08 m	44.37 m
7th	Maria Ciach	Poland	42.55 m	43.53 m	44.31 m	not in the final of the six best throwers			44.31 m
8th	Jutta Neumann	BR Germany	44.30 m	42.17 m	41.77 m				44.30 m
9	Herma Bauma	Austria	42.54 m	42.27 m	41.13 m				42.54 m
10	Estrella Puente	Uruguay	39.41 m	41.44 m	-				41.44 m
11	Ada Turci	Italy	41.15 m	41.20 m	40.03 m				41.20 m
12	Inge Bausenwein	BR Germany	41.16 m	39.60 m	39.55 m				41.16 m
13	Marjorie Larney	United States	x	40.58 m	36.04 m				40.58 m
14th	Anni Rättyä	Finland	40.33 m	38.85 m	40.56 m				40.56 m
15th	Diane Coates	Great Britain	40.17 m	39.28 m	38.55 m				40.17 m
16	Kaisa Parviainen	Finland	38.03 m	39.82 m	x				39.82 m
17th	Elsa Torikka	Finland	39.58 m	x	36.73 m				39.58 m

Date: July 24, 1952, 4:45 p.m.

The Soviet female throwers were considered the favorites. They occupied places one to three on the world's best list of the year. Right at the front with 48.59 m was Galina Sybina, two days after the javelin final, Olympic shot put champion . But the final was from the Czechoslovakian Dana Zátopková, fourth in the world annual best list. opened with a new Olympic record . Half an hour earlier, her husband Emil Zátopek had won the gold medal over 5000 meters . Zátopkovás spear flew to 50.47 m. No other athlete reached this distance. The three Soviet women took the places behind Zátopková. Alexandra Tschudina also managed a throw over the 50 meter mark in the last round. Jelena Gorchakova won the bronze medal just behind, ahead of Sybina, who was the world's best of the year.

The competition was therefore at a very high level overall. The Olympic champion of the last games, Herma Bauma from Austria, finished ninth here at the end of her career. She had already participated in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and had reached fourth place at the time.

Emil Zátopek and Dana Zátopková were the first couple to win an Olympic gold medal at the Olympic Games on the same day.

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, p. 110f

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed September 30, 2017
• Official report p. 345, engl. (PDF), accessed on September 30, 2017
• Dana Ingrová Wins Women's Javelin Gold - Helsinki 1952 Olympics , published July 7, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed September 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 648 (English) ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official report p. 266, engl. (PDF)
3. ↑ SportsReference (English)