1956 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 22 athletes from 12 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Melbourne Cricket Ground | ||||||||
Competition phase | November 23, 1956 | ||||||||
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The women's discus throw at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics was played on November 23, 1956 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground . 22 athletes took part.
The Czechoslovakian Olga Fikotová became Olympic champion . She won ahead of Irina Begljakowa and Nina Ponomarjowa , both from the Soviet Union.
While Swiss and Austrian athletes did not take part, three German discus throwers took part. Marianne Werner reached the final and was tenth. Anne-Chatrine Lafrenz and Almut Brömmel failed because of the qualification range. Lafrenz reached fifteenth place, Brömmel came 22nd and last.
Existing records
World record | 57.04 m | Nina Dumbadze ( Soviet Union ) | Tbilisi , Soviet Union (now Georgia ) | October 18, 1952 |
Olympic record | 51.42 m | Nina Ponomarjowa ( Soviet Union ) | Helsinki Final , Finland | July 20, 1952 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes entered a qualifying round on November 23. The required qualification distance was 42.00 meters. All qualified throwers contested the final, which took place on the same day. The results achieved in the qualifying round were not included in the further course of the competition. In the final, each athlete was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six finalists could then make another three attempts.
Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue. The best results in the qualification and in the final are printed in bold.
Time schedule
November 23, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification
November 23, 4.10 p.m .: Final Note: All times are local time in Melbourne (UTC + 10)
qualification
Date: November 23, 1956, 10:00 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | result | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Olga Fikotová | Czechoslovakia | 28.60 m | 50.77 m | - | 50.77 m | |
2 | Nina Ponomaryova | Soviet Union | 48.34 m | - | - | 48.34 m | |
3 | Irina Beglyakova | Soviet Union | 40.77 m | 47.65 m | - | 47.65 m | |
4th | Štěpánka Mertová | Czechoslovakia | 40.51 m | 46.26 m | - | 46.26 m | |
5 | Jiřina Vobořilová | Czechoslovakia | 44.62 m | - | - | 44.62 m | |
6th | Earlene Brown | United States | 43.90 m | - | - | 43.90 m | |
Albina Jelkina | Soviet Union | ||||||
8th | Lia Manoliu | Romania | 43.87 m | - | - | 43.87 m | |
9 | Isabel Avellan | Argentina | 40.91 m | 43.66 m | - | 43.66 m | |
10 | Marianne Werner | Germany | 40.78 m | 43.41 m | - | 43.66 m | |
11 | Paola Paternoster | Italy | 42.88 m | - | - | 42.88 m | |
12 | Nada Kotlušek | Yugoslavia | 40.73 m | 42.45 m | - | 42.45 m | |
13 | Lois Jackman | Australia | 39.25 m | 41.68 m | 42.21 m | 42.21 m | |
14th | Suzanne Allday | Great Britain | 39.39 m | 38.89 m | 41.45 m | 41.45 m | |
15th | Anne-Chatrine Lafrenz | Germany | 33.72 m | 41.18 m | 41.16 m | 41.18 m | |
16 | Toyoko Yoshino | Japan | 40.77 m | 36.47 m | 40.91 m | 40.91 m | |
17th | Shirley Cotton | Australia | 37.74 m | 40.76 m | 39.36 m | 40.76 m | |
18th | Pamela Kurrell | United States | 38.01 m | 40.49 m | 39.92 m | ||
19th | Jacqueline MacDonald | Canada | 33.77 m | 33.93 m | 40.41 m | 40.41 m | |
20th | Marjorie Larney | United States | 39.91 m | 38.04 m | x | 39.91 m | |
21st | Val Lawrence | Australia | 33.84 m | 38.76 m | 36.61 m | 36.61 m | |
22nd | Almut Brömmel | Germany | x | x | 35.47 m | 35.47 m |
final
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Olga Fikotová | Czechoslovakia | 46.56 m | 50.09 m | 52.04 m | 52.28 m | 53.69 m OR | 49.98 m | 53.69 m | OR |
2 | Irina Beglyakova | Soviet Union | 51.74 m OR | 51.01 m | 52.54 m OR | 50.32 m | 48.22 m | 48.31 m | 52.54 m | |
3 | Nina Ponomaryova | Soviet Union | 51.03 m | 51.61 m | 50.17 m | 47.22 m | 52.02 m | 51.10 m | 52.02 m | |
4th | Earlene Brown | United States | 51.35 m | 42.55 m | x | x | 40.45 m | 44.79 m | 51.35 m | |
5 | Albina Jelkina | Soviet Union | 47.87 m | x | 48.20 m | 45.18 m | 45.45 m | 47.92 m | 48.20 m | |
6th | Isabel Avellan | Argentina | 46.73 m | 44.84 m | 42.69 m | 46.31 m | 43.88 m | 44.35 m | 46.73 m | |
7th | Jiřina Vobořilová | Czechoslovakia | 45.57 m | x | 45.84 m | not in the final of the six best throwers |
45.84 m | |||
8th | Štěpánka Mertová | Czechoslovakia | 41.96 m | 45.78 m | 43.41 m | 45.78 m | ||||
9 | Lia Manoliu | Romania | 43.90 m | 43.76 m | 42.72 m | 43.90 m | ||||
10 | Marianne Werner | Germany | 43.34 m | 41.89 m | x | 43.34 m | ||||
11 | Paola Paternoster | Italy | 42.83 m | 40.89 m | x | 42.83 m | ||||
12 | Nada Kotlušek | Yugoslavia | 41.79 m | 39.89 m | 42.16 m | 42.16 m | ||||
13 | Lois Jackman | Australia | 40.84 m | 40.28 m | 40.64 m | 40.84 m |
Date: November 23, 1956, 4:10 p.m.
The favorite was the 1952 Olympic champion and 1954 European champion , Nina Ponomarjowa. In 1952 in Helsinki she was started unmarried under her name Nina Romaschkowa. Her compatriot Irina Begljakowa, vice European champion in 1954, was given good chances of medals. Beglyakova then took the lead with a new Olympic record in the first attempt, which she improved again with her third throw. The Czechoslovakian Olga Fikotová, the best in the qualification, now came within half a meter. Behind her, again less than half a meter behind, was Ponomaryova in third place. There was then a change in leadership in the fifth round. Fikotová improved Begljakowa's Olympic record by over a meter and thus secured victory. The two Soviet throwers received the silver and bronze medals.
Olga Fikotová was the first Czechoslovak Olympic champion in the women's discus throw .
It was only in June 1955 that she began to practice discus throwing as a competitive sport. She was a member of the Czechoslovak national basketball team, but switched from then on to athletics. She later married the American hammer thrower Hal Connolly , who also became Olympic champion in Melbourne .
literature
- Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 160f
Web links
- SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed October 11, 2017
- Official report p. 358f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 11, 2017
- Melbourne 1956 Official Olympic Film - Part 4 | Olympic History , range 0:00 min - 1:15 min, published on July 15, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on October 11, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 647 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Official report p. 284, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 11, 2017
- ↑ Official report p. 359, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 11, 2017
- ↑ a b Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, p. 160