1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	September 3, 1960 (qualification) September 5, 1960 (final)
Medalists Nina Ponomarjowa ( URS )   Tamara Press ( URS )   Lia Manoliu ( ROM )

The Soviet thrower Tamara Press, Olympic champion in the shot put, won the silver medal

The German Doris Müller remained in the qualification without a valid attempt

Irene Schuch from Germany was ninth in the final

The women's discus throw at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was played on September 3rd and 5th, 1960 in the Stadio Olimpico . 24 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Nina Ponomarjowa from the Soviet Union in front of her compatriot Tamara Press . Bronze went to the Romanian Lia Manoliu .

While athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans and one Austrian competed. The Austrian Dorli Hofrichter and the German Doris Müller could not qualify for the final. The other two Germans Irene Schuch and Kriemhild Limberg reached the final. Limberg was fourth there, Schuch was ninth.

Existing records

World record	57.04 m	Nina Dumbadze ( Soviet Union )	Tbilisi , Soviet Union (now Georgia )	October 18, 1952
Olympic record	53.69 m	Olga Fikotová ( Czechoslovakia )	Melbourne finals , Australia	November 23, 1956

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a qualifying round on September 3rd. The required qualification width was 47.00 m. Should fewer than twelve athletes remain under the qualification range, the starting field would be filled with the following best throwers except for twelve finalists. The final for all qualified throwers took place on September 5th. There, each athlete was initially entitled to three attempts. The top six were then able to complete three more attempts.

Note: The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, those athletes qualified for the following best distance are highlighted in light green.

Time schedule

September 3, 9:00 a.m .: Qualification

September 5, 3:40 p.m .: Final

qualification

Date: September 3, 1960, 9:00 a.m.

The best widths are printed in bold. With the same distance, the second best result decided on the placement.

Olga Connolly qualified for the finals in tenth place. This is the 1956 Olympic champion , then Czechoslovakian Olga Fikotová. She married the American hammer thrower Hal Connolly after the Melbourne Games and started as Olga Connolly for the USA.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	53.68 m	-	-	53.68 m
2	Irene Schuch	Germany	52.22 m	-	-	52.22 m
3	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	51.47 m	-	-	51.47 m
4th	Earlene Brown	United States	42.43 m	51.17 m	-	51.17 m
5	Kriemhild Limberg	Germany	50.86 m	-	-	50.86 m
6th	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	49.86 m	-	-	49.86 m
7th	Yevgenia Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	49.36 m	-	-	49.36 m
8th	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	49.34 m	-	-	49.34 m
9	Lia Manoliu	Romania	48.57 m	-	-	48.57 m
10	Olga Connolly	United States	x	48.32 m	-	48.32 m
11	Wivianne Bergh	Sweden	x	44.29 m	47.02 m	47.02 m
12	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	46.91 m	45.79 m	42.80 m	46.91 m
13	Kazimiera Rykowska	Poland	x	46.75 m	x	46.75 m
14th	Jennifer Thompson	New Zealand	45.94 m	46.74 m	42.93 m	46.74 m
15th	Elivia Ricci	Italy	45.86 m	x	45.78 m	45.86 m
16	Dorli court judge	Austria	44.94 m	x	39.26 m	44.94 m
17th	Karen Inge Halkier	Denmark	41.06 m	42.02 m	43.99 m	43.99 m
18th	Hiroko Uchida	Japan	x	43.78 m	x	43.78 m
19th	Pamela Kurrell	United States	43.23 m	40.35 m	42.34 m	43.23 m
20th	Paola Paternoster	Italy	43.11 m	41.36 m	42.20 m	43.11 m
21st	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	x	x	41.12 m	41.12 m
22nd	Milena Čelesnik	Yugoslavia	x	30.84 m	x	30.84 m
ogV	Doris Müller	Germany	x	x	x		without space
	Wu Jin-yun	Taiwan

final

Date: September 5, 1960, 3:40 p.m.

Eleven participants had exceeded the qualification distance, another athlete was able to move into the final with the following best distance. The favorite was the 1958 European champion Tamara Press, sister of the Olympic champion over 80 meters hurdles . Her main competitor, Nina Ponomarjowa, Olympic champion in 1952 , came from the USSR, like Press. The German thrower Kriemhild Limberg, who was third in the European Championship in 1958, was also among the extended group of medal candidates.

The Romanian Lia Manoliu, Olympic sixth in 1952 and eight years later in Mexico City , took the lead in the first round, but was replaced by Ponomarjowa in the second attempt. Press was third at the time. In the fifth round, Ponomarjowa continued to improve and she achieved a new Olympic record . Press passed Manoliu in the last attempt, but could not get close to Ponomarjowa. Limberg took fourth place.

For Nina Ponomarjowa it was the second gold medal in the discus throw after 1952 .

Lia Manoliu won the first Romanian medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	44.48 m	52.42 m	53.39 m	51.68 m	55.10 m OR	54.42 m	55.10 m	OR
2	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	51.64 m	46.82 m	x	50.92 m	x	52.59 m	52.59 m
3	Lia Manoliu	Romania	52.36 m	x	46.29 m	50.59 m	48.78 m	46.96 m	52.36 m
4th	Kriemhild Limberg	Germany	51.47 m	x	45.30 m	47.40 m	48.12 m	46.38 m	51.47 m
5	Yevgenia Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	51.43 m	51.39 m	50.96 m	49.69 m	50.62 m	51.25 m	51.43 m
6th	Earlene Brown	United States	51.29 m	35.83 m	47.29 m	x	35.20 m	45.80 m	51.29 m
7th	Olga Connolly	United States	50.95 m	47.46 m	48.82 m	not in the final of the six best throwers			50.95 m
8th	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	50.12 m	48.62 m	x				50.12 m
9	Irene Schuch	Germany	49.86 m	49.42 m	x				49.86 m
10	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	45.26 m	x	48.81 m				48.81 m
11	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	48.28 m	46.62 m	38.51 m				48.28 m
12	Wivianne Bergh	Sweden	42.70 m	43.76 m	43.96 m				43.96 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 229f

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed October 22, 2017
• Official report pp. 205–208, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 647 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive accessed) on October 22, 2017
2. ^ Official report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63f (English) on library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
3. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 206 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
4. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 208 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 22, 2017