1960 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Stadio Olimpico
Competition phase	September 3, 1960 (qualification) September 5, 1960 (final)
Medalists Elvīra Ozoliņa ( URS )   Dana Zátopková ( TCH )   Birutė Kalėdienė ( URS )

The women's javelin at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was held on September 1, 1960 at the Stadio Olimpico . Twenty athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Elvīra Ozoliņa from the Soviet Union, ahead of the Czechoslovakian Dana Zátopková . The bronze medal went to Birutė Kalėdienė , also from the USSR.

Three Germans and one Austrian started, athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. The Austrian Erika Strasser and the two Germans Erika Strossenreuther and Almut Brömmel failed in the qualification. Anneliese Gerhards was able to qualify for the final and finished eleventh there.

Existing records

World record	59.55 m	Elvīra Ozoliņa ( Soviet Union )	Bucharest , Romania	June 4th 1960
Olympic record	53.86 m	Inese Jaunzeme ( Soviet Union )	Melbourne finals , Australia	November 28, 1956

Conducting the competition

The athletes entered a qualifying round on September 1st. The required qualification width was 48.00 m. For all qualified participants, the final took place on the afternoon of the same day. Each thrower was initially entitled to three attempts. The best six athletes were then able to complete three more attempts.

Note: The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Time schedule

September 1, 9:00 a.m .: Qualification

September 1st, 3 p.m .: Final

qualification

Olympic champion Elvīra Ozoliņa (URS)

Date: September 1, 1960, 9:00 a.m.

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

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	53.25 m	-	-	53.25 m
2	Dana Zátopková	Czechoslovakia	47.94 m	51.64 m	-	51.64 m
3	Sue Platt	Great Britain	50.67 m	-	-	50.67 m
4th	Karen Oldham	United States	43.96 m	44.26 m	50.62 m	50.62 m
5	Vlasta Pešková	Czechoslovakia	50.61 m	-	-	50.61 m
6th	Márta Rudas	Hungary	x	47.56 m	50.01 m	50.01 m
7th	Maria Diţi	Romania	49.80 m	-	-	49.80 m
8th	Anna Bocson	Australia	45.66 m	49.20 m	-	49.20 m
9	Alevtina Schastitko	Soviet Union	48.91 m	-	-	48.91 m
10	Birutė Kalėdienė	Soviet Union	48.59 m	-	-	48.59 m
11	Marlene Ahrens	Chile	44.61 m	48.36 m	-	48.36 m
12	Anneliese Gerhards	Germany	45.89 m	x	48.33 m	48.33 m
13	Urszula Figwer	Poland	48.04 m	-	-	48.04 m
14th	Ingrid Almqvist	Sweden	x	44.33 m	47.67 m	47.67 m
15th	Erika Strossenreuther	Germany	45.88 m	x	46.85 m	46.85 m
16	Almut Brömmel	Germany	34.76 m	45.52 m	41.20 m	45.52 m
17th	Erika Strasser	Austria	43.79 m	43.80 m	x	43.80 m
18th	Lise Koch	Denmark	43.01 m	x	40.36 m	43.01 m
19th	Averil Williams	Great Britain	42.44 m	x	40.03 m	42.44 m
20th	Unn Thorvaldsen	Norway	x	x	41.99 m	41.99 m

final

Date: September 1, 1960, 3 p.m.

13 participants had made the qualification distance. The Soviet throwers Elvīra Ozoliņa, the current world record holder, and Birutė Kalėdienė, Vice European Champion from 1958 , were considered favorites for this competition, along with the previously extremely successful Czechoslovakian Dana Zátopková.

In the first attempt, Ozoliņa set a new Olympic record, the best distance that none of her competitors could achieve. Behind her it was very close in the battle for the medals. As it became clear at the end, the third round brought the decision. Zátopková improved from seventh place to silver and Kalėdienė from ninth place to third. In the final rounds only Zátopková's compatriot Vlasta Pešková could improve. She finished fourth in the end.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	55.98 m OR	x	51.54 m	54.80 m	x	x	55.98 m	OR
2	Dana Zátopková	Czechoslovakia	49.84 m	50.36 m	53.78 m	51.02 m	46.13 m	50.70 m	53.78 m
3	Birutė Kalėdienė	Soviet Union	50.17 m	49.81 m	53.45 m	50.87 m	49.58 m	x	53.45 m
4th	Vlasta Pešková	Czechoslovakia	50.94 m	x	51.28 m	52.56 m	49.00 m	48.82 m	52.56 m
5	Urszula Figwer	Poland	52.33 m	x	47.92 m	50.16 m	46.53 m	-	52.33 m
6th	Anna Bocson	Australia	51.15 m	47.04 m	x	42.76 m	47.35 m	x	51.15 m
7th	Sue Platt	Great Britain	51.01 m	50.84 m	x	not in the final of the six best throwers			51.01 m
8th	Alevtina Schastitko	Soviet Union	47.43 m	50.83 m	50.92 m				50.92 m
9	Márta Rudas	Hungary	50.25 m	48.41 m	49.66 m				50.25 m
10	Maria Diţi	Romania	49.56 m	47.49 m	48.83 m				49.56 m
11	Anneliese Gerhards	Germany	47.76 m	49.27 m	x				49.27 m
12	Marlene Ahrens	Chile	46.39 m	47.53 m	45.34 m				47.53 m
13	Karen Oldham	United States	44.39 m	46.52 m	44.24 m				46.52 m

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 230f

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed October 22, 2017
• Official report p. 211f, engl. (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 648 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive accessed) on October 22, 2017
2. ^ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 63 at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
3. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 211 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
4. ↑ Official Report of the 1960 Olympic Games , p. 212 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 22, 2017
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 22, 2017