1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 19, 1964
Medalists Tamara Press ( URS )   Ingrid Lotz ( GER )   Lia Manoliu ( ROU )

Award ceremony: Gold for Tamara Press (center), silver for Ingrid Lotz (left), bronze for Lia Manoliu (right)

The women's discus throw at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was played on October 19, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 22 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tamara Press from the Soviet Union. She won ahead of the German Ingrid Lotz and the Romanian Lia Manoliu .

While athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part, in addition to the medalist Lotz, two other Germans competed and both reached the final. Kriemhild Limberg was seventh, Doris Lorenz was 14th and last.

Existing records

World record	59.29 m	Tamara Press ( Soviet Union )	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	May 18, 1963
Olympic record	55.10 m	Nina Ponomarjowa ( Soviet Union )	Final of Rome , Italy	5th September 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes entered a qualifying round on October 19, in which each competitor had three attempts. The top twelve, as well as those who exceeded the qualifying distance of 50.00 m, reached the final on the afternoon of the same day. In the final, each participant initially had three attempts. The best six throwers could then complete three more attempts at the final battle.

Time schedule

October 19, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

October 19, 2:30 p.m .: Final Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

Best widths are printed in bold.

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: October 18, 1964, 10:00 a.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 17 ° C, 48–50% humidity

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Wirschinija Michajlowa	Bulgaria	54.94 m	-	-	54.94 m
2	Ingrid Lotz	Germany	48.38 m	54.82 m	-	48.38 m
3	Kriemhild Limberg	Germany	46.59 m	48.63 m	54.54 m	54.54 m
4th	Lia Manoliu	Romania	47.80 m	53.64 m	-	53.64 m
5	Olimpia Cataramă	Romania	46.96 m	53.20 m	-	53.20 m
6th	Olga Connolly	United States	49.99 m	53.17 m	-	53.17 m
7th	Yevgenia Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	49.40 m	52.44 m	-	52.44 m
8th	Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek	Hungary	52.35 m	-	-	52.35 m
9	Judit Stugner	Hungary	48.96 m	48.49 m	52.30 m	52.30 m
10	Valerie Young	New Zealand	48.01 m	51.94 m	-	51.94 m
11	Doris Lorenz	Germany	51.58 m	x	x	51.58 m
12	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	50.64 m	51.94 m	52.25 m	52.25 m
13	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	50.28 m	-	-	50.28 m
14th	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	44.69 m	44.89 m	50.18 m	50.18 m
15th	Nancy McCredie	Canada	44.91 m	47.27 m	44.75 m	47.27 m
16	Hiroko Yokoyama	Japan	46.19 m	47.18 m	34.48 m	47.18 m
17th	Daschdsewegiin Namdschilmaa	Mongolia	43.37 m	40.26 m	44.55 m	44.55 m
18th	Josephine de la Viña	Philippines	40.05 m	42.27 m	41.71 m	42.27 m
19th	Pranee Kitipongpitaya	Thailand	36.21 m	38.73 m	34.20 m	38.73 m
20th	Park Young-sook	South Korea	37.50 m	33.27 m	34.97 m	37.50 m
21st	Juliette Geverkof	Iran	x	30.05 m	x	30.05 m
DNS	Judit Bognár	Hungary

final

Date: October 18, 1964, 2:30 p.m.

Weather conditions: clear to cloudy, 18–19 ° C, 40–47% humidity

The favorite for gold was Tamara Press, world record holder and European champion from 1962 .

In the final, Press started with a failed attempt. Instead, the German outsider Ingrid Lotz came to the fore. She hurled the disc on a new Olympic record . Behind her was the Romanian Lia Manoliu, who had also exceeded the old record with her litter. In the second round the Bulgarian Wirschinija Michajlowa moved up to second place, Press placed fourth with her litter. In rounds three and four the order did not change, but both Manoliu and Michajlowa improved their previous bests. In the fifth attempt, Press managed a throw that one would have expected from her beforehand. But it was very close, its width exceeded Lotz's best attempt by just six centimeters. It was another Olympic record. At the same time, Lia Manoliu moved past Wirschinija Michajlowa to third place. With that the medals were distributed, the last round brought no change in the ranking.
For Lia Manoliu it was the fourth game. In 1952 in Helsinki she was sixth, in 1956 in Melbourne ninth and in 1960 in Rome she had won the bronze medal as now. Her greatest success with Olympic gold in 1968 in Mexico City was still ahead of her.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	x	55.38 m	50.38 m	55.23 m	57.27 m OR	56.08 m	57.27 m	OR
2	Ingrid Lotz	Germany	57.21 m OR	x	55.41 m	x	54.59 m	54.74 m	57.21 m
3	Lia Manoliu	Romania	55.90 m	x	x	56.09 m	56.97 m	x	56.97 m
4th	Wirschinija Michajlowa	Bulgaria	47.38 m	56.56 m	52.19 m	56.70 m	55.77 m	55.54 m	56.70 m
5	Yevgenia Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	55.17 m	53.58 m	x	x	x	53.80 m	55.17 m
6th	Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek	Hungary	54.46 m	53.05 m	53.51 m	53.14 m	54.87 m	51.96 m	54.87 m
7th	Kriemhild Limberg	Germany	48.35 m	53.81 m	53.02 m	not in the final of the six best throwers			53.81 m
8th	Olimpia Cataramă	Romania	53.08 m	49.99 m	51.28 m				53.08 m
9	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	49.06 m	52.80 m	51.13 m				52.80 m
10	Judit Stugner	Hungary	50.88 m	50.47 m	52.52 m				52.52 m
11	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	52.15 m	51.12 m	52.48 m				52.48 m
12	Olga Connolly	United States	51.21 m	x	51.58 m				51.58 m
13	Valerie Young	New Zealand	48.93 m	46.17 m	49.59 m				49.59 m
14th	Doris Lorenz	Germany	x	x	45.63 m				45.63 m

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Tamara Press, USSR

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  Silver medal winner: Ingrid Lotz, all-German team

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  Bronze medal for Lia Manoliu from Romania

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  Doris Lorenz could not improve in the final and was 14th and last

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 306f

Video

• 1964 DISCO FEMMINILE ORO TAMARA PRESS , published March 26, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed October 31, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed October 31, 2017
• Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 102 engl. (PDF), accessed on October 31, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 647 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved on October 31, 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 31, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 102 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 31, 2017 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 31, 2017