1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	16 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 16, 1964
Medalists Mihaela Peneș ( ROU )   Márta Rudas ( HUN )   Jelena Gorchakova ( URS )

The women's javelin at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics was held on October 16, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. Sixteen athletes took part.

The Romanian Mihaela Peneș was Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Hungarian Márta Rudas and Jelena Gorchakova from the Soviet Union.

While athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part, three Germans started. Ingeborg Schwalbe failed in the qualification. Anneliese Gerhards reached eighth place in the final, Rosemarie Schubert was twelfth.

Existing records

World record	59.78 m	Elvīra Ozoliņa ( Soviet Union )	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	3rd July 1963
Olympic record	55.98 m		Final of Rome , Italy	September 1, 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes entered a qualifying round on October 16. Each participant had three attempts. The best twelve and all starters who reached 51.00 m or more qualified for the final on the afternoon of the same day. There, each participant initially had three attempts. The six best athletes were then allowed three more attempts.

Time schedule

October 16, 10:00 a.m .: Qualification

October 16, 2 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

Best widths are printed in bold.

The athletes qualified over the distance are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

qualification

Date: October 16, 1964, 10:00 a.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 19 ° C, 44–49% humidity

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Jelena Gorchakova	Soviet Union	62.40 m WR	-	-	62.40 m	WR
2	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	56.38 m	-	-	56.38 m
3	Márta Rudas	Hungary	52.23 m	-	-	52.23 m
4th	Anneliese Gerhards	Germany	49.88 m	49.71 m	52.23 m	52.23 m
5	Rosemarie Schubert	Germany	x	51.20 m	-	51.20 m
6th	Mihaela Peneș	Romania	43.00 m	x	51.19 m	51.19 m
7th	Maria Diaconescu	Romania	51.12 m	-	-	51.12 m
8th	Birutė Kalėdienė	Soviet Union	49.70 m	50.84 m	48.87 m	50.84 m
9	Hiroko Satō	Japan	x	49.92 m	x	49.92 m
10	Sue Platt	Great Britain	x	49.88 m	48.72 m	49.88 m
11	Misako Katayama	Japan	39.80 m	46.11 m	49.23 m	49.23 m
12	Michèle Demys	France	48.94 m	48.67 m	x	48.94 m
13	RaNae Bair	United States	46.70 m	46.89 m	46.04 m	46.89 m
14th	Ingeborg Schwalbe	Germany	45.55 m	44.41 m	39.47 m	45.55 m
15th	Anna Pazera	Australia	41.58 m	44.87 m	x	44.87 m
16	Lee He-yes	South Korea	33.24 m	34.95 m	29.05 m	34.95 m

final

Date: October 16, 1964, 2 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, 20–22 ° C, 43–48% humidity

The favorite was the 1960 Olympic champion and world record holder Elvīra Ozoliņa. When her teammate Jelena Gorchakova became the first woman to surpass the 60-meter mark in qualification, Gorchakova was of course also one of the gold candidates.

Surprisingly, the youngest starter at 17, the Romanian Mihaela Peneș, took the lead in the first lap when she exceeded the 60-meter mark as the second woman, but could not endanger Gorchakova's world record. Gorchakova was in second place ahead of her compatriot Birutė Kalėdienė and the Hungarian Márta Rudas, who, like Peneș, did not count among the medal contenders. In the second round, Rudas even took second position with 58.27 m, displacing world record holder Gorchakova to third. Jelena Gorchakova rose in round four to 57.06 m, but the order of the medal ranks did not change until the end. Birutė Kalėdienė was fourth, the Olympic champion from Rome , Elvīra Ozoliņa, had to be content with fifth.

Mihaela Peneş made for the first Romanian Olympic victory in the women's javelin .

Márta Rudas won the first Hungarian medal in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Mihaela Peneș	Romania	60.54 m	52.76 m	x	50.72 m	51.44 m	53.77	60.54 m
2	Márta Rudas	Hungary	53.21 m	58.27 m	x	54.17 m	50.24 m	x	58.27 m
3	Jelena Gorchakova	Soviet Union	56.43 m	49.21 m	53.10 m	57.06 m	55.23 m	x	57.06 m
4th	Birutė Kalėdienė	Soviet Union	53.79 m	x	54.13 m	56.31 m	54.68 m	x	56.31 m
5	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	54.68 m	54.81 m	x	x	x	x	54.81 m
6th	Maria Diaconescu	Romania	x	53.71 m	50.49 m	51.21 m	51.35 m	52.00 m	53.71 m
7th	Hiroko Satō	Japan	47.28 m	52.48 m	49.18 m	not in the final of the six best throwers			52.48 m
8th	Anneliese Gerhards	Germany	52.37 m	46.79 m	45.88 m				52.37 m
9	Sue Platt	Great Britain	48.59 m	48.00 m	48.55 m				48.59 m
10	Michèle Demys	France	45.95 m	47.14 m	47.25 m				47.25 m
11	Misako Katayama	Japan	45.16 m	46.87 m	42.37 m				46.87 m
12	Rosemarie Schubert	Germany	x	x	46.50 m				46.50 m

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Mihaela Peneș, Romania

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  World record in qualification; in the end the bronze medal for Jelena Gorchakova, USSR

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  Birutė Kalėdienė, USSR, came fourth

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  The 1960 Olympic champion in fifth place: Elvīra Ozoliņa, USSR

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  The German Ingeborg Schwalbe failed in the qualification

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, pp. 307–309

Video

• Romtelecom - Mihaela Penes , published November 27, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed October 31, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed October 31, 2017
• Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 103 engl. (PDF), accessed on October 31, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 649 (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. 103 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 31, 2017 
4. ↑ Sport Reference (Engl.) ( Memento of 26 October 2012 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 31 October 2017