1968 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	16 athletes from 11 countries
Competition location	Estadio Olímpico Universitario
Competition phase	October 14, 1968
Medalists Angéla Németh ( HUN )   Mihaela Peneș ( ROU )   Eva Janko ( AUT )

The women's javelin at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City was held on October 14, 1968 in the Estadio Olímpico Universitario . 16 athletes took part.

The Hungarian Angéla Németh became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Romanian Mihaela Peneș and the Austrian Eva Janko .

Ameli Koloska started for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - and reached seventh place.
In addition to medalist Janko, Austrian Erika Strasser also took part. However, it failed to make a valid attempt.
Athletes from the GDR (officially East Germany), Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	62.40 m	Jelena Gorchakova ( Soviet Union )	Tokyo , Japan	October 16, 1964
Olympic record			Tokyo , Japan Qualifying

Conducting the competition

The athletes started the competition on October 14th at 3:30 pm (Mexico City time ( UTC −6). Due to the small number of participants, a qualifying round was omitted. Each thrower initially had three attempts. For the first time, the best eight - and not like the top six until 1964 - athletes then carry out three more attempts.

final

Date: October 14, 1968, 3:30 p.m.

In Javelin women there was no definite winner. The 1964 Olympic champion , Mihaela Peneș, came second at the 1966 European Championships . European champion Marion Lüttge from the GDR was not at the start here in Mexico City . The 60-meter mark was still only reached or exceeded by a few female throwers.
At the competition in Mexico, Peneș took the lead in the first attempt with a throw of 59.92 m. She was a good two meters ahead of the Hungarian Angéla Németh. This was followed by Németh's compatriot Márta Rudas and the Polish Daniela Jaworska. In the second round, Németh exceeded the 60-meter mark and took the lead in front of Peneș, Rudas and Jaworska stayed in third and fourth place. This order did not change until the fifth attempt. In the last round the Austrian Janko improved by three and a half meters and climbed from eighth to third place. The medals were awarded, there were no new records.

Angéla Németh won the first Hungarian Olympic victory in the women's javelin.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Angéla Németh	Hungary	57.66 m	60.36 m	55.56 m	57.54 m	x	53.30 m	60.36 m
2	Mihaela Peneș	Romania	59.92 m	54.68 m	x	51.40 m	58.36 m	x	59.92 m
3	Eva Janko	Austria	54.60 m	x	x	46.44 m	46.24 m	58.04 m	58.04 m
4th	Márta Rudas	Hungary	56.38 m	x	x	51.60 m	x	52.68 m	56.38 m
5	Daniela Jaworska	Poland	55.78 m	56.06 m	52.34 m	51.88 m	x	53.20 m	56.06 m
6th	Nataša Urbančič	Yugoslavia	53.80 m	x	55.42 m	x	x	-	55.42 m
7th	Ameli Koloska	BR Germany	53.54 m	54.08 m	x	54.00 m	55.20 m	x	55.20 m
8th	Kaisa Launela	Finland	53.96 m	51.44 m	x	x	x	x	53.96 m
9	Barbara Friedrich	United States	53.44 m	51.00 m	52.16 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			53.44 m
10	Lidija Tsimosch	Soviet Union	x	x	53.40 m				53.40 m
11	RaNae Bair	United States	49.54 m	48.08 m	53.14 m				53.14 m
12	Lucyna Krawcewicz	Poland	51.54 m	x	x				51.54 m
13	Jay Dahlgren	Canada	51.34 m	51.10 m	48.04 m				51.34 m
14th	Valentina Ewert	Soviet Union	x	51.16 m	x				51.16 m
15th	Sue Platt	United Kingdom	x	44.94 m	48.52 m				48.52 m
ogV	Erika Strasser	Austria	x	x	x					without space

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 392

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed November 12, 2017
• Official report - summary p. 106f, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 12, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1968 p. 538, English / French. (PDF), accessed on November 12, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 page 648 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 10, English / French (PDF), accessed on November 12, 2017 
3. ↑ Official report of the 1968 Olympic Games ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 538, engl./frz. (PDF), accessed on November 12, 2017 
4. ^ Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 392