1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 19 athletes from 10 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Munich | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 31, 1972 (qualification) September 1, 1972 (final) |
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The women's javelin at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on August 31 and September 1, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 19 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Ruth Fuchs from the GDR, who won before her compatriot Jacqueline Todten . Bronze went to the American Kate Schmidt .
Anneliese Gerhards and Ameli Koloska competed for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany . Koloska failed in the qualification, Gerhards reached the final and finished ninth. Eva Janko
started for Austria and reached sixth place in the final.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 65.06 m | Ruth Fuchs ( GDR ) | Potsdam , GDR (now Germany ) | June 11, 1972 |
Olympic record | 62.40 m | Jelena Gorchakova ( Soviet Union ) | Tokyo , Japan Qualifying | October 16, 1964 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on August 31. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final on September 1st was 54.00 m. Since only ten athletes reached this distance, the final field was filled to twelve participants according to the next best distance.
In the final, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants were then given three more attempts.
Time schedule
August 31, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
September 1, 3:30 p.m .: Final
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the following athletes in light green.
qualification
Date: August 31, 1972, 10:30 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Ruth Fuchs | GDR | x | 60.88 m | - | 60.88 m | |
2 | Jacqueline Todten | GDR | 59.62 m | - | - | 59.62 m | |
3 | Kate Schmidt | United States | 52.26 m | 58.85 m | - | 58.85 m | |
4th | Nataša Urbančič | Yugoslavia | 57.02 m | - | - | 57.02 m | |
5 | Mária Kucserka | Hungary | 56.72 m | - | - | 56.72 m | |
6th | Lyutvian Mollowa | Bulgaria | 56.30 m | - | - | 56.30 m | |
7th | Eva Janko | Austria | 56.18 m | - | - | 56.18 m | |
8th | Svetlana Koroljowa | Soviet Union | 55.90 m | - | - | 55.90 m | |
9 | Anneliese Gerhards | BR Germany | 55.24 m | - | - | 55.24 m | |
10 | Éva Zörgő | Romania | 54.34 m | - | - | 54.34 m | |
11 | Ewa Gryziecka | Poland | 53.68 m | x | 51.56 m | 53.68 m | |
12 | Magda Paulányi | Hungary | 53.62 m | 52.87 m | 52.78 m | 53.62 m | |
13 | Angéla Ránky | Hungary | 53.48 m | x | 51.40 m | 53.48 m | |
14th | Daniela Jaworska | Poland | 44.68 m | 52.40 m | 50.16 m | 52.40 m | |
15th | Sherry Calvert | United States | x | 51.38 m | 51.00 m | 51.38 m | |
16 | Nina Marakina | Soviet Union | 51.06 m | 41.64 m | x | 51.06 m | |
17th | Marion Becker | Romania | x | 48.70 m | 50.74 m | 50.74 m | |
18th | Ameli Koloska | BR Germany | 48.42 m | x | x | 48.42 m | |
19th | Roberta Brown | United States | x | 47.88 m | x | 47.88 m | |
DNS | Rosa Molina | Chile |
final
Date: September 1, 1972, 3:30 p.m.
The favorite was Ruth Fuchs from the GDR, who had improved the world record to 65.40 m in June . Behind her there was a wide field of female throwers who were eligible for a front placement. These included u. a. the Polish Daniela Jaworska, European champion from 1971 , the Hungarian Angéla Ránky, under her name Angéla Németh Olympic champion in 1968 , the German thrower Ameli Koloska, vice European champion 1971 and the American Kate Schmidt. Except for Schmidt, however, all of the other medal contenders named were eliminated in the qualification. Ruth Fuchs was the only one there who threw more than 60 meters.
In the first round of the finals, US thrower Kate Schmidt took the lead with 59.04 m. Fuchs was about two and a half meters back in second place. She took the top position with her next litter, the first in this final over the 60 meter mark. Fuchs extended their lead in round four. In lap five Ruth Fuchs finally set a new Olympic record with 63.88 m . That was the Olympic victory for her. In the last attempt, her compatriot Jacqueline Todten threw the spear to 62.54 m and thus captured the silver medal in front of Kate Schmidt, who won bronze with her throw from the first round. Ruth Fuchs and Jacqueline Todten were the only athletes who could throw more than 60 meters. The Bulgarian Ljutwijan Mollowa, Nataša Urbančič from Yugoslavia and the Austrian Eva Janko ranked fourth to sixth.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Ruth Fuchs | GDR | 57.44 m | 60.20 m | 50.20 m | 61.16 m | 63.88 m OR | 59.16 m | 63.88 m | OR |
2 | Jacqueline Todten | GDR | x | 55.44 m | 57.18 m | 59.70 m | 56.92 m | 62.54 m | 62.54 m | |
3 | Kate Schmidt | United States | 59.94 m | 58.32 m | 59.84 m | x | 48.80 m | 56.10 m | 59.94 m | |
4th | Lyutvian Mollowa | Bulgaria | 56.46 m | 59.36 m | 55.10 m | x | 56.00 m | 58.44 m | 59.36 m | |
5 | Nataša Urbančič | Yugoslavia | x | x | 56.48 m | 56.38 m | 59.06 m | x | 59.06 m | |
6th | Eva Janko | Austria | x | 58.50 m | x | x | 58.56 m | 52.06 m | 58.56 m | |
7th | Ewa Gryziecka | Poland | 44.40 m | 47.34 m | 57.00 m | 55.88 m | 54.86 m | x | 57.00 m | |
8th | Svetlana Koroljowa | Soviet Union | 56.30 m | 55.08 m | x | x | 56.46 m | x | 56.46 m | |
9 | Anneliese Gerhards | BR Germany | 54.84 m | 55.84 m | 54.72 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
55.84 m | |||
10 | Mária Kucserka | Hungary | x | x | 54.40 m | 54.40 m | ||||
11 | Magda Paulányi | Hungary | x | x | 52.36 m | 52.36 m | ||||
ogV | Éva Zörgő | Romania | x | x | x | without space |
literature
- Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , pp. 60f
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed December 8, 2017
- Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 73, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 8, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 648 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 8, 2017
- ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 8, 2017
- ↑ a b Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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. 73, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on December 8, 2017
- ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 8, 2017