1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 17 athletes from 10 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Munich | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 9, 1972 (qualification) September 10, 1972 (final) |
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The women's discus throw at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was played on September 9 and 10, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. Seventeen athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Faina Melnik from the Soviet Union. The silver medal went to the Romanian Argentina Menis , bronze went to the Bulgarian Wassilka Stoewa .
Brigitte Berendonk and Liesel Westermann competed for the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany . Both reached the final. Westermann was fifth, Berendonk eleventh.
The GDR was represented by Gabriele Hinzmann . She also made it to the final and finished sixth there.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Existing records
World record | 66.76 m | Faina Melnik ( Soviet Union ) | Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia ) | 4th August 1972 |
Olympic record | 58.28 m | Lia Manoliu ( Romania ) | Mexico City Final , Mexico | October 18, 1968 |
Conducting the competition
The athletes competed in a qualifying round on September 9th. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final on September 10th was 55.00 m. Since exactly twelve athletes reached this distance, the final field was not filled any further.
In the final, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight participants were then given three more attempts.
Time schedule
September 9, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
September 10, 3 p.m .: Final
The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the following athletes in light green.
qualification
Date: September 9, 1972, 10:30 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Argentina Menis | Romania | 61.58 m OR | - | - | 61.58 m | OR |
2 | Faina Melnik | Soviet Union | 53.00 m | 61.26 m | - | 61.26 m | |
3 | Tamara Danilova | Soviet Union | 60.34 m | - | - | 60.34 m | |
4th | Gabriele Hinzmann | GDR | 59.80 m | - | - | 59.80 m | |
5 | Liesel Westermann | BR Germany | 58.26 m | - | - | 58.26 m | |
6th | Carmen Ionesco | Romania | x | 57.82 m | - | 57.82 m | |
7th | Brigitte Berendonk | BR Germany | 54.74 m | 56.90 m | - | 56.90 m | |
8th | Svetla Boschkowa | Bulgaria | 54.52 m | 56.42 m | - | 56.42 m | |
9 | Lia Manoliu | Romania | 55.88 m | - | - | 55.88 m | |
10 | Rosemary Payne | United Kingdom | x | 53.56 m | 55.56 m | 55.56 m | |
11 | Wassilka Stoewa | Bulgaria | x | 55.26 m | - | 55.26 m | |
12 | Lyudmila Muravyova | Soviet Union | 55.24 m | - | - | 55.24 m | |
13 | Josephine de la Viña | Philippines | 51.08 m | x | 53.29 m | 53.29 m | |
14th | Radostina Vasekowa | Bulgaria | x | x | 53.86 m | 53.86 m | |
15th | Krystyna Nadolna | Poland | x | 47.42 m | 52.52 m | 52.52 m | |
16 | Olga Connolly | United States | 51.58 m | x | 50.76 m | 51.58 m | |
17th | Maggy Wauters | Belgium | 49.62 m | x | x | 49.62 m | |
DNS | Baeg ok-yes | South Korea | |||||
Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek | Hungary |
final
Date: September 10, 1972, 3 p.m.
The favorite was world record holder Faina Melnik, reigning European champion from 1971 . One of the challengers was Argentina Menis from Romania. Her compatriot Lia Manoliu, the 1968 Olympic champion , was also in the final again, but she was given no more medal chances at her sixth Olympic Games since 1952 ; it was amazing enough that she could be there one last time. Another Olympic champion, Olga Connolly, who had won gold for Czechoslovakia in 1956 under her maiden name Olga Fikotová and started for the USA since 1960 after her marriage to hammer thrower Hal Connolly , failed in her fifth and final Olympic participation in the qualification. The group of candidates for a top placement included a. also the Soviet thrower Tamara Danilowa and Liesel Westermann, Federal Republic of Germany, 1968 Olympic runner-up and 1971 European runner-up.
Menis had achieved a new Olympic record in qualifying . This was clearly exceeded in the first round by both Danilowa and Menis himself. In the third attempt, Bulgarian Wassilka Stoewa overtook Danilowa in second place, while Melnik was fifth behind Westermann. In the fourth round Menis succeeded first in further improving the Olympic record, but immediately afterwards Melnik surpassed this distance. Faina Melnik was now ahead of Argentina Menis, Wassilka Stoewa, Tamara Danilowa and Liesel Westermann. Stoewa was able to improve again in the fifth attempt, but nothing changed in this order.
Wassilka Stoewa won the first Bulgarian medal in the women's discus throw .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Faina Melnik | Soviet Union | 60.56 m | 61.32 m | 57.96 m | 66.62 m OR | 62.76 m | x | 66.62 m | OR |
2 | Argentina Menis | Romania | 64.28 m OR | 59.82 m | 60.88 m | 65.06 m OR | 63.78 m | 64.90 m | 65.06 m | |
3 | Wassilka Stoewa | Bulgaria | 61.08 m | x | 64.20 m | 62.25 m | 64.34 m | 62.10 m | 64.34 m | |
4th | Tamara Danilova | Soviet Union | 62.64 m | 58.14 m | 62.86 m | 61.14 m | x | x | 62.86 m | |
5 | Liesel Westermann | BR Germany | x | 57.04 m | 62.18 m | 61.66 m | x | x | 62.18 m | |
6th | Gabriele Hinzmann | GDR | 57.52 m | 59.14 m | 60.12 m | 61.08 m | 61.72 m | 60.22 m | 61.72 m | |
7th | Carmen Ionesco | Romania | 57.78 m | 58.76 m | 57.06 m | 59.08 m | x | 60.42 m | 60.42 m | |
8th | Lyudmila Muravyova | Soviet Union | 57.52 m | 57.92 m | 59.00 m | x | 58.86 m | 57.20 m | 59.00 m | |
9 | Lia Manoliu | Romania | 58.18 m | 58.50 m | x | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
58.50 m | |||
10 | Svetla Boschkowa | Bulgaria | 56.50 m | 56.72 m | x | 56.72 m | ||||
11 | Brigitte Berendonk | BR Germany | 55.60 m | x | 56.58 m | 56.58 m | ||||
12 | Rosemary Payne | United Kingdom | 56.50 m | x | 52.26 m | 56.50 m |
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 discus , 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 647 (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