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)
Medalists Faina Melnik ( URS )   Argentina Menis ( ROU )   Wassilka Stoewa ( BUL )

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
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 .

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  The Soviet Olympic champion Faina Melnik

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  Argentina Menis from Romania, winner of the silver medal

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  GDR thrower Gabriele Hinzmann

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 647 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 8, 2017
2. ↑ 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 
3. ↑ ^{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 
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 8, 2017