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)
Medalists Ruth Fuchs ( GDR )   Jacqueline Todten ( GDR )   Kate Schmidt ( USA )

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

Olympic champion Ruth Fuchs, GDR

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
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 648 (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