1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	15 athletes from 10 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 23, 1976 (qualifying) July 24, 1976 (final)
Medalists Ruth Fuchs ( GDR )   Marion Becker ( FRG )   Kate Schmidt ( USA )

The women's javelin at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held on July 23 and 24, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 15 athletes took part.

Ruth Fuchs from the GDR became Olympic champion . She won ahead of Marion Becker from the Federal Republic of Germany and the American Kate Schmidt .

In addition to the winner, Jacqueline Hein and Sabine Sebrowski also competed for the GDR. They also reached the final. Hein was fourth, Sebrowski fifth.
The Austrian Eva Janko also made it to the final. She finished ninth.
Throwers from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	69.12 m	Ruth Fuchs ( GDR )	Berlin , GDR (now Germany )	July 10, 1976
Olympic record	63.88 m		Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	1st September 1972

Conducting the competition

Olympic champion Ruth Fuchs from the GDR

The athletes competed together for a qualifying round on July 23. Due to the small number of 15 participants, there was no division into two groups, as is otherwise usual. The qualifying distance for the direct entry into the final on July 24th was 54.50 meters. Since exactly twelve athletes exceeded this distance, the final field was not filled any further. In the final, each athlete initially had three attempts. The best eight throwers were then entitled to another three attempts.

Time schedule

July 23, 10:30 a.m .: Qualification
July 24, 3:00 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

qualification

Date: July 23, 1976, from 10.30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Marion Becker	BR Germany	65.14 m OR	-	-	65.14 m	OR
2	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	62.46 m	-	-	62.46 m
3	Kate Schmidt	United States	61.50 m	-	-	61.50 m
4th	Eva Janko	Austria	60.90 m	-	-	60.90 m
5	Jacqueline Hein	GDR	60.70 m	-	-	60.70 m
6th	Karin Smith	United States	x	x	59.36 m	59.36 m
7th	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	x	57.18 m	-	57.18 m
8th	Svetlana Babitsch	Soviet Union	56.82 m	-	-	56.82 m
9	Jordanka Peewa	Bulgaria	x	53.62 m	56.74 m	56.74 m
10	Nadezhda Jakubowitsch	Soviet Union	x	x	56.56 m	56.56 m
11	Sabine Sebrowski	GDR	55.42 m	-	-	55.42 m
12	Éva Zörgő	Romania	55.34 m	-	-	55.34 m
13	Sherry Calvert	United States	52.58 m	x	53.08 m	53.08 m
ogV	Christine Hunt	Australia	x	x	x		without space
	Sofia Sakorafa	Greece

final

Date: July 24, 1976, 3 p.m.

The top favorite was the 1972 Olympic champion , Ruth Fuchs. She had improved the world record four times since 1972, most recently up to 69.12 m. She also won the European title in 1974 . There were a few contenders for the medals behind her. First and foremost, these were Jacqueline Hein from the GDR, Olympic runner-up in 1972 and European Championship runner-up in 1974 , each under her name Jacqueline Todten, and the American Kate Schmidt, who had impressed with great distances in the Olympic year. After the qualification, the German thrower Marion Becker, former Marion Steiner, joined the medal candidates. As the best in qualification, she had set a new Olympic record with 65.14 m .

In the final, Fuchs threw the spear in the first round to the new Olympic record of 65.94 m. Behind her, Becker was initially 60.66 m. In the second lap, Hein took second place with 61.68 m ahead of Becker. But in the next round, Becker took back second place with a throw of 64.70 m. In rounds four and five, the order in the front positions did not change. In the last attempt, Hein improved again to 63.84 m, which, however, did not change her placement. Kate Schmidt, who had been in fourth place until then, managed to overtake Hein with her last litter at 63.96 m. As in 1972, this earned her the bronze medal. Like four years earlier, Ruth Fuchs was also Olympic champion. Marion Becker won silver, while Jacqueline Hein was without a medal this time. The fifth and sixth place went to Sabine Sebrowski, GDR, and Swetlana Babitsch from the USSR.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ruth Fuchs	GDR	65.94 m OR	59.58 m	65.06 m	54.48 m	58.82 m	58.44 m	65.94 m	OR
2	Marion Becker	BR Germany	60.66 m	60.52 m	64.70 m	x	x	x	64.70 m
3	Kate Schmidt	United States	x	x	59.70 m	57.90 m	x	63.96 m	63.96 m
4th	Jacqueline Hein	GDR	58.30 m	61.68 m	60.90 m	55.16 m	x	63.84 m	63.84 m
5	Sabine Sebrowski	GDR	57.02 m	59.10 m	63.08 m	56.46 m	54.34 m	51.72 m	63.08 m
6th	Svetlana Babitsch	Soviet Union	x	49.24 m	59.42 m	x	x	x	59.42 m
7th	Nadezhda Jakubowitsch	Soviet Union	58.10 m	x	59.16 m	55.76 m	x	52.66 m	59.16 m
8th	Karin Smith	United States	53.88 m	57.50 m	55.32 m	52.66 m	45.08 m	39.48 m	57.50 m
9	Eva Janko	Austria	55.04 m	57.20 m	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers			57.20 m
10	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	57.00 m	55.96 m	x				57.00 m
11	Éva Zörgő	Romania	54.40 m	53.88 m	55.60 m				55.60 m
12	Jordanka Peewa	Bulgaria	50.28 m	52.02 m	52.24 m				52.24 m

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 245

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed December 21, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 48f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 648 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 21 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 49, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 21, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 21, 2017