1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	17 athletes from 14 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 10, 1984 (qualifying) August 11, 1984 (final)
Medalists Ria Stalman ( NED )   Leslie Deniz ( USA )   Florența Crăciunescu ( ROM )

The women's discus throw at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held on August 10 and 11, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Eighteen athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Ria Stalman from the Netherlands . She won ahead of the American Leslie Deniz and the Romanian Florența Crăciunescu .

Ingra Manecke from the Federal Republic of Germany reached the final and was sixth.
Throwers from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1980	Evelin Jahl ( GDR )	69.96 m	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Martina Opitz ( GDR )	68.94 m	Helsinki 1983
European champion 1982	Tsvetanka Christowa ( Bulgaria )	68.34 m	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Maritza Martén ( Cuba )	59.62 m	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983	Carmen Romero ( Cuba )	58.58 m	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Odete Domingos ( Brazil )	49.30 m	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Jiao Yungxiang ( People's Republic of China )	53.00 m	Kuwait City 1983
African champion 1982	Zoubida Laayouni ( Morocco )	51.50 m	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	73.26 m	Galina Savinkowa ( Soviet Union )	Leselidze , Soviet Union (now Georgia )	May 22, 1983
Olympic record	69.96 min	Evelin Jahl ( GDR )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	August 1, 1980

qualification

Date: August 10, 1984

For the qualification the throwers were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 55.00 m. Since only eight athletes exceeded this distance, the final field was filled with the next best throwers from both groups, the so-called lucky losers , to twelve athletes, so that 53.34 m was sufficient for participation in the finals. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Ria Stalman	Netherlands	58.28 m	-	-	58.28 m
2	Florența Crăciunescu	Romania	x	57.84 m	-	57.84 m
3	Ulla Lundholm	Finland	56.44 m	-	-	56.44 m
4th	Leslie Deniz	United States	56.24 m	-	-	56.24 m
5	Gael Martin	Australia	55.38 m	-	-	55.38 m
6th	Vanissa Head	Great Britain	48.92 m	55.24 m	-	55.24 m
7th	Jiao Yunxiang	People's Republic of China	54.70 m	53.42 m	53.38 m	54.70 m
8th	Margaritha van Heerden	Zimbabwe	45.74 m	50.54 m	50.52 m	50.54 m
9	Marlene Lewis	Jamaica	46.26 m	49.00 m	x	49.00 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Ingra Manecke	BR Germany	56.20 m	-	-	56.20 m
2	Meg Ritchie	Great Britain	50.20 m	56.00 m	-	56.00 m
3	Patricia Walsh	Ireland	52.54 m	x	54.42 m	54.42 m
4th	Laura DeSnoo	United States	53.14 m	53.76 m	51.40 m	53.76 m
5	Lorna Griffin	United States	53.16 m	x	53.34 m	53.34 m
6th	Carmen Ionesco	Canada	x	52.28 m	x	52.28 m
7th	Agathe Ngo Nack	Cameroon	x	38.32 m	x	38.32 m
8th	Christine Bechard	Mauritius	x	37.94 m	37.54 m	37.94 m

final

Date: August 11, 1984

Twelve athletes started in the final, eight of whom had made the qualification distance. All three US women and two British women had qualified, plus one athlete each from the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, China, Australia, Finland and Ireland. After three attempts, the best eight participants were allowed three more attempts.

The Olympic boycott prevented the participation of numerous top athletes from the Eastern Bloc. The 1980 Olympic champion Evelin Jahl from the GDR, the Soviet world record holder Galina Savinkowa and the 1983 world champion Martina Opitz from the GDR were not there. This absence seriously affected the value of this competition. The favorites now Dutchwoman Ria Stalman belonged WM -Siebte 1983, the World Cup -Achte Meg Ritchie from the UK, the Romanian Florenţa Crăciunescu, EM -Siebte 1982, and the throwers from the host nation.

Stalman took the lead in the first attempt with 64.50 m, followed by the Finn Ulla Lundholm - 62.84 m - and the US thrower Leslie Denis - 62.46 m. In the third round, Deniz improved to 63.36 m, while the Romanian Florența Crăciunescu took third place with 62.96 m. In lap five Deniz temporarily took the top position with 64.66 m. Crăciunescu's improvement to 63.64 m in this round had no effect on the classification. With her last litter of 65.36 m, Ria Stalman won the gold medal and pushed Leslie Deniz to silver. Bronze went to Florența Crăciunescu, the Finn Ulla Lundholm came fourth ahead of the British Meg Ritchie and Ingra Manecke from the Federal Republic of Germany.

The quality of the result in the discus throw , similar to the shot put, was better than expected. Nevertheless, the distances achieved were significantly behind those that had been thrown at the last major championships.

Ria Stalman was the first medalist and first Olympic champion in the women's discus throw for the Netherlands.

Ria Stalman admitted, more than thirty years after winning the Olympics, that she had been under significant influence of anabolic steroids in 1984. The Los Angeles result was not corrected.

The Dutch Olympic champion Ria Stalman

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Ria Stalman	Netherlands	64.50 m	61.16 m	63.70 m	64.28 m	63.64 m	65.36 m	65.36 m
2	Leslie Deniz	United States	62.46 m	x	63.36 m	62.60 m	64.86 m	x	64.86 m
3	Florența Crăciunescu	Romania	60.68 m	61.42 m	62.96 m	62.08 m	63.64 m	x	63.64 m
4th	Ulla Lundholm	Finland	62.84 m	x	54.92 m	55.94 m	59.72 m	54.04 m	62.84 m
5	Meg Ritchie	Great Britain	x	55.36 m	57.66 m	61.76 m	62.58 m	60.40 m	62.58 m
6th	Ingra Manecke	BR Germany	51.66 m	56.22 m	x	53.20 m	x	58.56 m	58.56 m
7th	Vanissa Head	Great Britain	x	55.56 m	58.18 m	x	55.84 m	55.88 m	58.18 m
8th	Gael Martin	Australia	55.88 m	55.38 m	54.34 m	54.94 m	55.70 m	53.08 m	55.88 m
9	Patricia Walsh	Ireland	55.38 m	51.80 m	53.32 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			55.38 m
10	Laura DeSnoo	United States	53.74 m	54.84 m	53.88 m				54.84 m
11	Jiao Yunxiang	People's Republic of China	x	53.32 m	x				53.32 m
12	Lorna Griffin	United States	x	50.16 m	x				50.16 m

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 53

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed January 15, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 267, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed January 15, 2018

Video

• Olympics - 1984 Los Angeles - Track & Field - Womens Discus Finals - HOL Stalman & USA Denise , published April 28, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed January 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on January 15, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 267, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 15, 2018
3. ↑ SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed January 15, 2018
4. ↑ Doping: Olympic champion Stalman confesses after a good 31 years spiegel.de January 8, 2016 , accessed on January 15, 2018