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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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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
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 800 , accessed on January 15, 2018
- ↑ a b Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 267, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 15, 2018
- ↑ SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed January 15, 2018
- ↑ Doping: Olympic champion Stalman confesses after a good 31 years spiegel.de January 8, 2016 , accessed on January 15, 2018