Final Ranking | Dist. | SO | Y | 1. Micheline Ostermeyer | FRA | 41.92m | 11 | 25 | 2. Edera Cordiale-Gentile | ITA | 41.17m | 4 | 28 | 3. Jacqueline Mazéas | FRA | 40.47m | 10 | 27 | 4. Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz | POL | 39.30m | 8 | 36 | 5. Lotte Haidegger | AUT | 38.81m | 7 | 23 | 6. Ans Panhorst-Niesink | NED | 38.74m | 2 | 29 | 7. Majken Åberg | SWE | 38.48m | 1 | 30 | 8. Ingeborg Mello | ARG | 38.44m | 10 | 29 | 9. Frieda Tiltsch | AUT | 37.19m | | 26 | 10.Paulette Veste | FRA | 36.84m | | 20 | 11.Frances Kaszubski | USA | 36.50m | | 32 | 12.Gudrun Arenander | SWE | 36.25m | | 27 | 13.Nel Roos-Lodder | NED | 36.15m | | 34 | 14.Bevis Reid | GBR | 35.84m | | 29 | 15.Marianne Schläger | AUT | 34.79m | | 27 | 16.Dorothy Dodson | USA | 34.69m | | 29 | 17.Gabre Gabric-Calvesi | ITA | 34.17m | | 30 | 18.Pak Bong-Sik | KOR | 33.80m | | | 19.Margaret Birtwhistle | GBR | 33.02m | | 23 | 20.Elspeth Whyte | GBR | 32.46m | | 21 | 21.Julija Matej | YUG | 30.25m | | 22 |
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| Venue: Empire Stadium, Wembley. | Competitors: 21; Countries: 11 |
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Ostermeyer only learned how to throw the discus in 1948, and placed
second in her national championship behind Mazéas, three weeks
before the Olympics. The athletic (1.79/73kg) Ostermeyer began with
40.45, and won from Gentile with her final throw. Ostermeyer was a
concert pianist, who managed to combine sport and art closely; on the
day she qualified for the Olympic team in Bordeaux she gave a concert.
To put her win in perspective it should be noted that Nina Dumbadze
set a world record of 53.25 eight days after the Olympic event, and had
12 competitions beyond the best of anyone else in 1948.
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