Women Discus Throw Athletics XV Olympic Games Helsinki, Finland 1952 - Sunday 20 July - Gold Medal: Nina Romashkova, Soviet Union
Venue: Helsingin Olympiastadion. Capp.: 70,000. world Women Discus Throw History. 20 competitors from 16 nations.
Final 17:35
time
SO
Y
1.
2.
3.
4.
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6.
1. Nina Romashkova
URS
51.42m OR
4
23
45.16
50.84
51.42
47.24
44.66
49.37
2. Yelizaveta Bagryantseva
URS
47.08m
17
31
43.58
47.08
44.26
43.97
44.58
43.00
3. Nina Dumbadze
URS
46.29m
12
33
45.85
40.24
44.10
46.29
45.10
41.05
4. Toyoko "Ko" Yoshino
JPN
43.81m
1
32
41.71
42.67
37.15
41.58
43.81
42.02
5. Elisabeth Haidegger
AUT
43.49m
6
27
35.66
43.49
40.02
X
X
41.32
6. Lia Manoliu
ROM
42.65m
13
20
41.57
42.65
41.48
36.05
41.21
40.79
eliminated after 3 atempts.
7. Ingeborg Pfuller
ARG
41.73m
7
20
37.05
40.32
41.73
8. Ilona Szikora-Józsá
HUN
41.61m
15
34
X
39.58
41.61
9. Marianne Werner
GER
41.03m
28
39.77
X
41.03
10.Yvette Williams
NZL
40.48m
23
40.48
32.95
40.38
11.Kaarina Koivuniemi
FIN
40.33m
20
40.33
32.72
40.05
12.Ingeborg Mello
ARG
39.04m
33
39.04
37.84
37.24
13.Libuše Nováková
TCH
38.83m
28
38.17
X
38.83
14.Edera Cordiale Gentile
ITA
38.22m
32
38.22
X
37.03
15.Suzanne Farmer
GBR
37.96m
17
34.54
37.34
37.96
16.Paulette Veste
FRA
37.64m
24
37.64
28.94
33.28
17.Gretel Bolliger
SUI
36.36m
30
35.34
36.36
36.24
18.Frieda Tiltsch
AUT
27.84m
30
X
27.84
X
World Record: Nino Dumbadze, Soviet Union 53.37m Season Best: Nino Dumbadze, Soviet Union 52.38m
The USSR was expected to do well in the first women’s final of the ’52
Games, with the event previewed in Leichtathletik under the heading
“Romashkova or Dumbadze?”. With the two separated by one centime-
tre on pre-Olympic lists, it was difficult to make predictions. The
younger woman took over in round 2 with 50.84, the best mark of the
season, which she supplanted in the next round with 51.42.
Anticlimactically, Dumbadze had an off-day, with a best of only 46.29
behind Bagryantseva’s 47.08.
The USSR thus celebrated it’s entrance to the Olympic arena with a
clean sweep. Romashkova capped her Olympic triumph with a world
record 53.61 three weeks later, though Dumbadze had the final word of
1952 with a mark of 57.04 in October.