Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

Women's discus throw at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	July 30 (final)
Competitors	19
Medalists
Micheline Ostermeyer France   Edera Gentile Italy   Jacqueline Mazeas France

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Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The women's discus throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on July 30, 1948. The final was won by Frenchwoman Micheline Ostermeyer.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Gisela Mauermayer (GER)	48.31 m	Berlin, Germany	11 July 1936
Olympic record		47.63 m	Berlin, Germany	4 August 1936

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
01 !	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	41.92
02 !	Edera Gentile	Italy	41.17
03 !	Jacqueline Mazéas	France	40.47
4	Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz	Poland	39.30
5	Lotte Haidegger	Austria	38.81
6	Ans Panhorst-Niesink	Netherlands	38.74
7	Majken Åberg	Sweden	38.48
8	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	38.44
9	Frieda Tiltsch	Austria	37.19
10	Paulette Veste	France	36.84
11	Frances Kaszubski	United States	36.50
12	Gudrun Arenander	Sweden	36.25
13	Nel Roos-Lodder	Netherlands	36.15
14	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	35.84
15	Marianne Schläger	Austria	34.79
16	Dorothy Dodson	United States	34.69
17	Gabre Gabric	Italy	34.17
18	Pak Bong-Sik	South Korea	33.80
19	Margaret Birtwistle	Great Britain	33.02
20	Elspeth Whyte	Great Britain	32.46
21	Julija Matej	Yugoslavia	30.25

External links

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Women's discus throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-09-29.
• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.