Nina Yakovlevna Dumbadze ( ka, ნინო დუმბაძე; 23 May 1919 – 14 April 1983) was a

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

er who represented the

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. She won the European title in 1946 and 1950, and a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics. Dumbadze was born in

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to a Georgian father. She later moved to

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...

, Georgia, where she started training in athletics in 1937. Two years later at the Soviet championships she threw 49.11 m and broke the

Gisela Mauermayer Gisela Mauermayer (24 November 1913 in Munich – 9 January 1995 in Munich) was a German athlete who competed mainly in the discus. She won the gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany Germany,, offic ...

's world record of 48.31 m. Dumbadze kept breaking world records during

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, and a week after the 1946 European Championships threw 50.50 m in

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, Norway. In August 1948, she threw 53.25 m in Moscow. She set two more ratified world records: in May 1951 in Gori (53.37 m), and in October 1952 in Tbilisi (57.04 m). By that time she had a strong competition from teammates

Nina Romashkova Nina Apollonovna Ponomaryova (née ''Romashkova''; russian: Нина Аполлоновна Пономарёва (Ромашкова); 27 April 1929 – 19 August 2016) was a Russian discus thrower and the first Soviet Olympic champion. Career ...

and

Yelizaveta Bagryantseva Yelisaveta Petrovna Bagriantseva (russian: Елизавета Петровна Багрянцева, 27 August 1929 – 24 January 1996) was a Russian discus thrower who won a silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Bagryantseva was born in a ...

, and hence placed third at the 1952 Olympics. Earlier she won eight Soviet titles, in 1939, 1943–44 and 1946–50. After retiring from competitions Dumbadze worked as an athletics coach together with her husband Boris Dyachkov, who trained the Georgian athletics team for almost five decades. Their son

Yuri Dyachkov Yuriy Borisovich Dyachkov (russian: Юрий Борисович Дьячков; born 13 July 1940) is a retired Soviet decathlete. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics but failed to finish. He placed sixth at the 1962 European Championships ...

became an Olympic decathlete.

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1919 births 1983 deaths Sportspeople from Odesa People from Odessky Uyezd Ukrainian people of Georgian descent Soviet female discus throwers Female discus throwers from Georgia (country) Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists World record setters in athletics (track and field) Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) {{USSR-athletics-bio-stub