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Athletics At The 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's Discus Throw
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 Micheline Ostermeyer of France. Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows. Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1) Results Final standings References External links *Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948)The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad ''LA84 Foundation The LA84 Foundation (known until June 2007 as the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles) is a private, nonprofit institution created by the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee to manage Southern California's endowment from the 1984 Oly ...''. Retrieved 5 September 2016. {{DEFAULTSORT:Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics - Women's discus throw Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Discus throw at the Olympics 1948 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Stadium (Helsinki)
The Helsinki Olympic Stadium (; ), located in the Töölö district about from the centre of the Finland, Finnish capital Helsinki, is the largest stadium in the country. The stadium is best known for being the centre of activities in the 1952 Summer Olympics. During those games, it hosted Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics, athletics, Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics, equestrian show jumping, and the Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics, football finals. The stadium was also the venue for 1957 Bandy World Championship, the first Bandy World Championship in 1957, the first and tenth World Athletics Championships, in 1983 World Championships in Athletics, 1983 and 2005 World Championships in Athletics, 2005. It hosted the European Athletics Championships in 1971 European Athletics Championships, 1971, 1994 European Athletics Championships, 1994 and 2012 European Athletics Championships, 2012. It is also the home stadium of the Finland national football team. The stadium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jadwiga Wajs
Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz (30 January 1912 in Pabianice, Russian Empire – 1 February 1990) was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw. Career She competed for Poland at the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States, in the women's discus throw event, winning the bronze medal. Four years later she threw the discus again for Poland in the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany where she split the German pair Gisela Mauermayer and Paula Mollenhauer in winning the silver medal. Jadwiga Wajs was Jewish, her father's ancestors came to Livonia and Poland from Westfalen in the 13th century. Their heraldic crest A crest is a component of a heraldic display, consisting of the device borne on top of the helm. Originating in the decorative sculptures worn by knights in tournaments and, to a lesser extent, battles, crests became solely pictorial after t ... was the white swan. References External links * 1912 births 1990 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabre Gabric
Ljubica Gabrić-Calvesi (17 October 1914 – 16 December 2015), known as Gabre Gabric, was a Dalmatian Italian track and field athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Her best discus throw was 43.35 m (1939). Biography Ljubica Gabrić was born in Imotski, Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary). She was wife of Sandro Calvesi, an Italian athletic coach (hurdles), and mother-in-law of Eddy Ottoz (grandmother of Laurent Ottoz and Patrick Ottoz). While many sources give a birth year of 1914 and she competed in masters-level tournaments with this year of birth, Gabrić claimed in an interview that she was born in 1917 and that 1914 was a transcription error: however, this admission is in contradiction with additional sources, including her arrival in the United States at age 9 in 1923, documented by Ellis Island records and the fact that Olympic documents dating to the 1936 and 1948 Olympics establish a birthdate of 17 October 1914, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Dodson
Dorothy Lucille Dodson (March 28, 1919 – June 24, 2003) was a distinguished American track and field athlete whose career spanned the late 1930s through late 1940s; Dodson's specialty was the throwing events. From 1939 to 1949—with the exception of 1940—Dodson participated in every U.S. AAU Outdoor National Championships. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dodson won 11 consecutive National Championships in the javelin throw, 1939–49. She also won national titles in the shot put in 1944, 1946, and 1947; adding a national championship in the discus throw at the 1946 AAU Meet. Dodson was also the gold medalist in the shot put at the U.S. AAU Indoor Championships in 1941, 1945, and 1946. Like so many amateur athletes of the era, Dodson and her contemporaries were denied an opportunity to compete at the ill-fated 1940 and 1944 Olympic Games; a world at war would have to wait for such things. The crowning achievement of Dodson's career came in 1948, when she represente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Schläger
Marianne Schläger (born 22 November 1920) was an Austrian athlete. She competed in the women's shot put and the women's discus throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau .... References External links * 1920 births Possibly living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Austrian female shot putters Austrian female discus throwers Olympic athletes for Austria Place of birth missing {{Austria-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bevis Reid
Bevis Maria Anael Shergold (, 13 June 1919 - 4 July 1997) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1938 European Athletics Championships and the 1948 Summer Olympics. Biography Reid was a member of the Mitcham Athletics Club in London. By the time she was 19 years old she had unofficially broken the British record in the discus and the javelin. She competed in both the shot put and the discus at the 1938 European Athletics Championships held in Vienna, finishing in fifth place in the shot put and eighth place in the discus. Due to the war Reid had to wait ten years before she could compete in the Summer Olympics, where she threw 35.84 metres in the discus and finished in 14th place. She fared better in the shot put, finishing in third place in the qualifying round, but could only throw 12.170 metres in the final to finish in eighth place. Reid won the national shot put title (two-hand aggregate, 8lb shot) at the WAAA Championships on six occasions and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nel Roos-Lodder
Petronella Gerardina "Nel" Roos-Lodder (4 April 1914 – 4 June 1996) was a Dutch discus thrower. She competed at 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ... and finished in 13th place. References 1914 births 1996 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Dutch female discus throwers Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Athletes from Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gudrun Arenander
Gudrun Eivor Elisabeth Arenander (née Eklund, 25 March 1921 – 28 August 2020) was a Swedish discus thrower. She made her athletic debut at a championship in Gothenburg in 1943, setting her personal best throw of 40.37 m. She became a member of IFK Lidingö in 1944 and placed fourth at the 1946 European Athletics Championships and 12th at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Arenander won the Swedish discus title in 1942–43 and 1945–47 and was the captain of the Swedish women's athletics team. She was also an international handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ... player. After retiring from competitions she worked as a sports administrator. References 1921 births 2020 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Sweden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Kaszubski
Frances Theresa Kaszubski (née Gorn-Sobczak) (May 15, 1916 Donora, Pennsylvania - April 11, 2010 Berea, Ohio) was an American born, Polish track and field athlete known for her participation in weight throwing, discus and shot put. During World War II she officially represented Poland, but competed primarily in the United States. A contemporary on her Polish Women's Olympic Club at the time in Cleveland, was Stanisława Walasiewicz who also represented Poland. After her marriage and after the war she chose to represent the United States, as did Walasiewicz, who changed her name to Stella Walsh. Standing , she was a giant of her sport. In 1943 under her maiden name, 1945, 1948, and 1950, Kaszubski was the National AAU champion in the shot put. and she was the Indoor Champion in 1948 and 1951. She was also the National Champion in the discus throw in 1943, 1945 and five time straight from 1947 to 1951. In all, she placed in 19 AAU championships. Kaszubski participated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulette Veste
Paulette Veste (born 24 February 1928) is a French former athlete, who specialised in the shot put and the discus throw. Biography Veste was born in Lespesses. She took fourth in the shot put (July 7, 2015) and tenth in the during the 1948 Olympics at |
Frieda Tiltsch
Frieda Tiltsch (21 February 1922 – 11 July 1994) was an Austrian athlete. She competed in the women's discus throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in .... References 1922 births 1994 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Austrian female discus throwers Olympic athletes for Austria Place of birth missing {{Austria-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg Mello
Ingeborg Mello de Preiss (January 4, 1919 – October 25, 2009) was an Argentine track and field athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw and the shot put. She represented Argentina at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympic Games. She won the gold medal in the women's discus throw and the shot put event at the 1951 Pan American Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt .... Born in Berlin, Germany, she was Jewish. She trained in San Lorenzo de Almagro Club in Buenos Aires. References 1919 births 2009 deaths Athletes from Berlin German emigrants to Argentina Argentine female shot putters Argentine female discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1951 Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
