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1936 Olympic Games Berlin, Germany - Women's Discus Throw

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Host City: Berlin, Germany

Format: Final only.

Date Started: August 4, 1936

Date Finished: August 4, 1936

(Competitors: 19; Countries: 11)

Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Imperial Sports Field, Berlin

Overview by IAAF

Wajs, the World Games Champion in 1934, had seen her world record broken 11 times by Mauermayer in 1935-36, with the German taking the record from 44.19 to 48.31. The last of these came in Berlin at the German Championships just three weeks before the Olympics. Mauermayer followed Wajs’s opening throw of 44.69 with the winning effort of 47.63. Wajs reacted well, throwing 46.22, the longest competitive throw of her career, to place an excellent second, more than 6m clear of third place. Mauermayer was deemed the perfect example of Aryan womanhood, and her Nazi connections meant that she lost her teaching job after the war.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

Between 1932 and 1934 Poland’s Jadwiga Wajs had bettered the world record 10 times, with five ratified marks, and in 1934 she won the FSFI Women’s World Games. But German Gisela Mauermayer had moved to the fore in 1935, bettering Wajs’s world record 11 times in 1935-36, five of them ratified. Wajs took the lead in round one with 44.69 (146-7½) but Mauermayer secured the gold medal with her first round toss of 47.64 (156-3¾). Wajs improved to 46.22 (151-7¾) in round three and sealed the silver medal. Mauermayer was hailed by the Nazis as a perfect example of an Aryan women. She gave a Nazi salute on the victory podium and later achieved a high-ranking in Nazi women’s groups. But after World War II, she lost her teaching job because of her Nazi background, although she later became a librarian. The 1932 champion, Lillian Copeland, was Jewish and personally boycotted the 1936 Olympics to protest the Nazis not allowing Jews to compete on their Olympic team.

		Results

*Discus Throw*	Women	Final	4 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Age	Records	Notes
1	47.63	Gisela Mauermayer	Germany	GER	22	OR
2	46.22	Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz	Poland	POL	24
3	39.80	Paula Mollenhauer	Germany	GER	27
4	38.24	Ko Nakamura-Yoshino	Japan	JPN	16
5	37.35	Hide Mineshima	Japan	JPN	20
6	35.92	Birgit Lundström	Sweden	SWE	24
7	35.21	Ans Panhorst-Niesink	Netherlands	NED	17
8	34.43	Gertrude Wilhelmsen	United States	USA	23
9	34.33	Helen Stephens	United States	USA	18
10	34.31	Gabre Gabric-Calvesi	Italy	ITA	18
11	34.05	Margarethe Held	Austria	AUT	25
12	34.03	Margaréta Schieferová	Czechoslovakia	TCH	22
13	34.00	Veronika Kohlbach	Austria	AUT	30
14	33.95	Lucienne Velu	France	FRA	34
15	33.66	Fumi Kojima	Japan	JPN	19
16	33.50	Tini Koopmans	Netherlands	NED	24
17	33.02	Vera Neferović	Yugoslavia	YUG	27
18	32.52	Evelyn Ferrara	United States	USA	26
19	28.48	Anna Hagemann	Germany	GER	17

Detailed View

Final 15:15	Team	Dist.	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Gisela Mauermayer	GER	47.63m	47.63	41.64	40.70	36.27	43.54	44.26
2. Jadwiga Wajsowna	POL	46.22m	44.69	31.99	46.22	43.36	X	42.89
3. Paula Mollenhauer	GER	39.80m	38.59	37.45	33.27	35.82	X	39.80
4. Toyoko Nakamura	JPN	38.24m	35.84	37.21	38.24	31.39	32.73	37.87
5. Hide Mineshima	JPN	37.35m	37.04	37.35	35.25	35.73	32.72	33.98
6. Birgit Lundstrom	SWE	35.92m	35.82	33.97	31.84	35.92	31.33	34.42
7. Niesink	HOL	35.21m	34.03	35.21	32.64
8. Wilhelmsen	USA	34.43m	33.68	34.43	X
9. Stephens	USA	34.33m	34.33	31.58	32.76
10.Gabric	ITA	34.31m	27.09	34.31	28.64
11.Held	AUT	34.05m	X	33.15	34.05
12.Schieferová	TCH	34.03m	X	X	34.03
13.Kolbach	AUT	34.00m	34.00	33.68	31.86
14.Vellu	FRA	33.95m	29.92	29.51	33.95
15.Kojima	JPN	33.66m	33.66	31.97	30.42
16.Koopmans	HOL	33.50m	30.03	33.50	33.20
17.Neferovic	YUG	33.02m	X	33.02	27.67
18.Ferrara	USA	32.52m	29.50	32.52	31.07
19.Hagemann	GER	28.48m	28.48	X	X