Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

The women's discus throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women. The program of events was unchanged from the previous Games. There was a total of 776 participants from 43 countries competing.-Medal table:...

at the 1936 Summer Olympics

1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...

. The competition was held on August 4, 1936. The final was won by German

Germans

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Gisela Mauermayer.

Final standings

Rank	Name	Distance	Notes
	Gisela Mauermayer Gisela Mauermayer Gisela Mauermayer was a German athlete who competed mainly in the discus. She won the gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany....	47.63	OR
	Jadwiga Wajs Jadwiga Wajs Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz was a Polish athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw.-Career:...	46.22
	Paula Mollenhauer Paula Mollenhauer Paula Mollenhauer was a German athlete who won the bronze medal in the discus throw event at the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany. She was born and died in Hamburg.- References :*...	39.80
4	Ko Nakamura-Yoshino	38.24
5	Hide Mineshima	37.35
6	Birgit Lundström	35.92
7	Ans Panhorst-Niesink	35.21
8	Gertrude Wilhelmsen	34.43
9	Helen Stephens Helen Stephens Helen Herring Stephens was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1936.Stephens, nicknamed the 'Fulton Flash' after her birthplace Fulton, Missouri, was a strong athlete in sprint events - she never lost a race in her entire career - but also in weight events like the shot put and...	34.33
10	Gabre Gabric-Calvesi Gabre Gabric-Calvesi Ljubica "Gabre" Gabric-Calvesi is an Italian track and field athlete who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Her best discus throw is 43.35m .-Biography:...	34.31
11	Margarethe Held	34.05
12	Margaréta Schieferová	34.03
13	Veronica Kohlbach	34.00
14	Lucienne Velu	33.95
15	Fumi Kojima	33.66
16	Tini Koopmans	33.50
17	Vera Neferović	33.02
18	Evelyn Ferrara	32.52
19	Anne Hagemann	28.48

Key: OR = Olympic record

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