Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw

The women's javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games
1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

took place on September 1.

Results

Top 12 throwers and ties plus all trowers reaching 48.00 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listed in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Mark	1	2	3
1	Elvīra Ozoliņa Elvira Ozolina Elvīra Anatolyevna Ozoliņa is a retired Latvian athlete, who competed in javelin throw. She won the gold medal for the USSR team in the 1960 Olympics and was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour that year.Ozoliņa trained at VSS Burevestnik in Leningrad...	53.25	53.25	pass	pass
2	Dana Ingrová	51.64	47.94	51.64	pass
3	Sue Platt	50.67	50.67	pass	pass
4	Karen Anderson Karen Anderson Karen Anderson is a professional female squash player who represented Jamaica during her career. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No...	50.62	43.96	44.26	50.62
5	Vlasta Pešková	50.61	50.61	pass	pass
6	Márta Rudasné Antal	50.01	foul	47.56	50.01
7	Maria Diţi	49.80	49.80	pass	pass
8	Anna Wojtaszek	49.20	45.66	49.20	pass
9	Alla Shastitko	48.91	48.91	pass	pass
10	Birutė Kalėdienė Birute Kalediene Birutė Kalėdienė is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Javelin.Kaledienė trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas, Lithuania. She competed for the USSR in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the Javelin where she won the bronze medal.-References:*...	48.59	48.59	pass	pass
11	Marlene Ahrens Marlene Ahrens Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:...	48.36	44.61	48.36	pass
12	Anneliese Gerhards	48.33	45.89	foul	48.33
13	Urszula Figwer	48.04	48.04	pass	pass
14	Ingrid Almqvist	47.67	foul	44.33	47.67
15	Erika Strößenreuther	46.85	45.88	foul	46.85
16	Almut Brömmel Almut Brömmel Almut Brömmel is a retired female javelin thrower and discus thrower from Germany, who represented her native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1956 and 1960. She set her personal best in the women's javelin throw in 1968.-Achievements:-References:*...	45.52	34.76	45.52	41.20
17	Erika Strasser	43.80	43.79	43.80	foul
18	Lise Kock	43.01	43.01	foul	40.36
19	Averil Williams	42.44	42.44	foul	40.03
20	Unn Thorvaldsen	41.99	foul	foul	41.99

Final

Rank	Name	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Elvīra Ozoliņa Elvira Ozolina Elvīra Anatolyevna Ozoliņa is a retired Latvian athlete, who competed in javelin throw. She won the gold medal for the USSR team in the 1960 Olympics and was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour that year.Ozoliņa trained at VSS Burevestnik in Leningrad...	55.98	55.98 OR	foul	51.54	54.80	foul	foul	OR
	Dana Ingrová	53.78	49.84	50.36	53.78	51.02	46.13	50.70
	Birutė Kalėdienė Birute Kalediene Birutė Kalėdienė is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Javelin.Kaledienė trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas, Lithuania. She competed for the USSR in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the Javelin where she won the bronze medal.-References:*...	53.45	50.17	49.81	53.45	50.87	49.58	foul
4	Vlasta Pešková	52.56	50.94	foul	51.28	52.56	49.00	48.82
5	Urszula Figwer	52.33	52.33	foul	47.92	50.16	46.53	pass
6	Anna Wojtaszek	51.15	51.15	47.04	foul	42.76	47.35	foul
7	Sue Platt	51.01	51.01	50.84	foul
8	Alla Shastitko	50.92	47.43	50.83	50.92
9	Márta Rudasné Antal	50.25	50.25	48.41	49.66
10	Maria Diţi	49.56	49.56	47.49	48.83
11	Anneliese Gerhards	49.27	47.76	49.27	foul
12	Marlene Ahrens Marlene Ahrens Marlene Ahrens Ostertag is a female Chilean athlete. She won the silver medal in Javelin throw at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a distance of 50.38 metres. She remains the only Chilean woman to have won an Olympic medal. She is the mother of the journalist Karin Ebensperger.-References:...	47.53	46.39	47.53	45.34
13	Karen Anderson Karen Anderson Karen Anderson is a professional female squash player who represented Jamaica during her career. She reached a career-high world ranking of World No...	46.52	44.39	46.52	44.24

Key: OR = Olympic record

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