Final Ranking Dist. SO Y 1. Micheline Ostermeyer FRA 41.92m 11 25 2. Edera Cordiale-Gentile ITA 41.17m 4 28 3. Jacqueline Mazéas FRA 40.47m 10 27 4. Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz POL 39.30m 8 36 5. Lotte Haidegger AUT 38.81m 7 23 6. Ans Panhorst-Niesink NED 38.74m 2 29 7. Majken Åberg SWE 38.48m 1 30 8. Ingeborg Mello ARG 38.44m 10 29 9. Frieda Tiltsch AUT 37.19m 26 10.Paulette Veste FRA 36.84m 20 11.Frances Kaszubski USA 36.50m 32 12.Gudrun Arenander SWE 36.25m 27 13.Nel Roos-Lodder NED 36.15m 34 14.Bevis Reid GBR 35.84m 29 15.Marianne Schläger AUT 34.79m 27 16.Dorothy Dodson USA 34.69m 29 17.Gabre Gabric-Calvesi ITA 34.17m 30 18.Pak Bong-Sik KOR 33.80m 19.Margaret Birtwhistle GBR 33.02m 23 20.Elspeth Whyte GBR 32.46m 21 21.Julija Matej YUG 30.25m 22 world Women Discus Throw History Venue: Empire Stadium, Wembley. Competitors: 21; Countries: 11 Ostermeyer only learned how to throw the discus in 1948, and placed second in her national championship behind Mazéas, three weeks before the Olympics. The athletic (1.79/73kg) Ostermeyer began with 40.45, and won from Gentile with her final throw. Ostermeyer was a concert pianist, who managed to combine sport and art closely; on the day she qualified for the Olympic team in Bordeaux she gave a concert. To put her win in perspective it should be noted that Nina Dumbadze set a world record of 53.25 eight days after the Olympic event, and had 12 competitions beyond the best of anyone else in 1948.

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