Women Discus Throw Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - Friday, 23rd November - Gold Medal: Olga Fikotová, Czechoslovakia

Women Discus Throw Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - Friday, 23rd November - Gold Medal: Olga Fikotová, Czechoslovakia

Final 16:10		Distance	SO	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Olga Fikotová	TCH	53.69m	3	46.56	50.09	52.04	52.28	53.69	49.98
2. Irina Beglyakova	URS	52.54m	10	51.74	51.01	52.54	50.32	48.22	48.31
3. Nina Ponomaryeva	URS	52.02m	7	51.03	51.61	50.17	47.22	52.02	51.10
4. Earlene Brown	USA	51.35m	8	51.35	42.55	X	X	40.45	44.79
5. Albina Yelkina	URS	48.20m	5	47.87	X	48.20	45.18	45.45	47.92
6. Isabel Avellan de Neefe	ARG	46.73m	6	46.73	44.84	42.69	46.31	43.88	44.35
7. Jirina Vobořilová	TCH	45.84m	9	45.57	X	45.84
8. Štěpánka Mertová	TCH	45.78m	13	41.96	45.78	43.41
9. Lia Manoliu	ROM	43.90m		43.90	43.76	42.72
10.Marianne Werner	GER	43.34m		43.34	41.89	X
11.Paola Paternoster	ITA	42.83m		42.83	40.89	X
12.Nada Kotlusek	YUG	42.16m		41.79	39.89	42.16
13.Lois Jackman	AUS	40.84m		40.84	40.28	40.64

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Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground. Capp.: 120,000.

22 competitors from 12 nations.

Qualification

Ponomaryova was expected to retain her title ahead of Beglyakova, with Fikotová and Mertová likely to battle out for the bronze. Fikotová led the qualifying with 50.77, but was fourth until the third round, when she threw 52.04 to take the lead. Beglyakova immediately responded with 52.54, and retained the lead from Fikotová until the fifth round. The Czech threw 53.69 in the fifth round to become the third-best thrower ever and win the gold, with Ponomaryova producing her best in the same round, to edge Brown for the bronze medal. For Fikotová, Melbourne was memorable not just for the gold medal, as she met (and three months later married) Harold Connolly, winner of the hammer. Ponomaryova had given Fikotová coaching tips in 1955, and was visibly upset to see how good a job she had done.

Qualification> - Friday 23.11 10:00

Mark 42.00m. 13 Athletes passed the mark and advanced to Final.

Final		Distance	1.	2.	3.
1. Olga Fikotová	TCH	50.77m	28.60	50.77
2. Nina Ponomaryeva	URS	48.34m	48.34
3. Irina Beglyakova	URS	47.65m	40.77	47.65
4. Štěpánka Mertová	TCH	46.26m	44.62
5. Jirina Vobořilová	TCH	44.62m	43.90
6. Earlene Brown	USA	43.90m	43.90
6. Albina Yelkina	URS	43.90m	43.90
8. Lia Manoliu	ROM	43.87m	43.87
9. Isabel Avellan de Neefe	ARG	43.66m	40.78	43.66
10.Marianne Werner	GER	43.41m	40.78	43.41
11.Paola Paternoster	ITA	42.88m	42.88
12.Nada Kotlusek	YUG	42.45m	40.73	42.45
13.Lois Jackman	AUS	42.21m	39.25	41.68	42.21
Not Qualified
14.Suzanne Allday	GBR	41.45m	39.39	38.89	41.45
15.Anne-Katrin Lafrenz	GER	41.18m	33.72	41.18	41.16
16.Toyoko Yoshino	JPN	40.91m	40.77	36.47	40.91
17.Shirley Cotton	AUS	40.76m	37.74	40.76	39.36
18.Pamela Joan Kurrell	USA	40.49m	38.01	40.49	39.92
19.Jacqueline MacDonald	CAn	40.41m	33.77	33.93	40.41
20.Marjorie Larney	USA	39.91m	39.91	38.04	X
21.Valerie Dawn Lawrence	AUS	38.76m	33.84	38.76	36.61
22.Almut Brommel	GER	35.47m	X	X	35.47

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