Women Javelin Throw Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - -- November

Women Javelin Throw Athletics XVI Olympic Games Melbourne, Australia 1956 - -- November - Gold Medal: Ineze Jaunzeme, Soviet Union

Final		Distance
1. Ineze Jaunzeme	URS	53.86m
2. Marlene Ahrens	CHI	50.38m
3. Nadezhda Konyayeva	URS	50.28m
4. Dana Zatopkova	URS	49.83m
5. Ingrid Almqvist	SWE	49.74m
6. Urszula Figwer	POL	48.16m
7. Erzsebet Vigh	HUN	48.07m
8. Karen Linnea Anderson	USA	48.00m
9. Anna Wojtaszek	POL	46.92m
10.Erika Raue	GER	45.87m
11.Marjorie Larney	USA	45.27m
12.Yoriko Shida	JPN	44.96m
13.Almut Brommel	GER	44.67m
14.Amelia Wershoven	USA	44.29m

Qualification Round	mark 43.00m
Not Qualified
-. Paola Paternoster	ITA
-. Heather Innis	AUS
-. Ida Margaret George	CAN
-. June Margaret Heath	AUS
-. Maureen Faye Wright	AUS

Ineze Jaunzeme was third in the 1956 Soviet Championships, and would never do better. But in Melbourne she was dominant, with four throws further than the second best thrower. Her best throws of 53.40 and then 53.86 were both Latvian records, and she became the first ever gold medallist from that country, though a part of the USSR at the time. The surprise of the competition was the silver medal for Ahrens, who had ranked only 19th before the Games, and was the only Chilean female ever to win an Olympic medal.

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