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

Women's discus throw

at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Dates

August 4

Medalists

← 1932

1948 →

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The women's discus throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 4, 1936. The final was won by Gisela Mauermayer of Germany.^[1]

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Gisela Mauermayer	Germany	47.63	OR
	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	46.22
	Paula Mollenhauer	Germany	39.80
4	Ko Nakamura	Japan	38.24
5	Hide Mineshima	Japan	37.35
6	Birgit Lundström	Sweden	35.92
7	Ans Panhorst-Niesink	Netherlands	35.21
8	Gertrude Wilhelmsen	United States	34.43
9	Helen Stephens	United States	34.33
10	Gabre Gabric	Italy	34.31
11	Margarethe Held	Austria	34.05
12	Margaréta Schieferová	Czechoslovakia	34.03
13	Veronika Kohlbach	Austria	34.00
14	Lucienne Velu	France	33.95
15	Fumi Kojima	Japan	33.66
16	Tini Koopmans	Netherlands	33.50
17	Vera Neferović	Yugoslavia	33.02
18	Evelyn Ferrara	United States	32.52
19	Anna Hagemann	Germany	28.48

Key: OR = Olympic record

^ "Athletics at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Women's Discus Throw". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

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Summary
Men	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
See also: 1912 Men's two handed discus throw

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