Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

Women's discus throw at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 20
Competitors	20 from 16 nations

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
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 steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The Women's shot put event at the 1952 Summer Olympics took place on 20 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Soviet athlete Nina Ponomaryova won the gold medal and set a new Olympic record.

Medalists

Gold	Nina Ponomaryova (URS)
Silver	Yelisaveta Bagriantseva (URS)
Bronze	Nina Dumbadze (URS)

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 36.00 advance to the Final.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result
1	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	45.05
2	Nina Dumbadze	Soviet Union	43.20
3	Marianne Werner	Germany	41.37
4	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	41.32
5	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	40.91
6	Yelisaveta Bagriantseva	Soviet Union	40.73
7	Libuše Nováková	Czechoslovakia	39.89
8	Ko Nakamura-Yoshino	Japan	39.75
9	Lotte Haidegger	Austria	39.54
10	Frieda Tiltsch	Austria	39.47
11	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	38.20
12	Ilona Szikora-Józsá	Hungary	37.75
13	Lia Manoliu	Romania	37.58
14	Paulette Veste	France	37.47
15	Edera Cordiale	Italy	37.40
16	Ingeborg Pfüller	Argentina	36.61
17	Kaarina Koivuniemi	Finland	36.56
18	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	36.37
19	Olga Winterberg	Israel	35.79
20	Esther Brand	South Africa	34.18

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result
01 !	Nina Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	45.16	50.84	51.42	47.24	44.66	49.37	51.42 OR
02 !	Yelisaveta Bagriantseva	Soviet Union	43.58	47.08	44.26	43.97	44.58	43.00	47.08
03 !	Nina Dumbadze	Soviet Union	45.85	40.24	44.10	46.29	45.10	41.05	46.29
4	Ko Nakamura-Yoshino	Japan	41.71	42.67	37.15	41.58	43.81	42.02	43.81
5	Lotte Haidegger	Austria	35.66	43.49	40.02	00.00 !x	00.00 !x	41.32	43.49
6	Lia Manoliu	Romania	41.57	42.65	41.48	36.05	41.21	40.79	42.65
7	Ingeborg Pfüller	Argentina	37.05	40.32	41.73				41.73
8	Ilona Szikora-Józsá	Hungary	00.00 !x	39.58	41.61				41.61
9	Marianne Werner	Germany	39.77	00.00 !x	41.03				41.03
10	Yvette Williams	New Zealand	40.48	32.95	40.38				40.48
11	Kaarina Koivuniemi	Finland	40.33	32.72	40.05				40.33
12	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	39.04	37.84	37.24				39.04
13	Libuše Nováková	Czechoslovakia	38.17	00.00 !x	38.83				38.83
14	Edera Cordiale	Italy	38.22	00.00 !x	37.03				38.22
15	Suzanne Allday	Great Britain	34.54	37.34	37.96				37.96
16	Paulette Veste	France	37.64	28.94	33.28				37.64
17	Gretel Bolliger	Switzerland	35.34	36.36	36.24				36.36
18	Frieda Tiltsch	Austria	00.00 !x	27.84	00.00 !x				27.84

Discus throw at the Olympic Games

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

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

See also: 1912 Men's two handed discus throw

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