1950 European Athletics Championships – Women's discus throw

Events at the 1950 European Athletics Championships
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
10,000 m track walk		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's discus throw at the 1950 European Athletics Championships was held in Bruxelles, Belgium, at Stade du Heysel on 25 August 1950.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Nina Dumbadze  Soviet Union
Silver	Rimma Shumskaya  Soviet Union
Bronze	Edera Cordiale  Italy

Results

Final

25 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Nina Dumbadze	Soviet Union	48.03	CR
	Rimma Shumskaya	Soviet Union	42.25
	Edera Cordiale	Italy	41.57
4	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	41.22
5	Julija Matej	Yugoslavia	40.58
6	Paulette Veste	France	37.86
7	Gabre Gabric-Calvesi	Italy	37.73
8	Lotte Haidegger	Austria	37.40
9	Đurđa Borovec	Yugoslavia	37.07
10	Anna Andreyeva	Soviet Union	36.26
11	Grete Bolliger	Switzerland	31.46
12	Jaroslava Jungrová	Czechoslovakia	27.17

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 12 athletes from 7 countries participated in the event.

Austria (1)  Czechoslovakia (1)

France (2)  Italy (2)

Soviet Union (3)   Switzerland (1)

Yugoslavia (2)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 372–377, retrieved 13 August 2014