Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

Women's discus throw at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 2
Competitors	9 from 4 nations
Medalists
Lillian Copeland United States   Ruth Osburn United States   Jadwiga Wajs Poland

Athletics at the 1932 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

The women's discus throw event at the 1932 Olympic Games took place August 2.

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Lillian Copeland	United States	40.58	OR
	Ruth Osburn	United States	40.12	OR
	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	38.74
4	Tilly Fleischer	Germany	36.12
5	Grete Heublein	Germany	34.66
6	Stanisława Walasiewicz	Poland	33.60
7	Mitsue Ishizu	Japan	33.52
8	Ellen Braumüller	Germany	33.15
9	Margaret Jenkins	United States	30.22

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Women's discus throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-05.