Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

Athletics at the 1956 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
20 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

These are the official results of the Women's Discus Throw event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualification round mark was set at 42.00 metres. Nine competitors failed to reach that distance.

Final classification

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	DISTANCE
	Olga Fikotová (TCH)	53.69 m
	Irina Beglyakova (URS)	52.54 m
	Nina Ponomaryeva (URS)	52.02 m
4.	Earlene Brown (USA)	51.35 m
5.	Albina Yelkina (URS)	48.20 m
6.	Isabel Avellán (ARG)	46.73 m
7.	Jirina Voborilova (TCH)	45.84 m
8.	Stepanka Mertova (TCH)	45.78 m
9.	Lia Manoliu (ROU)	43.90 m
10.	Marianne Werner (EUA)	43.34 m
11.	Paola Paternoster (ITA)	42.83 m
12.	Nada Kotlusek (YUG)	42.16 m
13.	Lois Jackman (AUS)	40.84 m
—	Almut Brömmel (EUA)	DNQ
—	Shirley Cotton (AUS)	DNQ
—	Toyoko Yoshino (JPN)	DNQ
—	Suzanne Allday (GBR)	DNQ
—	Anne-Katrin Lafrenz (EUA)	DNQ
—	Valerie Dawn Lawrence (AUS)	DNQ
—	Jacqueline MacDonald (CAN)	DNQ
—	Marjorie Larney (USA)	DNQ
—	Pamela Joan Kurrell (USA)	DNQ

References

• Official Report
• Results