Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin 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 Javelin Throw event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The qualifying round mark was set at 43.00m. Five athletes didn't surpass that distance in the heats.

Medalists

Gold	Inese Jaunzeme (URS)
Silver	Marlene Ahrens (CHI)
Bronze	Nadezhda Konyayeva (URS)

Final classification

RANK	NAME ATHLETE	DISTANCE
	Inese Jaunzeme (URS)	53.86 m
	Marlene Ahrens (CHI)	50.38 m
	Nadezhda Konyayeva (URS)	50.28 m
4.	Dana Zátopková (TCH)	49.83 m
5.	Ingrid Almqvist (SWE)	49.74 m
6.	Urszula Figwer (POL)	48.16 m
7.	Erzsebet Vigh (HUN)	48.07 m
8.	Karen Anderson (USA)	48.00 m
9.	Anna Wojtaszek (POL)	46.92 m
10.	Erika Raue (EUA)	45.87 m
11.	Marjorie Larney (USA)	45.27 m
12.	Yoriko Shida (JPN)	44.96 m
13.	Almut Brömmel (EUA)	44.67 m
14.	Amelia Wershoven (USA)	44.29 m
—	Paola Paternoster (ITA)	DNQ
—	Heather Innis (AUS)	DNQ
—	Ida George (CAN)	DNQ
—	June Heath (AUS)	DNQ
—	Maureen Wright (AUS)	DNQ

References

• Official Report
• Results