Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

Women's discus throw at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 3 (qualifying round) September 5 (final round)
Medalists
Nina Romashkova Soviet Union   Tamara Press Soviet Union   Lia Manoliu Romania

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
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

The women's discus throw throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 3 & September 5.

Results

Top 12 throwers and ties plus all trowers reaching 47.00 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listen in metres.

Qualifying

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	Notes
1	Nina Romashkova	Soviet Union	53.68	53.68	pass	pass
2	Irene Schuch	Germany	52.22	52.22	pass	pass
3	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	51.47	51.47	pass	pass
4	Earlene Brown	United States	51.17	42.43	51.17	pass
5	Kriemhild Limberg	Germany	50.86	50.86	pass	pass
6	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	49.86	49.86	pass	pass
7	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	49.36	49.36	pass	pass
8	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	49.34	49.34	pass	pass
9	Lia Manoliu	Romania	48.57	48.57	pass	pass
10	Olga Fikotová	United States	48.32	foul	48.32	pass
11	Wivianne Bergh	Sweden	47.02	foul	44.29	47.02
12	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	46.91	46.91	45.79	42.80
13	Kazimiera Rykowska	Poland	46.75	foul	46.75	foul
14	Jennifer Thompson	New Zealand	46.74	45.94	46.74	42.93
15	Elivia Ricci	Italy	45.86	45.86	foul	45.78
16	Dorli Hofrichter	Austria	44.94	44.94	foul	39.26
17	Karen Inge Halkier	Denmark	43.99	41.06	42.02	43.99
18	Hiroko Uchida	Japan	43.78	foul	43.78	foul
19	Pam Kurrell	United States	43.23	43.23	40.35	42.34
20	Paola Paternoster	Italy	43.11	43.11	41.36	42.20
21	Suzanne Farmer	Great Britain	41.12	foul	foul	41.12
22	Milena Čelesnik	Yugoslavia	30.84	foul	30.84	foul
23	Doris Lorenz	Germany	-	foul	foul	foul	NM
24	Wu Jin-Yun	Republic of China	-	foul	foul	foul	NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Nina Romashkova	Soviet Union	55.10	44.48	52.42	53.39	51.68	55.10 OR	54.42	OR
	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	52.59	51.64	46.82	foul	50.92	foul	52.59
	Lia Manoliu	Romania	52.36	52.36	foul	46.29	50.59	48.78	46.96
4	Kriemhild Limberg	Germany	51.47	51.47	foul	45.30	47.40	48.12	46.38
5	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	51.43	51.43	51.39	50.96	49.69	50.62	51.25
6	Earlene Brown	United States	51.29	51.29	35.83	47.29	foul	35.20	45.80
7	Olga Fikotová	United States	50.95	50.95	47.46	48.82
8	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	50.12	50.12	48.62	foul
9	Irene Schuch	Germany	49.86	49.86	49.42	foul
10	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	48.81	45.26	foul	48.81
11	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	48.28	48.28	46.62	38.51
12	Wivianne Bergh	Sweden	43.96	42.70	43.76	43.96

Key: OR = Olympic record; NM = no mark

References

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Women's discus throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-18.