Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

Women's discus throw at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Dates	August 4
Medalists
Gisela Mauermayer Germany   Jadwiga Wajs Poland   Paula Mollenhauer Germany

Athletics at the 1936 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 was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on August 4, 1936. The final was won by German Gisela Mauermayer.

Results

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Gisela Mauermayer	Germany	47.63	OR
	Jadwiga Wajs	Poland	46.22
	Paula Mollenhauer	Germany	39.80
4	Ko Nakamura-Yoshino	Japan	38.24
5	Hide Mineshima	Japan	37.35
6	Birgit Lundström	Sweden	35.92
7	Ans Panhorst-Niesink	Netherlands	35.21
8	Gertrude Wilhelmsen	United States	34.43
9	Helen Stephens	United States	34.33
10	Gabre Gabric	Italy	34.31
11	Margarethe Held	Austria	34.05
12	Margaréta Schieferová	Czechoslovakia	34.03
13	Veronica Kohlbach	Austria	34.00
14	Lucienne Velu	France	33.95
15	Fumi Kojima	Japan	33.66
16	Tini Koopmans	Netherlands	33.50
17	Vera Neferović	Yugoslavia	33.02
18	Evelyn Ferrara	United States	32.52
19	Anne Hagemann	Germany	28.48

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Women's discus throw, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-05-31.