1926 Women's World Games – discus throw

Discus throw
at the 1926 Women's World Games
Polish Halina Konopacka won the gold medal
VenueSlottsskogsvallen
LocationGothenburg, Sweden
DatesAugust 27
Winning score37.71 m
Medalists
gold medal    Poland
silver medal    Japan
bronze medal    Sweden

The discus throw event at the 1926 Women's World Games in Gothenburg at the Slottsskogsvallen was held on 27 August 1926.

It was the first time the discus throw event was held at the Women's World Games.

Polish Halina Konopacka won the event with a distance of 37.71 meter. It was listed as a new world record,[1] however just several days before the Games German Milly Reuter had thrown 38.34 meter in Braunschweig. Behind Konopacka Japanese Kinue Hitomi won the silver medal and Swedish Elsa Svensson the bronze medal.[2]

Records

These was the standing world record (in metres) prior to the 1926 Women's World Games.[3]

World record Milly Reuter (GER)38.34 Braunschweig, German22 August 1926[3]

Results

RankNameNationalityDistanceNotes
1Halina Konopacka Poland37.71
2 Kinue Hitomi Japan33.62
3 Elsa Svensson Sweden31.78
4Ruth Svedberg Sweden31.39
5Florence Birchenough Great Britain28.73
6Elfriede Karlson Latvia27.97
7??
8??
9Lucie Petit-Diagre France26.88[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Svenska dagbladets Årsbok 1926 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Svenska Dagbladet. 1927. p. 217-218. Retrieved 13 June 2024 – via runeberg.org.
  2. 1 2 90 lat polskiej lekkoatletyki 1919 - 2009 (PDF) (in Polish). Warsaw: Polish Athletics Association. 2009. p. 27. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  3. 1 2 "13th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2011" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2011. pp. 647–48. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 18, 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "LUCIE (GEORGETTE) PETIT". French Athletics (in French).

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