1938 European Athletics Championships
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
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
v t e

The women's discus throw at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was held in Vienna, at the time part of German Reich, at Praterstadion on 18 September 1938.^[1]

Gold	Gisela Mauermayer  Germany
Silver	Hildegard Sommer  Germany
Bronze	Paula Mollenhauer  Germany

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Gisela Mauermayer	Germany	44.80	CR
	Hildegard Sommer	Germany	40.95
	Paula Mollenhauer	Germany	39.81
4	Birgit Lundström	Sweden	38.12
5	Genowefa Cejzik	Poland	36.51
6	Gabre Gabric-Calvesi	Italy	35.53
7	Ans Niesink	Netherlands	35.48
8	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	34.19
9	Britta Awall	Sweden	33.26
10	Kathleen Dyer-Tilley	Great Britain	33.18
11	Ágnes Nadányi	Hungary	31.08

According to an unofficial count, 11 athletes from 7 countries participated in the event.