Women's discus throw at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Podium of the women's discus throw
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	July 30 (final)
Competitors	21 from 11 nations
Winning distance	41.92
Medalists
Micheline Ostermeyer  France Edera Gentile  Italy Jacqueline Mazeas  France
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Athletics at the 1948 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
10 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
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The women's discus throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on July 30, 1948. The final was won by Micheline Ostermeyer of France.^[1]

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Gisela Mauermayer (GER)	48.31 m	Berlin, Germany	11 July 1936
Olympic record		47.63 m	Berlin, Germany	4 August 1936

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	41.92
	Edera Gentile	Italy	41.17
	Jacqueline Mazéas	France	40.47
4	Jadwiga Wajs-Marcinkiewicz	Poland	39.30
5	Lotte Haidegger	Austria	38.81
6	Ans Panhorst-Niesink	Netherlands	38.74
7	Majken Åberg	Sweden	38.48
8	Ingeborg Mello	Argentina	38.44
9	Frieda Tiltsch	Austria	37.19
10	Paulette Veste	France	36.84
11	Frances Kaszubski	United States	36.50
12	Gudrun Arenander	Sweden	36.25
13	Nel Roos-Lodder	Netherlands	36.15
14	Bevis Reid	Great Britain	35.84
15	Marianne Schläger	Austria	34.79
16	Dorothy Dodson	United States	34.69
17	Gabre Gabric	Italy	34.17
18	Pak Bong-sik	South Korea	33.80
19	Margaret Birtwistle	Great Britain	33.02
20	Elspeth Whyte	Great Britain	32.46
21	Julija Matej	Yugoslavia	30.25

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.