Women's javelin throw at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	July 31, 1948 (final)
Competitors	15 from 10 nations
Winning distance	45.57 OR
Medalists
Herma Bauma  Austria Kaisa Parviainen  Finland Lily Carlstedt  Denmark
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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 javelin throw event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1948 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on July 31, 1948. The final was won by Herma Bauma of Austria.^[1]

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

World record	Anneliese Steinheuer (GER)	47.24 m	Frankfurt, Germany	21 June 1942
Olympic record	Tilly Fleischer (GER)	45.18 m	Berlin, Germany	2 August 1936

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Distance	Notes
31 July	Final	Herma Bauma (AUT)	45.57	OR

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Herma Bauma	Austria	45.57	OR
	Kaisa Parviainen	Finland	43.79
	Lily Carlstedt	Denmark	42.08
4	Dorothy Dodson	United States	41.96
5	Jo Teunissen-Waalboer	Netherlands	40.92
6	Ans Koning	Netherlands	40.33
7	Dana Ingrová-Zátopková	Czechoslovakia	39.94
8	Elly Dammers	Netherlands	38.23
9	Gerda Schilling-Staniek	Austria	38.01
10	Ingrid Almqvist	Sweden	37.26
11	Melania Sinoracka	Poland	35.74
12	Theresa Manuel	United States	33.82
13	Nicole Saeys	Belgium	31.77
14	Kay Long	Great Britain	30.29
15	Gladys Clarke	Great Britain	29.59

Key: OR = Olympic record

• 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.