Women's discus throw at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 3 (qualifying round) September 5 (final round)
Competitors	24 from 10 nations
Winning distance	55.10 OR
Medalists
Nina Romashkova  Soviet Union Tamara Press  Soviet Union Lia Manoliu  Romania
← 1956 1964 →

Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
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
20 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
v t e

The women's discus throw throwing event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place on September 3 & September 5.^[1]

Top 12 throwers and ties plus all throwers reaching 47.00 metres advanced to the finals. All distances are listed in metres.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	Notes
1	Nina Romashkova	Soviet Union	53.68	53.68	–	–
2	Irene Schuch	United Team of Germany	52.22	52.22	–	–
3	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	51.47	51.47	–	–
4	Earlene Brown	United States	51.17	42.43	51.17	–
5	Kriemhild Limberg	United Team of Germany	50.86	50.86	–	–
6	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	49.86	49.86	–	–
7	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	49.36	49.36	–	–
8	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	49.34	49.34	–	–
9	Lia Manoliu	Romania	48.57	48.57	–	–
10	Olga Fikotová	United States	48.32	x	48.32	–
11	Wivianne Bergh	Sweden	47.02	x	44.29	47.02
12	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	46.91	46.91	45.79	42.80
13	Kazimiera Rykowska	Poland	46.75	x	46.75	x
14	Jennifer Thompson	New Zealand	46.74	45.94	46.74	42.93
15	Elivia Ricci	Italy	45.86	45.86	x	45.78
16	Dorli Hofrichter	Austria	44.94	44.94	x	39.26
17	Karen Inge Halkier	Denmark	43.99	41.06	42.02	43.99
18	Hiroko Uchida-Yokoyama	Japan	43.78	x	43.78	x
19	Pam Kurrell	United States	43.23	43.23	40.35	42.34
20	Paola Paternoster	Italy	43.11	43.11	41.36	42.20
21	Suzanne Farmer	Great Britain	41.12	x	x	41.12
22	Milena Čelesnik	Yugoslavia	30.84	x	30.84	x
23	Doris Lorenz-Müller	United Team of Germany	NM	x	x	x
24	Wu Jin-Yun	Formosa	NM	x	x	x

Rank	Name	Nationality	Mark	1	2	3	4	5	6	Notes
	Nina Romashkova	Soviet Union	55.10	44.48	52.42	53.39	51.68	55.10 OR	54.42	OR
	Tamara Press	Soviet Union	52.59	51.64	46.82	x	50.92	x	52.59
	Lia Manoliu	Romania	52.36	52.36	x	46.29	50.59	48.78	46.96
4	Kriemhild Limberg	United Team of Germany	51.47	51.47	x	45.30	47.40	48.12	46.38
5	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova	Soviet Union	51.43	51.43	51.39	50.96	49.69	50.62	51.25
6	Earlene Brown	United States	51.29	51.29	35.83	47.29	x	35.20	45.80
7	Olga Fikotová	United States	50.95	50.95	47.46	48.82
8	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	50.12	50.12	48.62	x
9	Irene Schuch	United Team of Germany	49.86	49.86	49.42	x
10	Valerie Sloper	New Zealand	48.81	45.26	x	48.81
11	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	48.28	48.28	46.62	38.51
12	Wivianne Bergh	Sweden	43.96	42.70	43.76	43.96

Key: OR = Olympic record; NM = no mark