Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

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

Women's discus throw at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	September 3 (qualifying round) September 5 (final round)
Medalists
Nina Romashkova  Soviet Union Tamara Press  Soviet Union Lia Manoliu  Romania

Results

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

Qualifying

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

Final

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