| Women's discus throw at the Games of the XIV Olympiad |
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| Dates | July 30 (final) | ||||||
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| Competitors | 19 | ||||||
| Medalists | |||||||
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| «1936 | 1952» | ||||||
| Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics |
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| 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 | |||
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 Frenchwoman Micheline Ostermeyer.
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Distance | Notes |
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| Micheline Ostermeyer | France | 41.92 | ||
| Edera Gentile | Italy | 41.17 | ||
| Jacqueline Mazeas | 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-Calvesi | Italy | 34.17 | |
| 18 | Pak Bong-Sik | South Korea | 33.80 | |
| 19 | Margaret Lucas | Great Britain | 33.02 | |
| 20 | Elspeth Whyte | Great Britain | 32.46 | |
| 21 | Julija Matej | Yugoslavia | 30.25 |
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