Nina Dumbadze

Nina Dumbadze

Personal information
Born	1919
Medal record Women's Athletics Competitor for  Soviet Union Olympic Games Bronze 1952 Helsinki Discus throw

Nina Yakovlevna Dumbadze (Russian: Нина Яковлевна Думбадзе; January 23, 1919 in Odessa — April 14, 1983) was a discus thrower who represented the USSR. Her greatest achievement being a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, she also won the European Championships in 1946 and 1950.

Biography

Dumbadze trained at Dynamo in Tbilisi. She threw 53.25 metres in 1948 to break Gisela Mauermayer's twelve-year-old world record. She improved this to 53.37 m in 1951. In August 1952 the world record was improved to 53.61 m by Nina Romashkova. Dumbadze recaptured it a month later with 57.04 m, and the record stood until 1960, when Tamara Press beat it by eleven centimetres.

External links

• Biography (Russian)

Records
Preceded by Gisela Mauermayer	Women's Discus World Record Holder August 8, 1948 – August 9, 1952	Succeeded by Nina Romashkova
Preceded by Nina Romashkova	Women's Discus World Record Holder October 18, 1952 – September 12, 1960	Succeeded by Tamara Press