Nina Dumbadze
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Born |
May 23, 1919[note 1] Odessa | ||||||||||||
Died |
April 14, 1983 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nina Yakovlevna Dumbadze (Russian: Нина Яковлевна Думбадзе; May 23, 1919 — April 14, 1983)[1][2][note 1] was a discus thrower who represented the USSR. She won the European Championship in 1946 and 1950 and a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.[1]
Dumbadze was born in Odessa and 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.
Notes
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nino Dumbadze Bio, Stats and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
- ↑ Думбадзе Нина Яковлевна (in Russian). Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
- ↑ "Nina Dumbadze". trackfield.brinkster.net. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
- ↑ Tilastopaja profile for Nina Dumbadze
External links
- Biography (Russian)
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Preceded by Gisela Mauermayer Nina Romashkova |
Women's discus throw world record holder August 8, 1948 – August 9, 1952 October 18, 1952 – September 12, 1960 |
Succeeded by Nina Romashkova Tamara Press |
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