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Women, Discus Throw World    World Indoor    Europe    Olympic    World Champ.    Europe Champ. All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated   • 27.39 Yvonne Tembouret FRA Paris Sep 23, 1923 • 27.70 Lucie Petit FRA Paris Jul 14, 1924 • 28.325 Lucie Petit-Daigré FRA Brussels Jul 21, 1924   30.10 Violette Gourard-Morris FRA London Aug 04, 1924 • 30.225 Lucienne Velu FRA Paris Sep 14, 1924   31.23 Halina Konopacka POL Warsaw May 10, 1925   33.405 Halina Konopacka POL Warsaw Jun 21, 1925   31.15 Marie Vidláková TCH Prague Oct 11, 1925   33.01 Milly Reuter GER Frankfurt May 13, 1926 • 34.15 Halina Konopacka POL Warsaw May 23, 1926   34.90 Halina Konopacka POL Warsaw Aug 08, 1926   38.28 Milly Reuter GER Braunschweig Aug 22, 1926 • 38.34 Milly Reuter GER Braunschweig Aug 22, 1926 • 39.18 Halina Konopacka POL Warsaw Sep 04, 1927 • 39.62 Halina Konopacka POL Amsterdam Jul 31, 1928   39.76 Jadwiga Wajs POL Lódz May 08, 1932 • 40.345 Jadwiga Wajs POL Pabianice May 15, 1932 • 40.39 Jadwiga Wajs POL Lódz May 16, 1932 • 40.84 Grete Heublein GER Hagen Jun 19, 1932 • 42.43 Jadwiga Wajs POL Lódz Jun 19, 1932   42.56 Jadwiga Wajs POL Pabianice May 03, 1933 • 43.08 Jadwiga Wajs POL Królewska Huta Jul 15, 1933   44.60 Jadwiga Wajs POL Bialystok Jul 30, 1933 • 44.76 Gisela Mauermayer GER Nürnberg Jun 04, 1935   44.77 Gisela Mauermayer GER München Jun 23, 1935 • 45.53 Gisela Mauermayer GER München Jun 23, 1935   45.97 Gisela Mauermayer GER Jena Jun 29, 1935 • 46.10 Gisela Mauermayer GER Jena Jun 29, 1935 • 47.12 Gisela Mauermayer GER Dresden Aug 25, 1935   47.12 Gisela Mauermayer GER München Jun 14, 1936   47.99 Gisela Mauermayer GER München Jun 14, 1936 • 48.31 Gisela Mauermayer GER Berlin Jul 11, 1936   49.11 Nina Dumbadze URS Moscow Sep 18, 1939   49.54 Nina Dumbadze URS Tbilisi Oct 29, 1939   49.88 Nina Dumbadze URS Moscow Aug 14, 1944   50.50 Nina Dumbadze URS Sarpsborg Aug 29, 1946 • 53.25 Nina Dumbadze URS Moscow Aug 08, 1948 • 53.37 Nina Dumbadze URS Gori May 27, 1951 • 53.61 Nina Ponomaryova-Romashkova URS Odessa Aug 09, 1952 • 57.04 Nina Dumbadze URS Tbilisi Oct 18, 1952 • 57.15 Tamara Press URS Rome Sep 12, 1960 • 57.43 Tamara Press URS Moscow Jul 15, 1961 • 58.06 Tamara Press URS Sofia Sep 01, 1961 • 58.98 Tamara Press URS London Sep 20, 1961 • 59.29 Tamara Press URS Moscow May 18, 1963 • 59.70 Tamara Press URS Moscow Aug 11, 1965 • 61.26 Liesel Westermann FRG Sao Paulo Nov 05, 1967 • 61.64 Christine Spielberg GDR Regis Breitingen May 26, 1968 • 62.54 Liesel Westermann FRG Werdohl Jul 24, 1968 • 62.70 Liesel Westermann FRG Berlin Jun 18, 1969 • 63.96 Liesel Westermann FRG Hamburg Sep 27, 1969 • 64.22 Faina Melnik URS Helsinki Aug 12, 1971 • 64.88 Faina Melnik URS München Sep 04, 1971 • 65.42 Faina Melnik URS Moscow May 31, 1972 • 65.48 Faina Melnik URS Augsburg Jun 24, 1972 • 66.76 Faina Melnik URS Moscow Aug 04, 1972 • 67.32 Argentina Menis ROU Constanta Sep 23, 1972 • 67.44 Faina Melnik URS Riga May 25, 1973 • 67.58 Faina Melnik URS Moscow Jul 10, 1973 • 69.48 Faina Melnik URS Edinburgh Sep 07, 1973 • 69.90 Faina Melnik URS Prague May 27, 1974 • 70.20 Faina Melnik URS Zürich Aug 20, 1975 • 70.50 Faina Melnik URS Sochi Apr 24, 1976 • 70.72 Evelin Jahl GDR Dresden Aug 12, 1978 • 71.50 Evelin Jahl GDR Potsdam May 10, 1980 • 71.80 Maria Vergova-Petkova BUL Sofia Jul 13, 1980 • 73.26 Galina Savinkova URS Leselidze May 22, 1983 • 73.36 Irina Meszynski GDR Prague Aug 17, 1984 • 74.56 Zdenka Silhavá TCH Nitra Aug 26, 1984 • 76.80 Gabriele Reinsch GDR Neubrandenburg Jul 09, 1988