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1959
Track
Field
High Jump
1
Iolanda Balas
ROU
1.84
2
Taisia Chenchik
URS
1.78
3
Cheng Feng-Yung
CHN
1.75
4
Valentina Ballod
URS
1.73
5
Micheline Mason
AUS
1.727
5
Helen Frith
AUS
1.727
7
Galina Dolya
URS
1.71
7
Galina Akimova
URS
1.71
9
Inga-Britt Lorentzon
SWE
1.68
9
Yang Yu-Mei
CHN
1.68
Long Jump
1
Valentina Shaprunova
URS
6.27
2
Gudrun Scheller
FRG
6.22
3
Wemmy Spierenburg
NED
6.20
3
Kreszentia Kopp
FRG
6.20
3
Tatyana Frolova
URS
6.20
6
Mary Bignal
GBR
6.197
7
Waltraud Paluszkiewicz
GDR
6.19
8
Maria Bibro
POL
6.18
9
Vera Krepkina
URS
6.17
10
Johanna Bijleveld
NED
6.16
Shot Put
1
Tamara Press
URS
17.25
2
Valerie Sloper
NZL
16.38
3
Johanna Lüttge
GDR
16.28
4
Lyudmila Zhdanova
URS
16.19
5
Maria Kuznetsova
URS
15.95
6
Lyubov Sivtsova
URS
15.90
7
Tamara Tishkevich
URS
15.79
8
Earlene Brown
USA
15.71
9
Antonina Vashchenko
URS
15.58
10
Marianne Werner
FRG
15.44
Discus Throw
1
Nina Ponomaryova
URS
56.18
2
Tamara Press
URS
55.80
3
Kriemhild Hausmann
FRG
55.70
4
Irene Schuch
GDR
55.01
5
Lamara Tugushi
URS
54.61
6
Doris Müller
GDR
52.70
7
Stepanka Mertova
TCH
52.28
8
Yevgenia Kuznetsova
URS
52.23
9
Aleksandra Zhelobkovich
URS
52.09
10
Valerie Sloper
NZL
51.82
Javelin Throw
1
Elvira Ozolina
URS
55.76
2
Birute Kalediene
URS
55.37
3
Yelena Gorchakova
URS
54.67
4
Maya Makarova
URS
54.46
5
Alevtina Shastitko
URS
54.33
6
Urszula Figwer
POL
54.13
7
Dana Zátopková
TCH
54.09
8
Vlasta Peskova
TCH
53.98
9
Olga Zuyeva
URS
53.80
10
Valentina Dobroslavtseva
URS
52.75
Pentathlon
1
Irina Press
URS
4880
2
Mary Bignal
GBR
4679
3
Jutta Heine
FRG
4647
4
Galina Bystrova
URS
4624
5
Lidia Shmakova
URS
4611
6
Galina Grinvald
URS
4593
7
Galina Akimova
URS
4572
8
Lidya Vasilyeva
URS
4516
9
Galina Golunova
URS
4503
10
Maria Romanova
URS
4493