Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Women's discus throw

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Gisela Mauermayer (GER)	48.31 m	Berlin, Germany	11 July 1936
Olympic record		47.63 m	Berlin, Germany	4 August 1936

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Final standings

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Micheline Ostermeyer	France	41.92
	Edera Gentile	Italy	41.17
	Jacqueline Mazéas	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	Italy	34.17
18	Pak Bong-sik	South Korea	33.80
19	Margaret Birtwistle	Great Britain	33.02
20	Elspeth Whyte	Great Britain	32.46
21	Julija Matej	Yugoslavia	30.25

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 5 September 2016.