Nina Dumbadze

Nina Dumbadze

Personal information
Born	May 23, 1919 Odessa
Died	April 14, 1983 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR
Medal record Women's athletics Representing Soviet Union Olympic Games 1952 Helsinki Discus throw

Nina Yakovlevna Dumbadze (Russian: Нина Яковлевна Думбадзе; May 23, 1919 — April 14, 1983) 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.

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.

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• Biography (Russian)

Records
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