death_place death_date birth_place medaltemplates birth_date article_title
tbilisi , georgian ssr april 14 , 1983 odessa sport women 's athletics may '' 23 , 1919 `` note '' `` nb nina dumbadze

nina dumbadze

nina yakovlevna dumbadze -lrb- ; may 23 , 1919 -- april 14 , 1983 -rrb- 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 .
