Mihaela Peneş

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of Romania Romania
Women’s Athletics
Olympic Games
Gold Tokyo 1964 Javelin Throw
Silver Mexico City 1968 Javelin Throw
European Championships
Silver Budapest 1966 Javelin Throw

Mihaela Peneş (born July 22, 1947 in Bucharest) is a former track and field athlete from Romania, who competed mainly in the javelin throw.

She competed for Romania at the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the javelin, where she won the gold medal ahead of Hungary's Márta Rudas. Four years later in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City Hungary got revenge when Angéla Németh won the gold medal ahead of Peneş' silver.

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Olympic Champions in Women's Javelin Throw
1932: Babe Didrikson • 1936: Tilly Fleischer • 1948: Herma Bauma • 1952: Dana Zátopková • 1956: Inese Jaunzeme • 1960: Elvīra Ozoliņa • 1964: Mihaela Peneş • 1968: Angéla Németh • 1972: Ruth Fuchs • 1976: Ruth Fuchs • 1980: María Colón • 1984: Tessa Sanderson • 1988: Petra Felke • 1992: Silke Renk • 1996: Heli Rantanen • 2000: Trine Hattestad • 2004: Osleidys Menéndez
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