Athletics at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games:

Without the East Germans, Soviets and Bulgarians, this was no better than a minor league competition. No competitor had ever medaled at the World or European Championships. The entry list of only 13 saw the officials eliminate the qualifying round and go straight into a final. Claudia Losch (FRG) led in round one with 19.97 and bettered that in round two with 20.31. But Romania's Mihaela Loghin took the lead with a fourth-round throw of 20.47. In the final round, Losch led off with 20.48 to take back the lead by one centimeter, and Loghin could not respond. Bronze medalist Gael Martin (AUS) had been the 1978 Commonwealth Games champion and would also win that title in 1986.