European Athletics Championships 2002 / Women's discus throw

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	18 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalists Ekaterini Vongoli ( GRE )   Natalja Sadowa ( RUS )   Anastasia Kelesidou ( GRE )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The women's discus throw at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 6th and 7th, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

In this competition, the Greek discus throwers won two medals, gold and bronze. Ekaterini Vongoli became European champion . Second place went to the Russian Vice European Champion from 1998, Natalja Sadowa . The Olympic runner-up in 2000 , vice world champion in 1999 and third in the 2001 World Cup, Anastasia Kelesidou won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1988
European record
EM record	71.36 m	Diana Sachse	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 28, 1986

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

August 6, 2002

Eighteen participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. No competitor reached this mark. The final field was recruited from the twelve best-placed athletes (highlighted in light green). To take part in the finals, 56.56 m had to be achieved.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ekaterini Vongoli	Greece	61.94
2	Vera Pospíšilová	Czech Republic	61.93
3	Anastasia Kelesidou	Greece	61.18
4th	Aretí Abatzí	Greece	61.03
5	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland	60.40
6th	Teresa Machado	Portugal	59.53
7th	Vladimíra Racková	Czech Republic	58.92
8th	Natalia Sadova	Russia	58.44
9	Marzena Wysocka	Poland	58.24
10	Jana Tucholke	Germany	56.63
11	Shelley Newman	Great Britain	56.57
12	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	56.56
13	Alice Matejková	Spain	56.18
14th	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	55.58
15th	Anna Söderberg	Sweden	55.55
16	Tiina Kankaanpää	Finland	54.14
17th	Eha Rünne	Estonia	54.01
NM	Vera Begic	Croatia	ogV

final

August 7, 2002

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Ekaterini Vongoli	Greece	64.31	63.09	64.31	63.57	59.13	59.32	59.05
2	Natalia Sadova	Russia	64.12	61.95	64.07	64.12	63.93	x	x
3	Anastasia Kelesidou	Greece	63.92	63.92	62.91	61.58	60.93	59.93	61.21
4th	Vera Pospíšilová	Czech Republic	62.31	60.37	x	60.77	x	62.31	57.70
5	Marzena Wysocka	Poland	62.20	59.82	61.24	x	62.20	59.91	x
6th	Aretí Abatzí	Greece	61.49	59.93	x	61.49	x	58.43	x
7th	Teresa Machado	Portugal	60.41	60.36	x	58.97	60.41	58.64	x
8th	Vladimíra Racková	Czech Republic	59.28	52.92	x	59.28	59.23	x	57.33
9	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland	58.92	57.29	58.92	57.69	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Shelley Newman	Great Britain	57.38	55.03	57.38	55.69
11	Jana Tucholke	Germany	56.53	56.53	x	55.78
12	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	54.92	54.92	54.07	x

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  Vera Pospíšilová reached fourth place - later she was third in the 2004 Olympics and third in the 2005 World Cup

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  Joanna Wiśniewska came in ninth place

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  Mélina Robert-Michon was twelfth in this final - in 2013 she won
  World Cup silver, 2016 Olympic silver and
  2017 World Cup bronze

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 11, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed on November 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 488 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 11, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed on November 11, 2019