European Athletics Championships 2002 / women's javelin

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalists Mirela Manjani ( GRE )   Steffi Nerius ( GER )   Mikaela Ingberg ( FIN )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The women's javelin at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 6th and 8th, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the Greek Olympic runner-up in 2000 , world champion in 1999 and runner-up in 2001, Mirela Manjani . The German Steffi Nerius won the silver medal. As four years earlier , bronze went to Mikaela Ingberg, who finished third in the Finnish World Cup in 1995 .

Records

Existing records

World record	71.54 m	Osleidys Menéndez	Rethymno , Crete ( Greece )	July 1, 2001
European record	69.48 m	Trine Hattestad	Oslo , Norway	July 28, 2000
EM record	Javelin throw was carried out for the first time with new throwing devices

New championship records

• Qualification on August 6th
  • 60.17 m - Steffi Nerius , Group A 
  • 61.09 m - Mirela Manjani , Group A 
• Final on August 8th
  • 63.14 m - Aggelikí Tsiolakoúdi , 1st round
  • 67.47 m - Mirela Manjani , 2nd round 

This new championship record lasted until the European Championships in 2018 .

qualification

August 6, 2002

Twenty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 61.00 m. One athlete exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eleven next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 55.20 m was enough for the final.

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  Claudia Coslovich, 1998 EM -Achte failed with 54.27 meters in the qualifying

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  Nikola Tomecková, later Nikola Brejchová, did not reach the final with 53.88 m

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Steffi Nerius	Germany	60.27 CR
2	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	59.60
3	Aggelikí Tsiolakoúdi	Greece	58.51
4th	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	55.99
5	Nikolett Szabó	Hungary	55.30
6th	Claudia Coslovich	Italy	54.27
7th	Nikola Tomecková	Czech Republic	53.88
8th	Sarah Walter	France	53.34
9	Jana Trakmann	Estonia	47.18
DNS	Indrė Jakubaitytė	Lithuania

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  Here was the end for Barbora Špotáková in the qualification with 51.71 m, later she was u. a. Two Olympic and two world champions, one European and one world record holder

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  Christina Scherwin was eliminated from the qualification with 50.51 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Mirela Manjani	Greece	61.09 CR
2	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan	Romania	58.90
3	Kelly Morgan	Great Britain	56.90
4th	Taina Kolkkala	Finland	56.01
5	Paula Huhtaniemi	Finland	55.69
6th	Elisabetta Marin	Italy	55.52
7th	Inga Kožarenoka	Latvia	55.20
8th	Khristina Klishchevska	Ukraine	51.77
9	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic	51.71
10	Christina Scherwin	Denmark	50.51
11	Doerthe Friedrich	Germany	49.46

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

final

August 8, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Mirela Manjani	Greece	67.47 CR	60.77	67.47 CR	63.19	x	60.71	-
2	Steffi Nerius	Germany	64.09	61.76	x	64.09	63.12	61.81	x
3	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	63.50	x	61.03	61.35	x	-	63.50
4th	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	63.27	62.57	60.83	62.17	62.31	x	63.27
5	Aggelikí Tsiolakoúdi	Greece	63.14	63.14 CR	61.79	x	59.93	x	57.86
6th	Elisabetta Marin	Italy	60.12	54.30	52.51	60.12	x	51.52	52.95
7th	Taina Kolkkala	Finland	59.81	59.66	x	59.81	59.23	x	x
8th	Nikolett Szabó	Hungary	59.28	58.88	59.22	59.28	x	x	x
9	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan	Romania	58.88	58.88	x	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Paula Huhtaniemi	Finland	56.24	53.16	56.24	x
11	Inga Kožarenoka	Latvia	55.28	55.28	x	x
12	Kelly Morgan	Great Britain	53.89	52.49	53.89	x

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  Vice European champion Steffi Nerius with her first major international medal - later she won three bronze and one gold medals at world championships, finished second in 2004 and European champion in  2006

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  Elisabetta Marin reached sixth place

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  Taina Kolkkala came in seventh place

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  Felicia Tilea-Moldovan improved compared to 1998 as a ninth one rank - after a two-year doping ban in the wake of the European Championships in 1990 she was in 1994 Championship -Third and 1995 World Cup -Second

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  Paula Huhtaniemi, later Paula Tarvainen, took tenth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 12, 2019
• Javelin_Throw.html European Championship 2002 Munich, Women Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed on November 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 488 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 12, 2019
• 18º Campeonato de Europa - Munich (GER) . Spanish, p. 12 (PDF, 146 kB) on rfea.es, accessed on November 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 12, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed November 12, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Javelin Women , p. 68 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on November 12, 2019
3. ↑ Doping and sports - 1991 on medicosport.eu, accessed on November 12, 2019