European Athletics Championships 2010 / Women's discus throw

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 27th (qualification) July 28th (final)
Medalists Sandra Perković ( CRO )   Nicoleta Grasu ( ROM )   Joanna Wiśniewska ( POL )

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The women's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships 2010 was held on July 27 and 28, 2010 in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

The European champion was the Croatian Sandra Perković , who had her first major international success. She won before the Romanian Nicoleta Grasu , WM -Second 2001 , World Championship -Third 1999 / 2007 / 2009 and European Championship -Third 1998 / 2006 . Bronze went to Joanna Wiśniewska from Poland .

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

Even at these European Championships since remained 1,986 existing EM -record unmatched.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 60.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 57.19 m was enough for the final.

Group A

Grete Etholm did not make it into the final with 54.01 m

July 27, 2010, 12:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia	59.24	58.60	59.24	57.89
2	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania	58.98	57.51	58.98	x
3	Anna Söderberg	Sweden	58.96	58.96	57.97	x
4th	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland	58.93	58.93	57.82	58.67
5	Sabine hull	Germany	58.41	58.41	x	57.87
6th	Monique Jansen	Netherlands	57.75	55.09	55.83	57.75
7th	Sandra Perković	Croatia	57.70	49.25	57.70	x
8th	Natalia Sadova	Russia	57.19	54.96	57.19	x
9	Liliana Cá	Portugal	55.47	52.63	55.47	x
10	Grete Etholm	Norway	54.01	40.63	52.17	54.01
11	Irache Quintanal	Spain	50.81	48.40	50.81	x
NM	Tanja Komulainen	Finland	ogV	x	x	x

Group B

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  Sanna Kämäräinen had no chance of making it to the finals with 53.07 m

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  Věra Cechlová, third in the 2004 Olympics and third in the 2005 World Cup , remained in the qualification without a valid attempt

July 27, 2010, 1:55 pm

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	62.10	x	55.60	62.10
2	Nadine Müller	Germany	60.54	60.54	-	-
3	Wioletta Potępa	Poland	60.45	x	56.91	60.45
4th	Svetlana Saikina	Russia	56.32	55.42	10.55	56.32
5	Żaneta Glanc	Poland	55.50	x	x	55.50
6th	Kateryna Karsak	Ukraine	55.41	x	55.41	x
7th	Vera Begic	Croatia	55.04	54.66	x	55.04
8th	Sofia Larsson	Sweden	54.50	x	50.69	54.50
9	Laura Bordignon	Italy	53.82	53.82	52.59	x
10	Sanna Kämäräinen	Finland	53.07	53.07	52.94	x
NM	Věra Cechlová	Czech Republic	ogV	x	x	x

final

July 28, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Sandra Perković	Croatia	64.57	62.98	60.94	55.04	60.95	62.43	64.57
2	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	63.48	63.48	61.02	63.07	60.22	x	58.34
3	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland	62.37	59.45	x	56.32	62.37	x	x
4th	Natalia Sadova	Russia	61.20	60.43	x	x	x	61.10	61.20
5	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania	60.70	60.48	57.20	59.47	57.89	57.01	60.70
6th	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia	60.10	59.38	x	60.10	56.71	x	59.21
7th	Sabine hull	Germany	58.89	56.80	55.81	58.56	58.83	58.89	57.77
8th	Nadine Müller	Germany	57.78	57.78	x	55.58	56.39	56.59	x
9	Monique Jansen	Netherlands	56.29	55.05	x	56.29	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Svetlana Saikina	Russia	56.09	56.09	x	x
11	Anna Söderberg	Sweden	55.60	55.60	x	53.62
12	Wioletta Potępa	Poland	55.48	x	55.48	55.13

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  Sandra Perković won her first major international title - many more were to follow

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  Vice European Champion Nicoleta Grasu added another medal to her collection

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  Bronze medalist Joanna Wiśniewska

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  Zinaida Sendriūtė finished fifth

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  Nadine Müller was certainly not satisfied with her eighth place

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  Ninth place for Monique Jansen

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Barcelona 2010 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 5, 2020
• European Championship 2010 Barcelona, ​​Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed January 5, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2010 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 5, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 2010 Barcelona, ​​p. 508 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 5, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2010, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on January 5, 2020
• 20th European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, ​​Spain on ifosta.de, accessed on January 5, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed January 5, 2020