European Athletics Championships 2012 / Women's javelin

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (qualification) June 29th (final)
Medalists Wira Rebryk ( UKR )   Christina Obergföll ( GER )   Linda Stahl ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's javelin throw at the European Athletics Championships 2012 was held on June 27 and 29, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

In this competition, the German javelin throwers won two medals, silver and bronze. Wira Rebryk from Ukraine became the European champion . Her second place of 2010 repeated the Olympic silver medalist from 2008 , two-time World silver medalist ( 2005 / 2007 ) and World Championship -Third of 2011 Christina Obergföll . Third place went to defending champion Linda Stahl .

Existing records

World record	72.28 m	Barbora Špotáková	Stuttgart , Germany	September 13, 2008
European record
EM record	67.47 m	Mirela Manjani	EM Munich , Germany	August 8, 2002

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

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

June 27, 2012, 1:45 p.m.

22 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 60.00 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 56.67 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Martina Ratej, with her 51.99 m, had no chance of being in the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Wira Rebryk	Ukraine	61.84	61.84	-	-
2	Katharina Molitor	Germany	58.34	54.49	58.34	x
3	Savva Lika	Greece	57.60	53.50	57.60	x
4th	Madara Palameika	Latvia	57.24	55.85	57.24	55.47
5	Zahra Bani	Italy	56.67	55.42	56.67	54.67
6th	Oona Sormunen	Finland	54.66	x	52.13	54.66
7th	Indrė Jakubaitytė	Lithuania	54.39	x	54.39	x
8th	Raine Kuningas	Estonia	53.65	45.93	53.65	x
9	Laura Whittingham	Great Britain	52.82	52.82	x	50.70
10	Martina Ratej	Slovenia	51.69	51.69	50.77	x
11	Kristine Harutyunyan	Armenia	45.83	44.05	45.48	45.83

Group B

Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir was eliminated with 55.29 m in qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Goldie Sayers	Great Britain	60.90	58.02	60.90	-
2	Linda Stahl	Germany	59.65	56.50	57.59	59.65
3	Christina Obergföll	Germany	59.49	58.92	59.49	x
4th	Sinta Ozoliņa covale	Latvia	59.41	53.39		59.41
5	Sanni Utriainen	Finland	58.70	57.52	x	58.70
6th	Līna Mūze	Latvia	57.51	57.51	x	53.83
7th	Tatjana Jelača	Serbia	57.29	57.29	x	52.55
8th	Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir	Iceland	55.29	55.29	52.25	54.54
9	Nora Bicet	Spain	53.80	53.61	x	53.80
10	Vanda Juhász	Hungary	53.65	45.93	53.65	x
11	Maria Negoiţă	Romania	51.96	51.02	51.96	48.07

final

June 29, 2012, 7:30 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	Wira Rebryk	Ukraine	66.86 NO	57.04	63.44	x	63.82	66.86	64.77
2	Christina Obergföll	Germany	65.12	65.12	x	63.53	64.55	x	63.17
3	Linda Stahl	Germany	63.69		63.47	58.53	59.29	x	60.76
4th	Goldie Sayers	Great Britain	63.01	x	63.01	60.34	x	62.19	x
5	Katharina Molitor	Germany	60.99	59.85	60.99	x	59.59	x	58.89
6th	Sinta Ozoliņa covale	Latvia	59.34	59.34	x	55.92	x	x	59.24
7th	Tatjana Jelača	Serbia	57.58	54.22	53.43	57.58	51.88	54.20	53.32
8th	Madara Palameika	Latvia	56.82	x	50.21	56.82	x	55.21	x
9	Savva Lika	Greece	56.25	53.84	54.83	56.25	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Līna Mūze	Latvia	55.60	51.42	55.60	53.97
11	Sanni Utriainen	Finland	55.14	52.57	53.79	55.14
12	Zahra Bani	Italy	53.40	53.40	53.05	53.33

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  European champion Wira Rebryk

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  Christina Obergföll took second place, as is so often the case - in the coming year she turned things around and became  world champion

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  Bronze for defending champion Linda Stahl

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  Goldie Sayers, who was third in the 2008 Olympics , finished fourth

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  Katharina Molitor reached fifth place - in 2015 she became world champion

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  Madara Palameika came in eighth

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  Savva Lika finished ninth

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  Līna Mūze - tenth place

Videos

• European Athletics Championships Womens Javelin Throw Final on youtube.com, accessed January 29, 2020
• 2012 European Athletics Championships Press Conference - Linda Stahl, interview on youtube.com (English), accessed on January 29, 2020
• ECH2012 Helsinki Day 3 Christina OBERGFÖLL (GER), interview on youtube.com (English), accessed on January 29, 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 29, 2020
• European Championship 2012 Helsinki, Women Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed January 29, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 29, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 518 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 29, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on January 29, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 29, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed January 29, 2020