European Athletics Championships 2016 / Women's discus throw

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	26 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 6th (qualification) July 8th (final)
Medalists Sandra Perković ( CRO )   Julia Fischer ( GER )   Shanice Craft ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The women's discus throw at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held on July 6th and 8th, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

With silver and bronze, the German discus throwers won two medals in this competition. The Croatian Olympic champion from 2012 , world champion from 2013 and runner-up world champion from 2015 Sandra Perković won her fourth European Championship title in a row . She won ahead of Julia Fischer . As at the European Championships two years ago, bronze went to Shanice Craft .

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.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was set a little too low at 58.00 m. With fifteen athletes who had exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), three throwers more than originally planned reached the final scheduled for the day after next.

Group A

Salla Sipponen achieved 54.95 m and was eliminated

July 6, 2016, 12:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Julia Fischer	Germany	66.20	66.20	-	-
2	Nadine Müller	Germany	64.75	64.75	-	-
3	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	63.99	63.99	-	-
4th	Sabina Asenjo	Spain	59.72	57.73	59.72	-
5	Hrisoúla Anagnostopoúlou	Greece	59.13	56.50	59.13	-
6th	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania	58.88	57.47	56.97	58.88
7th	Sofia Larsson	Sweden	56.02	53.57	55.33	56.02
8th	Olha Abramchuk	Ukraine	56.00	50.23	56.00	53.89
9	Salla Sipponen	Finland	54.95	x	54.95	51.84
10	Natalia Stratulate	Moldova	54.45	54.45	x	x
11	Kristina Rakočević	Montenegro	54.35	54.95	x	53.15
12	Natalina Capoferri	Italy	53.16	46.64	53.16	50.44
13	Irina Rodrigues	Portugal	50.40	x	44.60	50.40

Group B

Corinne Nugter's 55.52 m was not enough to take part in the final

July 6, 2016, 1:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Sandra Perković	Croatia	65.25	65.25	-	-
2	Shanice Craft	Germany	64.59	64.59	-	-
3	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia	60.51	x	60.51	-
4th	Natalia Semenova	Ukraine	60.33	60.33	-	-
5	Eliška Staňková	Czech Republic	60.32	60.32	-	-
6th	Veronika Domjan	Slovenia	60.11 NO	49.21	60.11 x
7th	Pauline Pousse	France	60.06	x	60.06	-
8th	Stefania Strumillo	Italy	59.80	56.89	59.80	-
9	Jade Lally	Great Britain	58.76	58.76	-	-
10	Corinne Nugter	Netherlands	55.52	53.16	52.28	55.52
11	Veronika Watzek	Austria	53.79	x	52.42	53.79
12	Julia Viberg	Sweden	52.82	x	52.82	x
13	Valentina Aniballi	Italy	51.66	51.66	x	x

final

July 8, 2016, 8:15 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	69.97	62.60	63.09	x	66.03	69.97	x
2	Julia Fischer	Germany	65.77	65.25	65.77	63.30	x	x	64.49
3	Shanice Craft	Germany	63.89	63.09	58.21	x	x	62.18	63.89
4th	Nadine Müller	Germany	62.63	62.63	62.12	60.55	x	x	x
5	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	62.47	61.47	60.80	60.44	61.70	62.47	60.96
6th	Natalia Semenova	Ukraine	62.21	56.75	62.21	x	x	56.54	61.45
7th	Jade Lally	Great Britain	60.29	52.49	59.88	54.44	x	60.29	x
8th	Pauline Pousse	France	59.62	59.62	55.76	58.32	x	x	x
9	Hrisoúla Anagnostopoúlou	Greece	59.23	57.45	59.23	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Veronika Domjan	Slovenia	58.12	58.12	55.44	x
11	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia	56.83	56.74	x	56.83
12	Sabina Asenjo	Spain	56.62	54.74	56.62	56.58
13	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania	56.17	51.31	53.20	56.17
14th	Eliška Staňková	Czech Republic	55.90	55.90	55.52	x
15th	Stefania Strumillo	Italy	55.78	55.78	x	x

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  European champion Sandra Perković, 2012 Olympic champion, 2013 world champion and 2015 vice world champion, won her fourth European Championship title in a row

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  Vice European Champion Julia Fischer, later Julia Harting

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  As at the European Championships two years ago, the bronze medalist was Shanice Craft

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  Nadine Müller, 2011 World silver medalist, 2015 World Championship -Third and 2012 European Championship -Third, finished fourth

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  Mélina Robert-Michon, 2013 vice world champion and 2014 vice European champion, came in fifth

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  Natalija Semenova, who was third in the European Championship in 2012, came in sixth

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  Jade Lally finished seventh

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  Thirteenth place for Zinaida Sendriūtė

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on March 14, 2020
• European Championship 2016 Amsterdam, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed March 14, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 14, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on March 14, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed on March 14, 2020