European Athletics Championships 2018 / women's javelin

discipline	Women's javelin throw
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	23 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2018 (qualification) August 10, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Christin Hussong ( GER )
silver	Nikola Ogrodníková ( CZE )
bronze	Liveta Jasiūnaitė ( LTU )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The women's javelin at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 9th and 10th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The German Christian Hussong became European champion . She won ahead of the Czech Nikola Ogrodníková and Liveta Jasiūnaitė from Lithuania.

Records

Existing records

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

Record improvements

In the finals, Christin Hussong improved the existing EM record to 67.90 m.

qualification

The Icelander Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir was eliminated with 58.64 m in the qualification

53.95 m was not enough for Latvian Līna Mūze to reach the final

The German world champion from 2015 Katharina Molitor achieved 58.00 m and failed in the qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct entry into the final was 60.50 m. Since only five throwers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 59.29 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

August 9, 2018, 12:30 p.m. CEST

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Christin Hussong	Germany	67.29	-	-	67.29 PB
02	Liveta Jasiūnaitė	Lithuania	58.07	61.61	-	61.61 PBe
03	Nikola Ogrodníková	Czech Republic	59.04	61.27	-	61.27
04th	Marija Vučenović	Serbia	47.94	59.98	54.89	59.98
05	Jenni Kangas	Finland	59.96	x	59.09	59.96 SB
06th	Madara Palameika	Latvia	57.44	x	60.21	60.21
07th	Alexie Alaïs	France	53.03	59.29	54.65	59.29
08th	Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir	Iceland	58.64	x	56.41	58.64
09	Arantza Moreno	Spain	55.30	56.33	55.09	56.33
10	Līna Mūze	Latvia	51.88	53.83	53.95	53.95
11	Dana Bergrath	Germany	53.61	x	x	53.61
12	Hanna Hazko-Fedusova	Ukraine	50.50	52.86	53.08	53.08

Group B

August 9, 2018, 1:50 p.m. CEST

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Martina Ratej	Slovenia	58.53	61.69	-	61.69
02	Tazzjana Chaladovich	Belarus	59.08	x	61.21	61.21
03	Sofi Flink	Sweden	57.92	57.46	59.58	59.58
04th	Sigrid Borge	Norway	57.35	x	59.55	59.55
05	Irena Šedivá	Czech Republic	x	59.34	-	59.34
06th	Lidia Parada	Spain	58.08	x	55.59	58.08
07th	Katharina Molitor	Germany	55.34	56.85	58.00	58.00
08th	Eda Tuğsuz	Turkey	57.75	x	57.77	57.77
09	Anete Kociņa	Latvia	55.45	57.48	56.66	57.48
10	Sofia Yfandidou	Greece	45.65	52.26	x	52.26
NM	Liina Laasma	Estonia	x	x	x	without space

final

August 10, 2018, 8:25 p.m. CEST

In the javelin throw the circle of favorites was not easy to make out. With Barbora Špotáková and Christina Obergföll , two athletes who had had a major impact on the events in recent years were no longer there. Other already successful throwers had not yet shown any special performances in the 2018 season. These included the German world champion from 2015 Katharina Molitor and the Belarusian European champion from 2016 Tazzjana Chaladowitsch. Other medal candidates were, among others, the Croatian European Championship third from 2016 and World Cup fourth from 2017 Sara Kolak, the Turkish World Cup fifth from 2017 Eda Tuğsuz and the German Christin Hussong, who had by far the best distance in qualifying and, among other things, World Cup -Sixth was from 2015. Both Molitor and Tuğsuz were eliminated in the qualification here.

In the first round, Hussong shocked the competition with a throw of 67.90 m. With that she had improved Špotáková's EM record by 43 centimeters. The Czech Nikola Ogrodníková followed at a considerable distance with 61.85 m in second place in front of Chaladowitsch, who had achieved 60.92 m. Just behind were Ratej with 60.64 m and Liveta Jasiūnaitė from Lithuania with 60.51 m. Sixth was Alexie Alaïs from France with 60.01 m. Also in lap two, Hussong achieved the greatest distance with 62.53 m. In addition, there was no result beyond sixty meters in this test series. In the third round Ratej took the bronze medal with 61.41 m. Jasiūnaitė also climbed to exactly 61.00 m and was fourth. The second-placed Ogrodníková threw 61.05 m, which, however, meant no improvement for them.

In rounds four and five, Jasiūnaitė only tried one attempt above the 60-meter mark. With her fourth throw she achieved 61.59 m and displaced Ratej from third place. In the fifth round she came to 60.38 m. The last test series brought no more changes. Ogrodníková managed another 61.81 m, but she was already four centimeters longer. With that all decisions were made. Christin Hussong became European champion with a lead of more than six meters over the silver medalist Nikola Ogrodníková. Liveta Jasiūnaitė won bronze. Martina Ratej was fourth, missing a medal rank by just eighteen centimeters. Tazzjana Chaladowitsch came in fifth ahead of Alexie Alaïs. All other female throwers stayed below sixty meters with their best throws.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Christin Hussong	Germany	67.90	62.53	x	x	x	59.15	67.90 CR
	Nikola Ogrodníková	Czech Republic	61.85	59.23	61.05	x	x	61.81	61.85
	Liveta Jasiūnaitė	Lithuania	60.51	58.24	61.00	61.59	60.38	x	61.59
4th	Martina Ratej	Slovenia	60.64	x	61.41	x	58.62	59.70	61.41
5	Tazzjana Chaladovich	Belarus	60.92	x	x	60.06	x	60.27	60.92
6th	Alexie Alaïs	France	60.01	57.19	59.69	56.99	57.42	57.71	60.01
7th	Irena Šedivá	Czech Republic	59.76	53.22	58.42	58.36	58.75	58.96	59.76
8th	Sigrid Borge	Norway	54.88	59.60	59.40	x	x	x	59.60
9	Madara Palameika	Latvia	x	x	57.98	not in the final of the eight best throwers			57.98
10	Sofi Flink	Sweden	55.70	56.68	56.91				56.91
11	Marija Vučenović	Serbia	50.75	55.23	51.67				55.23
12	Jenni Kangas	Finland	53.97	54.18	54.92				54.92

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  European champion Christin Hussong, Germany

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  Vice European Champion Nikola Ogrodníková, Czech Republic

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  Martina Ratej from Slovenia finished fourth

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  Sixth place for French rider Alexie Alaïs

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  The Norwegian Sigrid Borge came in eighth place

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  Madara Palameika from Latvia finished ninth

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  The Finn Jenni Kangas reached the twelfth place

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 26, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 26, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 26, 2019

Video

• Speer: Hussong is European Champion, European Championships 2018 - ZDF on youtube.com, published on August 10, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2019