European Athletics Championships 2018 / Women's discus throw

discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	29 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2018 (qualification) August 11, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Sandra Perković ( CRO )
silver	Nadine Müller ( GER )
bronze	Shanice Craft ( GER )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The women's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 9th and 11th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The European champion was the Croatian Sandra Perković . She won ahead of the two Germans Nadine Müller and Shanice Craft .

Records

World record	Gabriele Reinsch	76.80 m	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 7, 1988
European record
Championship record	Diana Gansky	71.36 m	EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany (today Germany )	August 28, 1986

qualification

The Dutch Jorinde van Klinken achieved 54.33 m and was eliminated

The Finn Helena Leveelahti was eliminated with 53.56 m in the qualification

Corinne Nugter from the Netherlands, her 55.70 m was not enough for the final qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct entry into the final was 58.50 m. Since only seven athletes exceeded this value - 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 56.52 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

August 9, 2018, 9:30 a.m. CEST

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Shanice Craft	Germany	61.13	-	-	61.13
02	Claudine Vita	Germany	59.18	-	-	59.18
03	Daisy Osakue	Italy	x	58.73	-	58.73
04th	Liliana Cá	Portugal	58.37	x	x	58.37
05	Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou	Greece	x	53.30	56.52	56.52
06th	Kristina Rakočević	Montenegro	54.68	55.90	x	55.90
07th	Maria Toly	Croatia	x	52.79	55.52	55.52
08th	Vanessa Kamga	Sweden	36.55	54.88	x	54.88
09	Jorinde van Klinken	Netherlands	53.21	54.33	x	54.33
10	Ieva Zarankaitė	Lithuania	53.91	x	52.31	53.91
11	Helena Leveelahti	Finland	51.85	53.37	53.56	53.56
12	Julija Malzewa	Authorized Neutral Athletes	52.34	52.61	53.50	53.50
13	Kirsty Law	Great Britain	52.31	52.37	50.18	52.37
14th	Viktoria Klotschko	Ukraine	x	49.11	x	49.11
15th	Katlin Töllasson	Estonia	48.58	x	x	48.58

Group B

August 9, 2018, 11:00 a.m. CEST

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Sandra Perković	Croatia	64.54	-	-	64.54
02	Nadine Müller	Germany	60.64	-	-	60.64
03	Irina Rodrigues	Portugal	55.15	56.38	59.22	59.22
04th	Alexandra Emilianov	Moldova	55.80	55.37	58.83	58.83
05	Eliška Staňková	Czech Republic	55.11	57.81	x	57.81
06th	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia	57.77	57.70	57.10	57.77
07th	Jade Lally	Great Britain	57.71	56.47	56.03	57.71
08th	Corinne Nugter	Netherlands	54.02	x	55.70	55.70
09	Sabina Asenjo	Spain	53.81	55.57	55.01	55.57
10	Valentina Aniballi	Italy	55.06	54.12	x	55.06
11	Sanna Kämäräinen	Finland	54.76	x	54.43	54.76
12	Salla Sipponen	Finland	54.00	53.66	51.66	54.00
13	Daria Zabawska	Poland	52.26	x	53.94	53.94
14th	Veronika Domjan	Slovenia	49.89	x	x	49.89

final

August 11, 2018, 8:20 p.m. CEST

The clear favorite was the Croatian Sandra Perković. She was two-time world champion - 2013 / 2017 , two-time Olympic champion - 2012 / 2016 - and four-time European champion - 2010 / 2012 / 2014 / 2016 . Other medal candidates were primarily the German Nadine Müller - including third place in the World Cup in 2015 , third in the Olympic Games in 2012 and Vice European Champion in 2012 - as well as her compatriot Shanice Craft - third in the European Championship in 2014 and 2016.

Initially, the two German medal candidates led the competition. Müller had already presented 62.00 m with her first throw, Craft was second with her 59.73 m from the second round. Only in third place followed Perković, who had achieved 59.09 m on her second attempt. Meanwhile fourth was the Bulgarian Dragana Tomašević with 58.94 m from round two. Müller reached 63.00 m on lap three, which further extended their lead. In the third round, Perković increased to 59.97 m and thus passed Craft, but the third German in the final Claudine Vita also improved in round three to 61.23 m, making her second.

The first final round of the eight best throwers brought no postponements. Müller also achieved the greatest distance here with 61.99 m. In lap five Perković showed her skills and took the lead with 67.62 m. The Italian Daisy Osakue had recently increased to 59.32 m and was fifth behind Craft. With her penultimate litter, the Portuguese reached 58.91 m, which brought her seventh place behind Tomašević. In the last round there was another change in the battle for bronze. Shanice Craft reached 62.46 m, which is how they achieved this medal rank. Sandra Perković won her fifth European title in a row. Behind them, three Germans finished two to four. Sandra Müller won her second silver medal, Shanice Craft her third bronze medal at European championships. Claudine Vita was fourth ahead of Daisy Osakue and Dragana Tomašević. Liliana Cá finished seventh ahead of the Moldovan Alexandra Emilianov.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Sandra Perković	Croatia	x	59.09	59.97	x	67.62	x	67.62
	Nadine Müller	Germany	62.00	63.00	x	61.99	62.58	x	63.00 SB
	Shanice Craft	Germany	56.33	59.73	x	x	x	62.46	62.46
4th	Claudine Vita	Germany	x	57.08	61.23	x	x	61.25	61.25
5	Daisy Osakue	Italy	x	58.09	x	x	59.32	56.16	59.32
6th	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia	57.19	58.94	58.42	57.76	x	x	58.94
7th	Liliana Cá	Portugal	x	x	58.01	57.62	58.91	x	58.91
8th	Alexandra Emilianov	Moldova	57.07	56.76	58.10	57.59	x	57.22	58.10
9	Irina Rodrigues	Portugal	x	58.00	54.06	not in the final of the eight best throwers			58.00
10	Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou	Greece	56.58	x	57.34				57.34
11	Jade Lally	Great Britain	55.73	57.33	56.58				57.33
12	Eliška Staňková	Czech Republic	57.04	56.88	53.51				57.04

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  European champion Sandra Perković, Croatia

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  Vice European Champion Nadine Müller, Germany

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  Bronze medalist Shanice Craft, Germany

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  Claudine Vita, third German in this final, finished fourth

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  The Greek Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou came in tenth place

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  Eleventh place for the Briton Jade Lally

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 25, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 25, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 25, 2019

Video

• Discus: Only Perkovic throws further as DLV Stars, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published on August 8, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2019