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 | |
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gold | Christin Hussong ( GER ) |
silver | Nikola Ogrodníková ( CZE ) |
bronze | Liveta Jasiūnaitė ( LTU ) |
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 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) |
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1 | Christin Hussong | Germany | 67.29 | - | - | 67.29 PB |
2 | Liveta Jasiūnaitė | Lithuania | 58.07 | 61.61 | - | 61.61 PBe |
3 | Nikola Ogrodníková | Czech Republic | 59.04 | 61.27 | - | 61.27 |
4th | Marija Vučenović | Serbia | 47.94 | 59.98 | 54.89 | 59.98 |
5 | Jenni Kangas | Finland | 59.96 | x | 59.09 | 59.96 SB |
6th | Madara Palameika | Latvia | 57.44 | x | 60.21 | 60.21 |
7th | Alexie Alaïs | France | 53.03 | 59.29 | 54.65 | 59.29 |
8th | Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir | Iceland | 58.64 | x | 56.41 | 58.64 |
9 | 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) |
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1 | Martina Ratej | Slovenia | 58.53 | 61.69 | - | 61.69 |
2 | Tazzjana Chaladovich | Belarus | 59.08 | x | 61.21 | 61.21 |
3 | Sofi Flink | Sweden | 57.92 | 57.46 | 59.58 | 59.58 |
4th | Sigrid Borge | Norway | 57.35 | x | 59.55 | 59.55 |
5 | Irena Šedivá | Czech Republic | x | 59.34 | - | 59.34 |
6th | Lidia Parada | Spain | 58.08 | x | 55.59 | 58.08 |
7th | Katharina Molitor | Germany | 55.34 | 56.85 | 58.00 | 58.00 |
8th | Eda Tuğsuz | Turkey | 57.75 | x | 57.77 | 57.77 |
9 | 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) |
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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 |
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