World Athletics Championships 1987 / Women's discus throw

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalists Martina Hellmann ( GDR )   Diana Gansky ( GDR )   Tsvetanka Christowa ( BUL )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The women's discus throw at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on August 30 and 31, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

In this competition, the female throwers from the GDR achieved a double victory. World champion was the European Championship third in 1986 Martina Hellmann , who as Martina Opitz was also world champion in 1983 . She won ahead of the reigning European champion Diana Gansky , former Diana Sachse. Bronze went to the Bulgarian European champion from 1982 Zwetanka Christowa .

Records

Existing records

World record	74.56 m	Zdeňka Šilhavá	Nitra , Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia )	August 26, 1984
World championship record	68.94 m	Martina Opitz	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 10, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Martina Hellmann from the GDR improved her own world championship record twice in the final on August 31:

• 71.08 m - 1st attempt
• 71.62 m - 4th attempt

qualification

August 30, 1987

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.50 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 58.88 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Diana Gansky	GDR	63.64
2	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	62.80
3	Laryssa Mychaltchenko	Soviet Union	62.54
4th	Maritza Martén	Cuba	60.40
5	Connie Price	United States	59.90
6th	Mariana Lengyel	Romania	59.72
7th	Anne Kansakangas	Finland	57.10
8th	Yu Hourun	People's Republic of China	56.70
9	Nebila Mouelhi	Tunisia	45.94
10	Hanane Ahmed Khaled	Egypt	42.64
11	Dorie Cortejo	Philippines	40.98
12	Morgyn Warner	Zimbabwe	38.56

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Ilke Wyludda	GDR	68.40
2	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	66.86
3	Martina Hellmann	GDR	66.80
4th	Zdeňka Šilhavá	Czechoslovakia	64.64
5	Larisa Korotkevich	Soviet Union	60.48
6th	Renata Katewicz	Poland	58.88
7th	Carol Cady	United States	58.50
8th	Hou Xuemei	People's Republic of China	58.26
9	Anetta Korina	Soviet Union	57.76
10	María Isabel Urrutia	Colombia	53.94
11	Maria Marello	Italy	52.74

Note

The x character indicates an invalid attempt.

final

August 31, 1987

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Martina Hellmann	GDR	71.62 CR	71.08 CR	68.90	69.66	71.62 CR	x	67.86
2	Diana Gansky	GDR	70.12	66.64	67.50	70.12	68.78	65.42	x
3	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	68.82	63.72	66.10	65.38	63.36	68.82	68.80
4th	Ilke Wyludda	GDR	68.20	68.20	62.10	62.06	67.64	67.06	67.44
5	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	66.58	64.58	65.44	65.48	65.58	x	66.58
6th	Zdeňka Šilhavá	Czechoslovakia	64.82	64.34	64.82	x	64.82	64.03	63.88
7th	Laryssa Mychaltchenko	Soviet Union	64.72	64.18	64.72	69.72	63.66	60.68	63.54
8th	Mariana Lengyel	Romania	62.30	62.30	59.28	59.54	x	58.14	60.68
9	Maritza Martén	Cuba	62.00	Individual attempts are not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Larisa Korotkevich	Soviet Union	60.74
11	Renata Katewicz	Poland	58.22
NM	Connie Price	United States	ogV	x	x	x

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  Again world champion: Martina Hellmann, 1983 title holder as Martina Opitz and 1986 European Championship third

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  The reigning European champion Diana Gansky, former Diana Sachse, was runner-up

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  Ilke Wyludda, at the beginning of a great career, was fourth

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  Connie Price, later Connie Price-Smith, failed to make a valid attempt in the final

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 9, 2020
• Women Discus Throw Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 9, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Discus Throw, Rome 1987, p. 337 (English, PDF; 10.3 MB, accessed on April 9, 2020)

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 9, 2020