World Athletics Championships 1991 / Women's discus throw

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalists Tsvetanka Christowa ( BUL )   Ilke Wyludda ( GER )   Laryssa Mychaltchenko ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The women's discus throw at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 29 and 31, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The Bulgarian Olympic second in 1988 , third in the World Cup in 1987 , European champion in 1982 and vice European champion in 1986, Tsvetanka Christova became world champion . Silver went to Ilke Wyludda from Germany , who had become European champion starting for the GDR last year . Laryssa Mychaltschenko from the Soviet Union won the bronze medal.

The winner Zwetanka Christowa came second in the Olympic Games in the coming year and had to accept a four-year ban in 1993 after a doping offense. In 1997 she took part again in world championships and started again in 2004 at the age of 42 at the Olympic Games, but was eliminated in the preliminary round. In 2008 she died of lung cancer.

Existing records

World record	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1988
World championship record	71.62 m	Martina Hellmann	World Cup 1987 in Helsinki , Finland	August 31, 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

The Australian Daniela Costian set a new Oceania record in the final on August 31 with 66.06 m.

qualification

August 29, 1991, 7:00 p.m.

Thirty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 64.00 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the seven next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 59.42 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

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  Franka Dietzsch (here 2007) , later very successful discus thrower, failed with 59.16 m in the qualification

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  Mette Bergmann did not reach the final with her 55.78 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	67.72
2	Daniela Costian	Australia	62.74
3	Maritza Martén	Cuba	60.8
4th	Iryna Yatchanka	Soviet Union	60.38
5	Zhao Yonghua	People's Republic of China	59.80
6th	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	59.16
7th	Stefania Simowa	Bulgaria	58.10
8th	Lacy Barnes	United States	56.84
9	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	56.36
10	Mette Bergmann	Norway	55.78
11	Teresa Machado	Portugal	53.64
12	Alice Matejková	Czechoslovakia	53.22
13	Ikuko Kitamori	Japan	48.52
14th	Maria Obando	Nicaragua	41.78
DNS	Hanane Ahmed Khaled	Egypt

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	67.10
2	Martina Hellmann	Germany	65.26
3	Laryssa Mychaltchenko	Soviet Union	64.68
4th	Elina Swerava	Soviet Union	61.86
5	Xiao Yanling	People's Republic of China	61.68
6th	Bárbara Hechavarría	Cuba	60.86
7th	Min Chunfeng	People's Republic of China	59.42
8th	Vladimira Malatová	Czechoslovakia	58.38
9	Marie-Paule Geldhof	Belgium	57.26
10	Carla Garrett	United States	56.62
11	Jackie McKernan	Great Britain	55.64
12	Manuela Tirneci	Romania	55.62
13	Penny Neer	United States	54.26
14th	Angeles Barreiro	Spain	51.24
15th	Wilna Bredenhann	Namibia	43.60
16	Hughette Robertson	Guyana	34.52

final

August 31, 1991, 6:10 p.m.

Note: The x character indicates an invalid attempt.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	71.02	61.16	64.20	62.82	x	66.96	71.02
2	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	69.12	67.10	68.78	66.34	69.00	69.12	x
3	Laryssa Mychaltchenko	Soviet Union	68.26	66.20	67.30	67.46	67.12	67.96	68.26
4th	Martina Hellmann	Germany	67.14	65.32	66.28	67.14	65.80	x	66.56
5	Daniela Costian	Australia	66.06 OZ	64.32	x	65.56	x	66.06	x
6th	Min Chunfeng	People's Republic of China	65.56	63.76	64.70	62.32	65.56	63.88	64.30
7th	Iryna Yatchanka	Soviet Union	64.92	63.34	63.86	x	64.92	60.76	62.24
8th	Zhao Yonghua	People's Republic of China	63.62	60.94	63.62	61.28	x	60.84	x
9	Elina Swerava	Soviet Union	63.22	Individual attempts are not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Maritza Martén	Cuba	62.40
11	Xiao Yanling	People's Republic of China	61.20
12	Bárbara Hechavarría	Cuba	60.62

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  As the reigning European champion , Ilke Wyludda was vice world champion

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  Martina Hellmann, two-time world champion ( 1983 / 1987 ), 1988 Olympic champion and two-time European Championship -Third ( 1986 / 1990 ) came this time to fourth place

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  Iryna Jatchanka reached seventh place

Video

• 3669 World Track & Field 1991 Discus Women on youtube.com, accessed May 4, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 4, 2020
• Women Discus Throw Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 from todor66.com, accessed May 4, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Discus Throw, Tokyo 1991, p. 337f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 4, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Munzinger Biography, Zwetanka Christowa on munzinger.de, accessed on May 4, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 4, 2020