World Athletics Championships 1991 / women's javelin

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	31 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 31 (qualifying) September 1 (final)
Medalists Xu Demei ( CHN )   Petra Meier ( GER )   Silke Renk ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The women's javelin at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 31 and September 1, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The German javelin throwers won two medals in this competition, silver and bronze. World champion was the Chinese Asian champion from 1991 and two-time silver medalist at the most important Asian events (Asian Championships 1989 / Asian Games 1990 ) Xu Demei . She won before the Olympic champion from 1988 , vice world champion from 1987 , vice European champion from 1986 , EM third from 1990 and world record holder Petra Meier , formerly Petra Felke. Bronze went to Silke Renk .

Existing records

World record	80.00 m	Petra Felke	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	September 9, 1988
World championship record	76.64 m	Fatima Whitbread	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	September 6, 1987

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

qualification

August 31, 1991, 4:30 p.m.

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.90 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Karen Forkel	Germany	68.14
2	Xu Demei	People's Republic of China	65.44
3	Päivi Alafrantti	Finland	64.38
4th	Anna Verouli	Greece	63.02
5	Natallja Schykalenka	Soviet Union	62.08
6th	Heli Rantanen	Finland	61.30
7th	Antoaneta Selenska	Bulgaria	57.42
8th	Sharon Gibson	Great Britain	56.64
9	Donna Mayhew	United States	56.34
10	Katalin Hartai	Hungary	55.68
11	Laverne Eve	Bahamas	55.14
12	Akiko Miyajima	Japan	52.86
13	Matilda Kisava	Tanzania	52.60
14th	Sueli dos Santos	Brazil	51.20
NM	Isel López	Cuba	ogV
	Nadine Auzeil	France

Group B

Tiina Lillak, 1983 world champion and 1984 Olympic silver medalist, was eliminated from the qualification with 58.42 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Petra Meier	Germany	67.24
2	Trine Hattestad	Norway	66.92
3	Silke Renk	Germany	65.24
4th	Dulce García	Cuba	62.18
5	Louise McPaul	Australia	61.08
6th	Natalia Cherniyenko	Soviet Union	60.90
7th	Karin Smith	United States	60.34
8th	Genowefa Patla	Poland	60.18
9	Tiina Lillak	Finland	58.42
10	Paula Berry	United States	57.94
11	Irina Kostyuchenkova	Soviet Union	57.60
12	Sun Fei	People's Republic of China	55.04
13	Kirsten Smith	New Zealand	53.98
14th	Iris Grönfeldt	Iceland	53.92
15th	Marieta Riera	Venezuela	50.62

final

Vice World Champion as already in 1987 : World record holder of Petra Meier, former Petra Felke, 1988 , she was Olympic champion, in addition, two-time EM -Medaillengewinnerin

September 1, 1991, 4:00 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	Xu Demei	People's Republic of China	68.78	68.78	62.98	x	61.88	x	59.12
2	Petra Meier	Germany	68.68	67.10	68.68	63.38	65.20	64.50	x
3	Silke Renk	Germany	66.80	63.02	62.64	65.64	65.82	66.80	65.26
4th	Natalia Cherniyenko	Soviet Union	65.22	x	63.12	65.22	x	x	x
5	Trine Hattestad	Norway	63.36	x	63.36	x	62.50	60.90	62.92
6th	Louise McPaul	Australia	63.34	63.34	60.54	63.08	x	61.10	x
7th	Dulce García	Cuba	62.68	x	57.54	62.68	x	x	x
8th	Päivi Alafrantti	Finland	62.26	x	62.22	62.26	x	x	x
9	Heli Rantanen	Finland	60.96	Individual attempts are not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Anna Verouli	Greece	59.12
11	Natallja Schykalenka	Soviet Union	58.82
12	Karen Forkel	Germany	57.90

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 4, 2020
• Women Javelin Throw Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed May 4, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Javelin Throw, Tokyo 1991, p. 347 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 4, 2020

References and comments

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