World Athletics Championships 1993 / Women's discus throw

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	34 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 16 (qualifying) August 17 (final)
Medalists Olga Burowa ( RUS )   Daniela Costian ( AUS )   Min Chunfeng ( CHN )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The women's discus throw at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 16 and 17, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World champion was the Russian Vice European Champion from 1990 Olga Burowa , later Olga Tschernjawskaja. Silver went to Daniela Costian, the Australian who won the Olympic Games in 1992 . The Chinese Min Chunfeng won the bronze medal.

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.

qualification

34 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.50 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.22 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

Mette Bergmann achieved 58.12 m in qualification and was eliminated

August 17, 1993, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	64.06
2	Min Chunfeng	People's Republic of China	63.54
3	Olga Burowa	Russia	63.44
4th	Daniela Costian	Australia	62.52
5	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	62.28
6th	Bárbara Hechavarría	Cuba	61.60
7th	Svetla Mitkova	Bulgaria	61.18
8th	Elina Swerava	Belarus	59.84
9	Jacqueline Goormachtigh	Netherlands	58.74
10	Mette Bergmann	Norway	58.12
11	Zdenka Silhavá	Czech Republic	57.16
12	Jackie McKernan	Great Britain	56.14
13	Teresa Machado	Portugal	56.02
14th	Ursula Weber	Austria	55.48
15th	Carla Garrett	United States	53.52
16	Monia Kari	Tunisia	51.26
17th	Aye Aye Nwe	Myanmar	47.40

Group B

August 17, 1993, 11:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Maritza Martén	Cuba	63.66
2	Anja Gündler	Germany	62.82
3	Qiu Qiaoping	People's Republic of China	62.22
4th	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	61.66
5	Laryssa Mychaltchenko	Ukraine	61.56
6th	Vladimira Malatová	Czech Republic	61.22
7th	Larisa Korotkevich	Russia	61.12
8th	Renata Katewicz	Poland	60.66
9	Austrute Mikelyté	Lithuania	59.82
10	Manuela Tirneci	Romania	59.50
11	Connie Price-Smith	United States	59.16
12	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	57.06
13	Kris Kuehl	United States	56.66
14th	Alice Matejková	Czech Republic	53.86
15th	Danijela Čurović	IWP	53.72
16	Theresa Brick	Canada	50.38
17th	Orepa Naseri	Western Samoa	26.30

final

August 19, 1993, 7:20 pm

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	Olga Burowa	Russia	67.40	63.28	67.40	65.80	67.06	65.00	x
2	Daniela Costian	Australia	65.36	63.90	65.78	64.66	65.36	65.12	x
3	Min Chunfeng	People's Republic of China	65.26	62.16	61.88	65.26	61.92	x	64.10
4th	Maritza Martén	Cuba	64.62	x	60.98	63.34	63.38	64.62	64.42
5	Anja Gündler	Germany	62.92	62.24	60.26	62.36	59.52	62.72	62.92
6th	Bárbara Hechavarría	Cuba	62.52	60.70	60.16	62.52	x	x	58.44
7th	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	62.10	x	56.78	62.10	x	61.26	59.52
8th	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	62.06	61.34	61.28	58.86	60.30	62.06	60.76
9	Vladimira Malatová	Czech Republic	61.10	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Laryssa Mychaltchenko	Ukraine	60.76
11	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	60.42
NM	Qiu Qiaoping	People's Republic of China	ogV

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  The seventh placed Nicoleta Grasu won several medals at world and European championships from 1998

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  Franka Dietzsch (here in 2007) , who later became three-time world champion, came in eighth

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  Ilke Wyludda, who won multiple medals at major international championships in the years ahead and was Olympic champion in 1996 , came in eleventh

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 21, 2020
• Women Discus Throw Athletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 21, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Discus Throw, Stuttgart 1993, p. 338 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 21, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 21, 2020
2. ↑ Yugoslavia was during the Yugoslav wars according to the UN administrative penalties ( RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL 1993 on www.un.org (PDF, 10.2 MB), accessed on May 7, 2020) by the IAAF by the WM suspended -participation . Individual athletes from this area were allowed to start with a special permit.