World Athletics Championships 1993 / women's javelin

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 21 (qualifying) August 22 (final)
Medalists Trine Hattestad ( NOR )   Karen Forkel ( GER )   Natallja Schykalenka ( BLR )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The women's javelin at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 21 and 22, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

The Norwegian Trine Hattestad achieved her first big win at an important international championship as world champion. She won before the German Olympic third in 1992 and Vice European Champion in 1990 Karen Forkel . Bronze went to the Belarusian Olympic runner-up in 1992, Natallja Schykalenka .

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

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 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 59.68 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

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  Jette Jeppesen narrowly missed the final with her 58.80 m

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  Nikola Tomečková, later Nikola Brejchová, failed with her 52.06 m in the qualification

August 21, 1993, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Trine Hattestad	Norway	66.52
2	Tazzjana Schykalenka	Belarus	63.22
3	Felicia Țilea	Romania	62.90
4th	Heli Rantanen	Finland	60.56
5	Karen Forkel	Germany	60.54
6th	Antoaneta Selenska	Bulgaria	59.74
7th	Martine Bègue	France	59.16
8th	Jette Jeppesen	Denmark	58.80
9	Sueli dos Santos	Brazil	57.16
10	Jelena Sweschenzewa	Uzbekistan	55.10
11	Nikola Tomečková	Czech Republic	52.06

Group B

Shelley Holroyd's 57.66 m were not enough to make it to the final

August 21, 1993, 11:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Ekaterina Ivakina	Russia	62.90
2	Silke Renk	Germany	62.88
3	Natallja Schykalenka	Belarus	62.06
4th	Teresė Nekrošaitė	Lithuania	61.02
5	Claudia Isăilă	Romania	59.88
6th	Steffi Nerius	Germany	59.68
7th	Päivi Alafrantti	Finland	59.26
8th	Shelley Holroyd	Great Britain	57.66
9	Kinga Zsigmond	Hungary	55.72
10	Lee Young-Sun	South Korea	54.78
11	Akiko Miyajima	Japan	54.50
12	Iammo Launa	Papua New Guinea	46.78

final

August 22, 1993, 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	Trine Hattestad	Norway	69.18	69.18	62.80	64.78	64.80	61.06	66.18
2	Karen Forkel	Germany	65.80	x	60.78	65.80	61.88	65.04	x
3	Natallja Schykalenka	Belarus	65.64	x	x	x	64.68	65.64	x
4th	Tazzjana Schykalenka	Belarus	65.18	x	63.48	62.13	61.30	64.10	65.18
5	Ekaterina Ivakina	Russia	65.12	60.50	x	64.68	65.12	62.86	x
6th	Silke Renk	Germany	64.00	61.50	62.18	64.00	61.96	63.74	63.44
7th	Claudia Isăilă	Romania	61.54	59.88	61.54	58.40	x	x	x
8th	Felicia Țilea	Romania	61.24	60.26	x	61.24	61.14	x	60.02
9	Steffi Nerius	Germany	60.26	Expiration not listed in the sources			not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Antoaneta Selenska	Bulgaria	58.82
11	Heli Rantanen	Finland	53.14
NM	Teresė Nekrošaitė	Lithuania	ogV

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  Felicia Țilea finished eighth - in the next two years she won medals at the European and World Championships

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  In the photo, Steffi Nerius was celebrating her World Cup title in Berlin sixteen years later , where she finished ninth

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  Heli Rantanen, who placed ten at these world championships, became an Olympic champion three years later

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 22, 2020
• Women Javelin ThrowAthletics IV World Championship 1993 Stuttgart (GER) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 22, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Javelin Throw, Stuttgart 1993, p. 347 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on May 22, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 22, 2020