World Athletics Championships 1995 / women's javelin

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalists Natallja Schykalenka ( BLR )   Felicia Țilea ( ROM )   Mikaela Ingberg ( FIN )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's javelin throw at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 6th and 8th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

World champion was the Belarusian Olympic runner-up from 1992 and World Cup third from 1993 Natallja Schykalenka . She won Felicia Țilea before the Romanian European Championship third in 1994 . Bronze went to Mikaela Ingberg from Finland .

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

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.50 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 59.52 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

For Taina Kolkkala with her 54.38 m it was not enough for the final

August 6, 1995, 9:45 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Natallja Schykalenka	Belarus	65.64
2	Tanja Damaske	Germany	62.82
3	Ekaterina Ivakina	Russia	61.52
4th	Renata Strašek	Slovenia	60.26
5	Isel López	Cuba	60.04
6th	Joanna Stone	Australia	59.52
7th	Silke Renk	Germany	58.86
8th	Kinga Zsigmond	Hungary	57.86
9	Tang Lishuang	People's Republic of China	56.98
10	Claudia Isaila	Romania	55.84
11	Taina Kolkkala	Finland	54.38
12	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	54.14
13	Donna Mayhew	United States	53.10
14th	Aysel Tas	Turkey	49.20
15th	Maka Obolashvili	Georgia	43.98

Group B

Nikola Brejchová retired with 57.98 m in the qualification

August 6, 1995, 11:45 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)
1	Steffi Nerius	Germany	62.62
2	Mirela Manjani	Albania	62.40
3	Jette Jeppesen	Denmark	61.96
4th	Felicia Țilea	Romania	61.52
5	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	60.72
6th	Heli Rantanen	Finland	60.34
7th	Louise McPaul	Australia	59.30
8th	Laverne Eve	Bahamas	58.78
9	Xiomara Rivero	Cuba	58.32
10	Nikola Brejchová	Czech Republic	57.98
11	Nadine Auzeil	France	56.80
12	Oksana Makarova	Russia	56.74
13	Nicole Carroll	United States	55.32
14th	Ágnes Preisinger	Hungary	54.00
15th	Kate Farrow	Australia	49.24
16	Ni Ketut Mudiani	Indonesia	40.92

final

August 8, 1995, 5:35 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	Natallja Schykalenka	Belarus	67.56	66.48	63.58	x	x	65.46	67.56
2	Felicia Țilea	Romania	65.22	62.34	60.98	59.64	65.22	x	x
3	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	65.16	61.82	59.54	60.12	65.16	x	x
4th	Heli Rantanen	Finland	65.04	55.44	59.66	x	59.10	62.96	65.04
5	Joanna Stone	Australia	63.74	59.14	x	61.46	58.50	57.80	63.74
6th	Tanja Damaske	Germany	62.32	62.32	x	60.42	x	59.64	x
7th	Isel López	Cuba	60.80	54.30	x	60.80	x	x	x
8th	Ekaterina Ivakina	Russia	59.82	59.82	56.06	58.64	55.28	x	x
9	Renata Strašek	Slovenia	59.10	x	59.10	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Jette Jeppesen	Denmark	58.84	58.48	x	58.84
11	Steffi Nerius	Germany	56.50	56.50	52.98	55.28
12	Mirela Manjani	Albania	55.56	x	55.56	55.50

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  Felicia Țilea - after the EM bronze in the previous year , there was now World Cup silver for her

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  Bronze medalist Mikaela Ingberg - she later won the European Championship bronze twice ( 1998 and  2002 )

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  Heli Rantanen took fourth place - in the coming year she was  Olympic champion

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  Tenth place Jette Jeppesen

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  Steffi Nerius (here at their World Cup -Sieg 2009 ) came in their second World Cup to eleventh place - many Medal profits at major events were still in front of her

Video links

• 901 World Track and Field 1995 Javelin Women Mikaela Ingberg on youtube.com, accessed June 12, 2020
• 5903 World Track and Field 1995 Javelin Women Felicia Ţilea on youtube.com, accessed June 12, 2020
• Women's Javelin Qualifying - 1995 IAAF World Athletics Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 12, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed June 12, 2020
• Women Javelin Throw Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed June 12, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Javelin Throw, Gothenborg 1995, p. 347f (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 12, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 12, 2020