World Athletics Championships 1995 / Women's discus throw

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (qualification) August 13th (final)
Medalists Elina Swerawa ( BLR )   Ilke Wyludda ( GER )   Inge Exner ( RUS )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's discus throw at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held on August 11th and 13th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The world champion was the Belarusian vice European champion from 1994 Elina Swerava . Second place took the German Vice-World Champion in 1991 and two-time European champion ( 1990 /1994) ilke wyludda . Bronze went to the Russian defending champion and Vice European Champion from 1990 Olga Tschernjawskaja , who started under the name Olga Burowa until 1993.

Existing records

World record	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1988
World Cup 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

33 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 59.78 m had to be achieved for the final.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

Group A

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  Nicoleta Grasus 58.62 m was not enough for the final this time - her medals were still in the future

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  Beatrice Faumuina (here in 2013) failed with 55.14 m in the qualification

August 10, 1995, 9:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Natalia Sadova	Russia	63.64	63.64	-	-
2	Elina Swerava	Bulgaria	62.44	62.44	-	-
3	Daniela Costian	Australia	61.42	61.42	-	56.50
4th	Lyudmila Filimonova	Belarus	61.18	x	61.18	x
5	Bárbara Hechavarría	Cuba	60.48	57.54	57.24	60.48
6th	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	59.78	59.78	58.96	58.18
7th	Teresa Machado	Portugal	58.68	x	54.50	58.68
8th	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	58.62	58.62	x	58.28
9	Corrie de Bruin	Netherlands	58.14	57.64	x	58.14
10	Zdeňka Šilhavá	Czech Republic	56.38	53.20	x	56.38
11	Edie Boyer	United States	55.14	52.08	55.14	x
12	Danyel Mitchell	United States	54.62	50.42	54.48	54.62
13	Beatrice Faumuina	New Zealand	54.32	50.50	53.40	54.32
14th	Styliani Tsikouna	Greece	49.42	x	x	49.42
15th	Caroline Fournier	Mauritius	45.18	44.52	41.96	45.18
16	Eva María Dimas	El Salvador	41.78	49.96	41.78	41.78

Group B

August 10, 1995, 11:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	65.24	60.30	65.24	-
2	Mette Bergmann	Norway	64.50	61.28	64.50	-
3	Maritza Martén	Cuba	64.42	64.42	-	-
4th	| Olga Chernyavskaya	Russia	62.96	62.96	-	-
5	Iryna Yatchanka	Belarus	62.54	60.92	62.54	-
6th	Anastasía Kelesídou	Greece	59.88	59.88	53.58	x
7th	Jana Lauren	Germany	59.56	59.56	57.88	58.90
8th	Lisa-Marie Vizaniari	Australia	59.24	58.54	59.24	x
9	Atanaska Angelova	Bulgaria	58.94	x	58.94	x
10	Li Qiumei	People's Republic of China	58.88	55.16	58.88	57.78
11	Cristina Boit	Romania	58.54	55.20	58.54	x
12	Jacqueline Goormachtigh	Netherlands	57.82	55.54	x	57.82
13	Melissa Weis	United States	57.34	57.34	55.82	56.00
14th	Danijela Čurović	Yugoslavia	56.88	56.26	53.76	56.88
15th	Jackie McKernan	Great Britain	54.78	54.78	53.48	54.64
16	Oumou Traoré	Mali	36.46	36.46	35.54	28.64
17th	Rangi Ngaata	Cook Islands	32.84	31.94	32.84	31.50

final

August 12, 1995, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Elina Swerava	Bulgaria	68.64	68.64	63.04	65.42	63.82	65.86	66.92
2	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	67.20	64.00	66.02	66.60	65.48	67.20	67.00
3	Olga Chernyavskaya	Russia	66.86	66.86	65.20	x	59.58	x	62.86
4th	Maritza Martén	Cuba	64.36	x	63.22	63.12	60.44	64.36	x
5	Natalia Sadova	Russia	62.60	59.54	62.60	59.42	60.62	59.58	x
6th	Mette Bergmann	Norway	62.48	x	x	62.48	x	x	59.48
7th	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	61.28	61.28	60.72	58.50	x	x	x
8th	Lyudmila Filimonova	Belarus	61.16	54.32	59.26	61.16	58.94	x	x
9	Iryna Yatchanka	Belarus	60.45	x	58.72	60.45	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Bárbara Hechavarría	Cuba	58.98	58.98	56.18	56.24
11	Anastasía Kelesídou	Greece	58.96	58.96	58.14	55.06
12	Daniela Costian	Australia	56.46	x	x	56.46

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  Vice World Champion ilke wyludda, 1991 World silver medalist and two-time European champion ( 1990 /1994), showed a balanced good competition

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  Mette Bergmann came in sixth

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  Franka Dietzsch, who later became three-time world champion, came seventh

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  Iryna Jatchanka reached ninth place

Video

• Ellina Zvereva - Discus - World Championships (1995) - 68.64m on youtube.com, accessed June 11, 2020
• Women's Discus, Qualifying and Final - 1999 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed June 11, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on June 11, 2020
• Women Discus Throw Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) at todor66.com, accessed June 11, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Discus Throw, Gothenborg 1995, p. 338 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on June 11, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 11, 2020