World Athletics Championships 1997 / Women's discus throw
6th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 29 athletes from 21 countries | ||||||||
venue | Athens | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 5th (qualification) August 7th (final) |
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The women's discus throw at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 5 and 7, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .
New Zealander Beatrice Faumuina became world champion . She won ahead of the Belarusian defending champion, Olympic third from 1996 and Vice European Champion from 1994 Elina Swerava . The Russian Olympic runner-up in 1996, Natalia Sadova , won the bronze medal.
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.
Legend
Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:
- | waived |
x | invalid |
r | Competition not continued (retired) |
qualification
29 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.50 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 59.88 m was enough for the final.
Group A
August 5, 1997, 8:10 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Iryna Yatchanka | Belarus | 65.00 | 65.00 | - | - |
2 | Beatrice Faumuina | New Zealand | 64.58 | x | x | 64.58 |
3 | Stella Tsikouna | Greece | 61.52 | 58.52 | 58.90 | 61.52 |
4th | Nicoleta Grasu | Romania | 60.44 | 60.16 | x | 60.44 |
5 | Larissa Korotkewitsch | Russia | 60.30 | 60.30 | x | 59.68 |
6th | Lisa-Marie Vizaniari | Australia | 60.28 | 60.28 | 59.20 | 57.86 |
7th | Agnese Maffeis | Italy | 59.94 | 59.94 | 58.96 | 55.44 |
8th | Liu Fengying | People's Republic of China | 59.50 | x | 56.12 | 59.50 |
9 | Alice Matejková | Czech Republic | 58.96 | x | 58.96 | 55.70 |
10 | Suzanne Powell | United States | 54.22 | 54.22 | 52.70 | 52.62 |
11 | Shelley Newman | Great Britain | 53.96 | 53.96 | 52.14 | r |
12 | Tsvetanka Christova | Bulgaria | 53.64 | x | 53.64 | 49.56 |
13 | Aretí Abatzí | Greece | 49.72 | 49.72 | r | |
14th | Husniye Keskin | Turkey | 48.80 | 46.90 | 48.80 | r |
Group B
August 5, 1997, 9:50 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) |
1st attempt (m) |
2. attempt (m) |
3rd attempt (m) |
1 | Elina Swerava | Belarus | 65.94 | x | 61.76 | 65.94 |
2 | Natalia Sadova | Russia | 65.14 | 65.14 | - | - |
3 | Teresa Machado | Portugal | 61.36 | 57.40 | x | 61.36 |
4th | Luan Zhili | People's Republic of China | 61.18 | 57.74 | 61.18 | x |
5 | Anna Söderberg | Sweden | 59.88 | 59.64 | x | 59.88 |
6th | Olena Antonova | Ukraine | 59.62 | 59.62 | 59.10 | 56.70 |
7th | Anastasía Kelesídou | Greece | 59.22 | 56.48 | 59.22 | 58.30 |
8th | Edie Boyer | United States | 59.18 | 59.18 | x | x |
9 | Elisângela Adriano | Brazil | 57.88 | 47.00 | 57.88 | 54.66 |
10 | Xiao Yanling | People's Republic of China | 56.32 | x | 56.32 | x |
11 | Lacy Barnes-Mileham | United States | 55.52 | 53.22 | 55.52 | x |
12 | Siniva Marsters | Cook Islands | 35.22 | x | x | 35.22 |
NM | Franka Dietzsch | Germany | ogV | x | x | x |
Isabelle Devaluez | France | x | x | x | ||
Mette Bergmann | Norway | x | x | x |
final
August 7, 1997, 6:10 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 | Beatrice Faumuina | New Zealand | 66.82 | x | x | 66.82 | 62.60 | x | x |
2 | Elina Swerava | Belarus | 65.90 | 63.40 | 65.90 | 61.86 | 64.98 | 64.60 | 65.72 |
3 | Natalia Sadova | Russia | 65.14 | 63.70 | 65.14 | x | 63.08 | x | x |
4th | Larissa Korotkewitsch | Russia | 63.02 | 62.76 | 62.44 | 60.92 | x | 63.02 | 62.04 |
5 | Iryna Yatchanka | Belarus | 62.58 | x | 62.02 | 61.40 | 62.58 | 60.70 | 57.94 |
6th | Teresa Machado | Portugal | 62.00 | 62.00 | 60.78 | x | x | 59.52 | x |
7th | Stella Tsikouna | Greece | 61.92 | 61.92 | 57.70 | x | 58.00 | 59.66 | 58.12 |
8th | Agnese Maffeis | Italy | 61.40 | 61.40 | 54.98 | 57.48 | 54.36 | 54.28 | x |
9 | Luan Zhili | People's Republic of China | 60.62 | 60.62 | 57.42 | 57.76 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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10 | Nicoleta Grasu | Romania | 60.14 | 58.06 | 58.88 | 60.14 | |||
11 | Anna Söderberg | Sweden | 58.22 | 58.22 | x | x | |||
12 | Lisa-Marie Vizaniari | Australia | 57.56 | 55.20 | 57.56 | x |
Web links
- 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
- Women Discus Throw Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed July 6, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Discus Throw, Athens 1997, p. 338f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 6, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 6, 2020