World Athletics Championships 1997 / Women's discus throw

6th World Athletics Championships
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)
Medalists Beatrice Faumuina ( NZL )   Elina Swerawa ( BLR )   Natalja Sadowa ( RUS )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

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

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  Franka Dietzsch remained in the qualification without a valid attempt - she still had her great successes ahead of her

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  Mette Bergmann did not get a valid throw in the qualification

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
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

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  World Champion Beatrice Faumuina
  (here in 2013)

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  Iryna Jatchanka took fifth place

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  Nicoleta Grasu came in tenth place - in the coming years she should win several medals at major events

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 6, 2020