World Athletics Championships 1997 / women's javelin

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 9th (final)
Medalists Trine Hattestad ( NOR )   Joanna Stone ( AUS )   Tanja Damaske ( GER )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The women's high jump at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 7th and 9th, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

It was won by the Norwegian world champion from 1993 , Olympic third from 1996 and reigning European champion Trine Hattestad . Silver went to the Australian Joanna Stone . The German Tanja Damaske won the bronze medal.

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.

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. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.90 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

August 7, 1997, 8:30 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Trine Hattestad	Norway	66.12	66.12	-	-
2	Heli Rantanen	Finland	64.46	58.38	64.46	-
3	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili	Greece	63.50	63.50	-	-
4th	Felicia Țilea	Romania	63.06	63.06	-	-
5	Oksana Ovchinnikova	Russia	61.58	61.58	60.28	58.78
6th	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	60.90	x	60.90	x
7th	Karen Forkel	Germany	60.70	60.56	x	60.70
8th	Zuleima Araméndiz	Colombia	58.98	51.12	55.42	58.98
9	Lavern Eve	Bahamas	58.80	57.66	58.80	54.02
10	Nikolett Szabó	Hungary	57.78	54.22	x	57.78
11	Lee Young-Sun	South Korea	55.98	55.74	55.98	55.86
12	Lynda Lipson	United States	52.64	52.64	49.42	r
13	Shelley Holroyd	Great Britain	51.06	50.94	51.06	x
14th	Trishel Thompson	Guyana	38.14	37.76	38.14	r

Group B

August 7, 1997, 10:10 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Joanna Stone	Australia	67.72	67.72	-	-
2	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	63.92	63.92	-	-
3	Sonia Bisset	Cuba	63.48	63.48	-	-
4th	Tanja Damaske	Germany	63.30	63.30	-	-
5	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	62.60	60.26	62.60	-
6th	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	61.78	58.70	61.78	x
7th	Silke Renk	Germany	60.72	56.28	60.72	59.66
8th	Odeymis Palma	Cuba	58.42	58.42	x	56.70
9	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	57.84	53.70	54.50	57.84
10	Taina Kolkkala	Finland	57.72	57.72	55.06	x
11	Ewa Rybak	Poland	56.24	x	56.24	51.26
12	Nicole Carroll	United States	55.62	55.62	54.18	55.56
13	Erica Wheeler	United States	54.16	53.00	54.16	x
14th	Aggelikí Tsiolakoúdi	Greece	53.48	53.48	r
15th	Nikola Brejchová	Czech Republic	52.86	x	52.12	52.86

Javelin throwers eliminated from group B in the qualification:

• 

  The 41-year-old Tessa Sanderson, 1984 Olympic champion and 1978 vice European champion, did not make it into the final with 57.84 m

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  Taina Kolkkala - eliminated with 57.72 m

• 

  52.86 m were clearly too little for Nikola Brejchová

final

August 9, 1997, 7:10 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	Trine Hattestad	Norway	68.78	68.78	63.32	x	66.32	x	65.46
2	Joanna Stone	Australia	68.64	64.68	68.16	66.94	66.12	68.64	68.60
3	Tanja Damaske	Germany	67.12	64.30	63.72	64.36	64.18	66.26	67.12
4th	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	66.00	64.50	x	63.72	61.70	64.14	66.00
5	Felicia Țilea	Romania	64.90	60.32	55.24	64.90	61.14	59.24	64.40
6th	Sonia Bisset	Cuba	63.80	63.80	63.16	63.08	60.44	60.52	63.34
7th	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	63.76	63.76	62.44	x	59.88	63.02	62.14
8th	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	63.76	x	63.76	x	62.68	x	x
9	Oksana Ovchinnikova	Russia	62.92	58.72	61.32	62.92	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Heli Rantanen	Finland	62.64	62.64	59.96	x
11	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili	Greece	61.02	61.02	x	57.80
12	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	57.38	56.80	57.38	56.36

• 

  Mikaela Ingberg, third in the 1995 World Championships, came fourth this time

• 

  Felicia Tilea, 1995 World silver medalist and 1994 European Championship -Third, finished fifth here

• 

  The tenth placed Heli Rantanen was an Olympic champion last year

Video links

• Women's Javelin Qualifying & (incomplete) Final - 1997 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 7, 2020
• Trine Hattestad Javelin 1997 World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 7, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Women Javelin Throw Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed July 7, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Javelin Throw, Athens 1997, p. 348f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 7, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin throw women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 7, 2020