World Athletics Championships 1999 / Women's discus throw

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21 (qualifying) August 23 (final)
Medalists Franka Dietzsch ( GER )   Anastasía Kelesídou ( GRE )   Nicoleta Grasu ( ROM )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The women's discus throw at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was played on August 21 and 23, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The reigning European champion Franka Dietzsch from Germany became world champion . Silver went to the Greek Anastasía Kelesídou . The Romanian European Championship third in 1998 Nicoleta Grasu finished third.

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

qualification

Thirty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 63.50 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 62.35 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

August 21, 1999, 7:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	66.59	66.59	-	-
2	Beatrice Faumuina	New Zealand	64.18	61.67	64.18	-
3	Elina Swerava	Belarus	63.37	63.37	60.61	x
4th	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	63.13	x	61.98	63.13
5	Ekaterini Vongoli	Greece	62.39	61.45	62.39	61.36
6th	Li Qiumei	People's Republic of China	62.20	58.72	62.20	57.99
7th	Lisa-Marie Vizaniari	Australia	61.49	61.19	61.00	61.49
8th	Larisa Korotkevich	Russia	60.06	57.63	60.06	57.60
9	Anna Söderberg	Sweden	59.65	59.11	59.65	57.99
10	Sabine Sievers	Germany	58.34	58.34	54.21	x
11	Teresa Machado	Portugal	57.84	x	55.18	57.84
12	Cao Qi	People's Republic of China	57.43	x	54.47	57.43
13	Marzena Wysocka	Poland	57.43	52.44	52.55	57.43
14th	Neelam Jaswant Singh	India	57.05	56.93	57.05	56.90
15th	Vladimíra Racková	Czech Republic	56.64	56.64	55.13	53.78
16	Kristin Kuehl	United States	55.77	53.11	51.85	55.77

Group B

August 21, 1999, 8:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Iryna Yatchanka	Belarus	64.58	x	64.58	-
2	Styliani Tsikouna	Greece	64.16	55.72	64.16	-
3	Anastasía Kelesídou	Greece	64.12	64.12	-	-
4th	Anja Möllenbeck	Germany	63.63	60.51	61.47	63.63
5	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	62.87	62.87	61.54	61.53
6th	Seilala Sua	United States	62.48	x	62.48	55.77
7th	Natalia Sadova	Russia	62.35	61.92	62.35	61.11
8th	Alison Lever	Australia	60.05	58.69	58.94	60.05
9	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland	59.83	59.30	59.83	x
10	Li Yanfeng	People's Republic of China	59.47	59.47	x	x
11	Tiina Kankaanpää	Finland	58.02	54.43	x	58.02
12	Aretha Thurmond	United States	57.50	57.50	x	x
13	Oksana Tuchak	Turkey	57.31	54.42	52.80	57.31
14th	Eha Rünne	Estonia	56.57	x	54.28	56.57
DNS	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil

Discus throwers eliminated from group B in qualification:

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  Joanna Wiśniewska - 59.83 m

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  Li Yanfeng (here as world champion 2011 ) - 59.47 m

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  Aretha Thurmond - 57.50 m

final

August 23, 1999, 7:15 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	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	68.14	66.34	63.60	67.60	x	68.14	65.34
2	Anastasía Kelesídou	Greece	66.05	64.69	x	63.35	x	66.05	64.46
3	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	65.35	63.35	x	62.53	62.89	65.35	x
4th	Natalia Sadova	Russia	64.98	64.69	64.98	60.65	64.59	61.08	65.19
5	Beatrice Faumuina	New Zealand	64.62	61.60	62.88	63.97	64.62	61.30	59.74
6th	Seilala Sua	United States	63.73	60.21	58.22	63.73	x	x	56.88
7th	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	63.61	62.13	x	63.61	61.33	63.58	63.31
8th	Styliani Tsikouna	Greece	63.43	60.57	63.10	61.28	57.23	x	63.43
9	Iryna Yatchanka	Belarus	62.99	x	60.00	62.99	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Elina Swerava	Belarus	62.75	62.75	62.52	62.35
11	Ekaterini Vongoli	Greece	61.00	x	61.00	x
12	Anja Möllenbeck	Germany	59.48	58.56	59.48	x

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  The reigning European champion Franka Dietzsch won her first of three world championship titles

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  Nicoleta Grasu, third in the 1998 European Championship , won bronze - it was her first of four World Championship medals

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  Defending champion Beatrice Faumuina (here in 2013) took fifth place

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  Iryna Jatchanka finished ninth

Video

• Women's Discus, Qualifying and Final - 1999 IAAF World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 30, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Women Discus Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 30, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Discus Throw, Seville 1999, p. 339 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 30, 2020

References and comments

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