World Athletics Championships 1999 / women's javelin

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 26th (qualification) August 28th (final)
Medalists Mirela Manjani ( GRE )   Tatjana Schikolenko ( RUS )   Trine Hattestad ( NOR )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The women's javelin at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 26th and 28th, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

For the first time at the world championships a spear modified in the world championship year with a forward shifted center of gravity was used. For men, this change had already taken place in 1986. The main reason for this was the measurement problem that arose from the flat angle of impact of the old spear models. Often there was no mark or a mark that was difficult to recognize that the spear left on impact, which often made measuring the distance very difficult or sometimes even made the throw invalid. Moving the center of gravity forward on the new spear fixed both problems.

Her first world title was achieved by Mirela Manjani , who had started for her native Albania until 1997 and after her marriage now had Greek citizenship. She won before the former Belarusian and now for Russia starting Vice European Champion from 1998 Tatjana Schikolenko . Bronze went to the two-time world champion ( 1993 / 1997 ), Olympic medalist in 1996 and reigning European champion Trine Hattestad of Norway .

Existing records

World record	World record and World Cup record vacant, since a modified spear has been prescribed since April 1st, 1999
World championship record

Comment on the records:
The Norwegian Trine Hattestad set a world record on July 28, 1999 with 68.19 m with the newly prescribed javelin, which, however, remained unofficial. The distance of 67.09 m achieved by the Greek world champion Mirela Manjani in the final on August 28 was not only the new world championship record, but also the first official world record with the new throwing device.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

Thirty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 61.00 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.11 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Steffi Nerius has been at World Championships since 1993 , where she failed with 58.43 m in qualification - her great successes with the climax of the World Cup title in 2009 (photo) were still pending

August 26, 1999, 6:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Trine Hattestad	Norway	62.67 CR	62.67	-	-
2	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	62.07	62.07	-	-
3	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	61.78	61.78	-	-
4th	Sonia Bisset	Cuba	61.63	61.63	-	-
5	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	61.50	58.86	59.35	61.50
6th	Wei Jianhua	People's Republic of China	61.39 AS	61.39	-	-
7th	Louise Currey	Australia	60.83	60.83	59.62	56.51
8th	Karen Forkel	Germany	60.40	55.66	60.40	59.04
9	Felicia Țilea	Romania	60.11	60.11	x	57.78
10	Genowefa Patla	Poland	59.50	55.17	59.50	56.27
11	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	58.60	57.25	58.60	x
12	Steffi Nerius	Germany	58.43	58.43	57.07	57.05
13	Evfemija Štorga	Slovenia	53.54	x	53.26	53.54
14th	Gurmeet Kaur Rai	India	51.97	51.97	51.76	47.90
15th	Sabina Moya	Colombia	47.27	x	47.27	44.27

Group B

August 26, 1999, 8:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Oksana Makarova	Russia	63.83 CR	63.83	-	-
2	Mirela Manjani	Greece	61.45	61.45	-	-
3	Taina Uppa	Finland	60.51	60.51	-	-
4th	Ana Mirela Țermure	Romania	58.52	58.52	x	56.01
5	Liang Lili	People's Republic of China	58.43	49.41	58.43	55.96
6th	Lavern Eve	Bahamas	57.97	55.22	55.79	57.97
7th	Xiomara Rivero	Cuba	57.48	x	x	57.48
8th	Nadine Auzeil	France	57.33	54.62	55.92	57.33
9	Nikola Tomečková	Czech Republic	56.88	54.55	x	56.88
10	Ewa Rybak	Poland	56.41	55.12	56.41	56.14
11	Khristina Georgieva	Bulgaria	55.79	55.79	54.90	54.57
12	Linda Bluetrich	United States	52.31	50.26	52.31	52.17
13	Lee Young-Sun	South Korea	51.36	50.33	51.36	51.31
NM	Maka Obolashvili	Georgia	ogV	x	x	r
	Tanja Damaske	Germany		-	-	r

final

August 28, 1999, 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	Mirela Manjani	Greece	67.09 WR	62.41	66.33	67.09	66.33	x	x
2	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	66.37	63.75	62.28	x	62.21	66.37	x
3	Trine Hattestad	Norway	66.06	63.73	66.06	62.56	64.24	63.42	63.85
4th	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	64.61	64.61	61.12	63.18	62.55	63.74	62.54
5	Louise Currey	Australia	64.38	60.39	x	60.89	64.38	61.10	60.75
6th	Sonia Bisset	Cuba	63.52	61.62	61.74	x	63.52	61.08	x
7th	Wei Jianhua	People's Republic of China	62.97 AS	58.92	62.27	62.97	x	x	57.66
8th	Oksana Makarova	Russia	62.67	59.23	62.67	x	x	60.16	x
9	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	60.48	56.48	59.36	60.48	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Taina Uppa	Finland	59.83	x	59.83	x
11	Felicia Țilea	Romania	59.24	59.24	58.24	x
12	Karen Forkel	Germany	54.65	64.51	54.65	x

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  The ninth placed Mikaela Ingberg, 1998 European Championship third

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  Eleventh place for Felicia Țilea, 1995 Vice World Champion and 1994 European Championship third

Video

• World Championship Sevilla 1999-Mirela Manjani Gold medal Javelin throw women , video published on October 29, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on August 2, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Women Javelin Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed August 2, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Javelin Throw, Seville 1999, p. 348 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on August 2, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Dr. Jürgen Schiffer: "Why did the senior javelin specification have to be changed?" - Article in IAAF / New Studies in athletics 3 / 4.00 (English) , accessed on August 2, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 2, 2020