World Athletics Championships 2015 / women's javelin

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	Women's javelin throw
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	32 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 28, 2015 (qualification) August 30, 2015 (final)
Medalists
gold	Katharina Molitor ( GER )
silver	Lü Huihui ( CHN )
bronze	Sunette Viljoen ( ZAF )

World champion Katharina Molitor with all her might in her throw

The women's javelin at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 28th and 30th, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

The German Katharina Molitor became world champion . The Chinese Lü Huihui won the silver medal. Third place went to South African Sunette Viljoen .

Records

World record	Barbora Špotáková	72.28 m	Stuttgart , Germany	September 13, 2008
Championship record	Maria Abakumova	71.99 m	World Cup in Daegu , South Korea	September 2, 2011

qualification

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 63.50 m. Since only eight athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to a total of twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 62.21 m was enough for the final.

Group A

Latvian Madara Palameika only missed the final by four centimeters with 62.17 m

The Japanese Yuki Ebihara was eliminated from the qualification with 60.30 m

The Israeli Marharyta Dorozhon failed with 61.04 m in the qualification

August 28, 2015, 7:00 p.m. local time (1:00 p.m. CEST )

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Brittany Borman	United States	58.24	x	64.22	64.22
02	Christina Obergföll	Germany	x	x	64.10	64.10
03	Sunette Viljoen	South Africa	63.93	-	-	63.93
04th	Katharina Molitor	Germany	60.64	59.90	63.23	63.23
05	Lu Huihui	People's Republic of China	59.66	63.15	-	63.15
06th	Madara Palameika	Latvia	59.78	x	62.17	62.17
07th	Zhang Li	People's Republic of China	61.29	61.80	56.23	61.80 SB
08th	Hanna Hazko-Fedusova	Ukraine	59.25	61.41	x	61.41 SB
09	Yuki Ebihara	Japan	53.67	57.56	60.30	60.30
10	Kelsey-Lee Roberts	Australia	60.18	58.03	49.78	60.18
11	Tazzjana Chaladovich	Belarus	x	55.67	60.07	60.07
12	Martina Ratej	Slovenia	57.13	59.76	x	59.76
13	Wera Rebrik	Russia	59.67	x	59.35	59.67
14th	Jucilene de Lima	Brazil	59.38	59.49	51.18	59.49
15th	Goldie Sayers	Great Britain	58.28	58.11	x	58.28
16	Sanni Utriainen	Finland	54.57	55.56	x	55.56

Group B

August 28, 2015, 8:25 p.m. local time (2:25 p.m. CEST )

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Christin Hussong	Germany	60.27	61.00	65.92	65.92 PB
02	Li Lingwei	People's Republic of China	65.07	-	-	65.07 SB
03	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic	60.62	65.02	-	65.02
04th	Elizabeth Gleadle	Canada	64.02	-	-	64.02
05	Linda Stahl	Germany	62.12	61.21	63.52	63.52
06th	Sinta Ozoliņa	Latvia	62.81	x	x	62.81 SB
07th	Kara Winger	United States	61.59	62.21	59.18	62.21
08th	Marharyta Doroschon	Israel	61.04	59.79	60.63	61.04
09	Kathryn Mitchell	Australia	61.04	x	x	61.04
10	Yulenmis Aguilar	Cuba	60.52	59.05	58.04	60.52
11	Kimberley Mickle	Australia	x	59.83	x	59.83
12	Flor Ruíz	Colombia	x	56.70	57.25	57.25
13	Maria Andrejczyk	Poland	52.86	53.44	56.75	56.75
14th	Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir	Iceland	56.72	x	x	56.72
15th	Maria Abakumova	Russia	56.08	55.69	x	56.08
16	Kateryna Derun	Ukraine	x	53.49	x	53.49

final

August 30, 2015, 6:45 p.m. local time (12:45 p.m. CEST )

A strong field was gathered in this competition. In the final, the Czech Olympic champion started from 2008 / 2012 , and reigning European champion , Barbora Špotáková, the German world champion in 2013 and Olympic silver medalist from 2008/2012 Christina Obergföll, the European champion of 2010 and EM -Third of 2012/2014, including Olympic bronze medalist of 2012, Linda Stahl from Germany, the South African Olympic gold medal in 2012 and World Cup third in 2011 Sunette Viljoen and the Chinese Olympic fifth in 2012 Lü Huihui. The Russian world champion from 2011 Marija Abakumowa, however, was already eliminated in the qualification.

In the final, the strong throwers of recent years, Obergföll and especially Špotáková, were unable to build on their great performances. But the competition remained exciting until the last throw. In the first round, the Chinese Li Lingwei took the lead with 64.10 m. Behind her lay the Latvian Sinta Ozoliņa with 62.20 m. In lap two, Viljoen took second position with 63.59 m. In the third round, the existing order changed completely. The German Olympic sixth Katharina Molitor took the lead with 64.74 m. Lü Huihui was second, only two centimeters behind, and Obergföll improved to third with 64.61 m. Li Lingwei was now fourth ahead of Viljoen. The German Christian Hussong pushed past Ozoliņa to sixth with 62.98 m.

The changes continued in lap five. Viljoen managed a throw at 65.79 m and was the new front runner. But Lü Huihui countered in round five when she pushed the South African back from first place with 66.13 m. This distance also represented a new Asian record. But the decision was not made until lap six. Katharina Molitor reached 67.69 m, with which she became world champion and set a new world record for the year. Lü Huihui won silver, Sunette Viljoen came third. Christina Obergföll was fourth ahead of Li Lingwei. Christin Hussong was sixth, Sinta Ozoliņa seventh. The American came in eighth place.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Katharina Molitor	Germany	60.84	61.37	64.74	61.86	62.13	67.69	67.69 WL
	Lu Huihui	People's Republic of China	63.80	x	64.72	59.65	66.13	63.72	66.13 AS
	Sunette Viljoen	South Africa	60.18	63.09	62.93	65.79	62.11	60.11	65.79
04th	Christina Obergföll	Germany	x	61.04	64.61	x	62.51	x	64.61 SB
05	Li Lingwei	People's Republic of China	64.10	62.56	61.94	x	62.87	x	64.10
06th	Christin Hussong	Germany	x	59.98	62.94	62.98	x	x	62.98
07th	Sinta Ozoliņa	Latvia	62.20	60.56	x	58.88	x	x	62.20
08th	Kara Winger	United States	58.55	60.63	60.88	59.34	59.28	x	60.88
09	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic	x	59.54	60.08	not in the final of the eight best throwers			60.08
10	Linda Stahl	Germany	58.82	59.69	59.88				59.88
11	Elizabeth Gleadle	Canada	59.78	59.82	x				59.82
12	Brittany Borman	United States	57.96	58.26	57.86				58.26

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  World Champion Katharina Molitor, Germany

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  Vice World Champion Lü Huhui, China

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  Bronze medalist Sunette Viljoen from South Africa

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  Defending champion Christina Obergföll from Germany finished fourth

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  5th place for the Chinese Li Lingwei

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  The German Christian Hussong came in sixth place

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  The Latvian Sinta Ozoliņa Vicaut reached seventh place in the final

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  The Czech Olympic champion from 2008 and 2012 Barbora Špotáková had to settle for ninth place here

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  The 2010 German European Champion, Linda Stahl, came in tenth

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  The Canadian Elizabeth Gleadle came in eleventh place

Web links and sources

• Homepage of the 2015 World Championships, women's javelin throw on the IAAF website , accessed on November 15, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 15, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 15, 2018

Video

• IAAF World Championships Beijing 2015 - Day 9 Highlights on youtube.com, range from 22:23 min to 28:30 min, published on August 30, 2015, accessed on November 15, 2018