2017 World Athletics Championships / Women's discus throw
2017 World Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Women's discus throw |
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place | Olympic Stadium London |
Participants | 30 athletes from 19 countries |
Competition phase | August 11, 2017 (qualification) August 13, 2017 (final) |
Medalists | |
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Sandra Perković ( CRO )
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Dani Stevens ( AUS )
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Mélina Robert-Michon ( FRA )
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The women's discus throw at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place on August 11th and 13th, 2017 in London , Great Britain .
The Croatian Sandra Perković became world champion. Australian Dani Stevens came in second . The French Mélina Robert-Michon won the bronze medal.
Records
World record |
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76.80 m | Neubrandenburg . GDR (today Germany ) | July 7, 1988 |
Championship record |
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71.62 m | World Cup in Rome , Italy | August 31, 1987 |
qualification
The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct entry into the final was 62.50 m. Since only nine athletes exceeded this value - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 61.48 m had to be achieved for the final.
Group A
August 11, 2017, August 2017 10:10 am local time (11:10 am CEST )
space | Athlete | country | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) |
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1 | Sandra Perković |
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61.83 | x | 69.67 | 69.67 |
2 | Denia Caballero |
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58.77 | x | 63.79 | 63.79 |
3 | Andressa de Morais |
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60.61 | 62.80 | - | 62.80 |
4th | Feng Bin |
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62.48 | x | 61.95 | 62.48 |
5 | Julia Harting |
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61.34 | 61.70 | 59.41 | 61.70 |
6th | Anna Rüh |
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60.78 | 60.66 | x | 60.78 |
7th | Gia Lewis-Smallwood |
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x | 58.15 | 58.13 | 58.15 |
8th | Jade Lally |
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x | x | 57.71 | 57.71 |
9 | Sabina Asenjo |
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57.00 | x | x | 57.00 |
10 | Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou |
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56.91 | 56.08 | 55.26 | 56.91 |
11 | Kellion Knibb |
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x | x | 56.73 | 56.73 |
12 | Anita Marton |
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55.96 | 54.91 | x | 55.96 |
13 | Natalia Semenova |
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x | x | 55.83 | 55.83 |
14th | Taryn Gollshewsky |
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54.29 | x | 53.69 | 54.29 |
NM | Tara-Sue Barnett |
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x | x | x | without space |
Group B
August 11, 2017, August 2017 11:33 am local time (12:35 pm CEST )
space | Athlete | country | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) |
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1 | Yaime Perez |
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65.58 | - | - | 65.58 |
2 | Dani Stevens |
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65.56 | - | - | 65.56 |
3 | Mélina Robert-Michon |
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63.97 | - | - | 63.97 |
4th | Nadine Müller |
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60.31 | 62.47 | 63.35 | 63.35 |
5 | Su Xinyue |
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60.83 | 61.35 | 63.00 | 63.00 |
6th | Chen Yang |
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x | 62.71 | - | 62.71 |
7th | Zinaida Sendriūtė |
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61.48 | x | 57.57 | 61.48 |
8th | Whitney Ashley |
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x | 60.94 | 59.22 | 60.94 |
9 | Shadae Lawrence |
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x | 59.25 | x | 59.25 |
10 | Fernanda Martins |
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58.51 | x | x | 58.51 |
11 | Dragana Tomašević |
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56.14 | 57.78 | 57.28 | 57.78 |
12 | Irina Rodrigues |
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54.94 | 55.87 | 56.98 | 56.98 |
13 | Subenrat Insaeng |
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53.74 | x | 55.16 | 55.16 |
14th | Valarie Allman |
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53.85 | x | x | 53.85 |
15th | Karen Gallardo |
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52.36 | x | 52.81 | 52.81 |
final
August 13, 2017, August 2017 7:10 p.m. local time (8:10 p.m. CEST )
The clear favorite for this competition was the Croatian Sandra Perković. She was the Olympic champion of 2012 / 2016 , European champion of 2014 / 2016 , world champion in 2013 and runner-up world champion in 2015 . Her strongest competitors were the Cuban world champion from 2015 and Olympic third from 2016 Denia Caballero, the French Olympic runner-up in 2016, runner-up world champion from 2013 and runner-up European champion from 2014 Mélina Robert-Michon. The two German throwers Nadine Müller - including third place in the 2015 World Cup - and Julia Fischer - vice European champion in 2016 - had good prospects for top positions.
From the beginning, Perković's superiority was evident. She reached 69.30 m in the first round, with which she had almost four meters ahead of Robert-Michon, who was second at the time. Third was the Australian Dani Stevens, under her then name Dani Samuels surprise world champion from 2009 . With 64.13 m, Müller was fourth. In round two, Perković was the only athlete to exceed the 70-meter mark with her longest throw in this competition of 70.31 m. Stevens improved to 65.46 m, but remained third behind Robert-Michon. Perković's third throw at 70.28 m also landed beyond seventy meters.
On lap four, Stevens moved up to second with 66.82 m. The Cuban Yaimé Pérez climbed to 64.82 m and had thus conquered the bronze place. But it did not stop. Robert-Michon scored 65.39 m and then 66.11 m in the last round. Stevens set a highlight with her last throw at 69.64 m. With that she had set a new Oceania record.
Sandra Perković was the undisputed world champion ahead of Dani Stevens and Mélina Robert-Michon. The two Cubans Yaimé Pérez and Denia Caballero finished fourth and fifth, Nadine Müller finished sixth.
space | Athlete | country | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Width (m) |
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Sandra Perković |
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69.30 | 70.31 | 70.28 | 69.81 | x | x | 70.31 |
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Dani Stevens |
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64.23 | 65.46 | x | 66.82 | 66.59 | 69.64 | 69.64 OZ |
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Mélina Robert-Michon |
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65.49 | 62.54 | x | 61.88 | 65.39 | 66.21 | 66.21 SB |
4th | Yaimé Perez |
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62.54 | x | x | 64.82 | 63.43 | 64.60 | 64.82 |
5 | Denia Caballero |
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63.22 | 62.88 | x | 62.18 | 64.37 | x | 64.37 |
6th | Nadine Müller |
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64.13 | x | 62.49 | x | 63.71 | x | 64.13 |
7th | Su Xinyue |
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x | 60.59 | 63.37 | x | 61.12 | 62.05 | 63.37 |
8th | Feng Bin |
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61.56 | 60.81 | x | x | 51.95 | x | 61.56 |
9 | Julia Harting |
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61.34 | x | x | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
61.34 | ||
10 | Chen Yang |
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58.19 | x | 61.28 | 61.28 | |||
11 | Andressa De Morais |
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60.00 | x | x | 60.00 | |||
NM | Zinaida Sendriūtė |
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x | x | x | without space |
Web links and sources
- Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, discus throw women on the IAAF website , accessed on December 19, 2018
- Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships from Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 19, 2018
- Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 19, 2018
Video
- WCH 2017 London - Sandra Perkovic in an interview on youtube.com, published on August 13, 2017, accessed on December 19, 2018