2017 World Athletics Championships / Women's discus throw

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	30 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	August 11, 2017 (qualification) August 13, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Sandra Perković ( CRO )
silver	Dani Stevens ( AUS )
bronze	Mélina Robert-Michon ( FRA )

London Olympic Stadium
at night

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	Gabriele Reinsch	76.80 m	Neubrandenburg . GDR (today Germany )	July 7, 1988
Championship record	Martina Hellmann	71.62 m	World Cup in Rome , Italy	August 31, 1987

qualification

The American Gia Lewis-Smallwood did not reach the final with her 58.15 m

The British Jade Lally was eliminated with 57.71 m

Subenrat Insaeng from Thailand - here at an award ceremony in Asia - did not make it to the final with 55.16 m

53.85 m was not enough for the American Valarie Allman to reach the final

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)
01	Sandra Perković	Croatia	61.83	x	69.67	69.67
02	Denia Caballero	Cuba	58.77	x	63.79	63.79
03	Andressa de Morais	Brazil	60.61	62.80	-	62.80
04th	Feng Bin	People's Republic of China	62.48	x	61.95	62.48
05	Julia Harting	Germany	61.34	61.70	59.41	61.70
06th	Anna Rüh	Germany	60.78	60.66	x	60.78
07th	Gia Lewis-Smallwood	United States	x	58.15	58.13	58.15
08th	Jade Lally	Great Britain	x	x	57.71	57.71
09	Sabina Asenjo	Spain	57.00	x	x	57.00
10	Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou	Greece	56.91	56.08	55.26	56.91
11	Kellion Knibb	Jamaica	x	x	56.73	56.73
12	Anita Marton	Hungary	55.96	54.91	x	55.96
13	Natalia Semenova	Ukraine	x	x	55.83	55.83
14th	Taryn Gollshewsky	Australia	54.29	x	53.69	54.29
NM	Tara-Sue Barnett	Jamaica	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)
01	Yaime Perez	Cuba	65.58	-	-	65.58
02	Dani Stevens	Australia	65.56	-	-	65.56
03	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	63.97	-	-	63.97
04th	Nadine Müller	Germany	60.31	62.47	63.35	63.35
05	Su Xinyue	People's Republic of China	60.83	61.35	63.00	63.00
06th	Chen Yang	People's Republic of China	x	62.71	-	62.71
07th	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania	61.48	x	57.57	61.48
08th	Whitney Ashley	United States	x	60.94	59.22	60.94
09	Shadae Lawrence	Jamaica	x	59.25	x	59.25
10	Fernanda Martins	Brazil	58.51	x	x	58.51
11	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia	56.14	57.78	57.28	57.78
12	Irina Rodrigues	Portugal	54.94	55.87	56.98	56.98
13	Subenrat Insaeng	Thailand	53.74	x	55.16	55.16
14th	Valarie Allman	United States	53.85	x	x	53.85
15th	Karen Gallardo	Chile	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)
	Sandra Perković	Croatia	69.30	70.31	70.28	69.81	x	x	70.31
	Dani Stevens	Australia	64.23	65.46	x	66.82	66.59	69.64	69.64 OZ
	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	65.49	62.54	x	61.88	65.39	66.21	66.21 SB
4th	Yaimé Perez	Cuba	62.54	x	x	64.82	63.43	64.60	64.82
5	Denia Caballero	Cuba	63.22	62.88	x	62.18	64.37	x	64.37
6th	Nadine Müller	Germany	64.13	x	62.49	x	63.71	x	64.13
7th	Su Xinyue	People's Republic of China	x	60.59	63.37	x	61.12	62.05	63.37
8th	Feng Bin	People's Republic of China	61.56	60.81	x	x	51.95	x	61.56
9	Julia Harting	Germany	61.34	x	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers			61.34
10	Chen Yang	People's Republic of China	58.19	x	61.28				61.28
11	Andressa De Morais	Brazil	60.00	x	x				60.00
NM	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania	x	x	x				without space

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  World Champion Sandra Perković, Croatia

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  Vice World Champion Dani Stevens, Australia

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  Bronze medalist Mélina Robert-Michon, France

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  The Cuban Denia Caballero took fourth place

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  Sixth place for the German Nadine Müller

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  The second German in this final Julia Harting was ninth

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  Chen Yang from China came in tenth place

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  Zinaida Sendriūtė from Lithuania remained in the final without a valid attempt

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