1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 18 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 5, 1984 (qualifying) August 6, 1984 (final)
Medalists Tessa Sanderson ( GBR )   Tiina Lillak ( FIN )   Fatima Whitbread ( GBR )

The women's javelin throw at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was held on August 5 and 6, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 24 athletes took part.

Tessa Sanderson from Great Britain became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Finn Tiina Lillak and Fatima Whitbread from Great Britain.

Two athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany started. Beate Peters and Ingrid Thyssen both reached the final. Thyssen finished sixth, Peters seventh.
The Swiss Regula Egger failed in the qualification.
Throwers from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1980	María Caridad Colón ( Cuba )	68.40 m	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Tiina Lillak ( Finland )	70.82 m	Helsinki 1983
European champion 1982	Anna Verouli ( Greece )	70.02 m	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	María Caridad Colón ( Cuba )	63.76 m	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean champion 1983	Iris de Grasse ( Cuba )	58.74 m	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	Marieta Riera ( Venezuela )	51.04 m	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Xin Xiaoli ( People's Republic of China )	53.48 m	Kuwait City 1983
African champion 1982	Agnès Tchuinté ( Cameroon )	50.64 m	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	74.76 m	Tiina Lillak ( Finland )	Tampere , Finland	June 13, 1983
Olympic record	68.40 min	María Caridad Colón ( Cuba )	Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	July 25, 1980

qualification

Date: August 5, 1984

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 60.00 m. Since only ten throwers exceeded this distance, the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups, the so-called lucky losers , to twelve participants, so that finally 57.88 m was sufficient for participation in the finals. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

The Greek Anna Verouli, third in the World Cup in 1983 and European Champion in 1982 , tested positive for nandrolone and after her thirteenth place in the qualification was disqualified and excluded from participating in sporting events for one year.

Jennifer Pace, who competed in Group A, was the first woman in Malta to compete in the Olympic track and field competitions.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Fatima Whitbread	Great Britain	x	x	65.30 m	65.30 m
2	Tiina Lillak	Finland	63.30 m	-	-	63.30 m
3	Karin Smith	United States	61.38 m	-	-	61.38 m
4th	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	60.68 m	-	-	60.68 m
5	Tuula Laaksalo	Finland	59.64 m	60.42 m	-	60.42 m
6th	Petra Rivers	Australia	54.28 m	59.12 m	-	59.12 m
7th	Emi Matsui	Japan	55.92 m	57.72 m	55.94 m	57.72 m
8th	Fausta Quintavalla	Italy	56.48 m	57.66 m	55.66 m	57.66 m
9	Agnès Tchuinté	Cameroon	55.94 m	x	51.86 m	55.94 m
10	Lynda Sutfin	United States	55.70 m	51.36 m	55.92 m	55.92 m
11	Lee Hui-Chen	Chinese Taipei	51.18 m	52.46 m	49.54 m	52.46 m
12	Iris Grönfeldt	Iceland	47.34 m	48.70 m	48.16 m	48.70 m
13	Jennifer Pace	Malta	55.94 m	x	51.86 m	55.94 m

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Trine Solberg	Norway	62.68 m	-	-	62.68 m
2	Helena Laine	Finland	x	61.80 m	-	61.80 m
3	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	61.58 m	-	-	61.58 m
4th	Beate Peters	BR Germany	61.56 m	-	-	61.56 m
5	Sharon Gibson	Great Britain	60.88 m	-	-	60.88 m
6th	Cathy Sulinski	United States	54.32 m	x	59.00 m	59.00 m
7th	Regula Egger	Switzerland	56.32 m	57.80 m	57.88 m	57.88 m
8th	Minori Mori	Italy	46.66 m	56.60 m	x	56.60 m
9	Zhu Hongyang	People's Republic of China	53.18 m	50.98 m	x	53.18 m
10	Sonia Smith	Bermuda	51.48 m	x	52.74 m	52.74 m
DOP	Anna Verouli	Greece	57.72 m	x	58.62 m		due to Doping offense disqualified
DNS	Iamo Launa	Papua New Guinea

final

Date: August 6, 1984

Twelve athletes started in the final, ten of whom had made the qualification distance. Three British women competed against three Finnish women, two US athletes and two throwers from the Federal Republic of Germany. There was also one athlete from Norway and one from Australia. After three attempts, the best eight participants were allowed three more litters.

The Finnish world champion and world record holder Tiina Lillak was considered the favorite, but went into the competition handicapped by an injury. Her main competitors were the two British women Fatima Whitbread and Tessa Sanderson. In contrast to the other two throwing disciplines, the shot put and discus throwing, the lack of female throwers from the boycott states was hardly noticeable. At the major international championships in recent years, the athletes from other nations had clearly dominated the javelin throw .

In the first final round, Sanderson took the lead with the new Olympic record of 69.56 m. In second place were Whitbread and the Norwegian Trine Solberg, together with 64.52 m, later successfully under her name Trine Hattestad. In the second attempt Tiina Lillak reached 69.00 m despite her foot injury, Whitbread threw 65.42 m and was third. Because of her injury, Lillak had to forego her remaining litters. Whitbread reached 67.14 m in the fifth attempt, but could not endanger Tiina Lillak on the silver rank. But the Olympic champion was Tessa Sanderson, Fatima Whitbread won the bronze medal. The other places were the Finn Tuula Laaksalo, Trine Solberg and the two German throwers Ingrid Thyssen and Beate Peters.

This competition was of a very high level overall, not only with Tessa Sanderson's new Olympic record. Three athletes exceeded the 67-meter mark and there were also good distances behind them.

Tessa Sanderson was the first British Olympic champion in the women's javelin.

Tiina Lillak from Finland, winner of the silver medal

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	69.56 m OR	66.56 m	63.68 m	64.84 m	66.86 m	64.10 m	69.56 m	OR
2	Tiina Lillak	Finland	61.14 m	69.00 m	-	-	-	-	69.00 m
3	Fatima Whitbread	Great Britain	64.52 m	65.42 m	x	65.82 m	67.14 m	x	67.14 m
4th	Tuula Laaksalo	Finland	56.42 m	61.36 m	x	66.40 m	59.64 m	65.72 m	66.40 m
5	Trine Solberg	Norway	64.52 m	60.90 m	x	x	x	x	64.52 m
6th	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	61.12 m	63.26 m	55.64 m	55.96 m	60.42 m	56.26 m	63.26 m
7th	Beate Peters	BR Germany	61.84 m	59.90 m	x	61.24 m	57.98 m	62.34 m	62.34 m
8th	Karin Smith	United States	60.54 m	x	55.92 m	59.14 m	x	62.08 m	62.08 m
9	Sharon Gibson	Great Britain	54.96 m	x	59.66 m	not in the final of the eight best throwers			59.66 m
10	Cathy Sulinski	United States	54.26 m	58.38 m	x				58.38 m
11	Helena Laine	Finland	x	x	58.18 m				58.18 m
12	Petra Rivers	Australia	55.66 m	56.20 m	x				56.20 m

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , p. 53

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed January 15, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 267, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed January 15, 2018

Video

• Women's Javelin Final at LA Olympics 1984 , published June 11, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed January 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 , accessed on January 15, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 267, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 15, 2018
3. ↑ List of Olympic doping offenders on SportsReference , accessed on January 15, 2018
4. ^ SportsReference Javelin , accessed January 15, 2018