1988 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 29 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Seoul Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 25, 1988 (qualifying) September 26, 1988 (final) |
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The women's javelin throw at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul was played in two rounds on September 25 and 26, 1988 in the Seoul Olympic Stadium. 29 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Petra Felke from the GDR. She won ahead of the British Fatima Whitbread and her compatriot Beate Koch .
In addition to the medalists, Silke Renk took part for the GDR . She also reached the finals and was fifth in the Olympics. Beate Peters and Ingrid Thyssen started
for the Federal Republic of Germany . Peters failed in the qualification. Thyssen reached the final and finished eighth.
The Swiss Denise Thiémard also qualified for the final. She finished ninth.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1984 | Tessa Sanderson ( Great Britain ) | 69.56 m | Los Angeles 1984 |
World Champion 1987 | Fatima Whitbread ( Great Britain ) | 76.64 m | Rome 1987 |
European champion 1986 | 76.32 m | Stuttgart 1986 | |
Pan American Champion 1987 | Ivonne Leal ( Cuba ) | 63.70 m | Indianapolis 1987 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1987 | Herminia Bouza ( Cuba ) | 62.78 m | Caracas 1987 |
South American Champion 1987 | Sueli dos Santos ( Brazil ) | 56.00 m | São Paulo 1987 |
Asian champion 1987 | Li Baolian ( People's Republic of China ) | 60.12 m | Singapore 1987 |
African champion in 1988 | Yasmina Azzizi ( Algeria ) | 48.82 m | Annaba 1988 |
Existing records
World record | 80.00 m | Petra Felke ( GDR ) | Potsdam , GDR (now Germany ) | September 9, 1988 |
Olympic record | 69.56 m | Tessa Sanderson ( Great Britain ) | Los Angeles final , USA | August 6, 1984 |
qualification
Date: September 25, 1988
For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 63.00 m. Since only nine throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next three throwers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.56 m were required for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Petra Felke | GDR | 67.06 m | - | - | 67.06 m | |
2 | Beate Koch | GDR | 66.86 m | - | - | 66.86 m | |
3 | Natalja Yermolowitsch | Soviet Union | x | 64.44 m | - | 64.44 m | |
4th | Zsuzsa Malovecz | Hungary | 64.30 m | - | - | 64.30 m | |
5 | Denise Thiémard | Switzerland | 55.18 m | 61.74 m | 55.60 m | 61.74 m | |
6th | Tuula Laaksalo | Finland | 57.34 m | 60.64 m | 54.66 m | 60.64 m | |
7th | Beate Peters | BR Germany | x | x | 60.20 m | 60.20 m | |
8th | Laverne Eve | Bahamas | x | 57.48 m | 60.02 m | 60.02 m | |
9 | Trine Solberg | Norway | 57.76 m | 56.90 m | 58.82 m | 58.82 m | |
10 | Anna Verouli | Greece | 57.60 m | 58.52 m | x | 58.52 m | |
11 | Tessa Sanderson | Great Britain | 54.18 m | 56.70 m | 56.26 m | 56.70 m | |
12 | Zhou Yuanxiang | People's Republic of China | 53.66 m | 52.80 m | 56.36 m | 56.36 m | |
13 | Lynda Sutfin | United States | 56.08 m | 56.12 m | x | 56.12 m | |
14th | Celine Chartrand | Canada | 47.64 m | 46.18 m | 54.10 m | 54.10 m | |
ogV | Nadine Auzeil | France | x | x | x | without space |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Fatima Whitbread | Great Britain | 54.90 m | x | 68.44 m | 68.44 m | |
2 | Antoaneta Selenska | Bulgaria | 50.84 m | 61.62 m | 64.60 m | 64.60 m | |
3 | Silke Renk | GDR | 63.64 m | - | - | 63.64 m | |
4th | Ingrid Thyssen | BR Germany | 63.32 m | - | - | 63.32 m | |
5 | Irina Kostyuchenkova | Soviet Union | 58.56 m | x | 63.24 m | 63.24 m | |
6th | Päivi Alafrantti | Finland | 62.82 m | 58.54 m | 59.82 m | 62.82 m | |
7th | Donna Mayhew | United States | 61.56 m | 60.62 m | 59.08 m | 61.56 m | |
8th | Tiina Lillak | Finland | 60.06 m | x | 55.52 m | 60.06 m | |
9 | Li Baolian | People's Republic of China | 56.64 m | 58.92 m | 56.62 m | 58.92 m | |
10 | Karin Smith | United States | 57.42 m | 53.86 m | 57.94 m | 57.94 m | |
11 | Emi Matsui | Japan | 50.70 m | x | 56.26 m | 56.26 m | |
12 | Sharon Gibson | Great Britain | 56.00 m | 50.74 m | 53.20 m | 56.00 m | |
13 | Iris Grönfeldt | Iceland | x | 54.28 m | 50.84 m | 54.28 m | |
14th | Yoo Chun-ok | South Korea | x | 44.92 m | 48.26 m | 48.26 m |
final
Date: September 26, 1988
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, nine of which had exceeded the qualification range. All three participants from the GDR and two from the Soviet Union as well as one athlete each from Bulgaria, the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Hungary and Great Britain were qualified.
A duel between the British Fatima Whitbread and Petra Felke from the GDR was expected. Whitbread was the reigning world and European champion . She had set a world record in the 1986 continental fights, which Felke had first improved in July 1987 and then a few days before the games in Seoul . In the Olympic season she threw exactly 80 meters and was the first woman to penetrate this area. It was also the last, because this record has never been and will not be surpassed, because in April 1999 new spears were introduced with a focus shifted further forward, as with the men. The Olympic champion from Los Angeles , Whitbread's compatriot Tessa Sanderson, and also the silver medalist Tiina Lillak from Finland were both not in top form after four years and were eliminated in the qualification.
Felke took the lead in the first final round with 72.62 m. This made her the first 70-meter thrower at the Olympic Games. In her further attempts she got two more litters over this mark. She achieved her best result in round two with 74.68 m. This made her the clearly dominant thrower in this competition and kept her lead until the end. Whitbread positioned herself in second place with her in the second attempt - 67.46 m. With the last litter she achieved a very good 70.32 m, which, however, did not mean any improvement in the ranking. Felke and Whitbread were the only participants to surpass the 70-meter mark. Petra Felke became Olympic champion and Fatima Whitbread won the silver medal. Bronze went to Beate Koch from the GDR, who with 67.30 m, like Irina Kostjutschenkowa from the USSR, reached the 67-meter mark in fourth place. Silke Renk in fifth was just below this value with 66.38 m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Petra Felke | GDR | 72.62 m OR | 74.68 m OR | 66.12 m | 66.76 m | 71.12 m | 68.38 m | 74.68 m | OR |
2 | Fatima Whitbread | Great Britain | 61.98 m | 67.46 m | 66.58 m | 64.86 m | 67.82 m | 70.32 m | 70.32 m | |
3 | Beate Koch | GDR | 67.30 m | 65.66 m | 66.48 m | 62.04 m | 65.64 m | 66.02 m | 67.30 m | |
4th | Irina Kostyuchenkova | Soviet Union | 64.34 m | 67.00 m | 63.12 m | 63.42 m | 63.10 m | x | 67.00 m | |
5 | Silke Renk | GDR | 60.86 m | 58.74 m | 63.98 m | 64.60 m | 64.74 m | 66.38 m | 66.38 m | |
6th | Natalja Yermolowitsch | Soviet Union | 64.84 m | x | x | x | x | - | 64.84 m | |
7th | Donna Mayhew | United States | 57.52 m | x | 61.78 m | 59.72 m | x | 56.74 m | 61.78 m | |
8th | Ingrid Thyssen | BR Germany | 60.76 m | 60.12 m | 56.66 m | x | 59.64 m | 58.28 m | 60.76 m | |
9 | Denise Thiémard | Switzerland | 57.58 m | 57.20 m | 58.54 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
58.54 m | |||
10 | Päivi Alafrantti | Finland | 58.20 m | 55.86 m | 56.46 m | 58.20 m | ||||
11 | Antoaneta Selenska | Bulgaria | 56.78 m | x | x | 56.78 m | ||||
12 | Zsuzsa Malovecz | Hungary | x | 54.58 m | x | 54.58 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed February 4, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 267, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 4, 2018
Video
- Petra Felke 74.68m Seoul Olympics 1988 , published July 25, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed February 4, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 , accessed on February 4, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Seoul Volume two, part two , Athletics results: p. 267, English / French (PDF, 25.64 MB), accessed on February 4, 2018