1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 25 athletes from 17 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
Competition phase | July 31, 1992 (qualification) August 1, 1992 (final) |
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The women's javelin at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held on July 31 and August 1, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 25 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the German Silke Renk ahead of the Belarusian Natallja Schykalenka , here for the united team at the start. The bronze medal went to Karen Forkel from Germany .
In addition to medalists Renk and Forkel, Petra Meier competed for Germany . The Olympic champion from 1988 , at that time starting under her maiden name Petra Felke for the GDR, also reached the final and finished seventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion in 1988 | Petra Felke ( GDR ) | 74.68 m | Seoul 1988 |
World Champion 1991 | Xu Demei ( People's Republic of China ) | 68.78 m | Tokyo 1991 |
European champion in 1990 | Päivi Alafrantti ( Finland ) | 67.68 m | Split 1990 |
Pan American Champion 1991 | Dulce García ( Cuba ) | 64.78 m | Havana 1991 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1991 | Laverne Eve ( Bahamas ) | 47.60 m | Xalapa 1991 |
South American Champion 1991 | Marieta Riera ( Colombia ) | 57.40 m | Manaus 1991 |
Asian champion 1991 | Xu Demei ( People's Republic of China ) | 59.84 m | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
African champion 1992 | Seraphina Nyauma ( Kenya ) | 53.02 m | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
Oceania Champion 1990 | Mereoni Vibose ( Fiji ) | 48.70 m | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
World record | 80.00 m | Petra Felke ( GDR ) | Potsdam , GDR (now Germany ) | September 9, 1988 |
Olympic record | 74.68 m | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 26, 1988 |
qualification
Date: July 31, 1992
For the qualification the throwers were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.50 m. Since only five athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best throwers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.44 m was enough for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Trine Hattestad | Norway | 67.20 m | - | - | 67.20 m | |
2 | Donna Mayhew | United States | 58.76 m | 58.02 m | 61.24 m | 61.24 m | |
3 | Kinga Zsigmond | Hungary | 58.18 m | 55.60 m | 60.74 m | 60.74 m | |
4th | Tessa Sanderson | Great Britain | 60.70 m | x | 53.20 m | 60.70 m | |
5 | Petra Meier | Germany | 60.58 m | 59.42 m | 57.40 m | 60.58 m | |
6th | Louise McPaul | Australia | 58.00 m | 59.24 m | 60.56 m | 60.56 m | |
7th | Dulce García | Cuba | 60.44 m | x | 57.02 m | 60.44 m | |
8th | Xu Demei | People's Republic of China | x | x | 59.98 m | 59.98 m | |
9 | Kirsten Smith | New Zealand | x | 53.82 m | 59.34 m | 59.34 m | |
10 | Irina Kostyuchenkova | EUN | x | 57.96 m | x | 57.96 m | |
11 | Anna Verouli | Greece | 55.82 m | 56.96 m | 56.60 m | 56.96 m | |
12 | Vijitha Amerasekera | Sri Lanka | x | 48.00 m | 44.70 m | 48.00 m | |
ogV | Päivi Alafrantti | Finland | x | x | x | without space |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Natallja Schykalenka | EUN | 67.36 m | - | - | 67.36 m | |
2 | Karen Forkel | Germany | 62.28 m | 61.48 m | 65.44 m | 65.44 m | |
3 | Silke Renk | Germany | 65.38 m | - | - | 65.38 m | |
4th | Heli Rantanen | Finland | 63.98 m | - | x | 63.98 m | |
5 | Jelena Sweschenzewa | Cuba | 62.82 m | - | - | 62.82 m | |
6th | Isel López | Cuba | x | x | 60.42 m | 60.42 m | |
7th | Ha Xiaoyan | People's Republic of China | 59.70 m | 56.58 m | 58.38 m | 59.70 m | |
8th | Antoaneta Selenska | Bulgaria | 59.40 m | 57.86 m | 57.78 m | 59.40 m | |
9 | Teresė Nekrošaitė | Lithuania | 58.28 m | x | x | 58.28 m | |
10 | Genowefa Patla | Poland | x | 55.14 m | 58.18 m | 58.18 m | |
11 | Lee Young-sun | South Korea | 55.10 m | x | 54.54 m | 55.10 m | |
12 | Paula Berry | United States | 48.70 m | x | 49.00 m | 49.00 m |
final
Date: August 1, 1992
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, five of them by the required qualification distance, the other seven by their placements. All three German participants and two from the united team were in the final, as well as one participant each from Australia, Finland, Cuba, Norway, Hungary, the USA and Great Britain.
The 1988 Olympic champion Petra Meier was the dominant javelin thrower in the late 1980s under her name Petra Felke. But at the beginning of the next decade, other female athletes emerged. The Finn Päivi Alafrantti became European champion in 1990 - Meier here in third place. Also at the 1991 World Championships to be satisfied had to Meier with the second place, this time behind the Chinese Xu Demei. Both Xu and Alafrantti failed in qualifying here in Barcelona . The favorites now included the Belarusian Natallja Schykalenka, who started for the united team, Trine Hattestad in the Norwegian World Cup, third Silke Renk from Germany, Vice European Champion Karen Forkel and Petra Meier.
In the final, Schykalenka took the lead in the first round with 68.26 m. Behind her was Renk at 67.24 m, and behind her was Forkel. In the next series of attempts nothing happened in the ranking. Meier finished seventh after an initial failed attempt. Forkel reached her best distance in the fifth attempt with 66.86 m, but that was not enough to improve her placement. Schykalenka get no more valid attempts after the second round. The decision was made in the last round. Silke Renk overtook all competitors with 68.34 m and became Olympic champion. Natallja Schykalenka and Petra Forkel stayed on the silver and bronze rank in front of the British Tessa Sanderson and Trine Hattestad.
Silke Renk won the fifth gold medal for Germany in this discipline - three victories by GDR athletes and two by athletes from an all-German team.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Silke Renk | Germany | 67.24 m | 62.08 m | 65.34 m | 65.62 m | 65.62 m | 68.34 m | 68.34 m | |
2 | Natallja Schykalenka | EUN | 68.26 m | 67.42 m | x | x | x | x | 68.26 m | |
3 | Karen Forkel | Germany | 65.02 m | x | 62.76 m | 65.84 m | 66.86 m | 66.80 m | 66.86 m | |
4th | Tessa Sanderson | Great Britain | 63.58 m | x | 62.60 m | x | x | 59.80 m | 63.58 m | |
5 | Trine Hattestad | Norway | 59.52 m | 58.52 m | 63.54 m | x | 59.70 m | x | 63.54 m | |
6th | Heli Rantanen | Finland | 62.34 m | 59.62 m | x | 58.02 m | 61.36 m | 58.76 m | 62.34 m | |
7th | Petra Meier | Germany | x | 58.36 m | 58.34 m | x | 57.54 m | 59.02 m | 59.02 m | |
8th | Dulce García | Cuba | 54.56 m | 58.00 m | 58.26 m | x | x | x | 58.26 m | |
9 | Jelena Sweschenzewa | EUN | 56.50 m | 57.32 m | 53.82 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
57.32 m | |||
10 | Kinga Zsigmond | Hungary | 56.54 m | 54.78 m | 55.16 m | 56.54 m | ||||
11 | Louise McPaul | Australia | 54.92 m | 56.00 m | x | 56.00 m | ||||
12 | Donna Mayhew | United States | x | 55.68 m | 54.36 m | 55.68 m |
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin , accessed February 20, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 75, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 20, 2018
Video
- Women's Javelin Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , Maritza Martén, published November 4, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 20, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 , accessed on February 20, 2018
- ↑ a b Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 75, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 20, 2018