1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	28 athletes from 16 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Barcelona
Competition phase	August 2, 1992 (qualification) August 3, 1992 (final)
Medalists Maritza Martén ( CUB )   Tsvetanka Christowa ( BUL )   Daniela Costian ( AUS )

The women's discus throw at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was played on August 2nd and 3rd, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. 28 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Cuban Maritza Martén , who won ahead of the Bulgarian Zwetanka Christowa . The bronze medal went to the Australian Daniela Costian .

Franka Dietzsch , Martina Hellmann and Ilke Wyludda started for Germany . Hellmann failed in the qualification. Dietzsch and Wyludda reached the final. Wyludda finished ninth, Dietzsch twelfth.
Ursula Weber took part for Austria. You dropped out in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein were not there.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1988	Martina Hellmann ( GDR )	72.30 m	Seoul 1988
World Champion 1991	Tsvetanka Christowa ( Bulgaria )	71.02 m	Tokyo 1991
European champion in 1990	Ilke Wyludda ( GDR )	68.46 m	Split 1990
Pan American Champion 1991	Bárbara Hechavarría ( Cuba )	63.50 m	Havana 1991
Central America and Caribbean champion 1991	Lilliam Rivera ( Puerto Rico )	48.52 m	Xalapa 1991
South American Champion 1991	María Isabel Urrutia ( Colombia )	51.70 m	Manaus 1991
Asian champion 1991	Min Chunfeng ( People's Republic of China )	61.74 m	Kuala Lumpur 1991
African champion 1992	Lizette Etsebeth ( South Africa )	54.84 m	Belle Vue Maurel 1992
Oceania Champion 1990	Jeanette Park ( New Zealand )	47.02 m	Suva 1990

Existing records

World record	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch ( GDR )	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1988
Olympic record	72.30 m	Martina Hellmann ( GDR )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988

qualification

Date: August 2, 1992

For the qualification, the athletes were drawn into two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. Since only ten throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best female throwers from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.88 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Larissa Korotkewitsch	EUN	67.92 m	-	-	67.92 m
2	Maritza Martén	Cuba	65.02 m	-	-	65.02 m
3	Daniela Costian	Australia	x	64.10 m	-	64.10 m
4th	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	64.06 m	-	-	64.06 m
5	Nicoleta Grădinaru	Romania	58.24 m	x	60.82 m	60.82 m
6th	Martina Hellmann	Germany	59.00 m	x	60.52 m	60.52 m
7th	Bárbara Hechavarría	Cuba	x	60.22 m	x	60.22 m
8th	Qiu Qiaoping	People's Republic of China	59.32 m	58.14 m	58.88 m	59.32 m
9	Vladimíra Malátová	Czechoslovakia	56.46 m	57.84 m	59.04 m	59.04 m
10	Ilga Bartulsone	Latvia	58.92 m	58.62 m	x	58.92 m
11	Connie Price-Smith	United States	58.66 m	x	x	58.66 m
12	Mette Bergmann	Norway	x	58.32 m	x	58.32 m
13	Carla Garrett	United States	55.24 m	x	58.06 m	58.06 m
14th	Jacqueline McKernan	Great Britain	51.94 m	x	x	51.94 m

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  The Romanian Nicoleta Grădinaru - here in 2012 - was eliminated from the qualification as fifth in her group

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  The 1988 Olympic champion Martina Hellmann did not reach the final this time

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  The American Connie Price-Smith was eleventh in her qualifying group, which was not enough for the final

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  The Norwegian Mette Bergmann was not able to reach the final with twelfth place in her qualification group

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Stefania Simowa	Bulgaria	65.60 m	-	-	65.60 m
2	Olga Burowa	EUN	64.78 m	-	-	64.78 m
3	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	64.26 m	-	-	64.26 m
4th	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	63.60 m	-	x	63.60 m
5	Hilda Ramos	Cuba	62.82 m	-	-	62.82 m
6th	Min Chunfeng	People's Republic of China	61.82 m	61.96 m	62.48 m	62.48 m
7th	Iryna Yatchanka	EUN	58.38 m	61.60 m	60.38 m	61.60 m
8th	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	60.88 m	x	59.10 m	60.88 m
9	Manuela Tîrneci	Romania	x	59.44 m	56.24 m	59.44 m
10	Cristina Boiț	Romania	x	56.68 m	x	56.68 m
11	Penny Lou Neer	United States	55.44 m	54.40 m	55.08 m	55.44 m
12	Ángeles Barreiro	Spain	53.14 m	x	x	53.14 m
13	Ursula Weber	Austria	x	51.62 m	x	51.62 m
14th	Teresa Machado	Portugal	49.58 m	x	x	49.58 m

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  Iryna Jattschanka - here on a recording from 2007 - started for the united team and was Olympic 7th

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  The German Ilke Wyludda finished ninth in the final

final

Date: August 3, 1992

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, ten over the required qualification distance, the other two over their placements. All three participants from the united team had reached the final. There were also two female throwers from Bulgaria, Germany and Cuba as well as one participant each from Australia, China and Italy.

The favorites were the Bulgarian world champion Zwetanka Christowa and the German Ilke Wyludda, vice world champion and European champion . For further top placings, the European vice-champion Olga Burowa, who started for the united team, the 1988 Olympic champion Martina Hellmann, in Seoul for the GDR, now for Germany, and the Australian World Cup fifth Daniela Costian came into question. However, Hellman already got stuck in qualifying here in Barcelona .

With 65.66 m, the Cuban Maritza Martén took the lead in the first attempt. Behind her, Christowa was second with 65.14 m, followed by Costian - 64.40 m. Wyludda was 62.16 m in the back field and could not improve in the following time. She stayed in ninth place and thus missed the qualification of the eight best throwers. In round two, Christowa took the lead with 67.78 m. In the fourth round, Larissa Korotkewitsch pushed Costian out of the combined team in fourth place. Martén was now able to regain the lead with 66.90 m and extend it even further in the fifth attempt with 70.06 m. Also with her fifth litter, Costian moved past Korotkewitsch to third with 66.24 m. This is how the medals were distributed. Maritza Martén became Olympic champion, she was the only athlete to surpass the 70-meter mark. Zwetanka Christowa won silver, Daniela Costian bronze. Larissa Korotkewitsch, Olga Burowa and Hilda Ramos from Cuba took the other places in this order.

Maritza Martén was the first Cuban Olympic champion in this discipline.

Daniela Costian won the first medal for Australia in the women's discus throw .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Maritza Martén	Cuba	65.66 m	x	x	66.90 m	70.06 m	66.36 m	70.06 m
2	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	65.14 m	67.78 m	65.32 m	x	x	x	67.78 m
3	Daniela Costian	Australia	64.40 m	64.08 m	64.24 m	64.92 m	66.24 m	65.94 m	66.24 m
4th	Larissa Korotkewitsch	EUN	60.94 m	x	65.52 m	x	64.30 m	x	65.52 m
5	Olga Burowa	EUN	64.02 m	x	62.80 m	61.84 m	x	63.32 m	64.02 m
6th	Hilda Ramos	Cuba	62.16 m	x	62.72 m	59.28 m	x	63.80 m	63.80 m
7th	Iryna Yatchanka	EUN	60.76 m	62.40 m	63.74 m	x	x	x	63.74 m
8th	Stefania Simowa	Bulgaria	x	63.42 m	63.08 m	60.20 m	62.38 m	60.98 m	63.42 m
9	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	62.16 m	61.04 m	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers			62.16 m
10	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	61.22 m	60.80 m	x				61.22 m
11	Min Chunfeng	People's Republic of China	59.06 m	60.82 m	x				60.82 m
12	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	60.24 m	x	x				60.24 m

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed February 19, 2018
• Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 74, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 19, 2018

Videos

• Women's Discus Final at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics , Maritza Martén, published November 26, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed February 19, 2018
• 3966 Olympic Track & Field 1992 Discus Women Tsvetanka Khristova , published May 13, 2017 on youtube.com, accessed February 19, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 801 , accessed on February 19, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 74, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 19, 2018