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)
Medalists Silke Renk ( GER )   Natallja Schykalenka ( EUN )   Karen Forkel ( GER )

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

The German thrower Petra Meier was Olympic seventh

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
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
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 , accessed on February 20, 2018
2. ↑ ^{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