2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 32 athletes from 20 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 25, 2000 (qualification) September 27, 2000 (final) |
||||||||
|
The women's discus throw at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was played on September 25 and 27, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 32 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Belarusian Elina Swerava . She won ahead of the Greek Anastasia Kelesidou and the Belarusian Iryna Jattschanka .
With Franka Dietzsch and Ilke Wyludda , two Germans took part in the competition. Both could qualify for the final. Dietzsch was sixth, Wyludda seventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1996 | Ilke Wyludda ( Germany ) | 69.66 m | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Franka Dietzsch ( Germany ) | 68.14 m | Seville 1999 |
European Champion 1998 | 67.49 m | Budapest 1998 | |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Aretha Hill ( USA ) | 59.06 m | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999 | María Cubillán ( Venezuela ) | 42.08 m | Bridgetown 1999 |
South America Champion 1999 | Elisângela Adriano ( Brazil ) | 60.27 m | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian Champion 2000 | Neelam Jaswant Singh ( India ) | 60.75 m | Jakarta 2000 |
African champion 2000 | Monia Kari ( Tunisia ) | 58.46 m | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Melehifo Uhi ( Tonga ) | 47.04 m | Adelaide 2000 |
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 |
Remarks:
- All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance was 63.00 m. Since only three participants exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.84 m had to be achieved for the final. Due to discrepancies regarding the validity of a throw by the Portuguese Teresa Machado, which the judges had given invalid, she was also admitted as an additional thirteenth thrower for the final.
Group A
September 25, 2000, 10:00 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Elina Swerava | Belarus | 61.26 | 64.81 | - | 64.81 | |
2 | Ilke Wyludda | Germany | 62.97 | x | 60.83 | 62.97 | |
3 | Seilala Sua | United States | 56.19 | 61.88 | 59.06 | 61.88 | |
4th | Styliani Tsikouna | Greece | 59.58 | 61.59 | 56.33 | 61.59 | |
5 | Yu Xin | People's Republic of China | 59.79 | 61.00 | 60.12 | 61.00 | |
6th | Olena Antonova | Ukraine | 60.73 | 60.28 | 59.85 | 60.73 | |
7th | Vladimíra Racková | Czech Republic | x | 60.24 | 55.32 | 60.24 | |
8th | Oksana Esipchuk | Russia | 59.51 | 57.14 | 58.64 | 59.51 | |
9 | Nicoleta Grasu | Romania | x | x | 58.87 | 58.87 | |
10 | Larissa Korotkewitsch | Russia | 58.81 | 56.90 | x | 58.81 | |
11 | Cao Qi | People's Republic of China | 57.88 | 57.01 | 58.03 | 58.03 | |
12 | Monia Kari | Tunisia | 56.32 | 52.61 | 54.01 | 56.32 | |
13 | Mélina Robert-Michon | France | x | 54.11 | x | 54.11 | |
14th | Renata Gustaitytė | Lithuania | x | 53.64 | x | 53.64 | |
15th | Daniela Costian | Australia | x | 51.96 | x | 51.96 | |
16 | Mariana Canillas | Paraguay | x | 32.31 | x | 32.31 |
Group B
September 25, 2000, 11:40 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Natalia Sadova | Russia | 64.62 | - | - | 64.62 | |
2 | Anastasia Kelesidou | Greece | 63.64 | - | - | 63.64 | |
3 | Iryna Yatchanka | Belarus | 62.72 | 58.94 | 60.89 | 62.72 | |
4th | Lisa-Marie Vizaniari | Australia | 60.39 | 59.39 | 62.47 | 62.47 | |
5 | Beatrice Faumuina | New Zealand | 61.33 | 57.88 | 58.55 | 61.33 | |
6th | Ekaterini Vongoli | Greece | 61.29 | x | x | 61.29 | |
7th | Franka Dietzsch | Germany | 59.78 | 60.74 | 59.29 | 60.74 | |
8th | Suzanne Powell | United States | x | x | 59.68 | 59.68 | |
9 | Alison Lever | Australia | x | 54.45 | 59.58 | 59.58 | |
10 | Kristin Kuehl | United States | 59.45 | 54.02 | 57.54 | 59.45 | |
11 | Li Qiumei | People's Republic of China | 56.28 | 56.59 | 55.01 | 56.59 | |
12 | Anna Söderberg | Sweden | 54.94 | 55.89 | 56.11 | 56.11 | |
13 | Teresa Machado | Portugal | x | x | 55.86 | 55.86 | admitted to the final by wildcard |
14th | Neelam Jaswant Singh | India | 55.22 | 55.26 | x | 55.26 | |
15th | Oksana Mert | Turkey | 54.18 | 54.74 | 55.02 | 55.02 | |
16 | Alice Matějková | Spain | 54.19 | 53.12 | x | 54.19 |
final
September 27, 2000, 8:30 p.m.
Thirteen athletes had qualified for the final, three of them via the qualification distance, nine more via their placements and one via a wildcard due to discrepancies regarding the validity and distance of an invalid throw. Three Greeks, two Germans and two Belarusians as well as one participant each from Australia, China, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia and the USA fought for the medals.
The favorites were above all the German world and European champion Franka Dietzsch, the Greek vice world champion Anastasia Kelesidou, the Russian vice European champion and World Cup fourth Natalja Sadowa, the Belarusian bronze medalist from 1996 and vice world champion from 1997 Elina Swerawa and the Romanian World Cup third from 1999 Nicoleta Grasu.
With 67.00 m Elina Swerawa took the lead in the first lap. In the following three rounds she threw the disc so far that all these attempts would have been enough for the gold medal. She achieved her best distance of 68.40 m with her third litter. Your last two attempts were then invalid. Behind Swerawa, the Greek Anastasia Kelesidou took second place in the first attempt. Their width of 65.71 m was enough for the silver medal in the end. In the fifth round the Belarusian Iryna Jattschanka reached 65.20 m, which finally brought her the bronze medal. Natalja Sadowa was fourth in front of the Greek Styliani Tsikouna, Franka Dietzsch and the German 1996 Olympic champion Ilke Wyludda. In front of a home crowd, the Australian Lisa-Marie Vizaniari came in eighth.
At 39, Elina Swerawa was the oldest Olympic champion in women's athletics.
Anastasia Kelesidou won the first Greek medal in this discipline.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Elina Swerava | Belarus | 67.00 | 66.12 | 68.40 | 65.80 | x | x | 68.40 | |
2 | Anastasia Kelesidou | Greece | 65.71 | 63.20 | 62.59 | 64.58 | 63.07 | 61.85 | 65.71 | |
3 | Iryna Yatchanka | Belarus | x | 62.93 | 61.09 | 63.15 | 65.20 | x | 65.20 | |
4th | Natalia Sadova | Russia | 65.00 | 61.64 | 61.92 | 62.86 | x | 60.47 | 65.00 | |
5 | Styliani Tsikouna | Greece | 61.85 | 60.66 | 64.08 | x | x | 59.91 | 64.08 | |
6th | Franka Dietzsch | Germany | x | 61.65 | 58.17 | 60.36 | 63.18 | x | 63.18 | |
7th | Ilke Wyludda | Germany | 63.16 | 61.91 | 62.22 | 59.86 | 61.72 | 62.33 | 63.16 | |
8th | Lisa-Marie Vizaniari | Australia | 60.78 | 62.43 | 62.57 | x | 62.24 | x | 62.57 | |
9 | Ekaterini Voggoli | Greece | 60.72 | 61.57 | 60.45 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
61.57 | |||
10 | Seilala Sua | United States | 58.03 | 56.24 | 59.85 | 59.85 | ||||
11 | Teresa Machado | Portugal | 54.48 | 59.50 | 56.84 | 59.50 | ||||
12 | Beatrice Faumuina | New Zealand | 56.86 | x | 58.69 | 58.69 | ||||
13 | Yu Xin | People's Republic of China | 58.95 | 58.34 | 57.89 | 58.34 |
literature
- Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 72
Web links
- SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed April 15, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 15, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 15, 2018
Video
- kelesidou hellas discus throw , Anastasia Kelesidou throwing a silver medal at the Olympic Games or World Championships, published on November 21, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed on April 15, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 801 , accessed on April 15, 2018