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)
Medalists Elina Swerawa ( BLR )   Anastasia Kelesidou ( GRE )   Iryna Jatchanka ( BLR )

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

The Romanian Nicoleta Grasu threw 58.87 m and was eliminated as ninth in her qualifying group

The French Mélina Robert-Michon did not reach the final with her 54.11 m as thirteenth in her qualifying group

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

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  Bronze medalist Iryna Jatchanka from Belarus

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  The Olympic sixth Franka Dietzsch from Germany

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  The German Ilke Wyludda finished seventh in the final

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

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 801 , accessed on April 15, 2018