2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 28 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 29, 2000 (qualification) September 30, 2000 (final)
Medalists Trine Hattestad ( NOR )   Mirela Manjani-Tzelili ( GRE )   Osleidys Menéndez ( CUB )

The women's javelin throw at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was played on September 29 and 30, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 35 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Norwegian Trine Hattestad . She won ahead of the Greek Mirela Manjani-Tzelili and the Cuban Osleidys Menéndez .

With Steffi Nerius , a German took part in the competition. Nerius was able to qualify for the final and finished fourth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Heli Rantanen ( Finland )	67.94 m - old spear	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili ( Greece )	67.09 m	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Tanja Damaske ( Germany )	69.10 m - old spear	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Osleidys Menéndez ( Cuba )	65.68 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Laverne Eve ( Bahamas )	61.61 m	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Sabina Moya ( Colombia )	58.81 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Lee Young-sun ( South Korea )	55.78 m	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Aïda Sellam ( Tunisia )	53.35 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	ʻAna Poʻuhila ( Tonga )	42.32 m	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	69.48 m	Trine Hattestad ( Norway )	Oslo , Norway	July 28, 2000
Olympic record	New spear used for the first time at these games, so the old record is no longer valid

Comment on the records and the new javelin: In
1999, the IAAF World Athletics Association introduced a new throwing device. a. the focus has been shifted. The distances achieved with it were smaller, so all previous records were invalid. The main reason for the change was that it was easier to determine where the spear hit the ground after the throw. The trajectory of the earlier spear was often so flat that there were repeated inconsistencies regarding the distance or validity of a throw. The flight curve of the new spear became significantly steeper, so that the previous problems of distance measurement hardly occurred.
The last world record with the old spear was 80.00 m and was set on September 9, 1988 by the GDR thrower Petra Felke in Potsdam .
With 74.78 m Petra Felke also achieved the last Olympic record with the old javelin on September 26, 1988 in Seoul .

Further 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 width was 61.50 m. Since only six athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best participants from both groups to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 59.49 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

The Romanian Felicia Țilea-Moldovan reached 58.75 m and was eliminated as seventh in her qualifying group

The Finn Taina Uppa did not reach the final with her 57.39 m as twelfth in her qualifying group

September 29, 2000, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Steffi Nerius	Germany	65.76 OR	-	-	65.76	OR with the new spear
2	Trine Hattestad	Norway	65.44	-	-	65.44
3	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili	Greece	63.34	-	-	63.34
4th	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	58.94	60.85	x	60.85
5	Li Lei	People's Republic of China	57.01	x	60.57	60.57
6th	Sonia Bisset	Cuba	59.13	x	60.09	60.09
7th	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	57.81	x	59.21	59.21
8th	Nikolett Szabó	Hungary	58.86	55.95	56.72	58.86
9	Ana Mirela Țermure	Romania	55.67	56.31	53.86	56.31
10	Ekaterina Ivakina	Russia	55.30	52.43	55.58	55.58
11	Lynda Blood Kingdom	United States	x	52.77	55.25	55.25
12	Evfemija Štorga	Slovenia	x	54.94	52.97	54.94
13	Khristina Georgieva	Bulgaria	54.60	51.10	53.31	54.60
14th	Nadine Auzeil	France	51.02	53.85	49.90	53.85
15th	Inga Kožarenoka	Latvia	53.83	x	x	53.83
16	Louise Currey	Australia	53.32	x	-	53.32
17th	Gurmeet Kaur	India	52.78	48.80	46.46	52.78
18th	Tatiana Sudarikova	Kyrgyzstan	47.56	x	48.33	48.33

Group B

September 29, 2000, 11:45 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	67.34 OR / AM	-	-	67.34	OR / AM
2	Xiomara Rivero	Cuba	61.89	-	-	61.89
3	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	61.54	-	-	61.54
4th	Wei Jianhua	People's Republic of China	60.64	x	57.19	60.64
5	Claudia Coslovich	Italy	60.12	x	57.05	60.12
6th	Nikola Tomečková	Czech Republic	59.49	55.40	59.40	59.49
7th	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan	Romania	54.11	58.75	x	58.75
8th	Laverne Eve	Bahamas	x	57.98	58.36	58.36
9	Joanna Stone	Australia	53.34	57.57	58.34	58.34
10	Angeliki Tsiolakoudi	Greece	x	58.11	x	58.11
11	Tetjana Lyachowytsch	Ukraine	55.81	53.33	57.41	57.41
12	Taina Uppa	Finland	57.39	x	x	57.39
13	Olivia McKoy	Jamaica	55.98	52.83	56.36	56.36
14th	Sueli dos Santos	Brazil	x	56.27	50.50	56.27
15th	Marta Míguez	Spain	55.52	55.01	x	55.52
16	Lee Young-sun	South Korea	49.84	x	x	49.84
17th	Sabina Moya	Colombia	41.22	49.16	47.37	49.16

final

September 30, 2000, 8:00 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, six of them by qualifying distance and six more by their placements. Three Cubans, two Chinese and one participant each from Germany, Finland, Greece, Italy, Norway, Russia and the Czech Republic competed for the medals.

As the favorite, the Norwegian was the world record holder and World Championship -Third Trine Hattestad. Her strongest opponents included the Greek world champion Mirela Manjani-Tzelili, the Cuban World Cup fourth Osleidys Menéndez and the Russian vice world champion Tatjana Schikolenko.

In the first round, Trine Hattestad threw the spear to 68.91 m. This new Olympic record was finally enough for victory. Menéndez was second in the first lap with 66.03 m, but she was pushed into third place by Manjani-Tzelili, who achieved 67.51 m, in round three. Menéndez improved with her last throw to 66.18 m, but that didn't change the order of the medal ranks. Mirela Manjani-Tzelili won silver, Osleidys Menéndez bronze. Fourth place went to the German Steffi Nerius ahead of the two Cubans Sonia Bisset and Xiomara Rivero. The co-favorite Tatjana Schikolenko was seventh ahead of the Czech Nikola Tomečková.

Mirela Manjani-Tzelili and Osleidys Menéndez were the first medalists in their countries in the women's javelin .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Trine Hattestad	Norway	68.91 OR	62.27	x	64.38	66.22	64.09	68.91	OR
2	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili	Greece	x	65.56	67.51 NO	61.96	65.34	67.51	67.51	NO
3	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	66.03	64.99	65.17	63.95	62.47	66.18	66.18
4th	Steffi Nerius	Germany	61.99	61.41	64.84	57.88	61.11	61.02	64.84
5	Sonia Bisset	Cuba	63.26	62.77	x	x	62.85	63.11	63.26
6th	Xiomara Rivero	Cuba	62.10	62.92	x	60.20	x	x	62.92
7th	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	58.28	62.91	61.54	x	x	61.97	62.91
8th	Nikola Tomečková	Czech Republic	58.13	55.86	58.69	56.12	61.30	62.10	62.10
9	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	58.10	55.97	58.56	not in the final of the eight best throwers			58.56
10	Wei Jinhua	People's Republic of China	54.06	58.23	58.33				58.33
11	Li Lei	People's Republic of China	x	x	56.83				56.83
12	Claudia Coslovich	Italy	56.46	54.28	56.74				56.74

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  The Czech Olympic champion Nikola Tomečková
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  The Italian Claudia Coslovich took twelfth place in the final

Web links

• SportsReference Javelin , accessed April 16, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 16, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 16, 2018

Video

• Sydney 2000 , Trine Hattestad's victory throw, range 1:10 min - 1:15 min, published on August 7, 2007 on youtube.com, accessed on April 16, 2018
• Sydney 2000 | Javelin Throw Women | Mirella Maniani , published August 30, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed April 16, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 , accessed on April 16, 2018