2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	42 athletes from 25 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 20, 2004 (qualification) August 21, 2004 (final)
Medalists Natalja Sadowa ( RUS )   Anastasia Kelesidou ( GRE )   Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová ( CZE )

The women's discus throw at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 20 and 21, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 42 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Natalja Sadowa from Russia. She won ahead of the Greek Anastasia Kelesidou and the Czech Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová .

There was a doping case with the Belarusian Iryna Jatchanka . She was stripped of the bronze medal she had initially won in 2012 for doping abuse .

With Franka Dietzsch , a German participant started. You dropped out in the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 2000	Elina Swerawa ( Belarus )	68.40 m	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Iryna Jatchanka ( Belarus )	67.32 m	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Ekaterini Vongoli ( Greece )	64.31 m	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Aretha Hill ( USA )	63.30 m	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003	Yania Ferrales ( Cuba )	59.07 m	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Elisângela Adriano ( Brazil )	58.37 m	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian Champion 2003	Li Yanfeng ( People's Republic of China )	61.87 m	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Elizna Naudé ( South Africa )	57.50 m	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Melehifo Uhi ( Tonga )	51.01 m	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.50 m. Since only seven athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). Ultimately, 61.35 m had to be achieved to take part.

Group A

August 20, 2004, 9:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Věra Pospíšilová	Czech Republic	64.48	-	-	64.48
2	Natalia Sadova	Russia	64.33	-	-	64.33
3	Beatrice Faumuina	New Zealand	64.07	-	-	64.07
4th	Ekaterini Vongoli	Greece	63.39	-	-	63.39
5	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	59.87	60.89	61.91	61.91
6th	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland	61.48	56.11	58.43	61.48
7th	Harwant Kaur	India	60.82	59.82	59.95	60.82	actually qualified for the final
8th	Elina Swerava	Belarus	60.35	x	60.63	60.63
9	Philippa Roles	Great Britain	57.30	58.83	x	58.83
10	Olga Chernyavskaya	Russia	58.64	58.19	58.55	58.64
11	Stephanie Brown	United States	x	58.54	x	58.54
12	Natalia Fokina	Ukraine	58.28	56.84	55.64	58.28
13	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil	x	58.13	x	58.13
14th	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	x	57.57	58.12	58.12
15th	Vera Begic	Croatia	x	54.80	57.31	57.31
16	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	56.70	x	56.53	56.70
17th	Huang Qun	People's Republic of China	56.53	x	55.06	56.53
18th	Anna Söderberg	Sweden	55.49	54.04	51.24	55.49
19th	Éva Kürti	Hungary	52.52	50.85	x	52.52
20th	Tereapii tapoki	Cook Islands	47.59	48.12	x	48.12
21st	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	43.25	x	x	43.25

Group B

August 20, 2004, 11:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	62.15	64.20	-	64.20
2	Anastasia Kelesidou	Greece	64.13	-	-	64.13
3	Styliani Tsikouna	Greece	61.72	60.17	60.67	61.72
4th	Yania Ferrales	Cuba	x	56.46	61.54	61.54
5	Li Yanfeng	People's Republic of China	61.19	61.35	61.24	61.35
6th	Seema Antil	India	59.93	60.64	58.41	60.64
7th	Wioletta Potępa	Poland	60.50	x	57.99	60.50
8th	Neelam Jaswant Singh	India	60.26	57.25	60.10	60.26
9	Aretha Hill	United States	52.93	58.82	x	58.82
10	Elizna Naudé	South Africa	58.74	58.26	58.32	58.74
11	Teresa Machado	Portugal	58.47	57.00	57.65	58.47
12	Song Aimin	People's Republic of China	58.19	58.03	x	58.19
13	Dace Ruskule	Latvia	54.49	57.43	x	57.43
14th	Oksana Jesipchuk	Russia	x	57.27	57.18	57.27
15th	Shelley Newman	Great Britain	x	54.04	56.04	56.04
16	Vladimíra Racková	Czech Republic	55.82	x	55.36	55.82
17th	Alice Matějková	Spain	54.15	x	55.37	55.37
18th	Eha Rünne	Estonia	54.28	x	54.82	54.82
19th	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia and Montenegro	51.71	x	54.44	54.44
ogV	Seilala Sua	United States	x	x	x		without space
DOP	Iryna Yatchanka	Belarus	62.15	63.04	-	63.04	Disqualification later, therefore initially in the final

final

August 21, 2004, 9:10 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, seven of them by qualifying distance, another five by their placements. All three Greek women and one participant each from China, Cuba, New Zealand, Russia, Poland, Romania, Belarus, the Czech Republic and the Ukraine were represented. In the end, however, only eleven female throwers came into the rankings, because Belarusian Iryna Jattschanka was stripped of the bronze medal in 2012 for doping abuse .

With her doping fraud, Jatchanka had also caused a disadvantage for two participants that could no longer be made good. Harwant Kaur from India, with her 60.82 m, would initially have been thirteenth in the qualification at the final. In addition, the Chinese Li Yanfeng would have allowed three more attempts in the final, which she was denied in her ninth place.

There was a larger group of favorites for this competition. First of all, there was the reigning world champion Iryna Jattschanka, whose result, as stated above, was canceled eight years after the competition. With Anastasia Kelesidou and Ekaterini Vongoli, two Greek women started with good prospects. Kelesidou was the Vice World Champion in 2003, World Championship -Third 2001 and EM -Third 2002 . Vongoli started as the reigning European champion and third in the 2003 World Cup . The Belarusian Olympic champion from 2000 and world champion from 2001 Elina Swerava belonged to this group as well as the Russian vice European champion and World Cup sixth from 2003 Natalja Sadova, the Czech World Cup fifth from 2003 and EURO fourth Vera Pospíšilová as well as the Ukrainian World Cup fourth from 2003 Olena Antonova.

In the final, Sadowa took the lead after the first round with a throw of 64.78 m, which was not yet particularly convincing. Pospíšilová followed with 63.02 m before Kelesidou - 62.77 m - and the Romanian Nicoleta Grasu - 62.01 m. None of these were revelations. On lap two Pospíšilová reached 66.08 m, which brought her the lead. Sadowa improved by three centimeters and remained second in front of Antonova, who rose to 64.11 m. The competition slowly got a little higher and, above all, it was exciting. To the delight of the local audience, Kelesidou achieved 66.68 m with her third throw, which she now took over the top. Besides her, only Grasu could improve. With her 63.48 m she was fifth. There were a total of seven invalid attempts in the third round. Sadowa's improvement to 65.33 m did not bring her any increase in rank, she remained third. But it didn't stop there, because the Russian's fifth litter landed at 67.02 m. With that she led the field. In the last round there were two improvements by Antonowa and Grasu, but they could no longer intervene in the medal fight.

The Olympic champion was Natalja Sadowa ahead of the local Anastasia Kelesidou. Věra Pospíšilová won the bronze medal ahead of Olena Antonowa. Fifth place went to Nicoleta Grasu, Beatrice Faumuina was sixth ahead of the Greek Ekaterini Vongoli and the Chinese Li Yanfeng.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Natalia Sadova	Russia	64.78	64.81	x	65.33	67.02	66.68	67.02
2	Anastasia Kelesidou	Greece	62.77	x	66.68	63.71	66.09	61.59	66.68
3	Věra Pospíšilová	Czech Republic	63.02	66.08	x	62.81	63.21	64.84	66.08
4th	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	59.88	64.11	x	63.61	60.37	65.75	65.75
5	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	62.01	62.21	63.48	61.58	61.93	64.92	64.92
6th	Beatrice Faumuina	New Zealand	x	62.45	x	63.45	62.99	x	63.45
7th	Ekaterini Vongoli	Greece	60.66	61.44	x	62.37	62.32	61.84	62.37
8th	Li Yanfeng	People's Republic of China	60.67	57.36	61.05	not in the final of the eight best throwers			61.05
9	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland	58.33	60.74	59.95				60.74
10	Styliani Tsikouna	Greece	59.48	57.76	x				59.48
ogV	Yania Ferrales	Cuba	x	x	x					without space
DOP	Iryna Yatchanka	Belarus	59.98	61.67	66.17	65.46	63.08	65.54	66.17	Withdrawal of the bronze medal in 2012

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  Bronze medalist Věra Pospíšilová from the Czech Republic, who only got her precious metal in 2012

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  In her fourth Olympic participation since 1992 , the Romanian Nicoleta Grasu came in fifth

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  The Chinese Li Yanfeng was eighth of the Olympic Games

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  The Polish Joanna Wiśniewska finished ninth in the discus throw final

Web links

• SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed May 16, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed on May 16, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 16, 2018

Video

• Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Anastasia Kelesidou - Women's discus throw , published July 17, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on May 16, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} IOC Media Relations Team: IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples ( English ) International Olympic Committee. December 5, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
2. ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 16, 2018
3. ^ South American Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 16, 2018
4. ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 16, 2018
5. ↑ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 16, 2018
6. ^ IAAF World Records, Discus Throw Women , accessed on April 15, 2018