2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Javelin throw |
gender | Women |
place | Beijing National Stadium |
Attendees | 54 athletes from 40 countries |
Competition phase | 19./21. August 2008 |
Medalist | |
gold | Barbora Špotáková ( CZE ) |
silver | Christina Obergföll ( GER ) |
bronze | Goldie Sayers ( GBR ) |
The javelin throw at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was played on August 19 and 21, 2008. 54 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Barbora Špotáková from the Czech Republic. The German Christina Obergföll won the silver medal, bronze went to the British Goldie Sayers .
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion 2004 | Osleidys Menéndez ( Cuba ) | 71.53 m | Athens 2004 |
World Champion 2007 | Barbora Špotáková ( Czech Republic ) | 67.07 m | Osaka 2007 |
European Champion 2006 | Steffi Nerius ( Germany ) | 65.82 m | Gothenburg 2006 |
Pan American Champion 2007 | Osleidys Menéndez ( Cuba ) | 62.34 m | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
2008 Central American and Caribbean Champion | Laverne Eve ( Bahamas ) | 56.36 m | Cali 2008 |
South American Champion 2007 | Alessandra Resende ( Brazil ) | 57.75 m | São Paulo 2007 |
Asian Champion 2007 | Buoban Pamang ( Thailand ) | 58.35 m | Amman 2007 |
Africa Champion 2008 | Sunette Viljoen ( South Africa ) | 55.17 m | Addis Ababa 2008 |
Oceania Champion 2008 | Milika Tuivanuavou ( Fiji ) | 39.36 m | Saipan 2008 |
Existing records
World record | 71.70 m | Osleidys Menéndez ( Cuba ) | Helsinki , Finland | August 14, 2005 |
Olympic record | 71.53 m | Athens Final , Greece | August 25, 2004 |
doping
Like all pushing and throwing disciplines for women at these games, the javelin throw also had its doping case . The Russian Marija Abakumowa - initially second - was proven to have taken Turinabol during follow-up checks on her doping test . The IOC then decided in September 2016 to withdraw her silver medal. The athletes placed after her in the final each moved up one place in the official ranking.
Numerous athletes were affected by this fraud. The South African Justine Robbeson, who was thirteenth in the qualification, would have been eligible for the final after the pronounced disqualification. Of course, more than eight years after the competition was held, that was no longer possible. The British Goldie Sayers, who came up as a medalist, was also disadvantaged because she had to assume for a long time that she had assumed no medals. Finally, the Spaniard Mercedes Chilla, who initially came ninth in the final, would have allowed three more attempts at the final, which might have brought her further forward.
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 61.50 m. Since only eight 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). Finally, 60.13 m had to be achieved to take part. However, since the doping offender mentioned above also exceeded the qualification distance, eleven throwers were ultimately included in the ranking of the final.
Group A
August 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Barbora Špotáková | Czech Republic | 67.69 m | - | - | 67.69 m | |
2 | Steffi Nerius | Germany | 59.15 m | 59.74 m | 63.94 m | 63.94 m | |
3 | Mercedes Chilla | Spain | 56.98 m | 61.81 m | - | 61.81 m | |
4th | Zhang Li | People's Republic of China | 58.30 m | 61.77 m | - | 61.77 m | |
5 | Osleidys Menéndez | Cuba | 60.51 m | x | 60.41 m | 60.51 m | |
6th | Sinta Ozoliņa | Latvia | 60.13 m | x | 58.62 m | 60.13 m | NO |
7th | Urszula Piwnicka | Poland | 51.33 m | 52.99 m | 59.28 m | 59.28 m | |
8th | Savva Lika | Greece | 56.44 m | 58.59 m | 59.11 m | 59.11 m | |
9 | Wera Rebrik | Ukraine | 55.77 m | 57.12 m | 59.05 m | 59.05 m | |
10 | Chang Chunfeng | People's Republic of China | 58.42 m | x | x | 58.42 m | |
11 | Nikolett Szabó | Hungary | 56.98 m | 57.15 m | x | 57.15 m | |
12 | Natallia Shymchuk | Belarus | 55.56 m | 57.11 m | x | 57.11 m | |
13 | Sílvia Cruz | Portugal | 54.65 m | 57.06 m | x | 57.06 m | |
14th | Alessandra Resende | Brazil | 54.05 m | 56.53 m | 54.32 m | 56.53 m | |
15th | Inga Stasiulionytė | Lithuania | 55.66 m | x | 55.34 m | 55.66 m | |
16 | Sunette Viljoen | South Africa | 53.14 m | 55.58 m | 53.82 m | 55.58 m | |
17th | Anastasiya Svechnikova | Uzbekistan | 55.31 m | x | 48.71 m | 55.31 m | |
18th | Martina Ratej | Slovenia | 55.30 m | 51.56 m | 53.24 m | 55.30 m | |
19th | Zuleima Araméndiz | Colombia | 51.30 m | 54.71 m | x | 54.71 m | |
20th | Monica Stoian | Romania | x | 54.56 m | x | 54.56 m | |
21st | Kara Patterson | United States | 54.30 m | 50.35 m | 54.39 m | 54.39 m | |
22nd | Nadeeka Lakmali | Sri Lanka | x | 53.48 m | 54.28 m | 54.28 m | |
23 | Christina Scherwin | Denmark | 53.95 m | x | x | 53.95 m | |
24 | Kim Kyung-ae | South Korea | 51.46 m | 48.00 m | 53.13 m | 53.13 m | |
25th | María González | Venezuela | 48.37 m | 50.51 m | 42.32 m | 50.51 m | |
ogV | Zahra Bani | Italy | x | x | x | without space | |
DOP | Maria Abakumova | Russia | in the final, later disqualified |
Group B
August 19, 2008, 10:40 am
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Christina Obergföll | Germany | 67.52 m | - | - | 67.52 m | |
2 | Goldie Sayers | Great Britain | 60.79 m | 62.99 m | - | 62.99 m | |
3 | Barbara Madejczyk | Poland | 62.81 m | - | - | 62.81 m | |
4th | Katharina Molitor | Germany | 55.65 m | 53.50 m | 60.92 m | 60.92 m | |
5 | Felicia Țilea-Moldovan | Romania | 53.25 m | 55.89 m | 60.81 m | 60.81 m | |
6th | Justine Robbeson | South Africa | 56.75 m | 54.26 m | 59.63 m | 59.63 m | |
7th | Mikaela Ingberg | Finland | 55.71 m | 58.82 m | 58.36 m | 58.82 m | |
8th | Yanet Cruz | Cuba | 58.06 m | 57.15 m | 57.03 m | 58.06 m | |
9 | Laverne Eve | Bahamas | 55.22 m | 57.36 m | 55.15 m | 57.36 m | |
10 | Jarmila Klimešová | Czech Republic | 52.18 m | 57.25 m | x | 57.25 m | |
11 | Olha Ivankova | Ukraine | 55.63 m | 51.98 m | 57.05 m | 57.05 m | |
12 | Moonika Aava | Estonia | x | 56.94 m | x | 56.94 m | |
13 | Buoban Pamang | Thailand | 53.69 m | x | 56.35 m | 56.35 m | |
14th | Lindy Leveau-Agricole | Seychelles | 56.32 m | 55.90 m | 50.74 m | 56.32 m | |
15th | Erma-Gene Evans | St. Lucia | 46.79 m | 54.60 m | 56.27 m | 56.27 m | |
16 | Maryna Nowik | Belarus | 56.10 m | x | 53.48 m | 56.10 m | |
17th | Olivia McKoy | Jamaica | 55.51 m | x | 55.51 m | 55.51 m | |
18th | Tetjana Lyachowytsch | Ukraine | 55.50 m | x | 53.59 m | 55.50 m | |
19th | Kim Kreiner | United States | 55.13 m | 53.81 m | 53.48 m | 55.13 m | |
20th | Song Dan | People's Republic of China | 53.11 m | 54.32 m | x | 54.32 m | |
21st | Alexandra Tsisiou | Cyprus | 53.24 m | x | 47.18 m | 53.24 m | |
22nd | Mariya Yakovenko | Russia | 47.90 m | 51.67 m | 50.49 m | 51.67 m | |
23 | Serafina Akeli | Samoa | 47.83 m | 42.78 m | 49.26 m | 49.26 m | |
24 | Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir | Iceland | x | x | 48.59 m | 48.59 m | |
25th | Leryn Franco | Paraguay | 45.34 m | x | 43.77 m | 45.34 m | |
26th | Rumiana Karapetrova | Bulgaria | 40.15 m | x | x | 40.15 m | |
ogV | Tatyana Elaka | Serbia | x | x | x | without space |
final
August 21, 2008, 7:20 pm
Eleven athletes had qualified for the final, seven of them by qualifying distance and another four by their placements. Three Germans and one participant each from China, Great Britain, Cuba, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Spain and the Czech Republic were represented. There was also the Russian Marija Abakumova, whose result was canceled in 2016 for doping abuse . Their performance is not taken into account in the following description of the final sequence.
There were four athletes who had stood out at the major championships in recent years and who were also the main favorites here in Beijing . These were the 2004 Olympic champion and 2005 world champion Osleidys Menéndez from Cuba, who also held the world record , the Czech Barbora Špotáková as world champion from 2007 and vice European champion from 2006 and the two German Steffi Nerius as Olympic runner-up from 2004 / European champion from 2006 / World Cup - third from 2005/2007 and Christina Obergföll as vice world champion from 2005/2007 / EM - fourth from 2006.
In the final, Špotáková achieved an excellent 69.22 m in her first attempt, which she clearly led. Obergföll was second with 66.13 m in front of the British Goldie Sayers - 65.75 m, Nerius - 64.05 m - and Menéndez - 63.35 m. The women's javelin was thus at a good level from the start, and Sayers had even set a British national record. There were no changes until the last round, although Špotáková again managed a very long throw with 67.04 m. Also in the sixth lap there were no more position shifts. But two athletes improved their widths again. Nerius threw the spear at 65.29 m and front runner Špotáková put the crown on this competition with 71.42 m. With that she achieved a new European record and missed Menéndez's world record by only 28 centimeters.
Barbora Špotáková was Olympic champion, Christina Obergföll won silver and thus the only medal for the German athletics team at these games. Goldie Sayers was awarded bronze for her national record. Fourth place went to Steffi Nerius in front of the not so strong Osleidys Menéndez. The Polish Barbara Madejczyk came in sixth, the third German thrower Katharina Molitor came in seventh ahead of the Spanish Mercedes Chilla.
Barbora Špotáková won the first gold medal for the Czech Republic in the women's javelin. Dana Zátopková that in 1952 in Helsinki gold and 1960 in Rome had won bronze, was launched even for Czechoslovakia.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Barbora Špotáková | Czech Republic | 69.62 m | 67.04 m | x | 64.92 m | x | 71.42 m | 71.42 m | HE |
2 | Christina Obergföll | Germany | 66.13 m | x | 63.34 m | x | x | x | 66.13 m | |
3 | Goldie Sayers | Great Britain | 65.75 m | 59.40 m | 62.92 m | 59.72 m | 65.03 m | 56.83 m | 65.75 m | NO |
4th | Steffi Nerius | Germany | 64.05 m | 62.25 m | 59.97 m | x | x | 65.29 m | 65.29 m | |
5 | Osleidys Menéndez | Cuba | 63.35 m | x | x | x | x | x | 63.35 m | |
6th | Barbara Madejczyk | Poland | 58.74 m | 59.16 m | 58.67 m | x | 58.21 m | 62.02 m | 62.02 m | |
7th | Katharina Molitor | Germany | 53.19 m | 57.37 m | 59.64 m | 58.81 m | 56.72 m | 57.00 m | 59.64 m | |
8th | Mercedes Chilla | Spain | x | 57.94 m | 58.13 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
58.13 m | actually qualified for the final of the top 8 | ||
9 | Zhang Li | People's Republic of China | 54.69 m | x | 56.14 m | 56.14 m | ||||
10 | Sinta Ozoliņa | Latvia | 50.67 m | 53.38 m | 52.23 m | 53.38 m | ||||
11 | Felicia Țilea-Moldovan | Romania | 53.04 m | x | 52.80 m | 53.04 m | ||||
DOP | Maria Abakumova | Russia | disqualified after eight years |
The German Steffi Nerius - here after her world championship title in 2009 - becomes Olympic champion
Web links
- SportsReference Javelin Women , accessed July 7, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed July 7, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on July 7, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Women's Javelin - Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 22, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed July 7, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on July 7, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on July 7, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed July 7, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on July 7, 2018
- ↑ IAAF World Records, Javelin Throw Women , accessed on July 7, 2018
- ↑ a b c d Obergföll receives silver , Spiegel Online. September 13, 2016. Accessed July 7, 2018.