Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 36 athletes from 23 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium London | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 3, 2012 (qualification) August 4, 2012 (final) |
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The women's discus throw at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was played on August 3rd and 4th, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in London . 36 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Croatian Sandra Perković , who won ahead of the Chinese Li Yanfeng and the Cuban Yarelys Barrios .
For Germany took Julia Fischer , Nadine Müller and Anna Rüh part. Fischer dropped out in the qualification. Müller and Rüh reached the final. Müller was fourth, Rüh ninth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion |
Stephanie Brown Trafton ( USA )
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64.74 m | Beijing 2008 |
world champion |
Li Yanfeng ( People's Republic of China )
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66.52 m | Daegu 2011 |
European champion |
Sandra Perković ( Croatia )
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67.62 m | Helsinki 2012 |
Central America and Caribbean champion |
Denia Caballero ( Cuba )
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62.06 m | Mayagüez 2011 |
South America Champion | Andressa de Morais ( Brazil )
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57.54 m | Buenos Aires 2011 |
Asian champion | Sun Taifeng ( People's Republic of China )
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60.89 m | Kobe 2011 |
African champion |
Chinwe Okoro ( Nigeria )
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56.60 m | Porto-Novo 2012 |
Oceania champion | Alexaraee Toeaina ( American Samoa )
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48.99 m | Cairns 2012 |
Existing records
World record |
Gabriele Reinsch ( GDR )
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76.80 m | Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany ) | July 9, 1988 |
Olympic record |
Martina Hellmann ( GDR )
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72.30 m | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 29, 1988 |
Remarks:
- All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
- All widths are noted in meters (m).
doping
In December 2012, Darja Pishchalnikova, a so-called whistleblower , turned to the World Anti-Doping Agency WADA in confidence to help clarify the "state doping" in Russia. WADA then notified the Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA, which made Pishchalnikova's whistleblower action official in Russia. Follow-up tests of doping samples submitted in May 2012 showed that Pishchalnikova had taken prohibited anabolic steroids . She was stripped of her silver medal, and in 2013 she was banned for ten years as a repeat offender. The following athletes moved up one place in the ranking.
This affected not only the athletes, who were not awarded their medals until a year after the competition, but also two other athletes.
- The Indian Seema Antil would have been eligible to participate with her 61.99 m from qualifying in the final.
- The Lithuanian Zinaida Sendriūtė would have allowed three more attempts in eighth place in the final.
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 63 00 m. Of the eight athletes who exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), one was subsequently convicted of doping abuse. The final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to a total of twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally a width of 62.47 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.
Group A
August 3, 2012, 7:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Yarelys Barrios |
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x | 65.94 | - | 65.94 | |
2 | Li Yanfeng |
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59.69 | 64.48 | - | 64.48 | |
3 | Dani Samuels |
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60.02 | x | 63.97 | 63.97 | |
4th | Krishna Poonia |
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x | 63.54 | - | 63.54 | |
5 | Ma Xuejun |
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62.66 | 60.49 | 62.18 | 62.66 | |
6th | Mélina Robert-Michon |
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x | 62.47 | 59.72 | 62.47 | |
7th | Natalia Fokina-Semenova |
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58.37 | 60.61 | 60.36 | 60.61 | |
8th | Julia Fischer |
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x | 58.82 | 60.23 | 60.23 | |
9 | Li Wen-hua |
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58.22 | 59.91 | 58.99 | 59.91 | |
10 | Vera Karmishina-Ganejewa |
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59.90 | 49.53 | x | 59.90 | |
11 | Żaneta Glanc |
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56.40 | 59.88 | 56.77 | 59.88 | |
12 | Aretha Thurmond |
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58.38 | 59.39 | 57.81 | 59.39 | |
13 | Rocío Comba |
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55.22 | 55.81 | 58.98 | 58.98 | |
14th | Allison Randall |
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57.16 | 58.06 | x | 58.06 | |
15th | Yaimé Perez |
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57.46 | x | 57.87 | 57.87 | |
16 | Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová |
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55.00 | x | x | 55.00 | |
DOP | Darja Pishchalnikova |
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- | - | admitted to the finals |
Group B
August 3, 2012, 8:35 pm
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Nadine Müller |
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65.89 | - | - | 65.89 | |
2 | Sandra Perković |
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65.74 | - | - | 65.74 | |
3 | Stephanie Brown Trafton |
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x | 61.09 | 64.89 | 64.89 | |
4th | Anna Rüh |
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62.98 | x | 59.71 | 62.98 | |
5 | Zinaida Sendriūtė |
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61.71 | x | 62.79 | 62.79 | |
6th | Seema Antil |
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x | 61.10 | 61.99 | 61.99 | actually qualified for the final |
7th | Nicoleta Grasu |
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61.86 | 59.59 | x | 61.86 | |
8th | Gia Lewis-Smallwood |
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x | 61.44 | 61.25 | 61.44 | |
9 | Andressa de Morais |
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x | x | 60.94 | 60.94 | |
10 | Svetlana Saikina |
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59.76 | 60.67 | x | 60.67 | |
11 | Dragana Tomašević |
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59.32 | 60.53 | 57.68 | 60.53 | |
12 | Karen Gallardo |
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58.82 | 60.09 | x | 60.09 | |
13 | Denia Caballero |
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57.47 | x | 58.78 | 58.78 | |
14th | Kateryna Karsak |
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x | x | 58.64 | 58.64 | |
15th | Monique Jansen |
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55.65 | 57.50 | 56.04 | 57.50 | |
16 | Irina Rodrigues |
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57.23 | x | 55.58 | 57.23 | |
17th | Svetlana Siarova |
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56.70 | 55.99 | x | 56.70 | |
ogV | Tan Jian |
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x | x | x | - | without space |
final
August 4, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them by qualifying distance and four more by their placements. Two Chinese and two Germans fought for the medals together with one participant each from Australia, France, India, Croatia, Cuba, Lithuania and the USA. There was also the doped Russian, whose performance will not be discussed further in the following description. In the end, only eleven throwers made it into the final ranking.
The favorite was the Croatian European champion Sandra Perković. Her strongest opponents included world champion Li Yanfeng from China and vice world champion Nadine Müller from Germany. Another co-favorite was the Russian Darja Pishchalnikova, who later found the use of prohibited substances. The US Olympic champion from 2008 Stephanie Brown Trafton had also qualified for the final, but was no longer as strong as four years ago.
Müller took the lead in the first attempt with 65.71 m, Perković was second with 64.58 m in front of the Cuban Yarelys Barrios, who had achieved 63.97 m. In the second attempt, Perković passed Müller with 68.11 m, Li with 67.22 m and Barrios with 66.38 m. Perković improved with her third throw to 69.11 m. Nadine Müller was able to improve again in the last round, but her 65.94 m was not enough for an improvement in the classification, so she came fourth behind Olympic champion Sandra Perković, silver medalist Li Yanfeng and Yarelys Barrios. The French Mélina Robert-Michon was fifth, ahead of the Indian Krishna Poonia and Stephanie Brown Trafton in seventh.
Sandra Perković won the first Olympic gold medal in athletics for Croatia.
Li Yanfeng was the first Chinese medalist in this discipline.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Sandra Perković |
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64.58 | 68.11 | 69.11 | x | 66.96 | 64.03 | 69.11 | NO |
2 | Li Yanfeng |
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x | 67.22 | x | x | 63.64 | x | 67.22 | |
3 | Yarelys Barrios |
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63.97 | 66.38 | 64.84 | 64.06 | x | 65.21 | 66.38 | |
4th | Nadine Müller |
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65.71 | 65.06 | x | 64.16 | 64.35 | 65.94 | 65.94 | |
5 | Mélina Robert-Michon |
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62.23 | 61.70 | 62.41 | 62.66 | 63.62 | 63.98 | 63.98 | |
6th | Krishna Poonia |
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62.42 | x | 61.61 | x | 63.62 | 61.31 | 63.62 | |
7th | Stephanie Brown Trafton |
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63.01 | x | 59.30 | x | x | 61.89 | 63.01 | |
8th | Zinaida Sendriūtė |
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61.68 | x | x | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
61.68 | actually entitled to 3 more hits | ||
9 | Anna Rüh |
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59.95 | x | 61.36 | 61.36 | ||||
10 | Ma Xuejun |
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61.02 | x | 60.72 | 61.02 | ||||
11 | Dani Samuels |
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60.40 | 59.86 | 57.87 | 60.40 | ||||
DOP | Darja Pishchalnikova |
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The Indian Krishna Poonia - here after her victory at the Commonwealth Games in 2010 - finished sixth
Web links
- SportsReference Discus Throw , accessed September 25, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 25, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 25, 2018
Videos
- Sandra Perkovic (CRO) Wins Women's Discus Gold - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 4, 2012, accessed September 25, 2018
- Women Discus Throw - Final - Athletics - London 2012 - Olympics on youtube.com, published July 28, 2016, accessed September 25, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 801 , accessed on September 25, 2018
- ↑ a b c Article in Deutschlandfunk of August 4, 2016 , accessed on September 25, 2018