Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

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Olympic rings
London 2012 Women's Discus Throw Victory Ceremony.jpg
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)
Medalists
gold medal Sandra Perković ( CRO ) CroatiaCroatia 
Silver medal Li Yanfeng ( CHN ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China 
Bronze medal Yarelys Barrios ( CUB ) CubaCuba 

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 ) United StatesUnited States  64.74 m Beijing 2008
world champion Li Yanfeng ( People's Republic of China ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  66.52 m Daegu 2011
European champion Sandra Perković ( Croatia ) CroatiaCroatia  67.62 m Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champion Denia Caballero ( Cuba ) CubaCuba  62.06 m Mayagüez 2011
South America Champion Andressa de Morais ( Brazil ) BrazilBrazil  57.54 m Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion Sun Taifeng ( People's Republic of China ) China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  60.89 m Kobe 2011
African champion Chinwe Okoro ( Nigeria ) NigeriaNigeria  56.60 m Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champion Alexaraee Toeaina ( American Samoa ) Samoa AmericanAmerican Samoa  48.99 m Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record Gabriele Reinsch ( GDR ) Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR  76.80 m Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany ) July 9, 1988
Olympic record Martina Hellmann ( GDR ) Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR  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
1 Yarelys Barrios CubaCuba Cuba x 65.94 - 65.94
2 Li Yanfeng China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 59.69 64.48 - 64.48
3 Dani Samuels AustraliaAustralia Australia 60.02 x 63.97 63.97
4th Krishna Poonia IndiaIndia India x 63.54 - 63.54
5 Ma Xuejun China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 62.66 60.49 62.18 62.66
6th Mélina Robert-Michon FranceFrance France x 62.47 59.72 62.47
7th Natalia Fokina-Semenova UkraineUkraine Ukraine 58.37 60.61 60.36 60.61
8th Julia Fischer GermanyGermany Germany x 58.82 60.23 60.23
9 Li Wen-hua Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chinese Taipei 58.22 59.91 58.99 59.91
10 Vera Karmishina-Ganejewa RussiaRussia Russia 59.90 49.53 x 59.90
11 Żaneta Glanc PolandPoland Poland 56.40 59.88 56.77 59.88
12 Aretha Thurmond United StatesUnited States United States 58.38 59.39 57.81 59.39
13 Rocío Comba ArgentinaArgentina Argentina 55.22 55.81 58.98 58.98
14th Allison Randall JamaicaJamaica Jamaica 57.16 58.06 x 58.06
15th Yaimé Perez CubaCuba Cuba 57.46 x 57.87 57.87
16 Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 55.00 x x 55.00
DOP Darja Pishchalnikova RussiaRussia Russia 65.02 - - 65.02 admitted to the finals

Group B

August 3, 2012, 8:35 pm

space Surname nation 1st attempt Second attempt 3. Attempt Expanse annotation
1 Nadine Müller GermanyGermany Germany 65.89 - - 65.89
2 Sandra Perković CroatiaCroatia Croatia 65.74 - - 65.74
3 Stephanie Brown Trafton United StatesUnited States United States x 61.09 64.89 64.89
4th Anna Rüh GermanyGermany Germany 62.98 x 59.71 62.98
5 Zinaida Sendriūtė LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 61.71 x 62.79 62.79
6th Seema Antil IndiaIndia India x 61.10 61.99 61.99 actually qualified for the final
7th Nicoleta Grasu RomaniaRomania Romania 61.86 59.59 x 61.86
8th Gia Lewis-Smallwood United StatesUnited States United States x 61.44 61.25 61.44
9 Andressa de Morais BrazilBrazil Brazil x x 60.94 60.94
10 Svetlana Saikina RussiaRussia Russia 59.76 60.67 x 60.67
11 Dragana Tomašević SerbiaSerbia Serbia 59.32 60.53 57.68 60.53
12 Karen Gallardo ChileChile Chile 58.82 60.09 x 60.09
13 Denia Caballero CubaCuba Cuba 57.47 x 58.78 58.78
14th Kateryna Karsak UkraineUkraine Ukraine x x 58.64 58.64
15th Monique Jansen NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 55.65 57.50 56.04 57.50
16 Irina Rodrigues PortugalPortugal Portugal 57.23 x 55.58 57.23
17th Svetlana Siarova BelarusBelarus Belarus 56.70 55.99 x 56.70
ogV Tan Jian China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China x x x - without space

  • The German Julia Fischer scored 60.23 m and was eliminated from the qualification

  • The width of 59.39 m was not enough for the American Aretha Thurmond to participate in the final

  • The Cuban Yaimé Pérez was eliminated with 57.87 m in the qualification

  • The Czech Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová failed with her 55.00 m already in the qualification

  • Gia Lewis-Smallwood from the United States did not reach the final with 61.44 m

final


Award ceremony in the discus throw: on the left the doped and later disqualified Pishchalnikova, in the middle Perković, on the right Li

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
1 Sandra Perković CroatiaCroatia Croatia 64.58 68.11 69.11 x 66.96 64.03 69.11 NO
2 Li Yanfeng China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China x 67.22 x x 63.64 x 67.22
3 Yarelys Barrios CubaCuba Cuba 63.97 66.38 64.84 64.06 x 65.21 66.38
4th Nadine Müller GermanyGermany Germany 65.71 65.06 x 64.16 64.35 65.94 65.94
5 Mélina Robert-Michon FranceFrance France 62.23 61.70 62.41 62.66 63.62 63.98 63.98
6th Krishna Poonia IndiaIndia India 62.42 x 61.61 x 63.62 61.31 63.62
7th Stephanie Brown Trafton United StatesUnited States United States 63.01 x 59.30 x x 61.89 63.01
8th Zinaida Sendriūtė LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania 61.68 x x not in the final of the
eight best throwers		 61.68 actually entitled to 3 more hits
9 Anna Rüh GermanyGermany Germany 59.95 x 61.36 61.36
10 Ma Xuejun China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 61.02 x 60.72 61.02
11 Dani Samuels AustraliaAustralia Australia 60.40 59.86 57.87 60.40
DOP Darja Pishchalnikova RussiaRussia Russia

  • Olympic champion:
    Sandra Perković from Croatia

  • Silver medal:
    Li Yanfeng, China

  • Bronze medal:
    Yarelys Barrios from Cuba

  • The German Nadine Müller was Olympic champion

  • The French Mélina Robert-Michon came in fifth place

  • The Indian Krishna Poonia - here after her victory at the Commonwealth Games in 2010 - finished sixth

  • The US American Stephanie Brown Trafton finished seventh in the final

  • The Olympic eighth Zinaida Sendriūtė from Lithuania

  • The Australian Dani Samuels took eleventh place

  • Doping sinner Darja Pishchalnikova from Russia

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 801 , accessed on September 25, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Article in Deutschlandfunk of August 4, 2016 , accessed on September 25, 2018