2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Discus Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	34 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase	August 15, 2016 (qualification) August 16, 2016 (final)
Medalists Sandra Perković ( CRO )   Mélina Robert-Michon ( FRA )   Denia Caballero ( CUB )

The women's discus throw at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was played on August 15 and 16, 2016 in the Estádio Nilton Santos . 34 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Croatian Sandra Perković . The French Mélina Robert-Michon won silver ahead of the Cuban Denia Caballero .

All three German participants reached the final. Nadine Müller was sixth, Julia Fischer ninth and Shanice Craft eleventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Sandra Perković ( Croatia )	69.11 m	London 2012
world champion	Denia Caballero ( Cuba )	69.28 m	Beijing 2015
European champion	Sandra Perković ( Croatia )	69.97 m	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion	Summer Pierson ( USA )	56.64 m	San José 2015
South America Champion	Andressa de Morais ( Brazil )	61.15 m	Lima 2015
Asian champion	Su Xinyue ( People's Republic of China )	63.90 m	Wuhan 2015
African champion	Nwanneka Okwelogu ( Nigeria )	56.75 m	Durban 2016
Oceania champion	Siositina Hakeai ( New Zealand )	56.06 m	Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record	Gabriele Reinsch ( GDR )	76.80 m	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1988
Olympic record	Martina Hellmann ( GDR )	72.30 m	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988

Remarks:

• All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct participation in the finals was 62.00 m. Since only eight throwers exceeded this distance - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to a total of twelve participants - highlighted in light green. So finally 60.23 m had to be thrown to reach the final.

Group A

The Greek Hrisoula Anagnostopoulou was eliminated with 54.84 m in the qualification

August 15, 2016, 8.30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Sandra Perković	Croatia	x	x	64.81	64.81
2	Dani Samuels	Australia	x	59.42	64.46	64.46
3	Denia Caballero	Cuba	x	x	62.94	62.94
4th	Feng Bin	People's Republic of China	55.97	62.01	-	62.01
5	Chen Yang	People's Republic of China	x	x	61.44	61.44
6th	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania	x	x	60.79	60.79
7th	Shanice Craft	Germany	60.23	x	x	60.23
8th	Pauline Pousse	France	x	x	58.98	58.98
9	Chinwe Okoro	Nigeria	57.34	58.85	58.53	58.85
10	Żaneta Glanc	Poland	55.27	56.09	57.88	57.88
11	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia	55.87	57.67	x	57.67
12	Shadae Lawrence	Jamaica	57.09	x	x	57.09
13	Hrisoula Anagnostopoulou	Greece	x	54.84	53.19	54.84
14th	Natalia Stratulate	Moldova	x	53.27	48.80	53.27
15th	Fernanda Martins	Brazil	50.19	51.85	x	51.85
16	Maria Telushkina	Kazakhstan	x	43.70	45.33	45.33
ogV	Whitney Ashley	United States	x	x	x	-	without space

Group B

August 15, 2016, 10:20 p.m.

The Thai Subenrat Insaeng achieved 56.64 m in qualification and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Yaimé Perez	Cuba	65.38	-	-	65.38
2	Su Xinyue	People's Republic of China	65.14	-	-	65.14
3	Nadine Müller	Germany	63.67	-	-	63.67
4th	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	62.59	-	-	62.59
5	Julia Fischer	Germany	61.38	x	60.69	61.38
6th	Natalia Semenova	Ukraine	x	58.85	x	58.85
7th	Tarasue Barnett	Jamaica	x	54.36	58.09	58.09
8th	Karen Gallardo	Chile	57.81	55.98	55.20	57.81
9	Seema Antil	India	57.58	x	56.78	57.58
10	Andressa de Morais	Brazil	57.38	x	x	57.38
11	Sabina Asenjo	Spain	56.94	56.22	x	56.94
12	Subenrat Insaeng	Thailand	56.64	x	54.74	56.64
13	Kelsey Card	United States	x	51.16	56.41	56.41
14th	Rocío Comba	Argentina	x	54.44	x	54.44
15th	Jade Lally	Great Britain	51.60	53.99	54.06	54.06
16	Shelbi Vaughan	United States	x	53.33	46.71	53.33
ogV	Kellion Knibb	Jamaica	x	x	x	-	without space

final

August 16, 2016, 11:20 am
In the final, each participant initially had three attempts, the length of the qualifying round was not counted. The best eight athletes then had three more attempts, the last four were eliminated.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eight of them by qualifying distance and another four by their placements. Three Germans and three Chinese each qualified. There were also two Cubans and one participant each from Australia, France, Croatia and Lithuania.

The 2012 Olympic champion , 2013 world champion and 2015 vice world champion Sandra Perković from Croatia and 2015 world champion Denia Caballero from Cuba were considered favorites. Other medal contenders, the three German Nadine Müller belonged WM -Third of 2015, Julia Fischer, Vice European Champion in 2016 and World Cup -Fünfte of 2015, and Shanice Craft, EM -Third of 2014 and 2016. Another candidate was the French vice-European champion of 2014 Mélina Robert-Michon.

In the first round Robert-Michon took the lead with 65.52 m, followed by the Chinese Su Xinyue - 63.88 m - and the Australian Dany Samuels - 63.57 m. As in qualification, Perković started with two failed attempts. In the third round she threw the discus to 69.21 m and took the top position. In the same lap, Caballero had advanced to third place with 65.34 m. Mélina Robert-Michon improved in the fifth attempt to 66.73 m, with which she set a new French national record, but remained on the silver rank. Dani Samuels scored 64.90 m in the last round and was fourth. Gold went to the favorite Sandra Perković, Bronze went to Denia Caballero. The Chinese Su Xinyue came in fifth ahead of Nadine Müller.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)	annotation
1	Sandra Perković	Croatia	x	x	69.21	x	x	x	69.21
2	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	65.52	64.83	65.08	x	66.73	x	66.73	NO
3	Denia Caballero	Cuba	61.80	x	65.34	63.82	x	64.64	65.34
4th	Dani Samuels	Australia	63.57	x	61.21	61.95	62.87	64.90	64.90
5	Su Xinyue	People's Republic of China	63.88	61.02	64.37	62.20	63.87	x	64.37
6th	Nadine Müller	Germany	63.13	x	x	x	x	x	63.13
7th	Chen Yang	People's Republic of China	63.11	x	60.47	59.19	x	x	63.11
8th	Feng Bin	People's Republic of China	62.26	60.27	63.06	61.14	x	61.85	63.06
9	Julia Fischer	Germany	60.69	x	62.67	not in the final of the eight best throwers			62.67
10	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania	58.25	59.95	61.89				61.89
11	Shanice Craft	Germany	x	58.39	59.85				59.85
ogV	Yaimé Perez	Cuba	x	x	x				-	without space

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  Olympic champion
  Sandra Perković, Croatia

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  Silver medalist
  Mélina Robert-Michon from France

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  The Australian Dani Samuels came fourth in the final

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  The German Nadine Müller was sixth in the Olympics

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  The Chinese Chen Yang came in seventh

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  The Olympic contestant Julia Fischer from Germany

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  The Latvian Zinaida Sendriūtė reached tenth place

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  The German Shanice Craft came in eleventh place

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  The Cuban Yaimé Pérez only had poor attempts in the final

Web links

• Results Book Rio 2016, Official Report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 17, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF Discus Throw Women (English), accessed on October 17, 2018
• Sports-Reference, Result of Discus Throw Women (English), accessed on October 17, 2018

Video

• Rio Replay: Discus Final on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 17, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 801 , accessed on October 17, 2018