2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Javelin Throw (Women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 31 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 16, 2016 (qualification) August 18, 2016 (final) |
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The women's javelin at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 16 and 18, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 31 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Croatian Sara Kolak . She won ahead of the South African Sunette Viljoen and the Czech Barbora Špotáková .
All three German participants reached the final. Christina Obergföll was eighth, Linda Stahl eleventh and Christin Hussong twelfth.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion |
Barbora Špotáková ( Czech Republic )
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69.55 m | London 2012 |
world champion |
Katharina Molitor ( Germany )
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67.69 m | Beijing 2015 |
European champion |
Tazzjana Chaladowitsch ( Belarus )
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66.34 m | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion |
Kara Winger ( USA )
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60.34 m | San José 2015 |
South America Champion |
Jucilene de Lima ( Brazil )
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60.16 m | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion |
Liu Shiying ( People's Republic of China )
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61.33 m | Wuhan 2015 |
African champion |
Sunette Viljoen ( South Africa )
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64.08 m | Durban 2016 |
Oceania champion | Laura Overton ( New Zealand )
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45.87 m | Cairns 2015 |
Existing records
World record |
Barbora Špotáková ( Czech Republic )
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72.28 m | Stuttgart , Germany | September 13, 2008 |
Olympic record |
Osleidys Menéndez ( Cuba )
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71.53 m | Athens Final , Greece | August 27, 2004 |
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 entry into the final was 63.00 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 61.31 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.
Group A
August 16, 2016, 8:35 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Sara Kolak |
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55.68 | 55.86 | 64.30 | 64.30 | NO |
2 | Tazzjana Chaladovich |
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63.78 | - | - | 63.78 | |
3 | Sunette Viljoen |
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63.54 | - | - | 63.54 | |
4th | Lu Huihui |
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63.28 | - | - | 63.28 | |
5 | Flor Ruíz |
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62.32 | 59.89 | 59.99 | 62.32 | |
6th | Christina Obergföll |
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57.75 | 62.18 | x | 62.18 | |
7th | Christin Hussong |
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56.19 | 55.58 | 62.17 | 62.17 | |
8th | Sinta Ozoliņa |
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60.92 | 58.08 | x | 60.92 | |
9 | Elizabeth Gleadle |
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59.18 | 60.28 | 58.74 | 60.28 | |
10 | Martina Ratej |
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59.76 | 58.15 | x | 59.76 | |
11 | Hanna Hazko-Fedusova |
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58.90 | x | 58.38 | 58.90 | |
12 | Kimberley Mickle |
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57.20 | x | 55.93 | 57.20 | |
13 | Liu Shiying |
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57.16 | 55.60 | x | 57.16 | |
14th | Maggie Malone |
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56.57 | x | 46.87 | 56.47 | |
15th | Brittany Borman |
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54.15 | 56.04 | 52.73 | 56.04 | |
16 | Yulenmis Aguilar |
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54.84 | x | 54.94 | 54.94 |
Group B
August 16, 2016, 9:50 pm
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Maria Andrejczyk |
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67.11 | - | - | 67.11 | NO |
2 | Barbora Špotáková |
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62.50 | 64.65 | - | 64.64 | |
3 | Linda Stahl |
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63.95 | - | - | 63.95 | |
4th | Madara Palameika |
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63.03 | - | - | 63.03 | |
5 | Kathryn Mitchell |
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x | 60.05 | 61.31 | 61.31 | |
6th | Kara Winger |
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61.02 | 57.34 | 60.54 | 61.02 | |
7th | Li Lingwei |
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60.91 | 59.30 | 57.87 | 60.91 | |
8th | Kateryna Derun |
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60.02 | 54.86 | x | 60.02 | |
9 | Liina Laasma |
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58.06 | 56.21 | 56.62 | 58.06 | |
10 | Yuki Ebihara |
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53.75 | 55.89 | 57.68 | 57.68 | |
11 | Mathilde Andraud |
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56.61 | 56.01 | 56.13 | 56.61 | |
12 | Tazzjana Korsch |
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49.41 | 53.54 | 56.16 | 56.16 | |
13 | Kelsey-Lee Roberts |
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44.75 | 55.04 | 55.25 | 55.25 | |
14th | Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir |
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x | 54.92 | x | 54.92 | |
15th | Sanni Utriainen |
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53.42 | x | 52.45 | 53.42 |
final
August 18, 2016, 9:10 p.m.
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 four more by their placements. The field consisted of all three Germans plus one participant each from Australia, China, Colombia, Croatia, Latvia, Poland, South Africa, the Czech Republic and Belarus.
The favorite was the 2012 Olympic champion, Barbora Špotáková from the Czech Republic, who was also world record holder and, up to the Olympic Games, also the best of the year in the world. Other medal candidates were primarily the European champion Tazzjana Chaladowitsch from Belarus, the Chinese vice world champion Lü Huihui, the South African World Cup third Sunette Viljoen, the two Germans Linda Stahl as the vice European champion and Christina Obergföll as the 2013 world champion and the Polish Maria Andrejczyk in the Qualification Špotákovás had improved his previous world best.
World champion Katharina Molitor was not nominated by the German association because Christina Obergföll had achieved two better distances this year. Christin Hussong as German Champion and Linda Stahl as Vice European Champion were already qualified. Molitor applied for an injunction against the DOSB , but this was rejected by the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court .
In the first round Viljoen took the lead with a throw of 64.92 m in front of Andrejczyk - 61.92 m and the Colombian Flor Ruiz - 61.54 m. In round two, the Australian Kathryn Mitchell reached 64.36 m, which meant she was second. Špotáková was third with 63.73 m. Then Chaladowitsch improved to second place with 64.60 m.
In the fourth round, the Croatian Sara Kolak replaced Viljoen as the leader with 66.18 m. In the next round, Špotáková improved again to bronze with 64.80 m, Andrejczyk threw 64.78 m and was two centimeters behind Špotáková in fourth place. It stayed that way until the end, Sara Kolak surprisingly won the gold medal. With her victory distance she had set a new Croatian national record. Silver went to Sunette Viljoen, bronze went to Barbora Špotáková. Maria Andrejczyk was fourth ahead of Tazzjana Chaladowitsch and Kathryn Mitchell. The Chinese Lü Huihui was seventh, Christina Obergföll was eighth.
Barbora Špotáková became the most successful Olympic javelin thrower with her bronze medal. In her career, she was Olympic champion twice - in 2008 and 2012 , plus the bronze medal she won in Rio .
Sunette Viljoen was the first South African woman to win a medal in the women's javelin throw .
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Width (m) | annotation |
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1 | Sara Kolak |
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60.89 | 62.95 | 63.00 | 66.18 | x | 59.42 | 66.18 | NO |
2 | Sunette Viljoen |
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64.92 | 61.04 | x | 63.00 | x | x | 64.92 | |
3 | Barbora Špotáková |
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60.16 | 63.73 | x | 61.25 | 64.80 | x | 64.80 | |
4th | Maria Andrejczyk |
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61.92 | 59.25 | 60.23 | 59.31 | 64.78 | 63.69 | 64.78 | |
5 | Tazzjana Chaladovich |
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62.68 | 60.24 | 64.60 | 60.49 | 63.52 | 64.24 | 64.60 | |
6th | Kathryn Mitchell |
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x | 64.36 | x | x | 62.20 | 63.02 | 64.36 | |
7th | Lu Huihui |
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60.32 | 63.50 | 59.56 | 64.04 | x | 56.96 | 64.04 | |
8th | Christina Obergföll |
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60.17 | 62.28 | x | x | x | 62.92 | 62.92 | |
9 | Flor Ruíz |
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61.54 | 58.46 | 59.61 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
61.54 | |||
10 | Madara Palameika |
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x | x | 60.14 | 60.14 | ||||
11 | Linda Stahl |
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58.48 | x | 59.71 | 59.71 | ||||
12 | Christin Hussong |
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54.99 | 54.47 | 57.70 | 57.70 |
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, Official Report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 17, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF Women's Javelin Throwing Association (English), accessed on October 17, 2018
- Sports-Reference, Result of Javelin Women (English), accessed on October 17, 2018
Video
- Sara Kolak becomes Javelin Olympic champion on youtube.com, published August 24, 2016, accessed October 17, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 802 (English), accessed on October 17, 2018
- ↑ Article of the Rheinische Post from July 18, 2016 , accessed on October 17, 2018