2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw

Events at the
2007 World Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men women
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
20 km walk men women
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The women's Discus Throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 27, 2007 (qualification) and August 29, 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

GoldGermany Franka Dietzsch (GER)
SilverCuba Yarelis Barrios (CUB)
BronzeRomania Nicoleta Grasu (ROM)

Abbreviations

Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

World Record  Gabriele Reinsch (GDR) 76.80 Neubrandenburg, East Germany 8 July 1986
Championship Record  Martina Hellmann (GDR) 71.62 Rome, Italy 31 August 1987

Qualification

Group A

Place Athlete Mark Notes pie
1 Germany Franka Dietzsch (GER) 65.17 Q
2 Romania Nicoleta Grasu (ROM) 64.26 Q PB
3 Cuba Yarelis Barrios (CUB) 63.44 Q PB
4 Belarus Iryna Yatchenko (BLR) 62.63 Q
5 China Ma Xuejun (CHN) 60.89 q
6 Australia Dani Samuels (AUS) 60.44  
7 China Song Aimin (CHN) 60.10  
8 Ukraine Kateryna Karsak (UKR) 59.46  
9 Poland Wioletta Potepa (POL) 59.20  
10 Sweden Anna Söderberg (SWE) 58.65  
11 United States Becky Breisch (USA) 58.42  
12 Serbia Dragana Tomašević (SRB) 57.96  
13 United States Cecilia Barnes (USA) 53.02  
14 Cook Islands Tereapii Tapoki (COK) 50.35  

Group B

Place Athlete Mark Notes
1 Poland Joanna Wisniewska (POL) 63.13 Q SB
2 China Sun Taifeng (CHN) 61.99 Q
3 Russia Darya Pishchalnikova (RUS) 61.88 Q
4 France Mélina Robert-Michon (FRA) 61.66 Q
5 Cuba Yania Ferrales (CUB) 61.48 q
6 Ukraine Natalya Fokina-Semenova (UKR) 61.33 q
7 Ukraine Olena Antonova (UKR) 60.90 q
8 United States Suzy Powell-Roos (USA) 59.57  
9 Czech Republic Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová (CZE) 57.56  
10 Brazil Elisângela Adriano (BRA) 57.21  
11 India Krishna Poonia (IND) 57.17  
12 Germany Nadine Müller (GER) 55.98  
13 New Zealand Beatrice Faumuina (NZL) 55.75  
14 Japan Yuka Murofushi (JPN) 52.76  

Final

The finalists
Place Athlete Mark Notes
1 Germany Franka Dietzsch (GER) 66.61  
2 Cuba Yarelis Barrios (CUB) 63.90 PB
3 Romania Nicoleta Grasu (ROM) 63.40  
4 China Sun Taifeng (CHN) 63.22  
5 Ukraine Olena Antonova (UKR) 62.41 SB
6 Poland Joanna Wisniewska (POL) 61.35  
7 Ukraine Natalya Fokina-Semenova (UKR) 61.17  
8 China Ma Xuejun (CHN) 59.37  
9 Belarus Iryna Yatchenko (BLR) 58.67  
10 Cuba Yania Ferrales (CUB) 58.20  
11 France Mélina Robert-Michon (FRA) 57.81  

References

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