Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Discus

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The Discus throw at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Athens Olympic Stadium. It was originally planned to hold the discus throw at the Ancient Olympia Stadium, but it was discovered that the field was not large enough to accommodate the range of modern discus throwers, and would have posed a danger to spectators. As such, it was decided to move the discus throw and to hold the shot put at the ancient stadium, despite the fact that the shot put was not contested at the Ancient Olympic Games.

[edit] Records

World Record	76.80	Gabriele Reinsch	GDR	Neubrandenburg(GDR)	9 July 1988
Olympic Record	72.30	Martina Hellmann	GDR	Seoul(KOR)	29 September 1988

[edit] Results

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Natalya Sadova, Russia	Anastasia Kelesidou, Greece	Irina Yatchenko, Belarus

The competitors were split into two groups and given three attempts at reaching the automatic qualification distance of 62.50 metres. As twelve athletes did not achieve this the seven that did were joined in the final by the five throwers who achieved the longest non-qualifying throws.

For the final, the qualifying distances were ignored and the competitors were given three throws. The top eight after these throws were then given a further three and the furthest distance thrown from their six throws gave us the winner.

[edit] Heats

All distances shown are in metres.
Q denotes automatic qualification.
q denotes lucky loser.
DNS denotes did not start.
DNF denotes did not finish.
PB denotes personal best.
NR denotes national record.

[edit] Heat 1

Vera Pospisilova Cechlova, Czech Republic 64.48 m - Q
Natalya Sadova, Russia 64.33 m - Q
Beatrice Faumuina, New Zealand 64.07 m - Q
Ekaterini Voggoli, Greece 63.39 m - Q
Nicoleta Grasu, Romania 61.91 m - q
Joanna Wisniewska, Poland 61.48 m - q
Harwant Kaur, India 60.82 m
Ellina Zvereva, Belarus 60.63 m
Philippa Roles, Great Britain 58.83 m
Olga Chernyavskaya, Russia 58.64 m
Stephanie Brown, United States 58.54 m
Natalya Fokina, Ukraine 58.28 m
Elisangela Adriano, Brazil 58.13 m
Franka Dietzsch, Germany 58.12 m
Vera Begic, Croatia 57.31 m
Melina Robert-Michon, France 56.70 m
Qun Huang, China 56.53 m
Anna Soderberg, Sweden 55.49 m
Eva Kurti, Hungary 52.52 m
Tereapii Tapoki, Cook Islands 48.12 m
Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgaria 43.25 m

[edit] Heat 2

Olena Antonova, Ukraine 64.20 m - Q
Anastasia Kelesidou, Greece 64.13 m - Q
Irina Yatchenko, Belarus 63.04 m - Q
Stiliani Tsikouna, Greece 61.72 m - q
Yania Ferrales, Cuba 61.54 m - q
Yanfeng Li, China 61.35 m - q
Seema Antil, India 60.64 m
Wioletta Potepa, Poland 60.50 m
Neelam Jaswant Singh, India 60.26 m
Aretha Hill, United States 58.82 m
Elizna Naude, South Africa 58.74 m
Teresa Machado, Portugal 58.47 m
Aimin Song, China 58.19 m
Dace Ruskule, Latvia 57.43 m
Oksana Yesipchuk, Russia 57.27 m
Shelley Newman, Great Britain 56.04 m
Vladimira Rackova, Czech Republic 55.82 m
Alice Matejkova, Spain 55.37 m
Eha Runne, Estonia 54.82 m
Dragana Tomasevic, Serbia 54.44 m
Seilala Sua, United States NM

[edit] Final

DNQ = did not qualify for final 3 throws

Position	Name	Nation	Rd. 1	Rd. 2	Rd. 3	Rd. 4	Rd. 5	Rd. 6	Best
1	Natalya Sadova	Russia	64.78	64.81	X	65.33	67.02	66..68	67.02
2	Anastasia Kelesidou	Greece	62.77	X	66.68	63.71	66.09	61.59	66.68
3	Irina Yatchenko	Belarus	59.98	61.67	66.17	65.46	63.08	65.54	66.17
4	Vera Pospisilova Cechlova	Czech Republic	63.02	66.08	X	62.81	63.21	64.84	66.08
5	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	59.88	64.11	X	63.61	60.37	65.75	65.75
6	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	62.01	62.21	63.48	61.58	61.93	64.92	64.92
7	Beatrice Faumuina	New Zealand	X	62.45	X	63.45	62.99	X	63.45
8	Ekaterini Voggoli	Greece	60.66	61.44	X	62.37	62.32	61.84	62.37
9	Yanfeng Li	China	60.67	57.36	61.05	DNQ			61.05
10	Joanna Wisniewska	Poland	58.33	60.74	59.95	DNQ			60.74
11	Stiliani Tsikouna	Greece	59.48	57.76	X	DNQ			59.48
12	Yania Ferrales	Cuba	X	X	X	DNQ			X