Women Discus Throw Athletics XXX Olympic Games London 2012 - Saturday 04.08

Women Discus Throw Athletics XXX Olympic Games London 2012 - Saturday 04.08 - Gold Medal: Sandra Perkovic, Croatia

Final 19:30		dist.		bib	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Sandra Perkovic	CRO	69.11m	NR	1458	64.58	68.11	69.11	X	66.96	64.03
2. Yanfeng Li	CHN	67.22m		1379	X	67.22	X	X5	63.64	X
3. Yarelys Barrios	CUB	66.38m		1487	63.97	66.38	64.84	64.06	X	65.21
4. Nadine Muller	GER	65.94m		1954	65.71	65.06	X	64.16	64.35	65.94
5. Melina Robert-michon	FRA	63.98m	SB	1790	62.23	61.70	62.41	62.66	63.62	63.98
6. Krishna Poonia	IND	63.62m		2075	62.42	X	61.61	X	63.62	61.31
7. Stephanie Brown Trafton	USA	63.01m		3273	63.01	X	59.30	X	X	61.89
eliminated after 3 attempts.
8. Zinaida Sendriute	LTU	61.68m		2439	61.68	X	X
9. Anna Ruh	GER	61.36m		1961	59.95	X	61.36
10.Xuejun Ma	CHN	61.02m		1386	61.02	X	60.72
11.Dani Samuels	AUS	60.40m		1080	60.40	59.86	57.87
disqualification Darya Pishchalnikova finnished 2nd.
-. Darya Pishchalnikova	RUS	67.56m		2885	65.19	62.07	65.06	66.42	67.56	59.13

The original silver medalist, Darya Pishchalnikova of Russia, was stripped of her silver medal after failing drugs tests. The rest of the competitors were elevated by one position accordingly.

Eight throwers exceeded the qualifying distance of 63.00 headed by Barrios’s 65.94, and five of the top six qualifiers would fill the original top five positions in the final. The odd one out was reigning champion Brown Trafton, whose best throw of over 66 metres in round two was a sector foul. Li and Barrios reached 67.22 and 66.38 in the second round before Perković took over with 68.11. The Croatian really connected with her third throw, which landed at 69.11 and the gold medal was settled. Her country had its first Olympic Champion in athletics. Darya Pishchalnikova (RUS), who had reached 70.69 a month before the Games, almost erased her tendency to lean to the left on the release of the discus to throw 65.56 in round five and win the silver medal. It transpired that the Russian had actually tested positive for steroids in May 2012. Once that was confirmed, Pishchalnikova was banned for 10 years and the IAAF annulled all her results from that date. The IOC also decided to strip the Russian of her silver and pro- mote all those below her, though that development was not made public until the autumn of 2015. Missing the final by two places (or one place disregarding Pishchalnikova) was 40 year-old Nicoleta Grasu (ROU), competing at her sixth Olympics.

Qualification

- Friday 03.08 19:10 - Mark 63.50m? - 8+4 Athletes

Ranking		Dist.	Gr.		bib	1.	2.	3.
1. Yarelys Barrios	CUB	65.94m	A		1487	X	65.94	-
2. Nadine Muller	GER	65.89m	B		1954	65.89	-	-
3. Sandra Perkovic	CRO	65.74m	B		1458	65.74	-	-
4. Darya Pishchalnikova	RUS	65.02m	A		2885	65.02	-	-
5. Stephanie Brown Trafton	USA	64.89m	B		3273	X	61.09	64.89
6. Yanfeng Li	CHN	64.48m	A		1379	59.69	64.48	-
7. Dani Samuels	AUS	63.97m	A	SB	1080	60.02m	X	63.97
8. Krishna Poonia	IND	63.54m	A		2075	X	63.54	-
9. Anna Ruh	GER	62.98m	B		1961	62.98	X	59.71
10.Zinaida Sendriute	LTU	62.79m	B		2439	61.71	X	62.79
11.Xuejun Ma	CHN	62.66m	A		1386	62.66	60.49	62.18
12.Melina Robert-Michon	FRA	62.47m	A		1790	X	62.47	59.72
13.Seema Antil	IND	61.91m	B		2071	X	61.10	61.91
14.Nicoleta Grasu	ROU	61.86m	B	SB	2766	61.86	59.59	X
15.Gia Lewis-Smallwood	USA	61.44m	B		3304	X	61.44	61.25
16.Andressa De Morais	BRA	60.94m	B		1239	X	X	60.94
17.Svetlana Saykina	RUS	60.67m	B		2893	59.76	60.67	X
18.Natalya Fokina-Semenova	UKR	60.61m	A		3160	58.37	60.61	60.36
19.Dragana Tomasevic	SRB	60.53m	B		2959	59.32	60.53	57.68
20.Julia Fischer	GER	60.23m	A		1933	X	56.82	60.23
21.Karen Gallardo	CHI	60.09m	B	SB	1338	58.82	60.09	X
22.Wen-hua Li	TPE	59.91m	A		3034	58.22	59.91	58.99
23.Vera Karmishina-Ganeeva	RUS	59.90m	A		2866	59.90	49.53	X
24.Zaneta Glanc	POL	59.88m	A		2684	56.40	59.88	56.72
25.Aretha Thurmond	USA	59.39m	A		3320	58.38	59.39	57.81
26.Rocio Comba	ARG	58.98m	A		1025	55.22	55.81	58.98
27.Denia Caballero	CUB	58.78m	B		1492	57.47	X	58.78
28.Kateryna Karsak	UKR	58.64m	B		3166	X	X	58.64
29.Allison Randall	JAM	58.06m	A		2202	57.16	58.06	X
30.Yaime Perez	CUB	57.87m	A		1501	57.46	X	57.87
31.Monique Jansen	NED	57.50m	B		2556	55.65	57.50	56.04
32.Irina Rodrigues	POR	57.23m	B		2730	57.23	X	55.58
33.Sviatlana Siarova	BLR	56.70m	B		1199	56.70	55.99	X
34.Vera Pospisilova-Cechlova	CZE	55.00m	A		1538	55.00	X	X
-. Jian Tan	CHN	NM	B		1389	X	X	X