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2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw

Discus throw event at 2009 World Athletic Championships

Events at the 2009 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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's discus throw at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 19 and August 21.

Reigning Olympic champion Stephanie Brown Trafton was the favourite for the gold. She had set a career best and had the four longest throws of any athlete that season, although she had not competed since late June. Franka Dietzsch was another prominent performer: the 41-year-old was the defending champion and was making her 10th appearance of the tournament, but a weak season had underlined her waning powers. Cuban Yarelis Barrios looked set to build upon her World and Olympic silver medals from the last two years and Aimin Song had also performed well during the season. Veteran athletes Nicoleta Grasu and Natalya Sadova were also favoured to be among the top performers of the competition.^[1]

Chinese athletes led the qualification rounds with Ma Xuejun and Song topping their respective groups. Newcomers Żaneta Glanc and Dani Samuels rounded out the top four qualifiers. Dietzsch sole legal throw of the competition was not enough for qualification, leaving Nadine Müller as the only host competitor to make the final. Brown Trafton edged into the final, needing all three throws to qualify.^[2]

In the final, Grasu and Barrios quickly established themselves with marks of 65.20 m and 64.44 m, respectively, in the first two throws. Samuels, Glanc and Müller proved themselves on their third attempts, each throwing over 62 metres. Brown Trafton and Ma Xuejun both threw poorly and were among the four athletes eliminated after three throws. Personal bests of 64.76 and 65.44 m in the fourth and fifth round put Samuels in the lead. On the final throws, Song threw only enough to move up to fifth place, leader Grasu fouled but Barrios responded, although her mark of 65.31 m guaranteed her only second place.^[3]

Samuels was a surprise winner: at 21 years old, she was the youngest ever World discus champion,^[4] and she had progressed from Youth champion, to Junior winner, to the senior title in just four years. Barrios had matched her silver medal achievement at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and Grasu's bronze was her fourth medal in her career at the World Championships.^[3]

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Dani Samuels  Australia (AUS)
Silver	Yarelis Barrios  Cuba (CUB)
Bronze	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania (ROM)

Records[edit]

World record	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)	76.80	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	7 July 1988
Championship record	Martina Hellmann (GDR)	71.62	Rome, Italy	31 August 1987
World leading	Stephanie Brown Trafton (USA)	66.21	San Mateo, United States	24 May 2009
African record	Elizna Naudé (RSA)	64.87	Stellenbosch, South Africa	2 March 2003
Asian record	Xiao Yanling (CHN)	71.68	Beijing, China	14 March 1992
North American record	Hilda Ramos (CUB)	70.88	Havana, Cuba	8 May 1992
South American record	Elisângela Adriano (BRA)	61.96	São Leopoldo, Brazil	21 May 1998
European record	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)	76.80	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	7 July 1988
Oceanian record	Daniela Costian (AUS)	68.72	Auckland, New Zealand	22 January 1994

Qualification standards[edit]

Schedule[edit]

Results[edit]

Qualification[edit]

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 61.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Ma Xuejun	China (CHN)	63.38			63.38	Q, SB
2	B	Song Aimin	China (CHN)	x	62.80		62.80	Q
3	B	Dani Samuels	Australia (AUS)	62.67			62.67	Q
4	B	Żaneta Glanc	Poland (POL)	49.79	62.43		62.43	Q
5	A	Yarelis Barrios	Cuba (CUB)	x	x	62.19	62.19	Q
6	A	Sandra Perković	Croatia (CRO)	61.02	x	62.16	62.16	Q
7	B	Natalya Sadova	Russia (RUS)	61.94			61.94	Q
8	A	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania (ROM)	60.25	61.78		61.78	Q
9	A	Nadine Müller	Germany (GER)	61.63			61.63	Q
10	B	Mélina Robert-Michon	France (FRA)	58.36	61.53		61.53	Q
11	A	Stephanie Brown Trafton	United States (USA)	60.15	57.44	61.23	61.23	q
12	B	Aretha Thurmond	United States (USA)	60.09	59.09	61.08	61.08	q
13	B	Xu Shaoyang	China (CHN)	59.67	61.02	57.96	61.02	SB
14	B	Yarisley Collado	Cuba (CUB)	59.56	59.23	60.37	60.37
15	B	Seema Antil	India (IND)	59.85	x	x	59.85	SB
16	A	Elizna Naudé	South Africa (RSA)	59.46	59.46	59.67	59.67	SB
17	A	Wioletta Potępa	Poland (POL)	x	59.54	x	59.54
18	B	Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová	Czech Republic (CZE)	57.87	58.37	59.52	59.52
19	A	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia (SRB)	58.32	59.30	59.38	59.38
20	A	Svetlana Ivanova-Saykina	Russia (RUS)	59.31	x	58.45	59.31
21	B	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland (POL)	x	58.85	x	58.85
22	A	Becky Breisch	United States (USA)	58.50	x	58.08	58.50
23	B	Franka Dietzsch	Germany (GER)	x	x	58.44	58.44
24	B	Vera Begić	Croatia (CRO)	54.63	x	58.25	58.25
25	A	Yania Ferrales	Cuba (CUB)	57.71	55.84	58.24	58.24
26	B	Anna Söderberg	Sweden (SWE)	56.38	57.92	x	57.92
27	A	Kateryna Karsak	Ukraine (UKR)	56.79	x	x	56.79
28	A	Krishna Poonia	India (IND)	x	x	56.75	56.75
29	A	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil (BRA)	54.99	52.00	55.75	55.75
30	B	Rocío Comba	Argentina (ARG)	52.62	54.69	x	54.69
31	B	Zinaida Sendriute	Lithuania (LTU)	52.85	54.55	x	54.55
32	A	Sofia Larsson	Sweden (SWE)	51.87	x	54.28	54.28
33	A	Olena Antonova	Ukraine (UKR)	x	54.28	x	54.28
34	B	Li Wen-Hua	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	53.88	49.91	52.49	53.88
35	B	Kazai Suzanne Kragbé	Ivory Coast (CIV)	52.24	53.84	52.79	53.84	NR
36	A	Venera Getova	Bulgaria (BUL)	53.33	x	x	53.33
37	B	Tereapii Tapoki	Cook Islands (COK)	x	45.29	x	45.29	SB
	A	Ellina Zvereva	Belarus (BLR)	x	x	x	NM
	B	Iryna Yatchenko	Belarus (BLR)	x	x	x	NM
	B	Natalya Fokina-Semenova	Ukraine (UKR)					DNS

Final[edit]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Dani Samuels	Australia (AUS)	x	59.05	62.71	64.76	65.44	x	65.44	PB
	Yarelis Barrios	Cuba (CUB)	64.44	63.87	61.17	x	x	65.31	65.31	SB
	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania (ROM)	x	65.20	62.38	60.68	63.41	x	65.20	SB
4	Zaneta Glanc	Poland (POL)	58.69	59.83	62.66	x	57.71	x	62.66
5	Song Aimin	China (CHN)	51.69	60.50	61.78	x	61.39	62.42	62.42
6	Nadine Müller	Germany (GER)	57.53	57.62	62.04	60.40	x	x	62.04
7	Natalya Sadova	Russia (RUS)	60.70	61.78	59.31	60.44	58.26	61.44	61.78
8	Mélina Robert-Michon	France (FRA)	59.80	60.92	60.89	x	59.90	59.69	60.92
9	Sandra Perković	Croatia (CRO)	x	60.77	x				60.77
10	Aretha Thurmond	United States (USA)	x	59.89	59.88				59.89
11	Ma Xuejun	China (CHN)	58.79	x	58.58				58.79
12	Stephanie Brown Trafton	United States (USA)	58.53	x	57.94				58.53

References[edit]

General

• Discus throw results. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-10-21.

Specific