Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw

Women's javelin throw at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad
Pictogram for athletics
Venue	Stadium Australia
Date	29 September 2000 (qualifications) 30 September 2000 (finals)
Competitors	35 from 28 nations
Winning distance	68.91 OR
Medalists
Trine Hattestad  Norway Mirela Manjani-Tzelili  Greece Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba
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Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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
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
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The Women's Javelin Throw event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program went held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, 29 September and Saturday, 30 September.^[1]

The qualifying athletes progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with up to six throws. The qualifying distance was 61.50 metres. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest throws until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Medalists

Gold	Trine Hattestad  Norway
Silver	Mirella Maniani-Tzelili  Greece
Bronze	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba

Schedule

• All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Abbreviations

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	69.41 m	28 July 2000	Oslo, Norway
Olympic Record	New javelin was introduced officially from 01.04.1999
Broken records during the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	67.34 m	29 September 2000	Sydney, Australia
Olympic Record	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	68.91 m	30 September 2000	Sydney, Australia

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Country	Attempts			Distance	Note
				1	2	3
1	2	Steffi Nerius	Germany	65.76	—	—	65.76 m	PB
2	3	Trine Hattestad	Norway	65.44	—	—	65.44 m
3	4	Mirella Maniani-Tzelili	Greece	63.34	—	—	63.34 m
4	7	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	58.94	60.85	X	60.85 m
5	9	Li Lei	China	57.01	X	60.57	60.57 m
6	11	Sonia Bisset	Cuba	59.13	X	60.09	60.09 m
7	13	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	57.81	X	59.21	59.21 m
8	14	Nikolett Szabó	Hungary	58.86	55.95	56.72	58.86 m
9	22	Ana Mirela Țermure	Romania	55.67	56.31	53.86	56.31 m
10	24	Yekaterina Ivakina	Russia	55.30	52.43	55.58	55.58 m
11	26	Lynda Blutreich	United States	X	52.77	55.25	55.25 m
12	27	Evfemija Štorga	Slovenia	X	54.94	52.97	54.94 m
13	28	Khristina Georgieva	Bulgaria	54.60	51.10	53.31	54.60 m
14	29	Nadine Auzeil	France	51.02	53.85	49.90	53.85 m
15	30	Inga Kožarenoka	Latvia	53.83	X	X	53.83 m
16	31	Louise Currey	Australia	53.32	X	—	53.32 m
17	32	Gurmeet Kaur	India	52.78	48.80	46.46	52.78 m
18	35	Tatyana Sudarikova	Kyrgyzstan	47.56	X	48.33	48.33 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Country	Attempts			Distance	Note
				1	2	3
1	1	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	67.34	—	—	67.34 m	AR
2	5	Xiomara Rivero	Cuba	61.89	—	—	61.89 m	SB
3	6	Tatyana Shikolenko	Russia	61.54	—	—	61.54 m
4	8	Wei Jianhua	China	60.64	X	57.19	60.64 m
5	10	Claudia Coslovich	Italy	60.12	X	57.05	60.12 m
6	12	Nikola Tomečková	Czech Republic	59.49	55.40	59.40	59.49 m
7	15	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan	Romania	54.11	58.75	X	58.75 m
8	16	Laverne Eve	Bahamas	X	57.98	58.36	58.36 m
9	17	Joanna Stone	Australia	53.34	57.57	58.34	58.34 m
10	18	Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi	Greece	X	58.11	X	58.11 m
11	19	Tetyana Lyakhovych	Ukraine	55.81	53.33	57.41	57.41 m
12	20	Taina Uppa	Finland	57.39	X	X	57.39 m
13	21	Olivia McKoy	Jamaica	55.98	52.83	56.36	56.36 m
14	23	Sueli dos Santos	Brazil	X	56.27	50.50	56.27 m
15	25	Marta Míguez	Spain	55.52	55.01	X	55.52 m
16	33	Lee Young-Sun	South Korea	49.84	X	X	49.84 m
17	34	Sabina Moya	Colombia	41.22	49.16	47.37	49.16 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	68.91	62.27	X	64.38	66.22	64.09	68.91 m	OR
	Mirela Maniani-Tzelili (GRE)	X	65.56	67.51	61.96	65.34	67.51	67.51 m	NR
	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	66.03	64.99	65.17	63.95	62.47	66.18	66.18 m
4	Steffi Nerius (GER)	61.99	61.41	64.84	57.88	61.11	61.02	64.84 m
5	Sonia Bisset (CUB)	63.26	62.77	X	X	62.85	63.11	63.26 m
6	Xiomara Rivero (CUB)	62.10	62.92	X	60.20	X	X	62.92 m	PB
7	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	58.28	62.91	61.54	X	X	61.97	62.91 m
8	Nikola Tomečková (CZE)	58.13	55.86	58.69	56.12	61.30	62.10	62.10 m
9	Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)	58.10	55.97	58.56				58.56 m
10	Wei Jianhua (CHN)	54.06	58.23	58.33				58.33 m
11	Li Lei (CHN)	X	X	56.83				56.83 m
12	Claudia Coslovich (ITA)	56.46	54.28	56.74				56.74 m

See also

• 1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw
• 2001 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw

References

External links

• Official Report
• todor66

This page was last edited on 1 December 2022, at 11:12