1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw

Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
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
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Women's Discus Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 23 participating athletes, with the final held on Monday August 31, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Martina Hellmann East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Diana Sachse-Gansky East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Tsvetanka Khristova Bulgaria (BUL)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
30.08.1987 – ??:??h	30.08.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
31.08.1987 – 18:00h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

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

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)	74.56 m	August 26, 1984	Nitra, Czechoslovakia
Event Record	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)	68.94 m	August 10, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)	71.62 m	August 31, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	5	Diana Sachse-Gansky (GDR)				63.64 m
2	6	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)				62.80 m
3	7	Larisa Mikhalchenko (URS)				62.52 m
4	9	Maritza Martén (CUB)				60.40 m
5	10	Connie Price-Smith (USA)				59.90 m
6	11	Mariana Lengyel (ROU)				59.72 m
7	16	Anne Paavolainen-Kansakangas (FIN)				57.10 m
8	17	Yu Hourun (CHN)				56.70 m
9	20	Nabila Mouelhi (TUN)				45.94 m
10	21	Hanane Ahmed Khaled (EGY)				42.64 m
11	22	Dorie Cortejo (PHI)				40.98 m
12	23	Morgyn Warner (ZIM)				38.56 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Ilke Wyludda (GDR)				68.40 m
2	2	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)				66.86 m
3	3	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)				66.80 m
4	4	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)				64.64 m
5	8	Larisa Korotkevich (URS)				60.48 m
6	12	Renata Katewicz (POL)				58.88 m
7	13	Carol Cady (USA)				58.50 m
8	14	Hou Xuemei (CHN)				58.26 m
9	15	Anne Salak-Khorina (URS)				57.76 m
10	18	María Isabel Urrutia (COL)				53.94 m
11	19	Maria Marello (ITA)				52.74 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Notes
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)							71.62 m	CR
	Diana Sachse-Gansky (GDR)							70.12 m
	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)							68.82 m
4	Ilke Wyludda (GDR)							68.20 m
5	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)							66.58 m
6	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)							64.82 m
7	Larisa Mikhalchenko (URS)							64.72 m
8	Mariana Lengyel (ROU)							62.30 m
9	Maritza Martén (CUB)							62.00 m
10	Larisa Korotkevich (URS)							60.74 m
11	Renata Katewicz (POL)							58.22 m
—	Connie Price-Smith (USA)							NM

References

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