2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw

The Women's javelin throw event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 1 and 2.

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Barbora Špotáková, the reigning Olympic champion, topped the season's rankings with a throw of 69.45 m. Second-ranked Christina Obergföll had showed greater consistency, having won four of the Diamond League meetings before the championships. Mariya Abakumova, a 2009 World and 2008 Olympic medallist, was ranked third in both the Diamond League and world rankings. Others in good form were Sunette Viljoen (who set an African record two weeks earlier), Martina Ratej, Kathrina Molitor and Goldie Sayers.^[1][2][3] The 2009 world champion, Steffi Nerius, had retired.

Favorite Špotáková took the early lead, but Abakumova's second throw would lead into the 5th round. Viljoen improved on her African record in the 5th round, but that was only enough to put her in third place. Špotáková then threw a new World Championship record, only to be passed on the following throw by Abakumova improving on the record and setting a new Russian National Record.

However, in 2018, the Athletics Integrity Unit decided to disqualify Abakumova because of doping, stripping her of the gold medal,^[4] which gets inherited by Špotáková.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic (CZE)	Sunette Viljoen  South Africa (RSA)	Christina Obergföll  Germany (GER)

Records

Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.

World record	Barbora Špotáková (CZE)	72.28	Stuttgart, Germany	13 September 2008
Championship record	Olisdeilys Menéndez (CUB)	71.70	Helsinki, Finland	14 August 2005
World leading	Barbora Špotáková (CZE)	69.45	Monaco	22 July 2011
African record	Sunette Viljoen (RSA)	66.47	Shenzhen, China	18 August 2011
Asian record	Jianhua Wei (CHN)	63.92	Beijing, China	18 August 2000
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Olisdeilys Menéndez (CUB)	71.70	Helsinki, Finland	14 August 2005
South American record	Sabina Moya (COL)	62.62	Guatemala City, Guatemala	12 May 2002
European record	Barbora Špotáková (CZE)	72.28	Stuttgart, Germany	13 September 2008
Oceanian record	Louise Currey (AUS)	66.80	Runaway Bay, Australia	5 August 2000

Qualification standards

A standard	B standard
61.00	59.00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
September 1, 2011	10:10	Qualification
September 2, 2011	19:10	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying distance 61.00m (Q) or at 12 best athletes and ties (q) advance to the final

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Christina Obergföll	Germany (GER)	68.76			68.76	Q
2	B	Sunette Viljoen	South Africa (RSA)	65.34			65.34	Q
3	A	Katharina Molitor	Germany (GER)	63.52			63.52	Q
4	B	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic (CZE)	63.40			63.40	Q
5	A	Goldie Sayers	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	56.61	62.19		62.19	Q
6	B	Martina Ratej	Slovenia (SLO)	61.58			61.58	Q
7	B	Kimberley Mickle	Australia (AUS)	60.50	57.80	60.12	60.50	q
8	B	Linda Stahl	Germany (GER)	60.21	59.85	58.25	60.21	q
9	A	Yuki Ebihara	Japan (JPN)	57.36	59.66	59.88	59.88	q
10	A	Madara Palameika	Latvia (LAT)	59.78	x	59.33	59.78	q
11	A	Jarmila Klimešová	Czech Republic (CZE)	55.90	59.65	56.01	59.65	q
12	A	Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir	Iceland (ISL)	59.15	57.62	x	59.15	SB
13	B	Zahra Bani	Italy (ITA)	x	x	58.92	58.92
14	A	Rachel Yurkovich	United States (USA)	58.84	58.01	57.92	58.84
15	B	Vira Rebryk	Ukraine (UKR)	x	55.69	58.50	58.50
16	B	Mercedes Chilla	Spain (ESP)	58.34	x	52.01	58.34
17	B	Sinta Ozoliņa-Kovala	Latvia (LAT)	56.18	58.15	54.02	58.15
18	A	Justine Robbeson	South Africa (RSA)	57.87	55.27	58.08	58.08
19	B	Liu Chunhua	China (CHN)	56.73	56.37	57.52	57.52
20	B	Kara Patterson	United States (USA)	56.41	55.25	57.14	57.14
21	A	Indrė Jakubaitytė	Lithuania (LTU)	x	56.01	56.92	56.92
22	A	Yanet Cruz	Cuba (CUB)	55.91	56.73	55.48	56.73
23	B	Tatjana Jelača	Serbia (SRB)	56.68	x	54.58	56.68
24	A	Elisabeth Eberl	Austria (AUT)	56.48	54.39	x	56.48
25	B	Risa Miyashita	Japan (JPN)	55.62	55.52	55.40	55.62
26	A	Kim Kyung-ae	South Korea (KOR)	51.64	53.75	54.96	54.96
27	B	María Lucelly Murillo	Colombia (COL)	x	x	52.83	52.83
DSQ	A	Mariya Abakumova	Russia (RUS)	x	62.49		62.49	Q

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Barbora Špotáková	Czech Republic (CZE)	68.80	67.90	68.64	67.12	71.58	66.80	71.58	SB
	Sunette Viljoen	South Africa (RSA)	64.36	65.20	63.12	58.48	68.38	62.68	68.38	AR
	Christina Obergföll	Germany (GER)	61.74	64.39	64.80	65.24	63.51	x	65.24
4	Katharina Molitor	Germany (GER)	59.88	58.19	57.94	60.31	58.85	64.32	64.32
5	Kimberley Mickle	Australia (AUS)	59.33	57.07	60.87	x	61.96	61.33	61.96
6	Martina Ratej	Slovenia (SLO)	58.87	x	60.58	x	61.65	x	61.65
7	Jarmila Klimešová	Czech Republic (CZE)	59.27	x	57.37	x	x	55.87	59.27
8	Yuki Ebihara	Japan (JPN)	59.08	58.39	57.96				59.08
9	Goldie Sayers	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	57.32	57.52	58.18				58.18
10	Madara Palameika	Latvia (LAT)	55.69	58.08	x				58.08
	Linda Stahl	Germany (GER)							DNS
	Mariya Abakumova	Russia (RUS)	60.38	71.25	-	x	71.99	64.27	71.99	NR, CR, WL

References

1. Landells, Steve (2011-08-19). Women’s Javelin Throw – PREVIEW Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
2. Javelin Throw 2011. IAAF (2011-08-23). Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
3. World Championships preview – women’s field events Archived 2012-06-16 at the Wayback Machine. Athletics Weekly (2011-08-25). Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
4. "Tatyana Lebedeva and Maria Abakumova stripped of World Championship medals for doping violations". Sky Sports. 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2018-09-14.

External links

• Javelin throw results at IAAF website