2009 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's discus throw

The women's discus throw event at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Kaunas, Lithuania, at S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno stadionas (Darius and Girėnas Stadium) on 16 and 17 July.^[1][2][3][4]

Medalists

Gold	Eden Francis  United Kingdom
Silver	Vera Karmishina  Russia
Bronze	Jade Nicholls  United Kingdom

Results

Final

17 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Eden Francis	United Kingdom	54.79	53.85	57.29	53.66	x	53.57	57.29
	Vera Karmishina	Russia	43.25	54.48	52.76	x	x	x	54.48
	Jade Nicholls	United Kingdom	53.44	52.00	51.99	50.56	48.94	54.44	54.44
4	Sofia Larsson	Sweden	x	x	53.74	50.84	53.32	53.47	53.74
5	Coralie Glatre	France	52.80	43.88	46.53	47.59	49.32	x	52.80
6	Yevgeniya Pecherina	Russia	51.96	52.66	x	x	x	52.55	52.66
7	Viktoriya Bolbat	Ukraine	51.95	x	x	x	50.25	50.90	51.95
8	Irène Donzelot	France	47.30	x	49.69	x	50.54	49.08	50.54
9	Ionela Vartolomei	Romania	49.26	48.76	49.00				49.26
10	Pauline Pousse	France	48.90	45.75	48.85				48.90
11	Anita Márton	Hungary	48.33	48.56	x				48.56
12	Kateřina Klausová	Czech Republic	47.95	x	48.09				48.09

Qualifications

16 July
Qualifying 53.00 or 12 best to the Final

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Viktoriya Bolbat	Ukraine	51.98	q
2	Eden Francis	United Kingdom	51.83	q
3	Pauline Pousse	France	51.83	q
4	Yevgeniya Pecherina	Russia	51.77	q
5	Ionela Vartolomei	Romania	49.52	q
6	Kateřina Klausová	Czech Republic	49.28	q
7	Anna-Katharina Weller	Germany	49.27
8	Katalin Császár	Hungary	45.93
9	Elinor Forssander	Sweden	42.84

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Sofia Larsson	Sweden	54.08	Q
2	Vera Karmishina	Russia	52.70	q
3	Coralie Glatre	France	52.46	q
4	Jade Nicholls	United Kingdom	50.60	q
5	Anita Márton	Hungary	50.01	q
6	Irène Donzelot	France	49.82	q
7	Dace Šteinerte	Latvia	47.46
8	Dilek Esmer	Turkey	47.27
9	Marta Jaworowska	Poland	47.09
10	Elina Mattila	Finland	45.62

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (3)
•  Germany (1)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  Russia (2)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Ukraine (1)
•  United Kingdom (2)

References

1. European Athletics U23 Championships Ostrava 2011 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK - 7th European Athletics U23 Championships - Kaunas, Lithuania 16.-19.7.2009 (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 84–99, retrieved 24 October 2014
2. 7th European Athletics U23 Championships - Kaunas LTU 16–19 July, European Athletics Association, archived from the original on 2014-10-21, retrieved 14 November 2014
3. European Athletics U23 Championships - Kaunas, Lithuania, 16 - 19 July 2009, Discus Women - Results - Final (PDF), European Athletics Association, retrieved 14 November 2014^{[dead link]}
4. European Athletics U23 Championships - Kaunas, Lithuania, 16 - 19 July 2009, Discus Women - Results - Qualification (PDF), European Athletics Association, retrieved 14 November 2014^{[dead link]}