1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw explained

These are the official results of the Women's Javelin Throw event at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes, with the final held on Sunday August 22, 1993. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin. The qualification mark was set at 62.00 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Trine Solberg-Hattestad Norway (NOR)
Silver	Karen Forkel Germany (GER)
Bronze	Natalya Shikolenko Belarus (BLR)

Schedule

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
21.08.1993 - 10:00h	21.08.1993 - 11:30h
Final Round
16.08.1993 - 19:30h

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 1993 World Athletics Championships
		80.00 m	September 9, 1988
		76.64 m	September 6, 1987
		72.12 m	July 10, 1993

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance
1	1					66.52 m
2	2					63.22 m
3	3					62.90 m
4	8					60.56 m
5	9					60.54 m
6	11					59.74 m
7	14					59.16 m
8	15					58.80 m
9	17					57.16 m
10	19					55.10 m
11	22					52.06 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance
1	3					62.90 m
2	5					62.88 m
3	6					62.06 m
4	7					61.02 m
5	10					59.88 m
6	12					59.68 m
7	13					59.26 m
8	16					57.66 m
9	18					55.72 m
10	20					54.78 m
11	21					54.50 m
12	23					46.78 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance
Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance
								69.18 m
								65.80 m
								65.64 m
4								65.18 m
5								65.12 m
6								64.00 m
7								61.54 m
8								61.24 m

9								60.26 m
10								58.82 m
11								53.14 m
-		X	X	X				NM

References

Results
IAAF