2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's discus throw explained

Event:	Women's discus throw
Competition:	2023 World Championships
Venue:	National Athletics Centre
Dates:	20 August (qualification) 22 August (final)
Competitors:	37
Nations:	25
Win Label:	Winning distance
Win Value:	69.49
Gold:	Laulauga Tausaga
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Valarie Allman
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Feng Bin
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2022
Next:	2025

The women's discus throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 20 and 22 August 2023.

Summary

Of the 12 finalists in Eugene, 10 of them returned to this year's finals. And those 10 were the top 10 from the preliminaries. The top 3 were the medalists.

In the first round of the finals Olympic Champion Valarie Allman got off a 68.57m to take the early lead. Defending champion Feng Bin responded with a 66.97m. Jorinde van Klinken held on to third place with a 63.93m. With her second attempt, two time Olympic and two time World Champion Sandra Perković moved into the top 3 with a 66.57m. In the third round, Allman improved to 68.79m. She improved again to 69.23m in the fourth round. Bin also improved to 67.18m

At the end of the third round, Laulauga Tausaga had to throw a 65.56m personal best to leap from dead last 12th place into fifth place and a chance to make three more throws. She had needed to throw a personal best 65.46m as the final throw at her USA National Championships just to be eligible to come to these championships. On her newly earned fifth throw, she threw the winner, a four metre (13 feet) improvement in her personal best over the course of three rounds.

van Klinken's fifth round throw of 67.20m edged her back into third place. Bin improved to 68.20m on her final attempt to move back into third place. Allman was unable to improve, so on a breakthrough night, the surprised and ecstatic Tausaga was able to step into the ring for her final attempt already confirmed as the champion. She then threw the second best throw of her career, 68.36m.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[1]

width=25% align=center	Record	width=25% align=center	Athlete &	width=10% align=center	width=25% align=center	Location	width=15% align=center	Date
World record		76.80 m	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	9 July 1988
Championship record		71.62 m	Rome, Italy	31 August 1987
World Leading		70.25 m	San Diego, United States	7 April 2023
African Record		64.96 m	Ramona, OK, United States	15 April 2023
Asian Record		71.68 m	Beijing, China	14 March 1992
North, Central American and Caribbean record		71.46 m	San Diego, United States	8 April 2022
South American Record		65.34 m	Leiria, Portugal	26 June 2019
European Record		76.80 m	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	9 July 1988
Oceanian record		69.64 m	London, Great Britain	13 August 2017

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 64.20 m.^[2]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
20 August	09:00	Qualification
22 August	20:20	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 64.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.^[3] ^[4]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Round			Mark	Notes
Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	A			67.14			67.14	Q
2	A			63.97	61.47	65.68	65.68	Q
3	A			65.62			65.62	Q,
4	B			59.85	64.51		64.51	Q
5	B			x	64.34		64.34	Q
6	A			x	63.42	63.18	63.42	q
7	A			61.27	63.34	x	63.34	q
8	B			62.05	63.20	x	63.20	q
9	A			x	60.54	62.76	62.76	q
10	B			62.67	x	62.71	62.71	q
11	B			61.82	58.99	60.21	61.82	q
12	A			x	58.77	61.31	61.31	q
13	A			x	x	60.02	60.02
14	A			59.98	59.92	x	59.98
15	B			57.71	59.36	x	59.36
16	B			59.28	56.44	58.76	59.28
17	A			52.54	59.15	56.01	59.15
18	B			58.92	57.28	x	58.92
19	B			56.72	x	58.78	58.78
20	A			58.63	x	58.11	58.63
21	B			54.97	58.58	57.73	58.58
22	B			58.45	57.89	56.94	58.45
23	B			56.31	55.44	58.43	58.43
24	A			57.96	52.58	56.14	57.96
25	A			57.77	51.86	55.76	57.77
26	B			56.86	55.37	57.08	57.08
27	B			50.75	48.74	56.74	56.74
28	A			56.19	x	x	56.19
29	A			55.63	54.23	55.94	55.94
30	B			54.90	53.63	x	54.90
31	A			53.85	53.47	54.72	54.72
32	B			53.83	53.24	54.54	54.54
33	A			x	54.50	54.38	54.50
34	A			54.41	53.44	52.99	54.41
35	B			x	53.39	53.34	53.39
36	A			x	53.14	53.20	53.20
37	B			x	50.69	51.60	51.60

Final

The final was started on 22 August at 20:20.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Round						Mark	Notes
Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Mark	Notes
			x	52.28	65.56	x	69.49	68.36	69.49
			68.57	66.94	68.79	69.23	64.60	68.61	69.23
			66.97	65.16	65.91	67.18	67.41	68.20	68.20
4			63.93	64.41	62.94	64.47	67.20	66.97	67.20
5			x	66.57	x	65.64	65.09	x	66.57
6			63.81	63.94	65.73	64.11	65.96	x	65.96
7			63.59	61.44	65.03	65.47	x	63.67	65.47
8			58.86	x	63.59	x	x	62.49	63.59
9			53.34	63.46	x				63.46
10			60.29	62.51	63.19				63.19
11			62.31	53.26	x				62.31
12			x	61.13	x				61.13

Notes and References

Web site: Discus Throw Women − Records . 24 August 2023 . . 1 June 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601132003/https://worldathletics.org/records/by-discipline/throws/discus-throw/outdoor/women . live .
Web site: 19 August 2023 . Qualification System and Entry Standards . . 23 August 2023 . 19 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819191514/https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/62ff627cef4200119b5555be.pdf . live .
Web site: 20 August 2023 . Revised Results Discus Throw Women - Qualification . . 23 August 2023 . 29 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230829151910/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138987/AT-DT-W-q----.RS6.pdf . live .
Web site: 20 August 2023 . Revised Summary Discus Throw Women - Qualification . . 23 August 2023 . 25 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230825152416/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138987/AT-DT-W-q----.RS4.pdf . live .
Web site: 22 August 2023 . Results Discus Throw Women - Final . . 23 August 2023 . 22 August 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230822194808/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138987/AT-DT-W-f----.RS6.pdf . live .