Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Women's discus throw explained

The women's discus throw event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy on 26 and 27 August.^[1] The winning margin was 6.02 metres which as of 2024 remains the only time the women's discus throw was won by more than six metres at these games.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Natalya Sadova	Hu Honglian	Nicoleta Grasu

Results

Qualification

Rank	Result	Notes
1	63.00	Q^[2]
2	60.44
3	59.54
4	57.48
5	56.86
6	55.30
7	55.22
8	55.14
9	54.90
10	51.94
11	51.78
12	51.06
13	51.06
14	50.78
15	50.68
16	48.80
17	43.92	^[3]
18	42.12
19	35.44
20	32.70

Final

^[4]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
			67.02
			61.00
			60.08
			59.60
			57.56
			56.12
			55.96
			55.44
			55.24
10			52.64
11			52.14
12			52.06

Notes and References

https://www.tilastopaja.eu/db/results.php?CID=12983456&Season=1997 Results at Tilastopaja
https://web.archive.org/web/19980526075104/http://www.iaaf.org/rdb/pdf/outdoorlist38.pdf IAAF 1997 Ranking
Web site: Australian 1997 Almanac . 2014-10-12 . 2014-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006091859/http://athhistory.imgstg.com/almanac/Almanac-1997-98.pdf . usurped .
Web site: Results . 2014-10-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706132326/http://wwwfisu.ulb.ac.be/html/sathletics.html . 2011-07-06 . dead .