Women Discus Throw Athletics Olympic Games 2008 Beijing (CHN) -

Women Discus Throw Athletics Olympic Games 2008 Beijing (CHN) -

Final 18.08 19:00	Team	Dist.	Q.	SO	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Stephanie Brown Trafton	USA	64.74m	1.	6	64.74	X	X	58.39	61.30	X
2. Olena Antonova	UKR	62.59m	11.	12	60.79	62.16	X	60.50	62.59	62.34
3. Aimin Song	CHN	62.20m	8.	9	56.41	59.55	62.17	61.75	62.20	60.51
4. Vera Cechlova	CZE	61.75m	9.	3	X	61.08	X	58.74	61.75	61.66
5. Ellina Zvereva	BLR	60.82m	12.	1	60.43	60.10	X	X	60.34	60.82
6. Yanfeng Li	CHN	60.68m	10.	11	60.68	X	59.72	X	X	60.62
7. Melina Robert Michon	FRA	60.66m	5.	8	60.49	X	X	X	60.66	60.45
8. Dani Samuels	AUS	60.15m	7.	5	57.14	X	60.15
9. Aretha Thurmond	USA	59.80m	6.	2	56.72	59.80	57.99
10.Iryna Yatchenko	BLR	59.27m	3.	10	X	X	59.27
11.Nicoleta Grasu	ROU	58.63m	2.	4	58.63	X	X
-. Yarelys Barrios	CUB	63.64m	4.	7	63.17	63.64	62.22	62.12	X	60.30

The qualifying was led by Brown Trafton with 62.77, but Grasu (62.51) and Barrios (62.23) were more highly regarded as medal prospects, particularly after defending champion Sadova (58.11) failed to qualify. The 1988 finalist Zvereva opened the final with 60.43, which led until Brown Trafton launched her first throw to 64.74. No Olympic dis- cus title had been won with a throw lesser than 65m since 1968, but Brown Trafton’s effort would hold up against all assaults. Barrios, with 63.17 and 63.64 would be the closest. The first American female Olympic discus throw champion since 1932 reflected “my goal was to come to the Bird’s Nest to lay a golden egg, and that’s what I did.”

Qualification - mark ..+..Athletes

Group A 15.08 19:55	Team	Dist.	Rk.	SO	1.	2.	3.
1. Stephanie Brown Trafton	USA	62.77m	1.	6	57.78	X	62.77
2. Iryna Yatchenko	BLR	62.26m	3.	17	62.26
3. Yarelys Barrios	CUB	62.23m	4.	3	62.23
4. Melina Robert Michon	FRA	62.21m	5.	18	X	55.18	62.21
5. Dani Samuels	AUS	61.72m	7.	2	X	X	61.72
6. Olena Antonova	UKR	61.25m	11.	5	61.25	60.61	59.92
7. Ellina Zvereva	BLR	60.28m	12.	10	X	60.28	59.60
8. Natalia Semenova	UKR	60.18m	14.	7	X	60.18	X
9. Wioletta Potepa	POL	59.44m	17.	4	59.44	59.20	59.10
10.Joanna Wisniewska	POL	59.40m	18.	9	59.40	58.08	X
11.Elisangela Maria Adriano	BRA	58.84m	19.	1	X	X	58.84
12.Kateryna Karsak	UKR	58.61m	21.	19	X	53.14	58.61
13.Vera Begic	CRO	58.50m	22.	16	55.87	58.50	X
14.Xuejun Ma	CHN	58.45m	23.	15	58.45	X	56.84
15.Suzy Powell-Roos	USA	58.02m	26.	14	58.02	X	X
16.Philippa Roles	GBR	57.44m	27.	12	X	56.88	57.44
17.Harwant Kaur	IND	56.42m	30.	13	56.38	56.38	56.42
18.Oxana Yesipchuk	RUS	55.07m	32.	8	54.91	54.34	55.07
19.Tereapii Tapoki	COK	48.35m	37.	11	46.77	44.11	48.35

Group B 15.08 21:20	Team	Dist.	Rk.	SO	1.	2.	3.
1. Nicoleta Grasu	ROU	62.51m	2.	7	57.75	62.51
2. Aretha Thurmond	USA	61.90m	6.	2	58.70	61.90
3. Aimin Song	CHN	61.67m	8.	12	59.89	61.31	61.67
4. Vera Cechlova	CZE	61.61m	9.	8	61.61
5. Yanfeng Li	CHN	61.29m	10	13	60.99	61.29	X
6. Dragana Tomasevic	SRB	60.19m	13.	17	55.59	X	60.19
7. Yania Ferrales	CUB	59.87m	15.	16	59.87	58.73	59.85
8. Svetlana Saykina	RUS	59.48m	16.	6	X	X	59.48
9. Elizna Naude	RSA	58.75m	20.	5	58.75	57.09	58.35
10.Krishna Poonia	IND	58.23m	24.	19	57.31	58.23	58.15
11.Natalia Sadova	RUS	58.11m	25.	3	X	58.11	57.76
12.Beatrice Faumuina	NZL	57.15m	28.	14	57.15	X	54.49
13.Hanna Mazgunova	BLR	56.77m	29.	10	X	X	56.77
14.Anna Soderberg	SWE	55.28m	31.	15	X	55.28	53.48
15.Zinaida Sendriute	LTU	54.81m	33.	9	54.81	53.41	52.42
16.Venera Getova	BUL	54.00m	34.	1	52.51	54.00	52.40
17.Dorothea Kalpakidou	GRE	53.00m	35.	18	X	53.00	51.61
18.Barbara Rocio Comba	ARG	51.36m	36.	11	X	X	51.36
-. Zaneta Glanc	POL	NM		4	X	X	X