1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw

Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Women's Discus Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 23 participating athletes, with the final held on Monday August 31, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Martina Hellmann East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Diana Sachse-Gansky East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Tsvetanka Khristova Bulgaria (BUL)

Schedule

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
30.08.1987 – ??:??h	30.08.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
31.08.1987 – 18:00h

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 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)	74.56 m	August 26, 1984	Nitra, Czechoslovakia
Event Record	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)	68.94 m	August 10, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)	71.62 m	August 31, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance
1	5	Diana Sachse-Gansky (GDR)				63.64 m
2	6	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)				62.80 m
3	7	Larisa Mikhalchenko (URS)				62.52 m
4	9	Maritza Martén (CUB)				60.40 m
5	10	Connie Price-Smith (USA)				59.90 m
6	11	Mariana Lengyel (ROU)				59.72 m
7	16	Anne Paavolainen-Kansakangas (FIN)				57.10 m
8	17	Yu Hourun (CHN)				56.70 m
9	20	Nabila Mouelhi (TUN)				45.94 m
10	21	Hanane Ahmed Khaled (EGY)				42.64 m
11	22	Dorie Cortejo (PHI)				40.98 m
12	23	Morgyn Warner (ZIM)				38.56 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
Rank	Overall	Athlete	1	2	3	Distance
1	1	Ilke Wyludda (GDR)				68.40 m
2	2	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)				66.86 m
3	3	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)				66.80 m
4	4	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)				64.64 m
5	8	Larisa Korotkevich (URS)				60.48 m
6	12	Renata Katewicz (POL)				58.88 m
7	13	Carol Cady (USA)				58.50 m
8	14	Hou Xuemei (CHN)				58.26 m
9	15	Anne Salak-Khorina (URS)				57.76 m
10	18	María Isabel Urrutia (COL)				53.94 m
11	19	Maria Marello (ITA)				52.74 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Notes
Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance	Notes
01 !	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)							71.62 m	CR
02 !	Diana Sachse-Gansky (GDR)							70.12 m
03 !	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)							68.82 m
4	Ilke Wyludda (GDR)							68.20 m
5	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)							66.58 m
6	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)							64.82 m
7	Larisa Mikhalchenko (URS)							64.72 m
8	Mariana Lengyel (ROU)							62.30 m

9	Maritza Martén (CUB)							62.00 m
10	Larisa Korotkevich (URS)							60.74 m
11	Renata Katewicz (POL)							58.22 m
—	Connie Price-Smith (USA)							NM

References

Results

Discus throw at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Summary

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