2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw

Women's discus throw at the 2015 World Championships
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	24 August (qualification) 25 August (final)
Competitors	31 from 20 nations
Winning distance	69.28
Medalists
Denia Caballero    Cuba   Sandra Perković    Croatia   Nadine Müller    Germany

Events at the 2015 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's discus throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 24 and 25 August.^[1][2]

In 2015, Denia Caballero found five extra metres in her throws to become the number one ranked thrower. She had no intention of making a dramatic competition. On her first throw, the sixth throw of qualifying she launched the best throw of the preliminary round. Then in the finals, on her first effort only four throws into the competition she threw 69.28. Only one other girl in Beijing had ever thrown a discus that far, she was the defending champion Sandra Perković. So it was up to the rest of the field to do something spectacular or settle for other medals. Three throws later Nadine Müller threw 65.53 to take over second place. After fouling her first attempt, Perković threw 65.35 to move into third place. Gia Lewis-Smallwood was the only other athlete to reach the low 69's was not having a 69 kind of day, instead muddled at the back of the field. On her final throw Perković threw 67.39 to finally move into silver medal position. Yaime Pérez tried to make it interesting but her 65.46 final attempt missed a medal.^[3]

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[4]

World record	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)	76.80	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	7 July 1988
Championship record	Martina Hellmann (GDR)	71.62	Rome, Italy	31 August 1987
World leading	Denia Caballero (CUB)	70.65	Bilbao, Spain	20 June 2015
African record	Elizna Naudé (RSA)	64.87	Stellenbosch, South Africa	2 March 2003
Asian record	Xiao Yanling (CHN)	71.68	Beijing, China	14 March 1992
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Hilda Ramos (CUB)	70.88	Havana, Cuba	8 May 1992
South American record	Andressa de Morais (BRA)	64.21	Barquisimeto, Venezuela	10 June 2012
European record	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR)	76.80	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	7 July 1988
Oceanian record	Daniela Costian (AUS)	68.72	Auckland, New Zealand	22 January 1994

Qualification standards

Schedule

All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 63.00 m (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q).^[6]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Mark	Notes7
1	A	Denia Caballero	Cuba (CUB)	65.15			65.15	Q
2	B	Sandra Perković	Croatia (CRO)	58.95	64.51		64.51	Q
3	B	Nadine Müller	Germany (GER)	64.39			64.39	Q
4	A	Julia Fischer	Germany (GER)	63.38			63.38	Q
5	B	Yaime Pérez	Cuba (CUB)	x	61.79	62.93	62.93	q
6	A	Shanice Craft	Germany (GER)	62.73	x	x	62.73	q
7	B	Gia Lewis-Smallwood	United States (USA)	62.04	60.28	–	62.04	q
8	A	Dani Samuels	Australia (AUS)	x	61.87	62.01	62.01	q
9	B	Mélina Robert-Michon	France (FRA)	60.23	57.93	61.78	61.78	q
10	A	Su Xinyue	China (CHN)	61.04	60.70	61.68	61.68	q
11	A	Whitney Ashley	United States (USA)	60.88	x	60.18	60.88	q
12	B	Natalia Semenova	Ukraine (UKR)	59.96	60.72	57.74	60.72	q
13	A	Zinaida Sendriūtė	Lithuania (LTU)	60.33	x	55.22	60.33
14	B	Shelbi Vaughan	United States (USA)	60.24	x	57.38	60.24
15	A	Yelena Panova	Russia (RUS)	60.21	57.52	55.69	60.21
16	B	Tan Jian	China (CHN)	59.84	x	x	59.84
17	B	Yekaterina Strokova	Russia (RUS)	x	x	59.32	59.32
18	A	Te Rina Keenan	New Zealand (NZL)	57.11	59.20	58.79	59.20
19	A	Andressa de Morais	Brazil (BRA)	55.85	x	59.08	59.08
20	B	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia (SRB)	56.70	57.48	58.98	58.98
21	A	Lu Xiaoxin	China (CHN)	x	58.12	58.55	58.55
22	B	Karen Gallardo	Chile (CHI)	55.96	58.32	55.50	58.32
23	B	Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou	Greece (GRE)	55.23	58.20	x	58.20
24	A	Sabina Asenjo	Spain (ESP)	57.56	x	58.04	58.04
25	A	Yuliya Maltseva	Russia (RUS)	57.08	57.03	x	57.08
26	B	Fernanda Martins	Brazil (BRA)	56.74	x	56.26	56.74
27	A	Sanna Kämäräinen	Finland (FIN)	56.68	53.19	x	56.68
28	A	Rocío Comba	Argentina (ARG)	x	56.11	x	56.11
29	B	Subenrat Insaeng	Thailand (THA)	50.20	55.14	x	55.14
30	B	Siositina Hakeai	New Zealand (NZL)	54.89	x	x	54.89
31	B	Irina Rodrigues	Portugal (POR)	x	48.10	52.82	52.82

Final

The final was started at 19:00.^[7]

Rank	Name	Nationality	# 1	# 2	# 3	# 4	# 5	# 6	Mark	Notes
	Denia Caballero	Cuba (CUB)	69.28	63.83	x	65.97	66.55	66.58	69.28
	Sandra Perković	Croatia (CRO)	x	65.35	x	65.37	x	67.39	67.39
	Nadine Müller	Germany (GER)	65.53	x	60.85	x	x	62.67	65.53
4	Yaime Pérez	Cuba (CUB)	x	62.63	59.63	64.60	64.31	65.46	65.46
5	Julia Fischer	Germany (GER)	63.88	x	x	59.22	x	63.19	63.88
6	Dani Samuels	Australia (AUS)	53.65	62.90	63.08	63.14	61.48	62.31	63.14
7	Shanice Craft	Germany (GER)	61.80	61.72	61.46	59.23	63.10	62.86	63.10
8	Su Xinyue	China (CHN)	62.90	62.58	58.47	61.56	62.33	62.61	62.90
9	Whitney Ashley	United States (USA)	x	56.91	61.05				61.05
10	Mélina Robert-Michon	France (FRA)	59.25	60.92	59.89				60.92
11	Gia Lewis-Smallwood	United States (USA)	x	60.55	59.02				60.55
12	Natalia Semenova	Ukraine (UKR)	57.94	59.54	54.97				59.54

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