The Women's Javelin Throw event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program went held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, 29 September and Saturday, 30 September.

The qualifying athletes progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with up to six throws. The qualifying distance was 61.50 metres. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest throws until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Medalists

Schedule All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) Qualification RoundGroup AGroup B29.09.2000 – 10:00h29.09.2000 – 11:45hFinal Round30.09.2000 – 20:00h

Abbreviations Q automatic qualification q qualification by rankDNS did not startNM no markWR world recordOR olympic recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best

Records Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics World Record 69.41 m 28 July 2000 Oslo, Norway Olympic Record New javelin was introduced officially from 01.04.1999Broken records during the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic Record 67.34 m 29 September 2000 Sydney, Australia Olympic Record 68.91 m 30 September 2000 Sydney, Australia

Qualification

Group A RankOverallAthleteCountryAttemptsDistanceNote123 1 2Steffi Nerius 65.76 — — 65.76 m PB 2 3Trine Hattestad 65.44 — — 65.44 m 3 4Mirella Maniani-Tzelili 63.34 — — 63.34 m 4 7Mikaela Ingberg 58.94 60.85 X 60.85 m 5 9Li Lei 57.01 X 60.57 60.57 m 6 11Sonia Bisset 59.13 X 60.09 60.09 m 7 13Rita Ramanauskaitė 57.81 X 59.21 59.21 m 8 14Nikolett Szabó 58.86 55.95 56.72 58.86 m 9 22Ana Mirela Țermure 55.67 56.31 53.86 56.31 m 10 24Yekaterina Ivakina 55.30 52.43 55.58 55.58 m 11 26 Lynda Blutreich X 52.77 55.25 55.25 m 12 27Evfemija Štorga X 54.94 52.97 54.94 m 13 28Khristina Georgieva 54.60 51.10 53.31 54.60 m 14 29Nadine Auzeil 51.02 53.85 49.90 53.85 m 15 30 Inga Kožarenoka 53.83 X X 53.83 m 16 31Louise Currey 53.32 X — 53.32 m 17 32Gurmeet Kaur 52.78 48.80 46.46 52.78 m 18 35Tatyana Sudarikova 47.56 X 48.33 48.33 m

Group B RankOverallAthleteCountryAttemptsDistanceNote123 1 1Osleidys Menéndez 67.34 — — 67.34 m AR 2 5Xiomara Rivero 61.89 — — 61.89 m SB 3 6Tatyana Shikolenko 61.54 — — 61.54 m 4 8Wei Jianhua 60.64 X 57.19 60.64 m 5 10Claudia Coslovich 60.12 X 57.05 60.12 m 6 12Nikola Tomečková 59.49 55.40 59.40 59.49 m 7 15Felicia Țilea-Moldovan 54.11 58.75 X 58.75 m 8 16Laverne Eve X 57.98 58.36 58.36 m 9 17Joanna Stone 53.34 57.57 58.34 58.34 m 10 18Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi X 58.11 X 58.11 m 11 19Tetyana Lyakhovych 55.81 53.33 57.41 57.41 m 12 20Taina Uppa 57.39 X X 57.39 m 13 21Olivia McKoy 55.98 52.83 56.36 56.36 m 14 23Sueli dos Santos X 56.27 50.50 56.27 m 15 25Marta Míguez 55.52 55.01 X 55.52 m 16 33Lee Young-Sun 49.84 X X 49.84 m 17 34Sabina Moya 41.22 49.16 47.37 49.16 m

Final RankAthleteAttemptsDistanceNote123456 68.91 62.27 X 64.38 66.22 64.09 68.91 m OR X 65.56 67.51 61.96 65.34 67.51 67.51 m NR 66.03 64.99 65.17 63.95 62.47 66.18 66.18 m 4 61.99 61.41 64.84 57.88 61.11 61.02 64.84 m 5 63.26 62.77 X X 62.85 63.11 63.26 m 6 62.10 62.92 X 60.20 X X 62.92 m PB 7 58.28 62.91 61.54 X X 61.97 62.91 m 8 58.13 55.86 58.69 56.12 61.30 62.10 62.10 m 9 58.10 55.97 58.56 58.56 m 10 54.06 58.23 58.33 58.33 m 11 X X 56.83 56.83 m 12 56.46 54.28 56.74 56.74 m

See also 1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw 2001 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw

References

External links Official Report todor66