The Women's Discus Throw event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program was held at the Olympic Stadium on Monday, 25 September and Wednesday, 27 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 set at 63.00 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 B25.09.2000 – 10:00h25.09.2000 – 11:40hFinal Round27.09.2000 – 20:30h

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

Records Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics World Record 76.80 m 9 July 1988 Neubrandenburg, East Germany Olympic Record 72.30 m 29 September 1988 Seoul, South Korea

Qualification

Group A RankOverallAthleteCountryAttemptsDistanceNote123 1 1 Ellina Zvereva 61.26 64.81 — 64.81 m 2 4 Ilke Wyludda 62.97 X 60.83 62.97 m 3 7 Seilala Sua 56.19 61.88 59.06 61.88 m 4 8 Stiliani Tsikouna 59.58 61.59 56.33 61.59 m 5 11 Yu Xin 59.79 61.00 60.12 61.00 m 6 13 Olena Antonova 60.73 60.28 59.85 60.73 m 7 14 Vladimíra Racková X 60.24 55.32 60.24 m 8 17 Oksana Yesipchuk 59.51 57.14 58.64 59.51 m 9 19 Nicoleta Grasu X X 58.87 58.87 m 10 20 Larisa Korotkevich 58.81 56.90 X 58.81 m 11 21 Qi Cao 57.88 57.01 58.03 58.03 m 12 23 Monia Kari 56.32 52.61 54.01 56.32 m 13 29 Mélina Robert-Michon X 54.11 X 54.11 m 14 30 Renata Gustaitytė X 53.64 X 53.64 m 15 31 Daniela Costian X 51.96 X 51.96 m 16 32 Mariana Canillas X 32.31 X 32.31 m

Group B RankOverallAthleteCountryAttemptsDistanceNote123 1 2 Natalya Sadova 64.62 — — 64.62 m 2 3 Anastasia Kelesidou 63.64 — — 63.64 m 3 5 Irina Yatchenko 62.72 58.94 60.89 62.72 m 4 6 Lisa-Marie Vizaniari 60.39 59.39 62.47 62.47 m 5 9 Beatrice Faumuina 61.33 57.88 58.55 61.33 m 6 10 Aikaterini Vongoli 61.29 X X 61.29 m 7 12 Franka Dietzsch 59.78 60.74 59.29 60.74 m 8 15 Suzy Powell-Roos X X 59.68 59.68 m 9 16 Alison Lever X 54.45 59.58 59.58 m 10 18 Kris Kuehl 59.45 54.02 57.54 59.45 m 11 22 Li Qiumei 56.28 56.59 55.01 56.59 m 12 24 Anna Söderberg 54.94 55.89 56.11 56.11 m 13 25 Teresa Machado X X 55.86 55.86 m 14 26 Neelam Jaswant Singh 55.22 55.26 X 55.26 m 15 27 Oksana Mert 54.18 54.74 55.02 55.02 m 16 28 Alice Matejková 54.19 53.12 X 54.19 m

Final RankAthleteAttemptsDistanceExtra123456 67.00 66.12 68.40 65.80 X X 68.40 m SB 65.71 63.20 62.59 64.58 63.07 61.85 65.71 m X 62.93 61.09 63.15 65.20 X 65.20 m 4 65.00 61.64 61.92 62.86 X 60.47 65.00 m 5 61.85 60.66 X X 59.91 64.08 64.08 m 6 X 61.65 58.17 60.36 63.18 X 63.18 m 7 63.16 61.91 62.22 59.86 61.72 62.33 63.16 m 8 60.78 62.43 62.57 X 62.24 X 62.57 m 9 60.72 61.57 60.45 61.57 m 10 58.03 56.24 59.85 59.85 m 11 54.48 59.50 56.84 59.50 m 12 56.86 X 58.69 58.69 m 13 57.95 58.34 57.89 58.34 m

References

External links Official Report of the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympics todor66.com IAAF