The women's discus throw competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–21 August. It was originally planned to hold the discus throw at the Ancient Olympia Stadium, but it was discovered that the field was not large enough to accommodate the range of modern discus throwers, and would have posed a danger to spectators. As such, it was decided to move the discus throw and to hold the shot put at the ancient stadium, despite the fact that the shot put was not contested at the Ancient Olympic Games.

On December 5, 2012, Belarusian discus thrower Iryna Yatchenko was stripped of her bronze medal after drug re-testings of her samples on methandienone had been discovered positive. Following the announcement of Yatchenko's disqualification, the International Olympic Committee Executive Board had distributed and awarded the bronze to Czech Republic's Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, who originally finished fourth in the final.

Competition format Each athlete receives three throws in the qualifying round. All who achieve the qualifying distance progress to the final. If less than twelve athletes achieve this mark, then the twelve furthest throwing athletes reach the final. Each finalist is allowed three throws in last round, with the top eight athletes after that point being given three further attempts.

Schedule All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2) Date Time RoundFriday, 20 August 2004 21:30QualificationSaturday, 21 August 2004 21:10Final

Records Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows:

No new records were set during the competition.

Results

Qualifying round Rule: Qualifying standard 62.50 (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q).

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 A Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová 64.48 64.48 Q 2 A Natalya Sadova 64.33 64.33 Q 3 B Olena Antonova 62.15 64.20 64.20 Q 4 B Anastasia Kelesidou 64.13 64.13 Q 5 A Beatrice Faumuina 64.07 64.07 Q 6 A Ekaterini Voggoli 63.39 63.39 Q 7 B Iryna Yatchenko 62.15 63.04 63.04 Q 8 A Nicoleta Grasu 59.87 60.8961.9161.91 q 9 B Styliani Tsikouna 61.72 60.17 60.67 61.72 q 10 B Yania Ferrales 56.46 61.54 61.54 q 11 A Joanna Wiśniewska 61.48 56.1158.4361.48 q 12 B Li Yanfeng 61.19 61.35 61.24 61.35 q 13 A Harwant Kaur 60.82 59.20 59.9560.82 14 B Seema Antil 59.93 60.64 58.41 60.64 15 A Ellina Zvereva 60.3560.6360.63 16 B Wioletta Potępa 60.50 57.9960.50 17 B Neelam Jaswant Singh 60.26 57.25 60.10 60.26 18 A Philippa Roles 57.3058.8358.83 19 B Aretha Hill 52.93 58.82 58.82 20 B Elizna Naudé 58.74 58.26 58.3258.74 21 A Olga Chernyavskaya 58.6458.1958.5558.64 22 A Stephanie Brown 58.5458.54 23 B Teresa Machado 58.47 57.00 57.65 58.47 24 A Natalya Fokina 58.2856.8455.6458.28 25 B Song Aimin 58.19 58.03 58.19 26 A Elisângela Adriano 58.1358.13 27 A Franka Dietzsch 57.5758.1258.12 28 B Dace Ruskule 54.49 57.43 57.43 29 A Vera Begić 54.8057.3157.31 30 B Oksana Yesipchuk 57.27 57.18 57.27 31 A Mélina Robert-Michon 56.7056.5356.70 32 A Huang Qun 56.5355.0656.53 33 B Shelley Newman 54.04 56.04 56.04 34 B Vladimíra Racková 55.82 55.36 55.82 35 A Anna Söderberg 54.0455.4951.2455.49 36 B Alice Matejková 54.15 55.37 55.37 37 B Eha Rünne 54.28 54.8254.82 38 B Dragana Tomašević 51.71 54.4454.44 39 A Éva Kürti 52.5250.8552.52 40 A Tereapii Tapoki 47.5948.1248.12 41 A Tsvetanka Khristova 43.25 43.25 B Seilala Sua

Final Rank Name Nationality 1 2 3 4 5 6 Result Notes Natalya Sadova 64.78 64.81 65.33 67.02 66.68 67.02 Anastasia Kelesidou 62.77 66.68 63.71 66.09 61.59 66.68 Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová 63.02 66.08 62.81 63.21 64.84 66.08 Olena Antonova 59.88 64.11 63.61 60.37 65.75 65.75 Nicoleta Grasu 62.01 62.21 63.48 61.58 61.93 64.92 64.92 SB Beatrice Faumuina 62.45 63.45 62.99 63.45 Ekaterini Voggoli 60.66 61.44 62.37 62.32 61.84 62.37 Li Yanfeng 60.67 57.36 61.05 61.05 Joanna Wiśniewska 58.33 60.74 59.95 60.74 10 Styliani Tsikouna 59.48 57.76 59.48 Yania Ferrales Iryna Yatchenko 59.9861.6766.1765.4663.0865.5466.17

References

External links Official Olympic Report