The women's javelin throw at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 August.Start list
Summary Olympic gold medalist Sara Kolak's second throw took the lead at 64.95 metres. Her lead lasted only two throws before world record holder, at age 36, Barbora Špotáková threw , which turned out to be the winner. These were two of six throwers who achieved their best distance in the second round. Li Lingwei's personal best 66.25 metres near the end of the third round put her in second place. After improving her own Asian record by almost a metre and a half to , to move to #11 of all time, in her only throw of the qualifying round, Lü Huihui barely qualified into the final round in seventh place. With the benefit of those three extra throws, Lü threw a 65.26m in the fifth round to take the bronze medal from Kolak. She was the only competitor to improve her position in the final three throws.
Records Before the competition records were as follows:
Record Athlete Date LocationWorld72.28Barbora Špotáková13 Sep 2008Stuttgart, GermanyChampionship71.99Maria Abakumova2 Sep 2011Daegu, South KoreaWorld leading68.43Sara Kolak6 Jul 2017Lausanne, SwitzerlandAfrican69.35Sunette Viljoen9 Jun 2012New York City, United StatesAsian66.13Lü HuihuiBeijing, ChinaNACAC71.70Olisdeilys Menéndez14 Aug 2005Helsinki, FinlandSouth American63.84Flor Ruiz25 Jun 2016Cali, ColombiaEuropean72.28Barbora Špotáková13 Sep 2008Stuttgart, GermanyOceanian66.83Kimberley Mickle22 Mar 2014Melbourne, Australia
The following records were set at the competition:
Record Athlete Date Asian67.59Lü Huihui6 Aug 2017Chinese
Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 61.40 metres.
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows: Date Time Round6 August 19:05 Qualification8 August 19:20 Final
Results
Qualification The qualification round took place on 6 August, in two groups, with Group A starting at 19:05 and Group B starting at 20:29. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 63.50 metres( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:
Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 B Lü Huihui 67.59 67.59 , 2 B Martina Ratej 65.64 65.64 , 3 A Katharina Molitor 61.76 65.37 65.37 , 4 A Liu Shiying 58.89 64.72 64.72 5 B Barbora Špotáková 59.04 64.32 64.32 6 B Eda Tuğsuz 62.13 61.51 63.87 63.87 7 A Kelsey-Lee Roberts 61.12 63.70 63.70 8 A Sara Kolak 63.03 63.24 63.24 9 B Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir 59.53 57.28 63.06 63.06 10 A Elizabeth Gleadle 61.39 62.97 62.97 11 A Tatsiana Khaladovich 62.58 61.07 59.73 62.58 12 B Li Lingwei 62.26 62.29 60.78 62.29 13 B Anete Kociņa 62.26 58.75 62.26 14 A Marharyta Dorozhon 56.02 61.33 61.33 15 A Kara Winger 61.27 58.24 59.63 61.27 16 A Marina Saito 59.21 57.29 60.86 60.86 17 B Christin Hussong 57.53 56.92 60.86 60.86 18 B Laila Domingos 60.54 56.44 60.10 60.54 19 A Nikola Ogrodníková 59.99 55.89 59.99 20 B Annu Rani 57.34 59.93 57.16 59.93 21 A Madara Palameika 59.54 59.54 22 B Marcelina Witek 59.00 59.00 23 A Flor Ruiz 57.93 57.94 57.94 24 A Yuki Ebihara 55.36 57.51 57.51 25 B Kathryn Mitchell 57.42 57.42 26 A Liveta Jasiūnaitė 50.51 55.05 55.80 55.80 27 A Sigrid Borge 54.94 55.08 55.08 28 B Ariana Ince 54.52 54.52 29 B Risa Miyashita 51.57 53.43 53.83 53.83 30 A Hanna Hatsko-Fedusova 51.90 51.90 B Vera Rebrik
Final The final took place on 8 August at 19:20. The results were as follows:
Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Barbora Špotáková 58.48 66.76 65.64 62.57 63.75 66.76 Li Lingwei 61.81 63.01 66.25 65.38 66.25 Lü Huihui 62.71 62.44 61.95 60.87 65.26 58.30 65.26 Sara Kolak 64.95 57.38 63.50 64.95 Eda Tuğsuz 61.81 64.52 63.68 64.47 62.77 64.52 Tatsiana Khaladovich 63.04 64.05 62.62 64.05 Katharina Molitor 59.81 63.75 59.67 59.67 59.80 58.30 63.75 Liu Shiying 62.28 62.84 61.31 61.39 62.84 Martina Ratej 61.05 59.11 61.05 10 Kelsey-Lee Roberts 60.76 58.39 59.76 60.76 11 Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir 57.38 60.16 60.16 12 Elizabeth Gleadle 60.12 58.87 58.36 60.12
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