2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's discus throw

The women's discus throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 20 and 22 August 2023.

Summary

Of the 12 finalists in Eugene, 10 of them returned to this year's finals. And those 10 were the top 10 from the preliminaries. The top 3 were the medalists.

In the first round of the finals Olympic Champion Valarie Allman got off a 68.57m to take the early lead. Defending champion Feng Bin responded with a 66.97m. Jorinde van Klinken held on to third place with a 63.93m. With her second attempt, two-time Olympic and two-time world champion Sandra Perković moved into the top 3 with a 66.57m. In the third round, Allman improved to 68.79m. She improved again to 69.23m in the fourth round. Bin also improved to 67.18m

At the end of the third round, Laulauga Tausaga had to throw a 65.56m personal best to leap from dead last 12th place into fifth place and a chance to make three more throws. She had needed to throw a personal best 65.46m as the final throw at her USA National Championships just to be eligible to come to these championships. On her newly earned fifth throw, she threw the winner , a four metre (13 feet) improvement in her personal best over the course of three rounds.

van Klinken's fifth round throw of 67.20m edged her back into third place. Bin improved to 68.20m on her final attempt to move back into third place. Allman was unable to improve, so on a breakthrough night, the surprised and ecstatic Tausaga was able to step into the ring for her final attempt already confirmed as the champion. She then threw the second best throw of her career, 68.36m.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record76.80 mNeubrandenburg, East Germany9 July 1988Championship record71.62 mRome, Italy31 August 1987World Leading70.25 mSan Diego, United States7 April 2023African Record64.96 mRamona, United States15 April 2023Asian Record71.68 mBeijing, China14 March 1992North, Central American and Caribbean record71.46 mSan Diego, United States8 April 2022South American Record65.34 mLeiria, Portugal26 June 2019European Record76.80 mNeubrandenburg, East Germany9 July 1988Oceanian record69.64 mLondon, United Kingdom13 August 2017

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 64.20 m.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date Time Round20 August 09:00 Qualification22 August 20:20 Final

Results

Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 64.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 A Valarie Allman 67.14 67.14 Q 2 A Feng Bin 63.97 61.47 65.68 65.68 Q 3 A Sandra Perković 65.62 65.62 Q, 4 B Claudine Vita 59.85 64.51 64.51 Q 5 B Laulauga Tausaga x 64.34 64.34 Q 6 A Shanice Craft x 63.42 63.18 63.42 q 7 A Liliana Cá 61.27 63.34 x 63.34 q 8 B Jorinde van Klinken 62.05 63.20 x 63.20 q 9 A Silinda Morales x 60.54 62.76 62.76 q 10 B Kristin Pudenz 62.67 x 62.71 62.71 q 11 B Mélina Robert-Michon 61.82 58.99 60.21 61.82 q 12 A Daisy Osakue x 58.77 61.31 61.31 q 13 A Vanessa Kamga x x 60.02 60.02 14 A Ieva Zarankaitė 59.98 59.92 x 59.98 15 B Veronica Fraley 57.71 59.36 x 59.36 16 B Daria Zabawska 59.28 56.44 58.76 59.28 17 A Andressa de Morais 52.54 59.15 56.01 59.15 18 B Marija Tolj 58.92 57.28 x 58.92 19 B 56.72 x 58.78 58.78 20 A Taryn Gollshewsky 58.63 x 58.11 58.63 21 B Chioma Onyekwere 54.97 58.58 57.73 58.58 22 B Izabela da Silva 58.45 57.89 56.94 58.45 23 B Samantha Hall 56.31 55.44 58.43 58.43 24 A Lisa Brix Pedersen 57.96 52.58 56.14 57.96 25 A Ashley Anumba 57.77 51.86 55.76 57.77 26 B Irina Rodrigues 56.86 55.37 57.08 57.08 27 B Karen Gallardo 50.75 48.74 56.74 56.74 28 A Subenrat Insaeng 56.19 x x 56.19 29 A Elena Bruckner 55.63 54.23 55.94 55.94 30 B 54.90 53.63 x 54.90 31 A Salla Sipponen 53.85 53.47 54.72 54.72 32 B Caisa-Marie Lindfors 53.83 53.24 54.54 54.54 33 A Nora Monie x 54.50 54.38 54.50 34 A Dóra Kerekes 54.41 53.44 52.99 54.41 35 B x 53.39 53.34 53.39 36 A x 53.14 53.20 53.20 37 B Obiageri Amaechi x 50.69 51.60 51.60

Final The final was started on 22 August at 20:20. Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Laulauga Tausaga x 52.28 65.56 x 69.49 68.36 69.49 Valarie Allman 68.57 66.94 68.79 69.23 64.60 68.61 69.23 Feng Bin 66.97 65.16 65.91 67.18 67.41 68.20 68.20 4 Jorinde van Klinken 63.93 64.41 62.94 64.47 67.20 66.97 67.20 5 Sandra Perković x 66.57 x 65.64 65.09 x 66.57 6 Kristin Pudenz 63.81 63.94 65.73 64.11 65.96 x 65.96 7 Shanice Craft 63.59 61.44 65.03 65.47 x 63.67 65.47 8 Liliana Cá 58.86 x 63.59 x x 62.49 63.59 9 Mélina Robert-Michon 53.34 63.46 x 63.46 10 Claudine Vita 60.29 62.51 63.19 63.19 11 Silinda Morales 62.31 53.26 x 62.31 12 Daisy Osakue x 61.13 x 61.13

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