Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Women's javelin throw

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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's javelin throw event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 29 competitors, with two qualifying groups (29 throwers) before the final (12) took place on Monday September 26, 1988.

1 Medalists
2 Records
3 Final
4 Qualification
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Petra Felke East Germany (GDR)	Fatima Whitbread Great Britain (GBR)	Beate Koch East Germany (GDR)

[edit] Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record	80.00	Petra Felke	Potsdam (GDR)	September 9, 1988
Olympic Record	69.56	Tessa Sanderson	Los Angeles (USA)	August 6, 1984

Petra Felke set a new Olympic record with 72.62 metres in the first throw. Finally she set the new Olympic record with 74.68 metres.

[edit] Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE	1	2	3	4	5	6
	Petra Felke (GDR)	74.68 m	72.62	74.68	66.12	66.76	71.12	68.38
	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	70.32 m	61.98	67.46	66.58	64.86	67.82	70.32
	Beate Koch (GDR)	67.30 m	67.30	65.66	66.48	62.04	65.64	66.02
4.	Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS)	67.00 m	64.34	67.00	63.12	63.42	63.10	X
5.	Silke Renk (GDR)	66.38 m	60.86	58.74	63.98	64.60	64.74	66.38
6.	Natalya Ermolovich (URS)	64.84 m	64.84	X	X	X	X	X
7.	Donna Mayhew (USA)	61.78 m	57.52	X	61.78	59.72	X	56.74
8.	Ingrid Thyssen (FRG)	60.76 m	60.76	60.12	56.66	X	59.64	58.28
9.	Denise Thiémard (SUI)	58.54 m	57.58	57.20	58.54
10.	Päivi Alafrantti (FIN)	58.20m	58.20	55.86	56.46
11.	Antoaneta Selenska (BUL)	56.78 m	56.78	X	X
12.	Zsuzsa Malovecz (HUN)	54.58 m	X	54.58	X

[edit] Qualification

Held on Sunday September 25, 1988

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Petra Felke (GDR)	67.06 m
2.	Beate Koch (GDR)	66.86 m
3.	Natalya Ermolovich (URS)	64.44 m
4.	Zsuzsa Malovecz (HUN)	64.30 m
5.	Denise Thiémard (SUI)	61.74 m
6.	Tuula Laaksalo (FIN)	60.64 m
7.	Beate Peters (FRG)	60.20 m
8.	Laverne Eve (BAH)	60.02 m
9.	Trine Solberg (NOR)	58.82 m
10.	Anna Verouli (GRE)	58.52 m
11.	Tessa Sanderson (GBR)	56.70 m
12.	Zhou Yuanxiang (CHN)	56.36 m
13.	Lynda Sutfin (USA)	56.12 m
14.	Céline Chartrand (CAN)	54.10 m
—	Nadine Auzeil (FRA)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	68.44 m
2.	Antoaneta Selenska (BUL)	64.60 m
3.	Silke Renk (GDR)	63.64 m
4.	Ingrid Thyssen (FRG)	63.32 m
5.	Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS)	63.24 m
6.	Päivi Alafrantti (FIN)	62.82 m
7.	Donna Mayhew (USA)	61.56 m
8.	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	60.06 m
9.	Li Baolian (CHN)	58.92 m
10.	Karin Smith (USA)	57.94 m
11.	Emi Matsui (JPN)	56.26 m
12.	Sharon Gibson (GBR)	56.00 m
13.	Íris Grönfeldt (ISL)	54.28 m
14.	Yoo Chun-Ok (KOR)	48.26 m