Women Javelin Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo, Japan - Sunday 01.09

Women Javelin Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo, Japan - Sunday 01.09 - Gold Medal: Demei Xu, China

Final 16:00		Distance	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Demei Xu	CHN	68.78m	68.78	62.98	X	61.88	X	59.12
2. Petra Felke-Meier	GER	68.68m	67.10	68.68	63.38	65.20	64.50	X
3. Silke Renk	GER	66.80m	63.02	62.64	65.64	65.82	68.80	65.26
4. Natalya Cherniyenko	URS	65.22m	X	63.12	65.22	X	X	X
5. Trine Solberg-Hattestad	NOR	63.36m	X	63.36	X	62.50	60.90	62.92
6. Louise McPaul	AUS	63.34m	63.34	60.54	63.08	X	61.10	X
7. Dulce Garcia	CUB	62.68m	X	57.54	62.68	X	X	X
8. Paivi Alafrantti	FIN	62.26m	X	62.22	62.26	X	X	X
9. Heli Rantanen	FIN	60.96m
10.Anna Verouli	GRE	59.12m
11.Natalya Shikolenko	URS	58.82m
12.Karen Forkel	GER	57.90m

Women Javelin Throw - History

Eight days after winning the first of the Tokyo throws, China unexpectedly won the last. Xu Demei chose the best possible time to throw a personal best of 68.78: the first round of the final. Meier-Felke – the Rome silver medallist – threatened with 68.68 in the second round, but these two proved to be the only 68m+ efforts of the day.
The bronze medal also went to Germany but there was huge disappointment for the other German Forkel. She won the qualifying round with 68.14 then could only manage 57.90 in the final.

Qualification - Saturday 31.08 16:30

Mark 62.00m - 9 Athletes passed and next 3 were added.

Group A		Distance	Rk.
1. Karen Forkel	GER	68.14m	1.
2. Demei Xu	CHN	65.44m	4.
3. Paivi Alafrantti	FIN	64.38m	6.
4. Anna Verouli	GRE	63.02m	7.
5. Natalya Shikolenko	URS	62.08m	9.
6. Heli Rantanen	FIN	61.30m	10.
7. Antoaneta Todorova-Selenska	BUL	57.42m	18.
8. Sharon Gibson	GBR	56.64m	19.
9. Donna Mayhew	USA	56.34m	20.
10.Katalin Hartai	HUN	55.68m	21.
11.Laverne Eve	BAH	55.14m	22.
12.Akiko Miyajima	JPN	52.86m	26.
13.Matilda Kisava	TAN	52.60m	27.
14.Sueli Pereira Dos Santos	BRA	51.20m	28.
-. Nadine Schoellkopf-Auzeil	FRA	NM
-. Isel Lopez	CUB	NM

Group B		Distance	Rk.
1. Petra Felke-Meier	GER	67.24m	2.
2. Trine Solberg-Hattestad	NOR	66.92m	3.
3. Silke Renk	GER	65.24m	5.
4. Dulce Garcia	CUB	62.18m	8.
5. Louise McPaul	AUS	61.08m	11.
6. Natalya Cherniyenko	URS	60.90m	12.
7. Karin Smith	USA	60.34m	13.
8. Genowefa Patla	POL	60.18m	14.
9. Tiina Lillak	FIN	58.42m	15.
10.Paula Berry	USA	57.94m	16.
11.Irina Kostyuchenkova	URS	57.60m	17.
12.Fei Sun	CHN	55.04m	23.
13.Kirsten Smith-Hellier	NZL	53.98m	24.
14.Iris Gronfeldt	ISL	53.92m	25.
15.Marieta Riera	VEN	50.62m	29.