2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw


The women's javelin throw at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 August.

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:
RecordAthleteDateLocation
World72.28Barbora Špotáková13 Sep 2008Stuttgart, Germany
Championship71.99Maria Abakumova2 Sep 2011Daegu, South Korea
World leading68.43Sara Kolak6 Jul 2017Lausanne, Switzerland
African69.35Sunette Viljoen9 Jun 2012New York City, United States
Asian66.13Lü HuihuiBeijing, China
NACAC71.70Olisdeilys Menéndez14 Aug 2005Helsinki, Finland
South American63.84Flor Ruiz25 Jun 2016Cali, Colombia
European72.28Barbora Špotáková13 Sep 2008Stuttgart, Germany
Oceanian66.83Kimberley Mickle22 Mar 2014Melbourne, Australia

The following records were set at the competition:
RecordAthleteDate
Asian67.59Lü Huihui6 Aug 2017
Chinese67.59Lü Huihui6 Aug 2017

[|Qualification] standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 61.40 metres.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time, was as follows:
DateTimeRound
6 August19:05Qualification
8 August19:20Final

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 or at least the 12 best performers qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:

Final

The final took place on 8 August at 19:20. The results were as follows: