1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw

These are the official results of the Women's Discus Throw event at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 23 participating athletes, with the final held on Monday August 31, 1987.

Medalists

Gold	Martina Hellmann East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Diana Gansky East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Tsvetanka Khristova Bulgaria (BUL)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
30.08.1987 – ??:??h	30.08.1987 – ??:??h
Final Round
31.08.1987 – 18:00h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1987 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)	74.56 m	August 26, 1984	Nitra, Czechoslovakia
Event Record	Martina Hellmann (GDR)	68.94 m	August 10, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Broken records during the 1987 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Martina Opitz-Hellmann (GDR)	71.62 m	August 31, 1987	Rome, Italy

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	5	Diana Gansky (GDR)				63.64 m
2	6	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)				62.80 m
3	7	Larisa Mikhalchenko (URS)				62.52 m
4	9	Maritza Martén (CUB)				60.40 m
5	10	Connie Price-Smith (USA)				59.90 m
6	11	Mariana Lengyel (ROU)				59.72 m
7	16	Anne Paavolainen-Kansakangas (FIN)				57.10 m
8	17	Yu Hourun (CHN)				56.70 m
9	20	Nabila Mouelhi (TUN)				45.94 m
10	21	Hanane Ahmed Khaled (EGY)				42.64 m
11	22	Dorie Cortejo (PHI)				40.98 m
12	23	Morgyn Warner (ZIM)				38.56 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Ilke Wyludda (GDR)				68.40 m
2	2	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)				66.86 m
3	3	Martina Hellmann (GDR)				66.80 m
4	4	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)				64.64 m
5	8	Larisa Korotkevich (URS)				60.48 m
6	12	Renata Katewicz (POL)				58.88 m
7	13	Carol Cady (USA)				58.50 m
8	14	Hou Xuemei (CHN)				58.26 m
9	15	Anne Salak-Khorina (URS)				57.76 m
10	18	María Isabel Urrutia (COL)				53.94 m
11	19	Maria Marello (ITA)				52.74 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Notes
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Martina Hellmann (GDR)	71.08	68.90	69.66	71.62	X	67.86	71.62 m	CR
	Diana Gansky (GDR)	66.64	67.50	70.12	68.78	65.42	X	70.12 m
	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)	63.72	66.10	65.38	63.36	68.82	68.80	68.82 m
4	Ilke Wyludda (GDR)	68.20	62.60	62.06	67.64	67.06	67.44	68.20 m
5	Svetla Mitkova (BUL)	64.86	65.44	65.48	65.58	X	66.58	66.58 m
6	Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)	64.34	64.82	X	64.46	64.03	63.88	64.82 m
7	Larisa Mikhalchenko (URS)	64.18	64.72	59.72	63.66	60.68	63.54	64.72 m	PB
8	Mariana Lengyel (ROU)	62.30	59.28	59.54	X	58.14	60.86	62.30 m
9	Maritza Martén (CUB)							62.00 m
10	Larisa Korotkevich (URS)							60.74 m
11	Renata Katewicz (POL)							58.22 m
—	Connie Price-Smith (USA)							NM

References

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