1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw

These are the official results of the Women's Javelin Throw event at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 30 participating athletes, with the final held on Saturday 28 August 1999.

Medalists

Gold	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili Greece (GRE)
Silver	Tatyana Shikolenko Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Trine Solberg-Hattestad Norway (NOR)

Schedule

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

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
26.08.1999 – 18:45h	26.08.1999 – 20:40h
Final Round
28.08.1999 – 19:10h

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

Startlist

Order	No.	Athlete	Season Best	Personal Best
GROUP A
1	868	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	64.25	64.25
2	645	Rita Ramanauskaitė (LTU)	62.21	62.21
3	207	Sonia Bisset (CUB)
4	170	Wei Jianhua (CHN)	60.33	60.33
5	38	Louise McPaul-Currey (AUS)	66.03	66.03
6	408	Karen Forkel (GER)	65.17	65.17
7	216	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	66.45	66.45
8	432	Steffi Nerius (GER)	61.56	61.56
9	192	Sabina Moya (COL)	58.81	58.81
10	509	Gurmeet Kaur (IND)	55.86
11	722	Trine Solberg-Hattestad (NOR)	68.19	68.19
12	745	Genowefa Patla (POL)	61.05	61.05
13	325	Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)	60.59	60.59
14	905	Evfemija Štorga (SLO)	59.30	59.30
15	807	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan (ROM)	60.97	60.97
GROUP B
1	329	Taina Uppa (FIN)	63.63	63.63
2	162	Liang Lili (CHN)	59.41	59.41
3	218	Xiomara Rivero (CUB)	62.46	62.46
4	853	Oksana Ovchinnikova (RUS)	64.61	64.61
5	806	Ana Mirela Țermure (ROM)	61.35	61.35
6	404	Tanja Damaske (GER)	66.91	66.91
7	610	Lee Young-Sun (KOR)	56.22	56.22
8	61	Laverne Eve (BAH)	62.94	62.94
9	115	Khristina Georgieva (BUL)	59.48	59.48
10	357	Nadine Auzeil-Schoellkopf (FRA)	61.08	61.08
11	462	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili (GRE)	66.55	66.55
12	393	Maka Obolashvili (GEO)
13	234	Nikola Tomečková (CZE)	60.92	60.92
14	995	Lynda Blutreich (USA)	57.14	57.14
15	753	Ewa Rybak (POL)	60.76	60.76

Records

• A new javelin was introduced, officially from April 1, 1999

Standing records prior to the 1999 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	68.19 m	July 28, 1999	Bergen, Norway
Event Record	New record had to be set after the introduction of a new javelin
Season Best	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	68.19 m	July 28, 1999	Bergen, Norway
New records set during the 1999 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	62.67 m	August 26, 1999	Seville, Spain
	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	64.61 m	August 28, 1999
	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	66.06 m
	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili (GRE)	66.33 m
		67.09 m

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	2	Trine Solberg-Hattestad (NOR)	62.67	—	—	62.67 m
2	3	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	62.07	—	—	62.07 m
3	4	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	61.78	—	—	61.78 m
4	5	Sonia Bisset (CUB)	61.63	—	—	61.63 m
5	6	Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)	58.86	59.35	61.50	61.50 m	PB
6	8	Wei Jianhua (CHN)	61.39	—	—	61.39 m	AR
7	9	Louise McPaul-Currey (AUS)	60.83	59.62	56.51	60.83 m
8	11	Karen Forkel (GER)	55.66	60.40	59.04	60.40 m
9	12	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan (ROM)	60.11	X	57.78	60.11 m
10	13	Genowefa Patla (POL)	55.17	59.50	56.27	59.50 m
11	14	Rita Ramanauskaitė (LTU)	57.25	58.60	X	58.60 m
12	16	Steffi Nerius (GER)	58.43	57.07	57.05	58.43 m
13	24	Evfemija Štorga (SLO)	X	53.26	53.54	53.54 m
14	26	Gurmeet Kaur (IND)	51.97	51.76	47.90	51.97 m
15	28	Sabina Moya (COL)	X	47.27	44.27	47.27 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
			1	2	3
1	1	Oksana Ovchinnikova (RUS)	63.83	—	—	63.83 m
2	7	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili (GRE)	61.45	—	—	61.45 m
3	10	Taina Uppa (FIN)	60.51	59.02	60.47	60.51 m
4	15	Ana Mirela Țermure (ROM)	58.52	X	56.01	58.52 m
5	17	Liang Lili (CHN)	49.41	58.43	55.96	58.43 m
6	18	Laverne Eve (BAH)	55.22	55.79	57.97	57.97 m
7	19	Xiomara Rivero (CUB)	X	X	57.48	57.48 m
8	20	Nadine Auzeil-Schoellkopf (FRA)	54.62	55.92	57.33	57.33 m
9	21	Nikola Tomečková (CZE)	54.55	X	56.88	56.88 m
10	22	Ewa Rybak (POL)	55.12	56.41	56.14	56.41 m
11	23	Khristina Georgieva (BUL)	55.79	54.90	54.57	55.79 m
12	25	Lynda Blutreich (USA)	50.26	52.31	52.17	52.31 m
13	27	Lee Young-Sun (KOR)	50.33	51.36	51.31	51.36 m
—	—	Maka Obolashvili (GEO)	X	X	—	NM
—	—	Tanja Damaske (GER)	—	—	—	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
1st place, gold medalist(s)	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili (GRE)	62.41	66.33	67.09	66.44	X	X	67.09 m	PB
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	63.75	62.28	X	62.51	66.37	X	66.37 m	PB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	Trine Solberg-Hattestad (NOR)	63.73	66.06	62.56	64.24	63.42	63.85	66.06 m
4	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	64.61	61.12	63.18	62.55	63.74	62.54	64.61 m
5	Louise McPaul-Currey (AUS)	60.39	X	60.81	64.38	61.10	60.75	64.38 m
6	Sonia Bisset (CUB)	61.62	61.74	X	63.52	61.08	X	63.52 m	PB
7	Wei Jianhua (CHN)	58.98	62.27	62.97	X	X	57.66	62.97 m	AR
8	Oksana Ovchinnikova (RUS)	59.23	62.67	X	X	60.16	X	62.67 m
9	Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)	56.48	59.36	60.48				60.48 m
10	Taina Uppa (FIN)	X	59.83	X				59.83 m
11	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan (ROM)	59.24	58.24	X				59.24 m
12	Karen Forkel (GER)	54.51	54.65	X				54.65 m

See also

• 2000 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Sydney)

References

• "Sevilla 99 Start Lists and Results". Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
• todor66
• trackandfieldnews