Women Discus Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) - Saturday 31.08 - Gold Medal: Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgaria

Women Discus Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) - Saturday 31.08 - Gold Medal: Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgaria

Final 18:10		Distance	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Tsvetanka Khristova	BUL	71.02m	61.16	64.20	62.82	X	66.96	71.02
2. Ilke Wyludda	GER	69.12m	67.10	68.78	66.34	69.00	69.12	X
3. Larisa Mikhalchenko	URS	68.26m	66.20	67.30	67.46	67.12	67.96	68.26
4. Martina Opitz-Hellmann	GER	67.14m	65.32	66.28	67.14	65.80	X	66.56
5. Daniela Costian	AUS	66.06m	64.32	X	65.56	X	66.06	X
6. Chunfeng Min	CHN	65.56m	63.76	64.70	62.32	65.56	63.88	64.30
7. Irina Yatchenko	URS	64.92m	63.84	63.86	X	64.92	60.76	62.24
8. Yonghua Zhao	CHN	63.62m	60.94	63.62	61.28	X	60.84	X
9. Ellina Zvereva	URS	63.22m
10.Maritza Marten	CUB	62.40m
11.Yanling Xiao	CHN	61.20m
12.Barbara Hechavarria	CUB	60.62m

Women Discus Throw - History

The day after Carl Lewis’s long jump defeat there was another shock when Ilke Wyludda – the winner of her previous 40 contests – was beaten. Not that the German performed badly. She threw season’s bests in the fourth (69.00) and fifth rounds (69.12) to establish a commanding lead. Earlier in the fifth round, the pony-tailed Khristova had improved from seventh to third with 66.96, pushing defending champion Hellmann out of the medals.
The Bulgarian really clicked in round 6. Taking two turns, she propelled the discus clearly past the 70m line. To avoid defeat, the German needed to throw further than she had for the past 15 months. She waited until after the women’s high jump ceremony to take her chance, but fell short of 70m and deliberately fouled.
“I had a certain degree of confidence I could win a medal, but I didn’t expect such a long throw as 71 metres,” said Khristova. “Wyludda must be surprised.”
Khristova served a four-year doping suspension from 1993. Sadly, she died at age 46 in 2008 from lung cancer and bronchopneumonia.

Qualification - Thursday 29.08 19:00

Mark 62.00m - 5 athletes passed and next 7 were added to Final.

Group A		Distance	Rk.
1. Ilke Wyludda	GER	67.72m	1.
2. Daniela Costian	AUS	62.74m	5.
3. Maritza Marten	CUB	60.88m	8.
4. Irina Yatchenko	URS	60.38m	10.
5. Yonghua Zhao	CHN	59.80m	11.
6. Franka Dietzsch	GER	59.16m	13.
7. Stefania Simova	BUL	58.10m	15.
8. Lacy Barnes-Mileham	USA	56.84m	17.
9. Agnese Maffeis	ITA	56.36m	19.
10.Mette Bergmann	NOR	55.78m	20.
11.Teresa Machado	POR	53.64m	24.
12.Alice Matejkova	TCH	53.22m	25.
13.Ikuko Kitamori	JPN	48.52m	27.
14.Maria Obando	NCA	41.78m	29.
-. Hanane Ahmed Khaled	EGY	DNS

Group B		Distance	Rk.
1. Tsvetanka Khristova	BUL	67.10m	2.
2. Martina Opitz-Hellmann	GER	65.26m	3.
3. Larisa Mikhalchenko	URS	64.68m	4.
4. Ellina Zvereva	URS	61.86m	6.
5. Yanling Xiao	CHN	61.68m	7.
6. Barbara Hechavarria	CUB	60.86m	9.
7. Chunfeng Min	CHN	59.42m	12.
8. Vladimira Malatova-Rackova	TCH	58.38m	14.
9. Marie-Paule Geldhof	BEL	57.26m	16.
10.Carla Garrett	USA	56.62m	18.
11.Jackie McKernan	GBR	55.64m	21.
12.Manuela Tirneci	ROM	55.62m	22.
13.Penny Neer	USA	54.26m	23.
14.Angeles Barreiro	ESP	51.24m	26.
15.Wilna Bredenhann	NAM	43.60m	28.
16.Hughette Robertson	GUY	34.52m	30.