Women Discus Throw Athletics X World Championship 2005 Helsinki (FIN) - Thursday 11.08 - Franka Dietzsch, Germany
Final 20:00h
Team
Dist.
1
2
3
4
5
6
Q
1. Franka Dietzsch
GER
66.56m
64.89
64.08
64.36
66.56
65.29
-
63.53m
2. Natalya Sadova
RUS
64.33m
64.33
60.63
61.28
62.31
62.68
61.59
63.65m
3. Vera Pospisilova-Cechlova
CZE
63.19m
60.76
63.00
X
X
63.19
X
64.26m
4. Beatrice Faumuina
NZL
62.73m
62.73
X
57.70
61.01
60.94
57.42
59.81m
5. Nicoleta Grasu
ROU
62.05m
55.75
X
62.05
X
X
61.49
62.06m
6. Shuli Ma
CHN
61.33m
59.21
58.38
61.33
58.15
58.22
59.36
59.43m
7. Dragana Tomasevic
SCG
60.56m
60.56
X
X
X
56.26
56.30
62.02m
8. Olena Antonova
UKR
59.37m
59.37
59.08
57.71
56.35
X
56.19
61.05m
9. Natalya Fokina
UKR
58.44m
58.44
57.20
55.09
59.30m
10.Aimin Song
CHN
57.90m
55.98
57.90
X
64.15m
11.Anna Soderberg
SWE
&57.41m
X
57.41
X
59.94m
12.Joanna Wisniewska
POL
&57.06m
57.06
55.64
X
59.66m
Sadova and Dietzsch had both lost just twice in 2005, with Olympic Champion Sadova favoured to win in Helsinki. Cechlová and Song led the qualifiers. The final actually began on August 9 but was abandoned after two throws because of the terrible weather and then postponed for two days. Both Faumuina (62.73) and Sadova (64.33) produced their best throws in the opening round, but it was Dietzsch who achieved the best initial throw with 64.89. Cechlová moved into third in round two with 63.00 before cementing her position in with 63.19 in the fifth.
Only Dietzsch was able to get beyond 64m after the first round, and she did so in the wet conditions with all of her throws, enabling her to pass her last round. Dietzsch was competing in her eighth championships; she won in 1999 but had otherwise not been on the podium. Her unrestrained joy in winning was reminiscent of Helena Fibingerová’s shot win in 1983, as she hugged as many officials as possible.