Li (67.98) and Müller (66.99) were the world’s leading throwers of 2011 prior to Daegu, and they duly led the qualifying round with 64.44 and 65.54 respectively. In the final, the Chinese was always one step ahead of the German, leading 65.28 to 65.06 in the opening round, and then improving to 66.52 ahead of Müller’s 65.97 in round two. Barrios threw 65.73 in the third to win the bronze. Li’s coach was Karl-Heinz Steinmetz, the German who had also advised the great multi-World Champion Lars Riedel.
Qualification - Saturday 27.08 - mark 62.00m - 5+7 Athletes.
Group A 10:05
Team
Dist
Rk.
1.
2.
3.
bib
1. Nadine Muller
GER
65.54
1.
65.54
-
-
434
2. Yarelys Barrios
CUB
63.80
3.
63.80
-
-
274
3. Jian Tan
CHN
62.26
5.
62.26
-
-
237
4. Zinaida Sendriute
LTU
61.72
7.
X
56.61
61.72
636
5. Dragana Tomasevic
SRB
60.45
8.
60.45
X
X
808
6. Dani Samuels
AUS
60.05
11.
59.77
60.05
59.98
121
7. Darya Pishchalnikova
RUS
59.94
12.
54.11
59.94
59.53
777
8. Xuejun Ma
CHN
59.71
14.
55.80
59.34
59.71
234
9. Gia Lewis-Smallwood
USA
59.49
15.
X
56.91
59.49
957
10.Natalya Fokina-Semenova
UKR
58.27
16.
56.73
55.16
58.27
878
11.Andressa de Morais
BRA
57.93
18.
X
44.41
57.93
169
12.Vera Pospisilova-Cechlova
CZE
53.87
23.
53.87
51.52
X
298
Group B 11:25
Team
Dist
Rk.
1.
2.
3.
bib
1. Yanfeng Li
CHN
64.44
2.
X
64.44
-
227
2. Zaneta Glanc
POL
63.44
4.
59.48
63.44
-
703
3. Stephanie Brown Trafton
USA
61.89
6.
61.89
X
59.87
921
4. Denia Caballero
CUB
60.36
9.
X
52.93
60.36
277
5. Nicoleta Grasu
ROU
60.13
10.
60.13
58.25
59.58
731
6. Aretha Thurmond
USA
59.88
13.
59.88
X
59.48
981
7. Monique Jansen
NED
58.23
17.
58.23
58.06
57.96
668
8. Kazai Suzanne Kragbe
CIV
57.55
19.
57.55
55.75
X
251
9. Kateryna Karsak
UKR
57.54
20.
57.54
X
57.29
884
10.Harwant Kaur
IND
56.49
21.
55.50
56.49
52.98
471
11.Elisangela Adriano
BRA
56.45
22.
56.28
53.70
56.45
164
12.Karen Gallardo
CHI
53.69
24.
51.32
52.33
53.69
216
Cindriute, Samuels and Pishchalnikova had better thwrows in qualification than in final.
