Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw

The qualifying athletes progressed through to the final where the qualifying distances are scrapped and they start afresh with up to six throws. The qualifying distance was 61.50 metres. For all qualifiers who did not achieve the standard, the remaining spaces in the final were filled by the longest throws until a total of 12 qualifiers.

Medalists

Gold	Trine Hattestad  Norway
Silver	Mirella Maniani-Tzelili  Greece
Bronze	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba

Schedule

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Abbreviations

Records

Standing records prior to the 2000 Summer Olympics
World Record	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	69.41 m	28 July 2000	Oslo, Norway
Olympic Record	New javelin was introduced officially from 01.04.1999
Broken records during the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic Record	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	67.34 m	29 September 2000	Sydney, Australia
Olympic Record	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	68.91 m	30 September 2000	Sydney, Australia

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Country	Attempts			Distance	Note
				1	2	3
1	2	Steffi Nerius	Germany	65.76	—	—	65.76 m	PB
2	3	Trine Hattestad	Norway	65.44	—	—	65.44 m
3	4	Mirella Maniani-Tzelili	Greece	63.34	—	—	63.34 m
4	7	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	58.94	60.85	X	60.85 m
5	9	Li Lei	China	57.01	X	60.57	60.57 m
6	11	Sonia Bisset	Cuba	59.13	X	60.09	60.09 m
7	13	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	57.81	X	59.21	59.21 m
8	14	Nikolett Szabó	Hungary	58.86	55.95	56.72	58.86 m
9	22	Ana Mirela Țermure	Romania	55.67	56.31	53.86	56.31 m
10	24	Yekaterina Ivakina	Russia	55.30	52.43	55.58	55.58 m
11	26	Lynda Blutreich	United States	X	52.77	55.25	55.25 m
12	27	Evfemija Štorga	Slovenia	X	54.94	52.97	54.94 m
13	28	Khristina Georgieva	Bulgaria	54.60	51.10	53.31	54.60 m
14	29	Nadine Auzeil	France	51.02	53.85	49.90	53.85 m
15	30	Inga Kožarenoka	Latvia	53.83	X	X	53.83 m
16	31	Louise Currey	Australia	53.32	X	—	53.32 m
17	32	Gurmeet Kaur	India	52.78	48.80	46.46	52.78 m
18	35	Tatyana Sudarikova	Kyrgyzstan	47.56	X	48.33	48.33 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Country	Attempts			Distance	Note
				1	2	3
1	1	Osleidys Menéndez	Cuba	67.34	—	—	67.34 m	AR
2	5	Xiomara Rivero	Cuba	61.89	—	—	61.89 m	SB
3	6	Tatyana Shikolenko	Russia	61.54	—	—	61.54 m
4	8	Wei Jianhua	China	60.64	X	57.19	60.64 m
5	10	Claudia Coslovich	Italy	60.12	X	57.05	60.12 m
6	12	Nikola Tomečková	Czech Republic	59.49	55.40	59.40	59.49 m
7	15	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan	Romania	54.11	58.75	X	58.75 m
8	16	Laverne Eve	Bahamas	X	57.98	58.36	58.36 m
9	17	Joanna Stone	Australia	53.34	57.57	58.34	58.34 m
10	18	Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi	Greece	X	58.11	X	58.11 m
11	19	Tetyana Lyakhovych	Ukraine	55.81	53.33	57.41	57.41 m
12	20	Taina Uppa	Finland	57.39	X	X	57.39 m
13	21	Olivia McKoy	Jamaica	55.98	52.83	56.36	56.36 m
14	23	Sueli dos Santos	Brazil	X	56.27	50.50	56.27 m
15	25	Marta Míguez	Spain	55.52	55.01	X	55.52 m
16	33	Lee Young-Sun	South Korea	49.84	X	X	49.84 m
17	34	Sabina Moya	Colombia	41.22	49.16	47.37	49.16 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	68.91	62.27	X	64.38	66.22	64.09	68.91 m	OR
	Mirela Maniani-Tzelili (GRE)	X	65.56	67.51	61.96	65.34	67.51	67.51 m	NR
	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	66.03	64.99	65.17	63.95	62.47	66.18	66.18 m
4	Steffi Nerius (GER)	61.99	61.41	64.84	57.88	61.11	61.02	64.84 m
5	Sonia Bisset (CUB)	63.26	62.77	X	X	62.85	63.11	63.26 m
6	Xiomara Rivero (CUB)	62.10	62.92	X	60.20	X	X	62.92 m	PB
7	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	58.28	62.91	61.54	X	X	61.97	62.91 m
8	Nikola Tomečková (CZE )	58.13	55.86	58.69	56.12	61.30	62.10	62.10 m
9	Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)	58.10	55.97	58.56				58.56 m
10	Wei Jianhua (CHN)	54.06	58.23	58.33				58.33 m
11	Li Lei (CHN )	X	X	56.83				56.83 m
12	Claudia Coslovich (ITA)	56.46	54.28	56.74				56.74 m

See also