The women's discus throw at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 10–11 August.

There were 6 automatic qualifiers for the final. It took 60.14 to get in. In the final Sandra Perković dominated from her first throw. Any of her three fair throws would have won the competition. Yarelys Barrios was a solid second place from her first throw, but she never improved. Meanwhile, Mélina Robert-Michon did improve, her third round throw putting her into second and her final throw more than a meter further to improve her own French national record set more than 11 years (and one daughter) earlier. The record throw was all the more remarkable due to the rainy conditions that hampered the rest of the field, hers was the only improvement after the rains started toward the end of the fourth round.

Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record76.80Neubrandenburg, East Germany7 July 1988Championship record71.62Rome, Italy31 August 1987World leading67.98Lausane, Switzerland4 July 2013African record64.87Stellenbosch, South Africa2 March 2003Asian record71.68Beijing, People's Republic of China14 March 1992North, Central American and Caribbean record70.88Havana, Cuba8 May 1992South American record64.21Barquisimeto, Venezuela10 June 2012European record76.80Neubrandenburg, East Germany7 July 1988Oceanian record68.72Auckland, New Zealand22 January 1994

Qualification standards A resultB result 62.00 59.50

Schedule Date Time Round10 August 2013 9:30 Qualification11 August 2013 20:15 Final

Results KEY:QQualifiedq12 best performersNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Qualification Qualification: 63.00 m (Q) and at least 12 best (q) advanced to the final.Start listQualification Results

Rank Group Name Nationality No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Mark Notes 1 A Zinaida Sendriutė 64.16 64.16 Q 2 A Yarelys Barrios 63.63 63.63 Q 3 B Sandra Perković 63.62 63.62 Q 4 B Tan Jian 62.57 63.21 63.21 Q 5 A Mélina Robert-Michon 63.16 63.16 Q 5 B Nadine Müller 63.16 63.16 Q 7 B Dani Samuels 62.73 62.51 62.85 62.85 q 8 B Żaneta Glanc 61.30 61.62 59.21 61.62 q 9 B Rocío Comba 61.54 59.51 61.54 q 10 B Gia Lewis-Smallwood 61.30 57.56 61.30 q 11 B Yaime Pérez 59.38 57.26 60.33 60.33 q 12 A Denia Caballero 60.14 58.48 60.14 q 13 A Julia Fischer 56.77 60.09 60.09 14 A Dragana Tomašević 57.58 58.70 58.79 58.79 15 A Vera Ganeeva 58.37 55.23 58.37 16 B Ekaterina Strokova 57.85 53.24 57.85 17 B Irina Rodrigues 57.64 55.47 54.09 57.64 18 A Karen Gallardo 53.10 57.03 57.03 19 B Su Xinyue 54.14 54.76 56.87 56.87 20 A Svetlana Saykina 56.62 54.05 56.62 21 A Liz Podominick 56.41 56.41 22 B Nicoleta Grasu 55.47 56.31 56.31 23 B Natalya Fokina-Semenova 55.79 55.79 24 A Whitney Ashley 44.60 44.60 A Gu Siyu A Fernanda Raquel Borges Martins

Final The final was held on 11 August.

Rank Name Nationality No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 Mark Notes Sandra Perković 67.52 67.99 x 67.80 x x 67.99 Mélina Robert-Michon 62.53 61.77 65.13 65.08 x 66.28 66.28 NR Yarelys Barrios 64.96 63.99 x 62.77 61.28 63.33 64.96 Nadine Müller 64.12 64.67 x x 61.92 63.22 64.67 Gia Lewis-Smallwood 57.21 61.66 62.71 64.23 x 61.10 64.23 Tan Jian x 63.16 61.69 63.34 x 61.47 63.34 Żaneta Glanc 59.80 62.90 x 61.27 x x 62.90 SB Denia Caballero 62.80 59.80 60.16 61.43 x 62.49 62.80 Zinaida Sendriutė 61.87 62.54 61.44 62.54 10 Dani Samuels 59.17 62.42 x 62.42 11 Yaime Pérez x 62.39 60.16 62.39 12 Rocío Comba 59.83 x 58.32 59.83

References

External links Discus throw results at IAAF website