The women's javelin throw at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 16–18 August.Start list

Throwing at home, defending champion and world leader Mariya Abakumova made one attempt in the trials. Her 69.09 flew past the automatic qualifying mark and turned out to be the farthest throw of the competition, leading ten other automatic qualifiers.

In the final, Abakumova couldn't match her qualifier, though she did take the first round lead with 65.09. But that was to be her best. In the second round Kimberley Mickle threw a personal best 66.25 to take the lead. The lead lasted only 5 attempts before Christina Obergföll let loose a 69.05. That was it, the only other news from the final four rounds was Mickle's second improvement on her personal best to 66.60 in the final round.

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

World record72.28Stuttgart, Germany13 September 2008Championship record71.99Daegu, South Korea2 September 2011World leading69.34Castellón, Spain22 July 2013African record69.35New York City, United States9 Jun 2012Asian record65.62Zhaoqing, People's Republic of China27 April 2013North, Central American and Caribbean record71.70Helsinki, Finland14 August 2005South American record62.62Guatemala City, Guatemala12 May 2002European record72.28Stuttgart, Germany13 September 2008Oceanian record66.80Runaway Bay, Australia5 August 2000

Qualification standards

A resultB result 62.00 60.00

Schedule Date Time Round16 August 2013 9:30 Qualification18 August 2013 16:00 Final

Results KEY:QQualifiedq12 best performersNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 61.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.Qualification Results

Rank Group Name Nationality No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Result Notes 1 A Mariya Abakumova 69.09 69.09 Q 2 B Kimberley Mickle 59.92 65.73 65.73 Q, PB 3 A Linda Stahl 64.51 64.51 Q 3 B Sunette Viljoen 64.51 64.51 Q, SB 5 A Kathryn Mitchell 62.80 62.80 Q, SB 6 B Tatjana Jelača 57.65 62.68 62.68 Q, NR 7 B Christina Obergföll 62.36 62.36 Q 8 B Viktoriya Sudarushkina 52.88 62.20 62.20 Q 9 A Sofi Flinck 61.96 61.96 Q, NR 10 A Vira Rebryk 59.49 58.60 61.70 61.70 Q 11 B Li Lingwei 58.62 61.51 61.51 Q, SB 12 B Nadeeka Lakmali 56.12 59.09 60.39 60.39 q 13 B Katharina Molitor 57.17 58.03 60.32 60.32 14 B Līna Mūze 54.36 60.29 60.29 15 A Zhang Li 58.59 60.16 58.98 60.16 16 A Yuki Ebihara 58.39 59.31 59.80 59.80 17 A Krista Woodward 58.86 55.31 55.59 58.86 18 A Hanna Hatsko 57.82 58.63 57.55 58.63 19 B Marharyta Dorozhon 58.23 54.53 55.40 58.23 20 B Martina Ratej 56.36 57.95 57.95 21 B Ásdís Hjálmsdóttir 57.36 57.65 55.98 57.65 22 B Brittany Borman 53.20 57.63 57.63 23 A Flor Ruiz 55.43 57.47 54.09 57.47 24 B Liina Laasma 55.53 54.11 56.93 56.93 25 A Eliza Toader 54.47 55.76 54.64 55.76 26 A Jucilene de Lima 54.14 55.18 55.18 27 A Madara Palameika 53.70 53.70

Final The final was started at 16:00.Final Results

Rank Name Nationality No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 Result Notes Christina Obergföll 64.63 69.05 64.02 62.93 x x 69.05 SB Kimberley Mickle 60.43 66.25 64.18 64.29 x 66.60 66.60 PB Mariya Abakumova 65.09 63.78 64.33 x 60.99 58.71 65.09 Linda Stahl 64.78 62.58 x x x 61.81 64.78 Kathryn Mitchell 63.77 x 60.34 62.19 x 62.23 63.77 SB Sunette Viljoen 63.58 x 56.51 58.66 59.00 60.25 63.58 Viktoriya Sudarushkina 60.44 62.21 55.82 x 58.64 x 62.21 Li Lingwei 57.48 60.30 61.30 55.63 57.58 57.96 61.30 Tatjana Jelača 60.38 60.63 60.81 60.81 10 Sofi Flinck 57.56 59.52 55.56 59.52 11 Vira Rebryk x 58.33 x 58.33 12 Nadeeka Lakmali 55.10 58.16 55.77 58.16

References

External links Javelin throw results at IAAF website