2003 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's discus throw

Events at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
20 km walk		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's discus throw event at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadion on 19 and 20 July.

Medalists

Gold	Nataliya Fokina Ukraine
Silver	Jana Tucholke Germany
Bronze	Olga Chernogorova Belarus

Results

Final

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Nataliya Fokina	Ukraine	54.57	x	58.66	58.01	59.30	x	59.30	CR
	Jana Tucholke	Germany	x	56.11	57.90	58.24	x	57.81	58.24
	Olga Chernogorova	Belarus	56.05	54.20	56.57	54.00	54.59	x	56.57
4	Vera Begić	Croatia	52.57	x	48.83	53.34	x	51.45	53.34
5	Laura Bordignon	Italy	49.83	51.77	47.37	52.83	x	52.97	52.97
6	Dace Ruskule	Latvia	51.24	52.31	49.67	49.04	46.02	x	52.31
7	Sabine Rumpf	Germany	52.30	51.68	51.68	48.65	51.71	49.49	52.30
8	Claire Smithson	Great Britain	50.26	51.97	x	51.26	47.86	49.07	51.97
9	Marija Kurtović	Croatia	48.95	51.44	x				51.44
10	Ildikó Varga	Hungary	49.87	51.38	51.40				51.40
11	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia and Montenegro	x	x	51.27				51.27
12	Hanna Golub	Belarus	x	x	49.48				49.48

Qualifications

19 July
Qualifying 54.50 or 12 best to the Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Jana Tucholke	Germany	56.00	Q
2	Nataliya Fokina	Ukraine	54.65	Q
3	Vera Begić	Croatia	54.62	Q
4	Olga Chernogorova	Belarus	54.44	q
5	Dragana Tomašević	Serbia and Montenegro	54.44	q
6	Dace Ruskule	Latvia	53.12	q
7	Laura Bordignon	Italy	52.10	q
8	Sabine Rumpf	Germany	51.80	q
9	Ildikó Varga	Hungary	51.36	q
10	Claire Smithson	Great Britain	50.30	q
11	Marija Kurtović	Croatia	49.80	q
12	Hanna Golub	Belarus	49.77	q
13	Agnieszka Krawczuk	Poland	48.93
14	Volha Hancharenka	Belarus	48.47
15	Katja Strandman	Finland	46.52
16	Claudia Villeneuve	France	45.53
17	Reetta Laitinen	Finland	44.15

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

• Belarus (3)
• Croatia (2)
• Finland (2)

• France (1)
• Germany (2)
• Great Britain (1)

• Hungary (1)
• Italy (1)
• Latvia (1)

• Poland (1)
• Serbia and Montenegro (1)
• Ukraine (1)