2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw

The women's javelin throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 23 and 25 August 2023.

Women's javelin throw at the 2023 World Championships
Haruka Kitaguchi at the medal ceremony.
Venue	National Athletics Centre
Dates	23 August (qualification) 25 August (final)
Competitors	36 from 25 nations
Winning distance	66.73
Medalists
Haruka Kitaguchi    Japan   Flor Ruiz    Colombia   Mackenzie Little    Australia
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Summary

There were a few surprises in the javelin. Defending champion Kelsey-Lee Barber barely made the final. Her final throw of the preliminary round getting the 12th spot. Later, her third throw in the finals barely reached 8th place and she wouldn't get any further luck.

Veteran Flor Ruiz's season best was 61.83m, dating back to March. Her personal best of 63.84m dated back to 2016. In the first round of the final, she launched a South American record 65.47 m (214 ft 9 in). Only returning bronze medalist/world leader Haruka Kitaguchi, 61.78m and Olympic gold medalist Liu Shiying 61.66m, were able to get over 60 meters. Victoria Hudson threw 62.14m to start the second round, and Kitaguchi improved to 61.99m. Kitaguchi's third round effort of 63.00m put her into silver position. In the fourth round, Anete Kociņa moved into silver position with a 63.18m. Then in the final round Mackenzie Little jumped into the silver position with a 63.38m dropping Kitaguchi out of the medals. But Kitaguchi still had her last attempt and she used it to throw 66.73 m (218 ft 11 in) to leapfrog into the gold medal.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[1]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Barbora Špotáková (CZE)	72.28 m	Stuttgart, Germany	13 September 2008
Championship record	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	71.70 m	Helsinki, Finland	14 August 2005
World Leading	Haruka Kitaguchi (JPN)	67.04 m	Chorzów, Poland	16 July 2023
African Record	Sunette Viljoen (RSA)	69.35 m	New York City, United States	9 June 2012
Asian Record	Lyu Huihui (CHN)	67.98 m	Shenyang, China	2 August 2019
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)	71.70 m	Helsinki, Finland	14 August 2005
South American Record	Flor Ruiz (COL)	63.84 m	Cali, Colombia	25 June 2016
European Record	Barbora Špotáková (CZE)	72.28 m	Stuttgart, Germany	13 September 2008
Oceanian record	Kathryn Mitchell (AUS)	68.92 m	Gold Coast, Australia	11 April 2018

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 63.80 m.^[2]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
23 August	11:55	Qualification
25 August	20:20	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying distance 61.50 (Q) or the 12 best athletes including ties (q) qualify to the final.^[3]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Round			Mark	Notes
				1	2	3
1	A	Līna Mūze	Latvia (LAT)	53.96	56.88	63.50	63.50	Q
2	B	Mackenzie Little	Australia (AUS)	50.94	58.79	63.45	63.45	Q
3	A	Haruka Kitaguchi	Japan (JPN)	59.04	63.27		63.27	Q
4	A	Victoria Hudson	Austria (AUT)	62.96			62.96	Q
5	A	María Lucelly Murillo	Colombia (COL)	59.34	62.72		62.72	Q, PB
6	A	Kathryn Mitchell	Australia (AUS)	62.10			62.10	Q, SB
7	B	Flor Ruiz	Colombia (COL)	60.73	60.23	62.05	62.05	Q, SB
8	B	Anete Kociņa	Latvia (LAT)	x	61.27	58.46	61.27	q
9	A	Liu Shiying	China (CHN)	60.41	x	60.72	60.72	q
10	A	Jo-Ane van Dyk	South Africa (RSA)	59.34	57.59	60.09	60.09	q
11	B	Jucilene de Lima	Brazil (BRA)	58.39	57.94	59.76	59.76	q
12	A	Kelsey-Lee Barber	Australia (AUS)	58.10	55.90	59.66	59.66	q
13	B	Tori Peeters	New Zealand (NZL)	57.95	59.59	54.46	59.59
14	B	Liveta Jasiūnaitė	Lithuania (LTU)	59.00	56.88	57.61	59.00
15	B	Marina Saito	Japan (JPN)	x	56.24	58.95	58.95
16	A	Adriana Vilagoš	Serbia (SRB)	58.65	58.10	55.55	58.65
17	A	Anni-Linnea Alanen	Finland (FIN)	53.66	54.79	58.30	58.30
18	B	Maggie Malone	United States (USA)	56.27	57.85	54.46	57.85
19	A	Annu Rani	India (IND)	57.05	x	56.01	57.05
20	A	Réka Szilágyi	Hungary (HUN)	56.21	54.14	x	56.21
21	A	Momone Ueda	Japan (JPN)	54.67	56.19	56.19	56.19
22	A	Dilhani Lekamge	Sri Lanka (SRI)	54.77	50.00	55.89	55.89
23	B	Sara Kolak	Croatia (CRO)	50.80	x	55.89	55.89
24	B	Nikol Tabačková [cs]	Czech Republic (CZE)	49.88	55.45	x	55.45
25	A	Juleisy Angulo [de]	Ecuador (ECU)	x	52.82	55.27	55.27
26	B	Angéla Moravcsik	Hungary (HUN)	52.54	x	55.10	55.10
27	A	Ariana Ince	United States (USA)	54.60	x	x	54.60
28	A	Nikola Ogrodníková	Czech Republic (CZE)	50.78	54.59	54.36	54.59
29	A	Martina Ratej	Slovenia (SLO)	54.41	x	53.35	54.41
30	B	Elina Tzengko	Greece (GRE)	53.70	54.27	x	54.27
31	B	Marija Vučenović	Serbia (SRB)	x	54.21	52.27	54.21
32	B	Irena Gillarová	Czech Republic (CZE)	54.15	x	53.06	54.15
33	B	Rhema Otabor	Bahamas (BAH)	48.34	53.62	x	53.62
34	B	Sigrid Borge	Norway (NOR)	52.09	x	53.34	53.34
–	B	Eda Tuğsuz	Turkey (TUR)	x	x	x	NM
–	B	Gedly Tugi [et]	Estonia (EST)	x	x	x	NM

Final

The final started on 25 August at 20:20.^[4]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Round						Mark	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Haruka Kitaguchi	Japan (JPN)	61.78	61.99	63.00	62.36	62.68	66.73	66.73
	Flor Ruiz	Colombia (COL)	65.47	62.45	62.89	59.73	x	60.97	65.47	AR
	Mackenzie Little	Australia (AUS)	59.95	56.81	61.41	61.23	61.66	63.38	63.38
4	Anete Kociņa	Latvia (LAT)	59.04	58.82	59.66	63.18	x	62.02	63.18	SB
5	Victoria Hudson	Austria (AUT)	59.08	62.14	59.20	62.92	59.56	59.84	62.92
6	Liu Shiying	China (CHN)	61.66	x	x	61.16	61.23	58.72	61.66	SB
7	Kelsey-Lee Barber	Australia (AUS)	55.82	59.44	58.98	58.31	61.19	61.01	61.19
8	Jucilene de Lima	Brazil (BRA)	58.49	x	60.34	x	58.33	x	60.34
9	Līna Mūze	Latvia (LAT)	58.43	x	x				58.43
10	Jo-Ane van Dyk	South Africa (RSA)	57.43	54.45	53.99				57.43
11	María Lucelly Murillo	Colombia (COL)	x	x	54.85				54.85
	Kathryn Mitchell	Australia (AUS)								DNS