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

The Women's Javelin Throw event at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program went held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, 29 September and Saturday, 30 September.
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

* All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
Qualification Round :
| Group A | Group B |
| 29.09.2000 – 10:00h | 29.09.2000 – 11:45h |
| Final Round ||
| 30.09.2000 – 20:00h ||

## Abbreviations

| Q | automatic qualification |
| q | qualification by rank |
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| OR | olympic record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## 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 | New javelin was introduced officially from 01.04.1999 | New javelin was introduced officially from 01.04.1999 | 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 | Attempts | Attempts | Distance | Note |
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | Distance | Note |
| 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 | Attempts | Attempts | Distance | Note |
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | Distance | Note |
| 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 | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Distance | Note |
| Rank | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Distance | Note |
| | 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 | |