2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' discus throw

The Girls' discus throw at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 10 July.

Girls' Discus Throw Medalists

Place	Athlete	Country	Mark
	Xie Yuchen	China	56.34 m
	Claudine Vita	Germany	52.59 m
	Xingyun Liang	China	51.50 m

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best	Ilke Wyludda (GDR)	65.86	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	1 August 1986
Championship Record	Ma Xuejun (CHN)	55.26	Debrecen, Hungary	12 July 2001
World Youth Leading	Xie Juchen (CHN)	54.16	Zhaoqing, China	28 April 2013

Qualification rule: 48.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) qualified.^[1]

Girls' Discus Throw Final Place Athlete Country Mark Xie Yuchen  China 56.34 m Claudine Vita  Germany 52.59 m Xingyun Liang  China 51.50 m 4 Veronika Domjan  Slovenia 47.66 m 5 Yasenaca Denicaucau  Australia 47.03 m 6 Karyna Cherednychenko  Ukraine 46.89 m 7 Leandri Geel [de]  South Africa 46.38 m 8 Lloydricia Cameron  United States 45.48 m 9 Amira Sayed [de]  Egypt 44.61 m 10 Vilma Paakkala [fi]  Finland 43.47 m 11 Lenuta Burueana  Romania 42.82 m 12 Lara Kempka  Germany 42.42 m

Girls' Discus Throw Qualification Place Athlete Country Mark Heat 1 Xie Yuchen  China 52.94 m 2 2 Xingyun Liang  China 49.97 m 1 3 Yasenaca Denicaucau  Australia 48.73 m 1 4 Claudine Vita  Germany 47.46 m 1 5 Leandri Geel [de]  South Africa 46.27 m 1 6 Lloydricia Cameron  United States 44.99 m 1 7 Veronika Domjan  Slovenia 44.69 m 2 8 Amira Sayed [de]  Egypt 43.86 m 2 9 Karyna Cherednychenko  Ukraine 43.51 m 1 10 Lara Kempka  Germany 43.05 m 2 11 Lenuta Burueana  Romania 42.92 m 2 12 Vilma Paakkala [fi]  Finland 42.76 m 2 13 Georgie Taylor  Great Britain 42.69 m 2 14 Paul-Ann Gayle  Jamaica 42.63 m 1 15 Ashley Nieuwenhuyzen  South Africa 42.51 m 2 16 Lisa Brix Pedersen  Denmark 42.30 m 1 17 Ashlie Blake [pl]  United States 42.02 m 2 18 Ivana Muzaric [de]  Croatia 41.86 m 1 19 Mi-yeon Kim  South Korea 41.80 m 1 20 Dimitra Zotou  Greece 39.65 m 2 21 Tresna Puspita Gustiayu  Indonesia 39.33 m 1 22 Djeneba Touré  Austria 39.07 m 2 23 Živa Gornik  Slovenia 38.81 m 1 24 Vilma Sendriūtė  Lithuania 38.66 m 1 25 Giulia Camporese  Italy 38.00 m 2 26 Kayleigh Cronin  Ireland 37.86 m 2 27 Micaela Garbarino  Uruguay 37.29 m 2 28 Manpreet Grewal  Canada 36.01 m 1