Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade – Women's discus throw

The women's discus throw event at the 1999 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Son Moix in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11 and 12 July.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nicoleta Grasu Romania	Joanna Wiśniewska Poland	Styliani Tsikouna Greece

Results

Qualification

Qualification: 57.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Anna Söderberg	Sweden				62.98	Q, SB
2	A	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania				62.41	Q
3	B	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland				60.33	Q
4	A	Styliani Tsikouna	Greece				59.52	Q
DQ	B	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil				58.86	Q, Doping
5	A	Aretha Hill	United States				58.72	Q
6	B	Viktoriya Boyko	Ukraine				58.14	Q
7	B	Shelley Drew	Great Britain				57.36	Q
8	A	Tao Hongbo	China				57.32	Q
9	B	Suzy Powell	United States				56.95	q
10	B	Mélina Robert-Michon	France				56.26	q
11	A	Marzena Zbrojewska	Poland				56.15	q
12	B	Lacramioara Ionescu	Romania				55.40
13	A	Elizna Naudé	South Africa				55.15
14	A	Philippa Roles	Great Britain				54.82
15	A	Ilona Rutjes	Netherlands				54.79	PB
16	A	Liudmila Starovoytova	Belarus				53.67
17	B	Carmen Solé	Spain	48.57	50.23	49.20	50.23
18	B	Grete Etholm	Norway				50.16
19	B	Helena Engman	Sweden				46.60
20	A	Elin Isane	Norway				45.19
21	B	Karella Aguarto	Peru				40.85
	B	Zamiwe Hara	Malawi				NM
	A	Sarah Walter	France				DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	x	59.46	65.07	64.59	x	65.21	65.21
	Joanna Wiśniewska	Poland	59.56	61.15	60.76	x	x	63.97	63.97
DQ	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil							62.23	Doping
	Styliani Tsikouna	Greece							61.59
4	Anna Söderberg	Sweden							60.14
5	Aretha Hill	United States							58.95
6	Suzy Powell	United States							58.83
7	Mélina Robert-Michon	France							56.81
8	Tao Hongbo	China							56.74
9	Viktoriya Boyko	Ukraine							56.40
10	Shelley Drew	Great Britain							55.04
11	Marzena Zbrojewska	Poland							54.28