2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 10–11 August.
There were 6 automatic qualifiers for the [|final]. It took 60.14 to get in. In the final Sandra Perković dominated from her first throw. Any of her three fair throws would have won the competition. Yarelys Barrios was a solid second place from her first throw, but she never improved. Meanwhile, Mélina Robert-Michon did improve, her third round throw putting her into second and her final throw more than a meter further to improve her own French national record set more than 11 years earlier. The record throw was all the more remarkable due to the rainy conditions that hampered the rest of the field, hers was the only improvement after the rains started toward the end of the fourth round.
Records
Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:| World record | 76.80 | Neubrandenburg, East Germany | 7 July 1988 | |
| Championship record | 71.62 | Rome, Italy | 31 August 1987 | |
| World leading | 67.98 | Lausane, Switzerland | 4 July 2013 | |
| African record | 64.87 | Stellenbosch, South Africa | 2 March 2003 | |
| Asian record | 71.68 | Beijing, People's Republic of China | 14 March 1992 | |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | 70.88 | Havana, Cuba | 8 May 1992 | |
| South American record | 64.21 | Barquisimeto, Venezuela | 10 June 2012 | |
| European record | 76.80 | Neubrandenburg, East Germany | 7 July 1988 | |
| Oceanian record | 68.72 | Auckland, New Zealand | 22 January 1994 |
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Qualification
Qualification: 63.00 m and at least 12 best advanced to the final.| Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | Mark | Notes |
| 1 | A | Zinaida Sendriutė | 64.16 | 64.16 | Q | |||
| 2 | A | Yarelys Barrios | 63.63 | 63.63 | Q | |||
| 3 | B | Sandra Perković | 63.62 | 63.62 | Q | |||
| 4 | B | Tan Jian | 62.57 | 63.21 | 63.21 | Q | ||
| 5 | A | Mélina Robert-Michon | 63.16 | 63.16 | Q | |||
| 5 | B | Nadine Müller | 63.16 | 63.16 | Q | |||
| 7 | B | Dani Samuels | 62.73 | 62.51 | 62.85 | 62.85 | q | |
| 8 | B | Żaneta Glanc | 61.30 | 61.62 | 59.21 | 61.62 | q | |
| 9 | B | Rocío Comba | 61.54 | 59.51 | 61.54 | q | ||
| 10 | B | Gia Lewis-Smallwood | 61.30 | 57.56 | 61.30 | q | ||
| 11 | B | Yaime Pérez | 59.38 | 57.26 | 60.33 | 60.33 | q | |
| 12 | A | Denia Caballero | 60.14 | 58.48 | 60.14 | q | ||
| 13 | A | Julia Fischer | 56.77 | 60.09 | 60.09 | |||
| 14 | A | Dragana Tomašević | 57.58 | 58.70 | 58.79 | 58.79 | ||
| 15 | A | Vera Ganeeva | 58.37 | 55.23 | 58.37 | |||
| 16 | B | Ekaterina Strokova | 57.85 | 53.24 | 57.85 | |||
| 17 | B | Irina Rodrigues | 57.64 | 55.47 | 54.09 | 57.64 | ||
| 18 | A | Karen Gallardo | 53.10 | 57.03 | 57.03 | |||
| 19 | B | Su Xinyue | 54.14 | 54.76 | 56.87 | 56.87 | ||
| 20 | A | Svetlana Saykina | 56.62 | 54.05 | 56.62 | |||
| 21 | A | Liz Podominick | 56.41 | 56.41 | ||||
| 22 | B | Nicoleta Grasu | 55.47 | 56.31 | 56.31 | |||
| 23 | B | Natalya Fokina-Semenova | 55.79 | 55.79 | ||||
| 24 | A | Whitney Ashley | 44.60 | 44.60 | ||||
| A | Gu Siyu | ' | ||||||
| A | Fernanda Raquel Borges Martins | ' |
Final
The final was held on 11 August.| Rank | Name | Nationality | No. 1 | No. 2 | No. 3 | No. 4 | No. 5 | No. 6 | Mark | Notes |
| Sandra Perković | 67.52 | 67.99 | x | 67.80 | x | x | 67.99 | |||
| Mélina Robert-Michon | 62.53 | 61.77 | 65.13 | 65.08 | x | 66.28 | 66.28 | NR | ||
| Yarelys Barrios | 64.96 | 63.99 | x | 62.77 | 61.28 | 63.33 | 64.96 | |||
| Nadine Müller | 64.12 | 64.67 | x | x | 61.92 | 63.22 | 64.67 | |||
| Gia Lewis-Smallwood | 57.21 | 61.66 | 62.71 | 64.23 | x | 61.10 | 64.23 | |||
| Tan Jian | x | 63.16 | 61.69 | 63.34 | x | 61.47 | 63.34 | |||
| Żaneta Glanc | 59.80 | 62.90 | x | 61.27 | x | x | 62.90 | SB | ||
| Denia Caballero | 62.80 | 59.80 | 60.16 | 61.43 | x | 62.49 | 62.80 | |||
| Zinaida Sendriutė | 61.87 | 62.54 | 61.44 | 62.54 | ||||||
| 10 | Dani Samuels | 59.17 | 62.42 | x | 62.42 | |||||
| 11 | Yaime Pérez | x | 62.39 | 60.16 | 62.39 | |||||
| 12 | Rocío Comba | 59.83 | x | 58.32 | 59.83 |