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Women's discus throw at the 2011 Pan American Games
Venue	Telmex Athletics Stadium
Dates	October 28
Competitors	11 from 8 nations
Medalists
Yarelys Barrios   Cuba   Aretha Thurmond   United States   Denia Caballero   Cuba
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Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's discus throw event of the athletics events at the 2011 Pan American Games was held the 28 of October at the Telmex Athletics Stadium. The defending Pan American Games champion is Yarelys Barrios of the Cuba.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Gabriele Reinsch (GER)	76.80	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	July 9, 1988
Pan American Games record	Maritza Martén (CUB)	65.58	Indianapolis, United States	August 10, 1987

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the minimum standard (48.50) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 14, 2011).

Schedule

Results

All distances shown are in meters:centimeters

Final

The final was held on October 28.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Yarelys Barrios	Cuba	66.40	62.88	x	63.13	63.41	61.39	66.40	PR
	Aretha Thurmond	United States	57.59	56.69	57.75	59.16	59.53	x	59.53
	Denia Caballero	Cuba	58.63	x	57.42	x	x	54.82	58.63
4	Gia Lewis-Smallwood	United States	x	51.92	52.08	57.34	x	x	57.34
5	Karen Gallardo	Chile	54.10	57.13	56.06	57.17	x	x	57.17
6	Rocío Comba	Argentina	x	54.12	x	56.05	x	54.98	56.05	SB
7	Fernanda Raquel Borges	Brazil	x	52.75	52.53	x	54.56	53.75	54.56
8	Elisângela Adriano	Brazil	x	x	54.08	x	53.46	x	54.08
9	Allison Randall	Jamaica	45.96	49.42	50.90				50.90
10	Irais Estrada	Mexico	44.66	47.58	49.52				49.52
11	Brittni Borrero	Puerto Rico	46.87	x	x				46.87

References

1. Guadalajara 2011 sessions Archived 2011-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ "Athletics technical manual" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2012-09-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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