The next thrower in the ring Yarelis Barrios threw 63.17m which would be good enough for second place.

Barrios improved to 63.64m in the second round to assure her hold on second place.

Song Aimin struggled with the worst throw of the opening round and was flirting with elimination until her third round throw which put her into fourth place.

Eight years after the event, the IOC reanalyzed doping samples of silver medalist Yarelis Barrios and disqualified her for having the masking agent acetazolamide in her sample.

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.