2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw

The women's hammer throw at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 5 and 7 August.Start list

Summary As the only woman to have thrown over 80 metres, world record holder Anita Włodarczyk was the clear favourite. While she was the first to throw over 70 metres in this competition, the next thrower, the home team's Sophie Hitchon threw better. By the end of the round, four more women threw better, the early leader was Włodarczyk's Polish teammate Malwina Kopron with a throw of 74.46 metres. In the second round, Wang Zheng jumped from second to first with a throw of 75.94 metres. The third Pole in the competition Joanna Fiodorow moved into third place with a throw of 73.02 metres. In the third round, Fiodorow was displaced by Zhang Wenxiu, then three throwers later by Hanna Skydan with a throw of 73.38 metres. During that round, Włodarczyk had improved to 71.94 metres, but was in sixth place only 60 centimetres ahead of the last qualifying spot for the final three attempts. In the fourth round, Włodarczyk finally broke through getting off a throw of 77.39 metres to take the lead. Nobody would be able to improve upon that, but Włodarczyk wasn't done, throwing 77.90 metres in the fifth round. Wang threw her best of 75.98 metres on her final attempt but it couldn't catch Włodarczyk. Nobody else could beat Kopron's first round throw to get a medal.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

Record Athlete Date LocationWorld82.98Anita Włodarczyk28 Aug 2016Warsaw, PolandChampionship80.85Anita Włodarczyk27 Aug 2015Beijing, ChinaWorld leading82.87Anita Włodarczyk29 Jul 2017Cetniewo, PolandAfrican69.70Amy SèneForbach, FranceAsian77.68Zheng Wang29 Mar 2014Chengdu, China NACAC76.77Gwen Berry6 May 2017Oxford, United StatesSouth American73.74Jennifer Dahlgren10 Apr 2010Buenos Aires, ArgentinaEuropean82.98Anita Włodarczyk28 Aug 2016Warsaw, PolandOceanian71.12Bronwyn Eagles6 Feb 2003Adelaide, Australia

No records were set at the competition.

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 71.00 metres.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows: Date Time Round5 August 11:35 Qualification7 August 20:00 Final

Results Qualification The qualification round took place on 5 August, in two groups, with Group A starting at 10:34 and Group B starting at 12:06. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 71.50 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 A Malwina Kopron 74.97 74.97 2 B Anita Włodarczyk 74.61 74.61 3 A Sophie Hitchon 73.05 73.05 4 A Hanna Malyshchyk 72.79 72.79 5 B DeAnna Price 72.78 72.78 6 B Alexandra Tavernier 72.69 72.69 , 7 A Wang Zheng 71.89 71.89 8 B Hanna Skydan 71.78 71.78 9 B Joanna Fiodorow 71.72 71.72 10 B Zhang Wenxiu 71.39 70.37 70.87 71.39 11 A Kateřina Šafránková 67.93 70.67 70.67 12 B Kathrin Klaas 69.22 70.33 70.33 13 B Luo Na 69.54 69.37 69.54 14 A Gwen Berry 65.09 69.12 69.12 15 A Kivilcim Kaya 66.33 67.76 66.93 67.76 16 B Réka Gyurátz 67.48 60.93 67.48 17 A Ida Storm 67.39 67.39 18 B Anna Maria Orel 64.80 62.80 67.37 67.37 19 A Zalina Petrivskaya 67.05 67.05 20 B Marinda Petersson 63.11 66.46 x 66.46 21 B Magdalyn Ewen 66.24 65.14 66.24 22 A Berta Castells 63.09 66.11 66.05 66.11 23 A Iryna Novozhylova 65.78 66.02 65.52 66.02 24 A Bianca Perie-Ghelber 65.07 65.07 25 A Alyona Shamotina 62.63 64.03 64.88 64.88 26 A Julia Ratcliffe 64.67 64.72 61.88 64.72 27 B Marina Nikişenko 63.72 62.92 64.63 64.63 28 A Nikola Lomnická 64.60 63.32 64.60 29 B Iryna Klymets 61.24 64.20 60.76 64.20 30 A Susen Küster 59.33 62.33 62.33 B Jillian Weir B Jennifer Dahlgren

Final The final took place on 7 August at 18:59. The results were as follows:

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Anita Włodarczyk 70.45 71.94 77.39 77.90 73.91 77.90 Wang Zheng 74.31 75.94 75.00 74.86 74.52 75.98 75.98 Malwina Kopron 74.76 69.90 71.66 74.76 Zhang Wenxiu 69.70 73.19 70.62 74.53 72.21 74.53 Hanna Skydan 72.45 72.38 73.38 71.70 71.77 73.38 Joanna Fiodorow 73.02 72.41 73.04 71.69 72.67 73.04 Sophie Hitchon 71.47 71.62 71.80 70.81 72.32 72.32 Kateřina Šafránková 71.34 66.26 71.34 DeAnna Price 65.20 67.46 70.04 70.04 10 Hanna Malyshchyk 69.43 69.00 69.43 11Kathrin Klaas 67.83 68.91 68.91 12 Alexandra Tavernier 66.31 66.01 66.31

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