2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw

The women's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 23 and 24 August 2023.

Summary

In the preliminary round, defending champion Brooke Andersen relinquished her opportunity to defend, struggling to put the hammer into the sector and only throwing 67.72m, almost 5 metres behind the last qualifying spot. Anita Włodarczyk was also unable to make the finals with a best of 71.17m.

Hanna Skydan had the first legal throw of the competition, 74.18m. Returning 4th place, Sara Fantini got close with a 73.89m At the end of the round, returning silver medalist Camryn Rogers launched a to take the lead. Starting the second round, the next thrower was returning bronze medalist Janee' Kassanavoid. Her 76.00m took over second place. Nobody else improved into the medals. Again in the third round, Kassanavoid improved to 76.36m while by the end of the round, seven women had thrown 73 metres or better, leaving Olympic silver medalist Wang Zheng in the last qualifying position. Barely one spot ahead of her, 2019 Champion DeAnna Price had only managed 73.28m but also qualified for three more throws. With the new life, in the fifth round, she spun a 75.41m to take the bronze medal position. Nobody was able to improve through the remaining two rounds.

Rogers threw consistently with four throws better than anyone else was able to produce in the competition.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record82.98 mWarsaw, Poland28 August 2016Championship record80.85 mBeijing, China27 August 2015World Leading80.17 mTucson, United States30 May 2023African Record75.49 mTucson, United States22 May 2021Asian Record77.68 mChengdu, China29 March 2014North, Central American and Caribbean record80.31 mEugene, United States26 June 2021South American Record73.74 mBuenos Aires, Argentina10 April 2010European Record82.98 mWarsaw, Poland28 August 2016Oceanian record74.61 mTucson, United States22 May 2021

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 73.60.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (CEST), was as follows:

Date Time Round23 August 19:00 Qualification 20:35 Qualification 24 August 19:00 Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 73.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 A Hanna Skydan 77.10 77.10 Q,  2 A DeAnna Price 76.25 76.25 Q 3 B Silja Kosonen x 74.19 74.19 Q, 4 A Camryn Rogers 70.97 73.95 73.95 Q 5 B Bianca Florentina Ghelber 73.67 73.67 Q 6 A Sara Fantini 73.28 73.28 Q, 7 A Zhao Jie 69.13 73.23 73.23 Q, 8 B Janee Kassanavoid 71.04 x 72.70 72.70 q 9 A Malwina Kopron x 71.48 72.35 72.35 q, 10 A Wang Zheng 66.73 71.93 71.08 71.93 q 11 B Anna Purchase 70.99 71.31 67.76 71.31 q 12 B Katrine Koch Jacobsen 70.63 71.25 70.32 71.25 q 13 B Anita Włodarczyk 70.36 71.17 67.76 71.17 14 B Rosa Rodríguez 68.57 x 70.81 70.81 15 A Suvi Koskinen 67.7870.81 67.83 70.81 16 B Ji Li 70.59 69.17 68.86 70.59 17 B Alexandra Tavernier 70.19 x 69.42 70.19 18 A Stephanie Ratcliffe 69.87 66.93 67.97 69.87 19 B Aleksandra Śmiech 67.33 x 69.76 69.76 20 A Charlotte Payne 64.56 69.32 69.57 69.57 21 B Beatrice Nedberge Llano 69.11 67.98 66.57 69.11 22 B 68.51 66.94 69.05 69.05 23 A Krista Tervo x 67.53 68.00 68.00 24 A Rose Loga x 67.95 x 67.95 25 B Brooke Andersen x x 67.72 67.72 26 A Stamatia Scarvelis 67.51 67.53 x 67.53 27 B Jillian Weir 65.97 65.14 67.48 67.48 28 A Lauren Bruce 67.10 67.04 x 67.10 29 A Laura Redondo 66.87 66.95 66.29 66.95 30 B Oyesade Olatoye x 66.92 65.76 66.92 31 B Iryna Klymets 65.69 66.87 x 66.87 32 A Mayra Gaviria 66.14 66.82 65.25 66.82 33 B Réka Gyurátz 65.25 66.81x 66.81 34 A Martina Hrašnová 57.17 64.83 66.28 66.28 35 B Nayoka Clunis x 58.10 x 58.10 A Jillian Shippee x x x NM

Final The final was started on 24 August at 20:29.

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Camryn Rogers 77.22 77.07 76.75 75.68 76.72 74.92 77.22 Janee Kassanavoid x 76.00 76.36 73.13 75.27 75.06 76.36 DeAnna Price x x 73.28 72.62 75.41 73.98 75.41 4 Hanna Skydan 74.18 x 73.67 x 68.76 72.91 74.18 5 Silja Kosonen 73.89 x 72.59 x x 73.43 73.89 6 Sara Fantini 71.94 73.85 69.42 71.79 71.82 x 73.85 7 Bianca Florentina Ghelber x x 73.58 72.35 73.70 72.46 73.70 8 Wang Zheng 70.29 72.14 x x x x 72.14 9 Katrine Koch Jacobsen 69.89 71.33 70.04 71.33 10 Zhao Jie 69.87 70.29 x 70.29 11 Anna Purchase x 68.82 70.29 70.29 Malwina Kopron x x x NM

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