Anita Włodarczyk

Anita Włodarczyk
Anita Włodarczyk during her Olympic victory in Rio 2016
nation	Poland
birthday	8th August 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Rawicz ,  Poland
size	178 cm
Weight	95 kg
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	82.98 m (28 Aug 2016 in Warsaw )
society	Skra Warszawa
Trainer	Krzysztof Kaliszewski
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 2 × 0 × 0 × World championships 3 × 1 × 0 × European championships 4 × 0 × 1 × Games of the Francophonie 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 77.60 m gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 82.29 m  World championships gold Berlin 2009 77.96 m gold Moscow 2013 78.46 m gold Beijing 2015 80.85 m gold London 2017 77.90 m  European championships bronze Barcelona 2010 73.34 m gold Helsinki 2012 74.29 m gold Zurich 2014 78.76 m gold Amsterdam 2016 78.14 m gold Berlin 2018 78.94 m
last change: August 13, 2018

Anita Włodarczyk (born August 8, 1985 in Rawicz ) is a Polish hammer thrower . She became Olympic champion in 2012 and 2016, world champion in 2009 and 2015 and European champion in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. In 2016 she became Polish champion for the seventh time in Bydgoszcz . So far she has improved the world record seven times.

Career

Anita Włodarczyk (2013)

Anita Włodarczyk began her sporting career in her hometown at Club Kadet Rawicz. She has been working for Skra Warszawa since 2011. At the Junior European Championships 2007 in Debrecen she finished 9th with a width of 62.11 m. She experienced her breakthrough in the world class of hammer throwers in 2008. She improved her personal best at the start of the season in May 2008 to 72.18 m and rose to 72.80 m in June at a meeting in Biberach an der Riss . She then took part for Poland in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , where she finished sixth with 71.56 m.

The 2009 season began for her with further increases in performance. She started the winter season with a personal best of 75.05 m, then rose to 76.20 m and then improved Kamila Skolimowska's Polish record of 76.83 m at a final preparatory meeting before the 2009 World Championships in Cottbus on August 8th 77.20 m. This throw was the fourth best in the history of woman's hammer throw. At the final of the World Championships in Berlin on August 22nd, she improved this distance and set a new world record with 77.96 m in her second attempt . While celebrating this world record, Włodarczyk injured his foot and could not make another attempt. Nevertheless, she won the world title ahead of Betty Heidler . On June 6, 2010, she improved her own world record in Bydgoszcz to 78.30 m, which she then lost to Betty Heidler on May 21, 2011. At the European Championships in 2010 , she won the bronze medal with 73.56 m, a year later she took fifth place at the World Championships in Daegu with the same distance . In 2012 she won the European Championships in Helsinki with 74.29 m and won silver at the Olympic Games in London with the width of 77.60 m. During a follow-up check of the doping test of the Russian winner Tatjana Lyssenko (78.18 m) from 2012, the anabolic steroid dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (Turinabol) was found. As a result, the repeat offender was stripped of her victory and the gold medal by the IOC in October 2016 . Anita Włodarczyk subsequently became Olympic hammer throw champion in 2012.

In 2013 Włodarczyk won silver at the World Championships in Moscow with 78.46 m. In 2014 she defended her title at the European Championships in Zurich with 78.76 m. On August 31, 2014 she set another world record at the ISTAF Berlin with 79.58 m, and two weeks later she won the Continental Cup in Marrakech .

On August 1, 2015, Anita Włodarczyk improved her own world record in Cetniewo, Poland, by 1.50 m to 81.08 m. She is the first woman to throw the hammer over the 80-meter mark. At the world championships in the same year she won the gold medal with a new championship record of 80.85 m. In 2016 she became European champion for the third time in Amsterdam .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Anita Włodarczyk set a new world record of 82.29 m on August 15, which was 1.21 m over her old one of 81.08 m. She wore one of the throwing gloves worn by Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska, who died in 2009 . She got them after Skolimowska's death and has worn one of them in every competition ever since. Shortly after the games, Włodarczyk improved her own record on August 28, 2016 at the Warszawski Memoriał Kamili Skolimowskiej meeting in Warsaw to 82.98 m.

At the 2017 World Championships in London , Włodarczyk won the gold medal in the final with a width of 77.90 m in front of the Chinese Wang Zheng and her compatriot Malwina Kopron , thus defending their 2015 World Championship title.

At the European Championships in Berlin in 2018 , Włodarczyk won her fourth European title in a row with 78.94 m (European championship record).

Web links

Commons : Anita Włodarczyk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Anita Włodarczyk in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Anita Włodarczyk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ olympic.org: IOC sanctions Tatyana Lysenko for failing anti-doping test at London 2012 Article from October 11, 2016 (English)
2. ↑ spiegel.de: Olympia 2012 - Late silver for hammer thrower Heidler Article from October 11, 2016
3. ^ IAAF: Wlodarczyk breaks hammer world record in Berlin . August 31, 2014
4. ^ IAAF: Report: women's hammer - IAAF Continental Cup, Marrakech 2014 . September 14, 2014
5. ^ IAAF: Wlodarczyk smashes hammer world record with 81.08m in Cetniewo . August 1, 2015
6. ↑ welt.de: She set a world record with the glove of a dead Article from August 15, 2016
7. ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Anita Wlodarczyk knocks out the next world record Article from August 28, 2016
8. ^ Result of hammer throw women at the World Championships 2017 in London , on iaaf.org. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
9. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Kathrin Klaas takes a conciliatory goodbye, Anita Wlodarczyk dominates. In: Leichtathletik.de. DLV , August 12, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2018 .