European Athletics Championships 2002 / Women's hammer throw

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Women
Attendees	44 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 9th (final)
Medalists Olga Kusenkowa ( RUS )   Kamila Skolimowska ( POL )   Manuela Montebrun ( FRA )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The women's hammer throw at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 7th and 9th, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

The European champion was the Russian vice European champion in 1998 , Olympic runner-up in 2000 and the respective vice world champion in 1999 and 2001, Olga Kusenkowa . She won ahead of the Polish Olympic champion from 2000 Kamila Skolimowska . Bronze went to Manuela Montebrun from France .

Records

Existing records

World record	73.14 m	Mihaela Melinte	Poiana Brașov , Romania	July 16, 1998
European record
Championship record	71.17 m		EM Budapest , Hungary	August 22, 1998

Record improvements

In the final on August 9th, the existing EM record was improved three times:

• 72.30 m - Olga Kusenkowa , 1st attempt
• 72.46 m - Kamila Skolimowska , 4th attempt 
• 72.94 m - Olga Kusenkowa , 4th attempt

qualification

August 7, 2002

44 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 66.00 m. Five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the seven next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 63.38 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

With her 62.46 m Ivana Brkljačić did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Olga Kusenkova	Russia	68.45
2	Manuela Montebrun	France	67.74
3	Susanne Keil	Germany	66.67
4th	Ester Balassini	Italy	65.84
5	Alexándra Papayeoryíou	Greece	64.74
6th	Iryna Sekacheva	Ukraine	63.13
7th	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	62.46
8th	Lorraine Shaw	Great Britain	61.50
9	Júlia Tudja	Hungary	61.46
10	Wolha Zander	Belarus	61.39
11	Jelena Taurjanina	Russia	61.22
12	Agnieszka Pogroszewska	Poland	60.87
13	Dolores Pedrares	Spain	59.93
14th	Maria José Conde	Portugal	59.87
15th	Eileen O'Keeffe	Ireland	59.64
16	Manuela Priemer	Germany	59.30
17th	Katri Räsänen	Finland	57.61
18th	Eva Danielsen	Norway	56.48
19th	Elena Teloni	Cyprus	55.81
20th	Wendy Koolhaas	Netherlands	53.99
21st	Emiliana Ciko	Albania	53.65
22nd	Lenka Ledvinová	Czech Republic	47.65

Group B

With 60.13 m Aksana Myankova retired in the qualification

57.15 m were not enough for Berta Castells to take part in the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	66.84
2	Florence Ezeh	France	66.11
3	Clarissa Claretti	Italy	65.43
4th	Sini Poyry	Finland	64.87
5	Evdokía Tsámoglou	Greece	64.70
6th	Andrea Bunjes	Germany	64.38
7th	Alla Davidova	Russia	63.38
8th	Lucie Vrbenská	Czech Republic	63.17
9	Cecilia Nilsson	Sweden	62.85
10	Sonia Alves	Portugal	62.50
11	Lyudmila Hubkina	Belarus	62.18
12	Maryna Rezanova	Ukraine	61.77
13	Merja Korpela	Finland	60.57
14th	Marina Danisová	Slovakia	60.28
15th	Aksana Myankova	Belarus	60.13
16	Monica Torazzi	Italy	58.38
17th	Vânia Silva	Portugal	58.22
18th	Berta Castells	Spain	57.15
19th	Sanja Gavrilović	Croatia	56.98
20th	Lívia Marx	Hungary	56.20
21st	Zübeyde Yıldız	Turkey	54.32
NM	Debby van der Schilt	Netherlands	ogV

final

August 9, 2002

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Olga Kusenkova	Russia	72.94 CR	72.30 CR	68.41	x	72.94 CR	72.89	72.71
2	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	72.46	69.38	68.62	68.35	72.46 CR	65.94	x
3	Manuela Montebrun	France	72.04	70.69	63.36	72.04	x	68.78	70.34
4th	Florence Ezeh	France	68.03	x	64.94	66.82	68.03	x	65.86
5	Sini Poyry	Finland	67.47	x	64.94	66.82	68.03	x	65.86
6th	Ester Balassini	Italy	67.27	67.27	66.73	67.05	64.13	65.76	65.85
7th	Alexándra Papayeoryíou	Greece	66.49	63.32	66.49	63.74	59.41	61.23	64.05
8th	Clarissa Claretti	Italy	66.25	57.84	66.25	x	64.19	x	x
9	Alla Davidova	Russia	65.92	62.53	65.30	65.92	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Susanne Keil	Germany	65.20	63.85	63.61	65.20
11	Andrea Bunjes	Germany	64.92	64.92	x	x
12	Evdokía Tsámoglou	Greece	64.19	64.19	61.81	64.16

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  Silver medalist Kamila Skolimowska, in 2000 she was Olympic champion and in 2006 she was third in the European Championship - she died in 2009 of a pulmonary embolism

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  Bronze medalist Manuela Montebrun - she won World Cup bronze 2003 , World Cup silver 2005 and Olympic  bronze 2008

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 12, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Women Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed on November 12, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 12, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Hammer Throw European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 488 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 12, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, hammer throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 12, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 12, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Women , accessed October 24, 2019
2. ↑ Death at the age of 26 - mourning for the Polish Olympic champion , on welt.de, February 19, 2009, accessed on November 12, 2019