European Athletics Championships 2010 / Women's hammer throw

20th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Barcelona
Competition location	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Competition phase	July 28th (qualification) ; July 30th (final)
	Medalists
	Betty Heidler ( GER )
	Tatjana Lysenko ( RUS )
	Anita Włodarczyk ( POL )

The Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona in 2007

The women's hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships 2010 was held on July 28th and 30th, 2010 in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the city of Barcelona .

European champion was the German world champion from 2007 and vice world champion from 2009 Betty Heidler . She won ahead of the Russian defending champion Tatyana Lyssenko . Bronze went to the Polish 2009 World Champion and world record holder Anita Włodarczyk .

Existing records

World record	78.30 m	Poland Anita Włodarczyk	Bydgoszcz , Poland	June 6, 2010
European record
Championship record	76.67 m	Russia Tatiana Lysenko	EM Gothenburg , Sweden	August 7, 2006

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

doping

There was a doping case in this discipline:
Moldovan Zalina Marghieva , who came in fifth, was subsequently banned for two years after a re-test of her doping sample from the 2009 World Championships was positive. Among other things, their EM result was deleted.
This put two athletes at a disadvantage:

The Spaniard Berta Castells would have allowed three more attempts as the eighth-placed thrower in the final.
The Norwegian Mona Holm Solberg could have participated in the final over her width of 66.18 m.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

22 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 69.00 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 66.48 m had to be achieved to reach the final.

Group A

With 66.18 m Mona Holm Solberg failed in the qualification

Kathrin Klaas did not reach the final with 65.82 m

July 28, 2010, 10:10 am

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland Poland	71.15	71.15	-	-
2	Silvia Salis	Italy Italy	70.33	70.33	-	-
3	Nataliya Zolotuhina	Ukraine Ukraine	69.31	63.76	65.70	69.31
4th	Marina Marghieva	Moldova Republic Moldova	67.84	x	67.47	67.84
5	Tracey Andersson	Sweden Sweden	66.48	x	62.07	66.48
6th	Mona Holm Solberg	Norway Norway	66.18 actually qualified for the final	62.72	66.10	66.18
7th	Alexándra Papayeoryíou	Greece Greece	65.88	65.12	65.70	65.88
8th	Kathrin Klaas	Germany Germany	65.82	65.82	65.49	x
9	Wolha Zander	Belarus 1995 Belarus	62.69	x	62.69	x
10	Lenka Ledvinová	Czech Republic Czech Republic	60.74	x	x	60.74
NM	Darja Ptschelnik	Belarus 1995 Belarus	ogV	x	x	x

Group B

July 28, 2010, 12:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Tatiana Lysenko	Russia Russia	72.36	x	72.36	-
2	Betty Heidler	Germany Germany	71.85	71.85	-	-
3	Bianca Perie	Romania Romania	68.67	68.61	68.67	x
4th	Éva Orbán	Hungary Hungary	68.59	64.55	68.59	-
5	Merja Korpela	Finland Finland	67.58	66.06	67.58	66.45
6th	Berta Castells	Spain Spain	66.61	66.61	65.95	65.26
7th	Małgorzata Zadura	Poland Poland	65.45	62.26	65.45	64.78
8th	Stéphanie Falzon	France France	64.34	64.30	x	64.34
9	Kateřina Šafránková	Czech Republic Czech Republic	62.63	x	62.63	x
10	Paraskevi Theodorou	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	60.16	57.50	59.68	60.16
DOP	Zalina Marghieva	Moldova Republic Moldova	admitted to the finals

final

July 30, 2010, 8:20 pm

Betty Heidler from Germany, who went into the competition as one of the favorites, won the second gold medal of her career with 76.38 m in the fifth litter after her World Cup title in 2007 . Even her second best attempt of 75.92 m would have been enough to win. Former world record holder Tatjana Lysenko from Russia, who had previously been banned for two years for doping abuse and started as the defending champion, won the silver medal with 75.65 m. The reigning world champion Anita Włodarczyk from Poland - also world record holder with 78.30 m in June 2010 - came third with 73.34 m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Betty Heidler	Germany Germany	76.38	69.68	75.92	x	72.58	76.38	72.27
2	Tatiana Lysenko	Russia Russia	75.65	74.63	71.53	73.16	75.65	74.89	x
3	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland Poland	73.56	73.05	73.34	x	72.65	70.58	73.56
4th	Bianca Perie	Romania Romania	71.62	69.92	71.62	70.01	70.01	x	x
5	Marina Marghieva	Moldova Republic Moldova	70.77	x	67.02	70.77	64.82	x	66.93
6th	Silvia Salis	Italy Italy	68.85	66.98	68.85	x	x	68.35	67.51
7th	Merja Korpela	Finland Finland	68.21	68.21	67.15	66.20	x	x	63.96
8th	Berta Castells	Spain Spain	68.20	68.20	x	66.07	actually entitled to 3 more throws
9	Nataliya Zolotuhina	Ukraine Ukraine	67.53	67.53	x	66.99	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Tracey Andersson	Sweden Sweden	65.13	x	65.13	x
11	Éva Orbán	Hungary Hungary	64.99	x	64.99	30.58
DOP	Zalina Marghieva	Moldova Republic Moldova

The world champion of 2007 and vice world champion of 2009 Betty Heidler became European champion here
The reigning world champion and world record holder Anita Włodarczyk received bronze
Bianca Perie finished fourth
Sixth placed Silvia Salis
Merja Korpela came in seventh place
Berta Castells reached eighth place - she would have allowed three more attempts in the final
Tracey Andersson - tenth place
Éva Orbán was eleventh