European Athletics Championships 2012 / Women's hammer throw

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 29th (qualification) July 1st (final)
Medalists Anita Włodarczyk ( POL )   Martina Hrašnová ( SVK )   Anna Bulgakowa ( RUS )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's hammer throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 29 and July 1, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was Anita Włodarczyk , the Polish world champion from 2009 and EM third from 2010 . She won Martina Hrašnová before third in the Slovak World Cup in 2009 . Bronze went to the Russian Anna Bulgakowa .

Existing records

World record	79.42 m	Betty Heidler	Halle (Saale) , Germany	May 21, 2011
European record
Championship record	76.67 m	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

The Moldovan zalina marghieva first Eighth were the forbidden substances in a doping test Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone and stanozolol detected. The athlete was then removed from the Olympic team of Moldova for the 2012 Olympic Games . She later received a two-year ban from July 23, 2013 to July 23, 2015. Among other things, her result from these European championships was withdrawn from her.

The main victims were two athletes:

• The Spaniard Berta Castells was deprived of three attempts in the final, which would have allowed her to finish eighth.
• The Swede Tracey Andersson had to watch the final, but would have been allowed to start there as twelfth after qualifying.

Legend

The sign x means invalid - usually also used in other publications.

qualification

June 29, 2012, 11:35 am

24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 71.00 m. Only one athlete exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eleven next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 66.89 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Berta Castells	Spain	68.52	68.11	67.25	68.52
2	Stéphanie Falzon	France	68.42	x	68.42	00x
3	Éva Orbán	Hungary	67.89	67.72	x	67.89
4th	Tuğçe Şahutoğlu	Turkey	67.47	x	66.24	67.47
5	Tracey Andersson	Sweden	66.45	63.40	x	66.45 actually qualified for the final
6th	Kateřina Šafránková	Czech Republic	66.51	66.51	64.15	00x
7th	Barbara Špiler	Slovenia	65.37	63.71	x	65.37
8th	Betty Heidler	Germany	65.06	x	x	65.06
9	Mona Holm Solberg	Norway	64.03	60.37	64.03	62.84
10	Vânia Silva	Portugal	62.81	61.53	62.81	61.04
11	Sarah Holt	Great Britain	61.18	61.06	59.12	61.18
DOP	Zalina Marghieva	Moldova	admitted to the finals

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  Tracey Andersson achieved 66.45 m and was deprived of the final by the doped Moldovan

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  65.37 m were not enough for Barbara Špiler to be in the final

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  Ex-world champion and defending champion Betty Heidler surprisingly got stuck in the qualification with her 65.06 m

• 

  Mona Holm was eliminated from the qualification with 64.03 m

Group B

• 

  64.03 m was not enough for Merja Korpela to take part in the final

• 

  Silvia Salis remained in the qualification without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	71.38	66.30	69.50	71.38
2	Martina Hrašnová	Slovakia	69.67	67.76	69.67	x
3	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	68.95	66.12	68.95	68.56
4th	Anna Bulgakova	Russia	68.44	68.44	x	x
5	Bianca Perie	Romania	67.46	67.14	63.98	67.46
6th	Sophie Hitchon	Great Britain	67.08	x	61.65	67.08
7th	Tereza Králová	Czech Republic	66.89	66.89	66.09	x
8th	Marina Marghieva	Moldova	65.44	65.44	x	65.11
9	Merja Korpela	Finland	64.03	64.03	63.83	61.14
10	Alina Kastrowa	Belarus	62.51	62.51	x	x
NM	Laura Redondo	Spain	ogV	x	x	x
	Silvia Salis	Italy		x	x	x

final

July 1, 2012, 4:00 p.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	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	74.29	74.02	73.17	73.29	74.29	73.93	x
2	Martina Hrašnová	Slovakia	73.34	70.57	73.34	x	68.38	x	x
3	Anna Bulgakova	Russia	71.47	70.84	x	71.47	70.80	67.70	x
4th	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	70.44	66.53	70.44	67.03	66.82	70.34	69.75
5	Tuğçe Şahutoğlu	Turkey	70.21	68.12	70.21	68.23	67.63	x	66.05
6th	Stéphanie Falzon	France	68.03	63.05	67.80	68.03	66.59	67.02	x
7th	Éva Orbán	Hungary	67.92	66.81	x	67.92	x	x	66.83
8th	Berta Castells	Spain	67.42	66.03	67.42	x	actually entitled to 3 more throws
9	Bianca Perie	Romania	67.24	66.92	x	67.24	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Sophie Hitchon	Great Britain	67.17	66.73	67.17	x
11	Tereza Králová	Czech Republic	65.87	x	65.29	65.87
DOP	Zalina Marghieva	Moldova

• 

  Anita Włodarczyk continued a series of successes that would last for a long time

• 

  Kathrin Klaas was fourth to miss a medal by a little more than a meter

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  Éva Orbán finished seventh

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  The eighth-placed Berta Castells was deprived of three attempts that she was entitled to in the final

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  Bianca Perie, later Bianca Ghelber, reached ninth place

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  Sophie Hitchon came in tenth place - in 2016 she finished third in the Olympics

Video

• Hammer Throw Womens Final IAAF World Championships 2005 Helsinki on youtube.com, accessed January 29, 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 29, 2020
• European Championship 2012 Helsinki, Women Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed January 29, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 29, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Hammer Throw European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 517 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 29, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, hammer throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on January 29, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 29, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Women , accessed January 29, 2020
2. ↑ Hammer thrower tested positive , Kölner Stadtanzeiger, August 3, 2012, accessed on January 29, 2020
3. ↑ Zalina Marghieva on dopingsanctions.com (English), accessed January 29, 2020