European Athletics Championships 2018 / Women's hammer throw

discipline	Women's hammer throw
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	28 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2018 (qualification) August 12, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Anita Włodarczyk ( POL )
silver	Alexandra Tavernier ( FRA )
bronze	Joanna Fiodorow ( POL )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The women's hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 10th and 12th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

It won the Pole Anita Włodarczyk . The French Alexandra Tavernier became vice European champion. Joanna Fiodorow , also from Poland, won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Anita Włodarczyk	82.98 m	August 28, 2016, Warsaw , Poland
European record
Championship record		78.76 m	August 15, 2014, EM in Zurich , Switzerland

Record improvements

In the final, Anita Włodarczyk improved her own EM record to 78.94 m.

qualification

The Finn Inga Linna did not reach the final with 65.46 m

The Hungarian Éva Orbán failed with 59.16 m in the qualification

The Estonian Anna Maria Orel did not reach 67.22 m for the final

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct participation in the finals was 70.00 m. Since only six throwers exceeded this value - highlighted in light blue, the final field was filled with the following best throwers from both groups to twelve athletes - highlighted in light green. After all, 68.64 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

August 10, 2018, 10:00 a.m. CEST

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Hanna Malyshchyk	Belarus	72.39	-	-	72.39
02	Joanna Fiodorov	Poland	71.46	-	-	71.46
03	Zalina Petrivskaia	Moldova	x	69.17	69.04	69.17
04th	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	66.12	68.64	x	68.64
05	Yelisaveta Tsaryova	Authorized Neutral Athletes	67.40	66.50	68.35	68.35
06th	Stamatia Skarvelis	Greece	67.08	67.97	x	67.97
07th	Martina Hrašnová	Slovakia	x	x	66.37	66.37
08th	Bianca Ghelber	Romania	x	65.77	66.17	66.17
09	Inga Linna	Finland	63.11	63.77	65.46	65.46
10	Kateřina Šafránková	Czech Republic	x	64.64	64.85	64.85
11	Iryna Novoschylova	Ukraine	x	64.70	x	64.70
12	Anamari Kožul	Croatia	x	62.55	60.40	62.55
13	Aljona Shamotina	Ukraine	x	61.51	61.66	61.66
14th	Éva Orbán	Hungary	x	x	59.16	59.16

Group B

August 10, 2018, 11:30 a.m. CEST

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
01	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	69.81	75.10	-	75.10
02	Hanna Skydan	Azerbaijan	74.02	-	-	74.02 SB
03	Alexandra Tavernier	France	72.88	-	-	72.88
04th	Malwina Kopron	Poland	x	71.14	-	71.14
05	Sofja Palkina	Authorized Neutral Athletes	69.21	69.74	69.49	69.74
06th	Réka Gyurátz	Hungary	x	69.45	-	69.45
07th	Iryna Klymez	Ukraine	68.40	x	69.44	69.44
08th	Sophie Hitchon	Great Britain	x	68.69	x	68.69
09	Kıvılcım Kaya Salman	Turkey	67.72	66.86	68.10	68.10
10	Anna Maria Orel	Estonia	67.22	64.14	65.17	67.22
11	Ida Storm	Sweden	64.52	65.22	66.66	66.66
12	Krista Tervo	Finland	61.39	65.37	x	65.37
13	Marina Nikisenko	Moldova	x	62.22	64.37	64.37
14th	Nicole Zihlmann	Switzerland	60.64	x	61.67	61.67

final

August 12, 2018, 7:30 p.m. CEST

Actually there could only be one winner in a hammer throw . Anita Włodarczyk from Poland dominated almost all of the major international championships in the recent past, usually with a clear lead. She was two-time Olympic champion - 2012 / 2016 , three times world champion - 2009 / 2015 / 2017 - and three-time European champion - 2012 / 2014 / 2016 .

With Malwina Kopron, the vice world champion in 2016, and Joanna Fiodorow, the third place in the European Championship in 2014, two more Polish women with medal chances were at the start. Other contenders for top positions were the French World Cup third in 2015 Alexandra Tavernier and the British European Championship fourth in 2016 Sophie Hitchon.

There were only two throwers with an attempt beyond the 70-meter mark in the first round. Tavernier took the lead with 74.78 m, followed by Moldovan Zalina Petrivskaia with 70.98 m. In lap two, Włodarczyk's hammer landed at 76.50 m, which put her in front. Joanna Fiodorow rose to 71.41 m and was third. In the third round, the level of this competition increased further. Włodarczyk achieved 77.82 m, Fiodorow consolidated her third place with 74.00 m. Kopron reached 72.20 m, that was position four. Petrivskaia also improved again with a throw to 71.80 m, but fell back to sixth place, because Hanna Skydan from Azerbaijan achieved 71.92 m. The German Kathrin Klaas conquered seventh place with 70.66 m and the eighth-placed Hitchon now exceeded the 70-meter mark with 70.52 m.

The first final round of the eight best throwers did not result in any changes in positions. But Włodarczyk now achieved her best distance of this competition with 78.52 m. With this she improved her own EM record from 2014 by eighteen centimeters. Not much happened in the last two laps. Klaas reached 71.50 m with her fifth litter, Skydan reached 72.10 m with her last attempt. Anita Włodarczyk became European champion for the fourth time in a row. Alexandra Tavernier won silver, Joanna Fiodorow won bronze. Malwina Kopron came fourth, making three Polish women among the top four. Hanna Skydan was fifth ahead of Zalina Petrivskaia. Kathrin Klaas achieved seventh place ahead of Sophie Hitchon in her last competition at a major international championship.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	69.35	76.50	77.82	78.94	78.55	x	78.94 CR
	Alexandra Tavernier	France	74.78	69.49	70.74	68.35	73.92	74.20	74.78 NO
	Joanna Fiodorov	Poland	69.55	71.41	74.00	73.72	71.70	x	74.00
4th	Malwina Kopron	Poland	x	x	72.20	71.53	x	x	72.20
5	Hanna Skydan	Azerbaijan	x	67.22	71.92	68.55	71.42	72.10	72.10
6th	Zalina Petrivskaia	Moldova	70.98	70.65	71.80	70.53	71.00	x	71.80
7th	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	x	66.49	70.66	x	71.50	x	71.50 SB
8th	Sophie Hitchon	Great Britain	68.80	x	70.52	x	x	x	70.52
9	Réka Gyurátz	Hungary	69.51	70.48	69.85	not in the final of the eight best throwers			70.48
10	Sofja Palkina	Authorized Neutral Athletes	68.64	x	67.46				68.64
11	Iryna Klymez	Ukraine	x	66.42	68.11				68.11
NM	Hanna Malyshchyk	Belarus	x	x	x				without space

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  European champion Anita Włodarczyk ( left ) and fourth-placed Malwina Kopron, both from Poland - here after her double success at the 2017 World Championships

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  Vice European Champion Alexandra Tavernier, France

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  The German Kathrin Klaas came in seventh place

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  The British Sophie Hitchon took eighth place

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 25, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 25, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 25, 2019

Video

• Anita Wlodarczyk (POL) 78.94m (CR) (4th attempt) on youtube.com, published August 8, 2018, accessed January 25, 2019