1999 World Athletics Championships / Women's hammer throw
| 7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | Hammer throw | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 21 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Seville
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| Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 24th | ||||||||
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The women's hammer throw at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 24, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city of Seville .
This competition was on the program for women for the first time at a world championship.
The reigning European champion and world record holder Mihaela Melinte from Romania became world champion . The Russian Vice European Champion from 1998 Olga Kusenkowa won silver . Bronze went to Lisa Misipeka from American Samoa .
Existing records
| World record | 75.97 m |
 Mihaela Melinte
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Clermont-Ferrand , France | May 13, 1999 |
| World championship record | No World Cup records yet, competition is new to the program. | |||
The Romanian world champion Mihaela Melinte set the first world championship record in the competition on August 21 with 75.20 m . So she missed the existing world record by only 77 centimeters.
execution
At this first event with 21 participants no qualification was required. All hammer throwers competed together for the final.
final
August 24, 1999, 6:00 p.m.
Note: The x character indicates an invalid attempt.
| space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) |
1. V. (m) |
2. V. (m) |
3. V. (m) |
4. V. (m) |
5. V. (m) |
6. V. (m) |
| 1 | Mihaela Melinte |
Romania
|
75.20 WL | 71.57 | 73.23 | 74.21 | 70.58 | x | 75.20 |
| 2 | Olga Kusenkova |
 Russia
|
72.56 | x | 68.18 | 71.79 | 69.23 | x | 72.56 |
| 3 | Lisa Misipeka |
 American Samoa
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66.06 | 65.02 | 65.02 | x | 64.44 | 66.06 | 65.85 |
| 4th | Katalin Divós |
 Hungary
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65.86 | 64.63 | x | 65.86 | x | x | x |
| 5 | Deborah Sosimenko |
 Australia
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65.52 | 65.52 | x | 61.56 | 62.92 | 63.79 | 63.85 |
| 6th | Lyudmila Hubkina |
 Belarus
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65.44 | 64.12 | x | 62.99 | 65.33 | 65.44 | 65.44 |
| 7th | Simone Mathes |
 Germany
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64.93 | 64.93 | x | 63.08 | 64.66 | 63.08 | 62.36 |
| 8th | Kirsten Münchow |
Germany
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64.03 | x | x | 64.03 | 59.51 | 63.58 | 63.05 |
| 9 | Svetlana Sudak |
Belarus
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63.99 | 62.81 | 62.88 | 63.99 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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| 10 | Dawn Ellerbe |
 United States
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63.55 | x | 59.73 | 63.55 | |||
| 11 | Tatyana Konstantinova |
Russia
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62.52 | 59.39 | 62.52 | 62.16 | |||
| 12 | Manuela Montebrun |
 France
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62.44 | 62.44 | x | x | |||
| 13 | Cécile Lignot |
France
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62.14 | x | x | 62.14 | |||
| 14th | Lorraine Shaw |
 Great Britain
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62.09 | 62.09 | 61.54 | x | |||
| 15th | Manuela Priemer |
Germany
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61.99 | 61.99 | 60.44 | 59.16 | |||
| 16 | Florence Ezeh |
France
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60.74 | 57.58 | 58.82 | 60.74 | |||
| 17th | Amy Palmer |
United States
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59.80 | 59.24 | 58.76 | 59.80 | |||
| 18th | Yipsi Moreno |
 Cuba
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58.68 | x | x | 58.68 | |||
| 19th | Dolores Pedrares |
Spain
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57.66 | x | 57.66 | 54.84 | |||
| 20th | Anelija Kumanova |
 Bulgaria
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53.20 | x | 53.20 | x | |||
| 21st | Kamila Skolimowska |
 Poland
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50.38 | 50.38 | x | x | |||
Manuela Montebrun reached twelfth place and won several medals at major international events in the following years
Kamila Skolimowska came on the 21th and last place - a year later she became Olympic champion and was then very successfully until 2009 at the blockage of a blood vessel died
Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
- Women Hammer Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed August 1, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Hammer Throw, Seville 1999, p. 342f (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on August 1, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 1, 2020