2017 World Athletics Championships / Women's hammer throw

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's hammer throw
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	32 athletes from 21 countries
Competition phase	August 5, 2017 (qualification) August 7, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Anita Włodarczyk ( POL )
silver	Wang Zheng ( CHN )
bronze	Malwina Kopron ( POL )

The two medal winners from Poland Anita Włodarczyk ( left, gold ) and Malwina Kopron (right , bronze )

The women's hammer throw at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , on August 5th and 7th, 2017 .

Polish Anita Włodarczyk became world champion . She won ahead of the Chinese Wang Zheng . Bronze went to Malwina Kopron from Poland .

Records

World record	Anita Włodarczyk	82.98 m	Warsaw , Poland	August 28, 2016
Championship record		80.85 m	World Cup in Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 27, 2015

qualification

69.12 m was not enough for the American Gwen Berry to take part in the finals

The Romanian Bianca Perie-Ghelber did not reach the final with 65.07 m

The Estonian Anna Maria Orel retired with 67.37 m in the qualification

Without a valid throw, the Swede Jennifer Dahlgren remained in the qualification

The athletes competed in two groups for a qualifying round. The qualification distance required for direct participation in the finals was 71.50 m. Since only nine 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, 70.33 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

August 5, 2017, 10:35 a.m. local time (11:35 a.m. CEST )

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Malwina Kopron	Poland	74.97	-	-	74.97
2	Sophie Hitchon	Great Britain	73.05	-	-	73.05
3	Hanna Malyshchyk	Belarus	72.79	-	-	72.79
4th	Wang Zheng	People's Republic of China	71.89	-	-	71.89
5	Kateřina Šafránková	Czech Republic	67.93	x	70.67	70.67
6th	Gwen Berry	United States	65.09	69.12	x	69.12
7th	Kıvılcım Kaya	Turkey	66.33	67.76	66.93	67.76
8th	Ida Storm	Sweden	67.39	x	x	67.39
9	Zalina Petrivskaya	Moldova	x	x	67.05	67.05
10	Berta Castells	Spain	63.09	66.11	66.05	66.11
11	Iryna Novoschylova	Ukraine	65.78	66.02	65.52	66.02
12	Bianca Perie-Ghelber	Romania	65.07	x	x	65.07
13	Aljona Shamotina	Ukraine	62.63	64.03	64.88	64.88
14th	Julia Ratcliffe	New Zealand	64.67	64.72	61.88	64.72
15th	Nikola Lomnická	Slovakia	64.60	x	63.32	64.60
16	Susen Küster	Germany	59.33	62.33	x	62.33

Group B

August 5, 2017, 12:05 p.m. local time (1:05 ​​p.m. CEST )

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Width (m)
1	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	74.61	-	-	74.61
2	DeAnna Price	United States	x	72.78	-	72.78
3	Alexandra Tavernier	France	72.69	-	-	72.69 SB
4th	Hanna Skydan	Azerbaijan	71.78	-	-	71.78
5	Joanna Fiodorov	Poland	71.72	-	-	71.72
6th	Zhang Wenxiu	People's Republic of China	71.39	70.37	70.87	71.39
7th	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	69.22	x	70.33	70.33
8th	Luo Na	People's Republic of China	x	69.54	69.37	69.54
9	Réka Gyurátz	Hungary	x	67.48	60.93	67.48
10	Anna Maria Orel	Estonia	64.80	62.80	67.37	67.37
11	Marinda Petersson	Sweden	63.11	66.46	xx	66.46
12	Magdalyn Ewen	United States	x	66.24	65.14	66.24
13	Marina Nikisenko	Moldova	63.72	62.92	64.63	64.63
14th	Iryna Klymez	Ukraine	61.24	64.20	60.76	64.20
NM	Jillian Weir	Canada	x	x	x	without space
	Jennifer Dahlgren	Argentina	x	x	x

final

August 7, 2017, 7:00 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. CEST )

The clear favorite was the Polish world record holder Anita Włodarczyk. All major championships in recent years had they decided for themselves - she was Olympic champion 2012 / 2016 , World Champion 2009 / 2013 / 2015 and European Champion 2012 / 2014 / 2016 . Contenders for the other medals were the Chinese Olympic silver medalist from 2016 and Vice World Champion 2015 Zhang Wenxiu, the British Olympic bronze medalist from 2016 and WM -Vierte 2015 Sophie Hitchon and Chinese Wang Zheng as WM -Fünfte of, 2015.

In the first three rounds, the favorite did not make a good throw, after all she was able to qualify for the final of the top eight. Włodarczyk's compatriot Malwina Kopron first took the lead, who scored 74.76 m in round one. With 74.31 m, Wang followed in second place. The Chinese improved in the second round to 75.94 m, replacing Kopron at the top. The Azerbaijani Hanna Skydan took third place with 73.38 m in round three. Włodarczyk was sixth with 71.94 m.

In lap four, Anita Włodarczyk broke the knot. She achieved 77.39 m and improved with her fifth throw again to 77.90 m, which was the decision. Wang rose to 75.98 m in the last round, but this no longer had any effect on the ranking. Wang Zheng was vice world champion ahead of Malwina Kopron with her 74.76 m from round one. Zhang Wenxiu had achieved 74.53 m in the fifth throw and was fourth ahead of Hanna Skydan. Sixth was Joanna Fiodorow, third Polish in this final. Sophie Hitchon ended up in seventh place.

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Width (m)
	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	70.45	x	71.94	77.39	77.90	73.91	77.90
	Wang Zheng	People's Republic of China	74.31	75.94	75.00	74.86	74.52	75.98	75.98
	Malwina Kopron	Poland	74.76	x	x	x	69.90	71.66	74.76
4th	Zhang Wenxiu	People's Republic of China	69.70	x	73.19	70.62	74.53	72.21	74.53 SB
5	Hanna Skydan	Azerbaijan	72.45	72.38	73.38	71.70	x	71.77	73.38
6th	Joanna Fiodorov	Poland	x	73.02	72.41	73.04	71.69	72.67	73.04
7th	Sophie Hitchon	Great Britain	71.47	71.62	71.80	x	70.81	72.32	72.32
8th	Kateřina Šafránková	Czech Republic	71.34	x	x	x	x	66.26	71.34 SB
9	DeAnna Price	United States	65.20	67.46	70.04	not in the final of the eight best throwers			70.04
10	Hanna Malyshchyk	Belarus	69.43	x	69.00				69.43
11	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	67.83	68.91	x				68.91
12	Alexandra Tavernier	France	x	66.31	66.01				66.31

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  World Champion Anna Włodarczyk, Poland

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  Vice World Champion Wang Zheng, People's Republic of China

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  Zhang Wenxiu of China finished fourth

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  The British Sophie Hitchon came in seventh place

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  Ninth place for the American DeAnna Price

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  The German Kathrin Klaas - here at the ISTAF Berlin 2015 - took eleventh place

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  The Frenchwoman Alexandra Tavernier reached twelfth place

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, Women’s Hammer Throw, on the IAAF website , accessed on December 24, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 24, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 24, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Hammer Throw Women, Anita Włodarczyk wins on youtube.com, published August 8, 2017, accessed December 24, 2018