2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Women
Attendees	28 athletes from 20 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 27, 2000 (qualification) September 29, 2000 (final)
Medalists Kamila Skolimowska ( POL )   Olga Kusenkowa ( RUS )   Kirsten Münchow ( DEU )

The women's hammer throw at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was played on September 27 and 29, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 28 m athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of this discipline of women's athletics.

The first Olympic champion was Kamila Skolimowska from Poland . She won ahead of the Russian Olga Kusenkowa and the German Kirsten Münchow .

Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held
World Champion 1999	Mihaela Melinte ( Romania )	75.20 m	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998		71.17 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Dawn Ellerbe ( USA )	65.36 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Nancy Guillén ( El Salvador )	57.84 m	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Karina Moya ( Argentina )	60.69 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Li Xiaoxue ( People's Republic of China )	59.02 m	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Caroline Fournier ( Mauritius )	59.60 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Sharyn Tennant ( Australia )	47.42 m	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	76.07 m	Mihaela Melinte ( Romania )	Rüdlingen , Switzerland	August 29, 1999
Olympic record	Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held

Remarks:

• All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification width was 65.50 m m. Since only four throwers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). So finally 62.78 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

September 27, 2000, 9:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Olga Kusenkova	Russia	70.60 OR	-	-	70.60	OR
2	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	66.30	-	-	66.30
3	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	65.74	-	-	65.74
4th	Dawn Ellerbe	United States	64.91	63.27	57.99	64.91
5	Swijatlana Sudak	People's Republic of China	x	x	63.83	63.83
6th	Lorraine Shaw	Great Britain	63.21	62.60	57.09	63.21
7th	Amy Palmer	United States	61.96	62.49	62.78	62.78
8th	Iryna Sekacheva	Ukraine	61.44	60.62	x	61.44
9	Tasha Williams	New Zealand	50.96	54.14	61.18	61.18
10	Alla Davydova	Russia	60.86	x	x	60.86
11	Karyne Perkins	Australia	55.18	59.49	55.22	59.49
12	Mia Strömmer	Finland	57.33	x	59.43	59.43
13	Michelle Fournier	Canada	x	55.72	59.15	59.15
14th	Caroline Fournier	Mauritius	x	53.60	56.18	56.18
ogV	Ester Balassini	Italy	x	x	x		without space

Group B

The French Manuela Montebrun retired as eleventh in her qualifying group with 57.77 m

September 27, 2000, 11:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Kirsten Münchow	Germany	59.09	67.64	-	67.64
2	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	65.01	62.59	x	65.01
3	Deborah Sosimenko	Australia	64.01	61.18	59.53	64.01
4th	Sini Pöyry	Finland	63.80	60.12	61.81	63.80
5	Lyudmila Hubkina	Belarus	62.40	63.13	63.29	63.29
6th	Katalin Divós	Hungary	61.88	x	62.74	62.74
7th	Lisa Misipeka	American Samoa	61.74	58.74	x	61.74
8th	Tatiana Konstantinova	Russia	57.24	61.14	61.48	61.48
9	Jesseca Cross	United States	56.98	60.85	60.51	60.85
10	Zhao Wei	People's Republic of China	59.54	57.44	55.98	59.54
11	Manuela Montebrun	France	57.60	x	57.77	57.77
12	Anelija Jordanova	Bulgaria	x	54.92	54.69	54.92
ogV	Wolha Zander	Belarus	x	x	x		without space

final

September 29, 2000, 6:00 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, four of them beyond the qualification range. another eight about their placements. Two US-Americans and two Belarusians as well as one participant each from Australia, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Cuba, Poland, Russia and Great Britain battled for the medals.

Shortly before the games, the real favorite, the Romanian world and European champion Mihaela Melinte from Romania, was convicted of doping and was therefore not allowed to start in Sydney . Thus, the Russian Vice World and Vice European Champion Olga Kusenkowa started. In the leaderboards of this new discipline, Kusenkowa was clearly ahead of her competitors with her best. The athletes Lisa Misipeka from American Samoa and the Hungarian Katalin Divós, who were placed directly behind her at the last World Championships, had already been eliminated in the qualification here in Sydney. So the race for the medals was completely open.

In the final, the Australian World Cup fifth, Deborah Sosimenko, took the lead in the first round with 67.95 m. She had achieved a new Oceania record. In the third round, the Russian Olga Kusenkowa with 69.64 m and the Polish Kamila Skolimowska, who increased to an amazing 71.16 m, passed her. Kamila Skolimowska stayed at the top until the end, becoming the first Olympic champion in the women's hammer throw . Olga Kusenkowa improved with her fourth litter to 69.77 m. This remained her best, and so the high favorite had to be content with silver. The German World Cup eighth and EM third Kirsten Münchow came fifth attempt on 69.28 m, with which she very surprisingly won the bronze medal. With 68.33 m the Cuban Yipsi Moreno was fourth ahead of Deborah Sosimenko and the Belarusian Lyudmila Hubkina.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	x	66.33	71.16 OR	66.06	69.91	x	71.16	OR
2	Olga Kusenkova	Russia	x	67.18	69.64	69.77	x	x	69.77
3	Kirsten Münchow	Germany	66.42	x	67.81	66.03	69.28 NO	67.96	69.28	NO
4th	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	65.79	67.16	67.04	64.88	68.33	67.43	68.33
5	Deborah Sosimenko	Australia	67.95 OZ	64.24	65.49	66.39	x	x	67.95	OZ
6th	Lyudmila Hubkina	Belarus	66.04	66.16	x	67.08	66.77	66.95	67.08
7th	Dawn Ellerbe	United States	62.50	64.51	66.80	64.40	66.16	64.71	66.80
8th	Amy Palmer	United States	x	60.21	66.15	59.42	x	x	66.15
9	Lorraine Shaw	Great Britain	64.27	56.96	63.65	not in the final of the eight best throwers			64.27
10	Swijatlana Sudak	Belarus	x	64.21	x				64.21
11	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	61.25	63.20	x				63.20
12	Sini Pöyry	Finland	62.49	x	62.21				62.49

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  Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska from Poland

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  The Croatian Olympic eleven Ivana Brkljačić

Web links

• SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed April 16, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 16, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 16, 2018

Video

• Kamila Skolimowska - IO Sydney 2000 , published August 12, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed April 16, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 801 , accessed on April 16, 2018