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) |
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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 |
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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
September 27, 2000, 11:00 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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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 |
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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 |
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
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 801 , accessed on April 16, 2018