2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Hammer throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 47 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 23, 2004 (qualification) August 25, 2004 (final) |
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The women's hammer throw at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on 23 and 25 August 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 47 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Olga Kusenkowa from Russia. She won ahead of the two Cubans Yipsi Moreno and Yunaika Crawford .
With Andrea Bunjes , Betty Heidler and Susanne Keil , three German participants started. Heidler and Bunjes reached the final, in which Heidler was fourth and Bunjes eleventh. Keil was eliminated from the qualification.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 2000 | Kamila Skolimowska ( Poland ) | 71.16 m | Sydney 2000 |
World Champion 2003 | Yipsi Moreno ( Cuba ) | 73.33 m | Paris 2003 |
European Champion 2002 | Olga Kusenkowa ( Russia ) | 72.94 m | Munich 2002 |
Pan American Champion 2003 | Yipsi Moreno ( Cuba ) | 74.25 m | Santo Domingo 2003 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003 | Competition not in the championship program | St. George’s 2003 | |
South American Champion 2003 | Katiuscia de Jesus ( Brazil ) | 61.01 m | Barquisimeto 2003 |
Asian Champion 2003 | Gu Yuan ( People's Republic of China ) | 70.78 m | Manila 2003 |
African champion 2004 | Marwa Hussein ( Egypt ) | 66.14 m | Brazzaville 2004 |
Oceania Champion 2002 | Sharyn Tennent ( Australia ) | 54.63 m | Christchurch 2002 |
Existing records
World record | 76.07 m | Mihaela Melinte ( Romania ) | Rüdlingen , Switzerland | August 29, 1999 |
Olympic record | 71.16 m | Kamila Skolimowska ( Poland ) | Sydney final , Australia | September 29, 2000 |
Remarks:
- All times are based on Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
- All widths are given in meters (m).
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 68.50 m. Since only eleven athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best female athlete from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). In the end, 68.27 m had to be achieved to take part.
Group A
August 23, 2004, 9:05 am
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Gu Yuan | People's Republic of China | 71.65 OR | - | - | 71.65 | OR |
2 | Irina Sekacheva | Ukraine | 66.57 | 71.63 | - | 71.63 | |
3 | Andrea Bunjes | Germany | 70.73 | - | - | 70.73 | |
4th | Yipsi Moreno | Cuba | 70.56 | - | - | 70.56 | |
5 | Kamila Skolimowska | Poland | 67.29 | 68.66 | - | 68.66 | |
6th | Ivana Brkljačić | Croatia | 63.21 | 68.21 | 68.15 | 68.21 | |
7th | Jelena Konewzewa | Russia | 66.88 | 67.83 | x | 67.83 | |
8th | Katalin Divós | Hungary | 67.39 | 67.64 | x | 67.64 | |
9 | Julianna Tudja | Hungary | 62.80 | 65.94 | 66.85 | 66.85 | |
10 | Erin Gilreath | United States | 66.71 | 65.46 | 66.52 | 66.71 | |
11 | Berta Castells | Spain | 64.30 | x | 66.05 | 66.05 | |
12 | Maryia Smaliachkova | Belarus | 65.68 | 65.31 | x | 65.68 | |
13 | Ester Belassini | Italy | x | 54.97 | 65.58 | 65.58 | |
14th | Yuka Murofushi | Japan | 65.33 | x | 63.42 | 65.33 | |
15th | Clarissa Claretti | Italy | 62.43 | x | 65.06 | 65.06 | |
16 | Bronwyn Eagles | Australia | x | 64.09 | x | 64.09 | |
17th | Brooke Krueger | Australia | 63.00 | x | 63.88 | 63.88 | |
18th | Vânia Silva | Portugal | 63.81 | 61.77 | 61.44 | 63.81 | |
19th | Evdokia Tsamoglou | Greece | 57.56 | 62.76 | x | 62.76 | |
20th | Shirley Webb | Great Britain | 61.60 | x | x | 61.60 | |
21st | Lucie Vrbenská | Czech Republic | x | 60.14 | 60.29 | 60.29 | |
22nd | Jennifer Dahlgren | Argentina | x | x | 59.52 | 59.52 | |
23 | Sanja Gavrilović | Croatia | 56.79 | x | x | 56.79 | |
ogV | Elena Teloni | Cyprus | x | x | x | without space |
Group B
August 23, 2004, 10:50 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Olga Kusenkova | Russia | 73.71 OR | x | x | 73.71 | OR |
2 | Yunaika Crawford | Cuba | 71.74 | x | x | 71.74 | |
3 | Zhang Wenxiu | People's Republic of China | 71.56 | x | x | 71.56 | |
4th | Betty Heidler | Germany | 66.20 | 69.81 | x | 69.81 | |
5 | Wolha Zander | Belarus | 66.20 | x | 69.61 | 69.61 | |
6th | Alexandra Papayeoryiou | Greece | 64.59 | 68.58 | x | 68.58 | |
7th | Candice Scott | Trinidad and Tobago | x | 66.97 | 68.27 | 68.27 | |
8th | Liu Yinghui | People's Republic of China | 66.67 | 66.30 | 68.12 | 68.12 | |
9 | Manuela Montebrun | France | 64.31 | 67.74 | 67.90 | 67.90 | |
10 | Tatiana Lysenko | Russia | x | 65.57 | 66.82 | 66.82 | |
11 | Susanne Keil | Germany | 66.35 | x | x | 66.35 | |
12 | Sini Poyry | Finland | 66.05 | x | 64.35 | 66.05 | |
13 | Éva Orbán | Hungary | 65.76 | 63.68 | 63.31 | 65.76 | |
14th | Anna Mahon | United States | 64.11 | 64.99 | 64.65 | 64.99 | |
15th | Lorraine Shaw | Great Britain | 63.06 | 63.13 | 64.79 | 64.79 | |
16 | Sviatlana Sudak | Belarus | x | x | 64.42 | 64.42 | |
17th | Violeta Guzmán | Mexico | 62.76 | 58.18 | 61.45 | 62.76 | |
18th | Aldenay Vasallo | Cuba | 62.64 | 60.71 | 61.08 | 62.64 | |
19th | Marwa Hussein | Egypt | 62.27 | x | 57.24 | 62.27 | |
20th | Jackie Jeschelnik | United States | 58.00 | x | 62.23 | 62.23 | |
21st | Stiliani Papadoupolou | Greece | 61.48 | 61.61 | x | 61.61 | |
22nd | Deborah Sosimenko | Australia | x | 57.79 | 57.62 | 57.79 | |
23 | Marina Lapina | Azerbaijan | 55.34 | 50.60 | x | 55.34 | |
ogV | Lisa Misipeka | American Samoa | x | x | x | without space |
final
August 25, 2004, 10:10 p.m.
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, eleven of them via the qualification distance, another via their placement. Two Chinese women, two Germans and two Cubans were represented as well as one participant each from Greece, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Trinidad and Tobago and the Ukraine.
There were two top favorites for this competition. The Cuban Yipsi Moreno had won the world championships in 2001 and 2003 . The Russian Olga Kusenkowa was runner-up in the world championship and, in 2002, European champion . Other athletes with medal chances were the French World Cup third in 2003 Manuela Montebrun, the World Cup fourth and Asian champion Gu Yuan and the 2000 Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska. Of them, Montebrun already failed in the qualification.
In the final, the fight for the Olympic victory and the medals was very close to the end. As already indicated in the qualification, the level of the still young discipline was very high. Kusenkowa came in round one with 73.16 m close to her Olympic record from the preliminary fight. The Cuban Yunaika Crawford was second with 70.98 m, Moreno had an invalid attempt. In round two there were six throws over the 70-meter mark. Kusenkowa improved her Olympic record to 74.27 m. Moreno reached 72.68 m, so she was second. The Chinese Zhang Wenxiu was third with 72.03 m, ahead of Crawford with 71.43 m.
Kusenkowa also improved with her next throw, which landed at 75.02 m. Crawford reached 73.76 m, which she was second again. Behind that, too, everything shifted again. The German Betty Heidler threw 72.73 m and was in third place. Moreno had an invalid attempt and was fourth ahead of Skolimowska with 72.57 m and the Belarusian Wolha Zander, who improved to 72.27 m. Zhang fell back to seventh place. The athletes who had thrown further than seventy meters qualified for the final of the top eight. There were no changes in lap four. In the fifth round, Moreno reached 73.36 m, so the co-favorite improved to second place and pushed Crawford and Heidler, who had been ahead of her, one place behind.
With that the decision was made, there were no more postponements in the last round. Olga Kusenkowa was Olympic champion and set a new Olympic record with 75.02 m. Yipsi Moreno won silver, her compatriot Yunaika Crawford bronze. Betty Heidler took a surprising fourth place with a new German record, ahead of Kamila Skolimowska and Wolha Zander. Zhang Wenxiu came in seventh, and Irina Sekatschowa from Ukraine was eighth.
There were only three meters between first and seventh place, the second was less than a meter from the fifth. The Olympic champion from Sydney Kamila Skolimowska had increased her width by almost one and a half meters from four years ago and still had to be content with fifth place.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Olga Kusenkova | Russia | 73.18 | 74.27 OR | 75.02 OR | x | 72.60 | 74.92 | 75.02 | OR |
2 | Yipsi Moreno | Cuba | x | 72.68 | x | x | 73.36 | x | 73.36 | |
3 | Yunaika Crawford | Cuba | 70.98 | 71.43 | 73.16 | x | x | 70.06 | 73.16 | |
4th | Betty Heidler | Germany | x | 67.71 | 72.73 DR | 72.41 | 70.21 | 68.49 | 72.73 | DR |
5 | Kamila Skolimowska | Poland | 69.51 | 68.50 | 72.57 | x | x | 67.06 | 72.57 | |
6th | Wolha Zander | Belarus | 66.91 | 70.15 | 72.27 | 65.01 | x | 68.63 | 72.27 | |
7th | Zhang Wenxiu | People's Republic of China | x | 72.03 | x | 68.03 | x | x | 72.03 | |
8th | Irina Sekacheva | Ukraine | 69.40 | 70.11 | 67.34 | 66.40 | 70.40 | x | 70.40 | |
9 | Candice Scott | Trinidad and Tobago | 63.13 | 69.94 NO | 68.51 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
69.94 | NO | ||
10 | Gu Yuan | People's Republic of China | 67.59 | 68.62 | 69.76 | 69.76 | ||||
11 | Andrea Bunjes | Germany | 68.40 | 61.78 | 68.22 | 68.40 | ||||
12 | Alexandra Papayeoryiou | Greece | x | 63.26 | 66.83 | 66.83 |
The 2000 Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska from Poland came in fifth here in Athens
Web links
- SportsReference Hammerwurf , accessed May 16, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed on May 16, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 16, 2018
Video
- Hammer Throw Womens Final Athens Olympics 2004 , published March 26, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed May 16, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 16, 2018
- ^ South American Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 16, 2018
- ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 16, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 16, 2018
- ↑ IAAF Statistics World Records, Hammer Throw Women , accessed on May 16, 2018