Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Women)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | Hammer throw |
gender | Women |
place | Beijing National Stadium |
Attendees | 50 athletes from 30 countries |
Competition phase | 18./20. August 2008 |
Medalist | |
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Yipsi Moreno ( CUB )
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Zhang Wenxiu ( CHN )
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Manuela Montebrun ( FRA )
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The women's hammer throw at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing took place on August 18 and 20, 2008. Fifty athletes participated.
The Cuban Yipsi Moreno became the Olympic champion . Silver went to Zhang Wenxiu from China , while Manuela Montebrun from France won bronze .
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion 2004 |
Olga Kusenkowa ( Russia )
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75.02 m | Athens 2004 |
World Champion 2007 |
Betty Heidler ( Germany )
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74.76 m | Osaka 2007 |
European Champion 2006 |
Tatyana Lyssenko ( Russia )
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76.67 m | Gothenburg 2006 |
Pan American Champion 2007 |
Yipsi Moreno ( Cuba )
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75.20 m | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
2008 Central American and Caribbean Champion | Candice Scott ( Trinidad and Tobago )
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69.26 m | Cali 2008 |
South American Champion 2007 | Johana Moreno ( Colombia )
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61.93 m | São Paulo 2007 |
Asian Champion 2007 | Liao Xiaoyan ( People's Republic of China )
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60.58 m | Amman 2007 |
African champion 2004 |
Marwa Hussein ( Egypt )
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62.26 m | Addis Ababa 2008 |
Oceania Champion 2008 | Kelly Humphries ( Australia )
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45.57 m | Saipan 2008 |
Existing records
World record | 77.80 m |
Tatyana Lyssenko ( Russia )
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Tallinn , Estonia | August 15, 2006 |
Olympic record | 75.02 m |
Olga Kusenkowa ( Russia )
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Athens Final , Greece | August 25, 2004 |
doping
As with all pushing and throwing disciplines of women in these games, there were also cases of doping in hammer throw . Two athletes were affected, both from Belarus.
- Aksana Myankova - first of all. She was convicted of doping abuse in 2016 and disqualified. The gold medal was revoked.
- Darja Ptschelnik - initially fourth or third after Mjankowa's disqualification. In 2016, she was also shown to have been using prohibited substances during follow-up checks and was disqualified. She had to surrender her bronze medal. The athletes placed after the doping offenders in the final moved up one or two places in the official ranking.
Numerous athletes were affected by this fraud. The Belarusian Maryia Smaliachkova and the French Stéphanie Falzon, who finished thirteen and fourteen in the qualification, would have been entitled to participate in the finals after the pronounced disqualifications. Of course, eight years after the competition was held, that could no longer be achieved. The French Manuela Montebrun, who came up as a medalist, was also disadvantaged because she had to assume for a long time that she had gone out without a medal. After all, the German Betty Heidler, who initially placed ninth in the final, and the initially tenth-placed Russian Jelena Priyma each had three more attempts at the final, which might have brought them further forward.
qualification
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 71.50 m. Since only seven athletes reached 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). In the end, 69.36 m had to be achieved to take part. However, since both of the above-mentioned doping offenders had qualified for the final through their placements, ten throwers were ultimately included in the ranking of the final.
Group A
August 18, 2008, 9:10 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Yipsi Moreno |
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71.31 m | x | 73.92 m | 73.92 m | |
2 | Martina Hrašnová |
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70.03 m | x | 72.87 m | 72.87 m | |
3 | Anita Włodarczyk |
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71.76 m | - | - | 71.76 m | |
4th | Betty Heidler |
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66.28 m | 71.51 m | - | 71.51 m | |
5 | Stiliani Papadopoulou |
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66.68 m | 69.36 m | 69.29 m | 69.36 m | |
6th | Maryia Smaliachkova |
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x | 69.22 m | x | 69.22 m | actually qualified for the final |
7th | Stéphanie Falzon |
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x | 68.93 m | x | 68.93 m | |
8th | Ivana Brkljačić |
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66.54 m | x | 68.38 m | 68.38 m | |
9 | Bianca Perie |
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68.21 m | 66.29 m | x | 68.21 m | |
10 | Iryna Novoschylova |
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67.36 m | x | 68.11 m | 68.11 m | |
11 | Anna Bulgakova |
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x | 68.04 m | x | 68.04 m | |
12 | Jelena Konewzewa |
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66.81 m | 67.83 m | x | 67.83 m | |
13 | Inna Sayenko |
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x | 66.92 m | x | 66.92 m | |
14th | Merja Korpela |
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62.70 m | 65.76 m | 66.29 m | 66.29 m | |
15th | Wang Zheng |
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65.64 m | 61.36 m | x | 65.64 m | |
16 | Sultana Frizell |
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x | 60.43 m | 65.44 m | 65.44 m | |
17th | Éva Orbán |
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65.01 m | x | 65.41 m | 65.41 m | |
18th | Zoe Derham |
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64.74 m | 64.61 m | 64.57 m | 64.74 m | |
19th | Zalina Marghieva |
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x | 64.20 m | x | 64.20 m | |
20th | Loree Smith |
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62.25 m | 62.33 m | 63.60 m | 63.60 m | |
21st | Silvia Salis |
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x | x | 62.28 m | 62.28 m | |
22nd | Vânia Silva |
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x | 58.10 m | 59.42 m | 59.42 m | |
23 | Galina Mitjaeva |
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x | 48.49 m | 51.48 m | 51.48 m | |
ogV | Jessica Cosby |
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x | x | x | without space | |
DOP | Darja Ptschelnik |
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in the final, later disqualified |
Group B
August 18, 2008, 10:50 am
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Zhang Wenxiu |
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73.36 m | - | - | 73.36 m | |
2 | Manuela Montebrun |
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69.80 m | 69.86 m | 72.81 m | 72.81 m | |
3 | Clarissa Claretti |
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67.15 m | 71.82 m | - | 71.82 m | |
4th | Jelena Priyma |
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70.69 m | 69.79 m | 65.64 m | 70.69 m | |
5 | Kamila Skolimowska |
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65.79 m | 69.79 m | 67.01 m | 69.79 m | |
6th | Arasay Thondike |
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x | 66.68 m | 68.74 m | 68.74 m | |
7th | Sviatlana Sudak |
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68.22 m | 67.36 m | 67.18 m | 68.22 m | |
8th | Amber Campbell |
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67.68 m | x | x | 67.68 m | |
9 | Eileen O'Keeffe |
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62.53 m | 62.05 m | 67.66 m | 67.66 m | |
10 | Kathrin Klaas |
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66.39 m | 67.54 m | 66.95 m | 67.54 m | |
11 | Iryna Sekacheva |
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62.83 m | x | 67.47 m | 67.47 m | |
12 | Lenka Ledvinová |
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65.98 m | 65.23 m | 67.17 m | 67.17 m | |
13 | Alexandra Papageorgiou |
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66.72 m | 65.73 m | x | 66.72 m | |
14th | Jennifer Dahlgren |
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58.60 m | x | 66.35 m | 66.35 m | |
15th | Yunaika Crawford |
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66.16 m | 65.00 m | 64.08 m | 66.16 m | |
16 | Johana Moreno |
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x | 64.31 m | 64.66 m | 64.66 m | |
17th | Małgorzata Zadura |
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63.35 m | 64.13 m | x | 64.13 m | |
18th | Candice Scott |
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63.03 m | 62.53 m | x | 63.03 m | |
19th | Berta Castells |
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62.44 m | 61.76 m | x | 62.44 m | |
20th | Marina Marghieva |
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61.03 m | x | 62.12 m | 62.12 m | |
21st | Paraskevi Theodorou |
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x | 61.00 m | x | 61.00 m | |
22nd | Sanja Gavrilović |
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60.55 m | 60.37 m | 60.36 m | 60.55 m | |
ogV | Amélie Perrin |
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x | x | x | without space | |
Georgina Toth |
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x | x | x | |||
DOP | Aksana Myankova |
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in the final, later disqualified |
final
August 20, 2008, 7:20 pm
Ten athletes had qualified for the final, seven of them by qualifying distance and another three by their placements. Two Polish women and one participant each from China, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Cuba, Russia and Slovakia were represented. In addition, there were the two Belarusians Aksana Mjankowa and Darja Ptschelnik, who were disqualified in 2016 for doping abuse .
Even when naming the favorites, you inevitably come across a doping sinner. It is the Russian world record holder Tatjana Lyssenko , who tested positive in May 2007 and received a two-year ban after not opening the B samples. Her last record was canceled, but her world record from 2006 remained. But there were other top-class participants in this competition even without the athletes convicted of doping. These included in particular the 2004 Olympic champion , 2005 world champion and runner-up world champion in 2007 Yipsi Moreno from Cuba, the 2007 world champion and 2004 Olympic champion Betty Heidler from Germany, the Chinese Zhang Wenxiu as third in the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2005 World Championships and the World Championships in 2007, the French vice world champion from 2005 Manuela Montebrun and the Pole Kamila Skolimowska as Olympic champion from 2000 , World Championship fifth from 2005, European Championship third from 2006 and World Cup fourth from 2007.
The final was characterized by strong performances, especially from the second round. Already in lap one Zhang scored exactly 74 meters and had thus taken the lead. Then she continued to improve with 74.36 m. But some competitors were getting closer to her now. Moreno reached 73.95 m, the Italian Clarissa Claretti achieved 71.33 m, Montebrun threw 70.55 m. In the third round, Anita Wlodarczyk from Poland improved to 71.56 m and thus took third place. The 2000 Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska was eliminated after three invalid attempts. The reigning world champion Betty Heidler could not qualify for the final of the best eight throwers with 70.06 m, which is weak for her. However, like the Russian Jelena Priyma, she would have remained in the competition if the doping fraud of the two Belarusians in the competition had been known at the time.
In round four, the first final round of the best eight, Montebrun pushed the Pole from third place with 72.54 m. In the penultimate lap there were again numerous throws that were significantly further than seventy meters, but the order remained Zhang before Moreno, Montebrun Wlodarczyk and Claretti. With her last attempt of 75.20 m, Yipsi Moreno finally managed the big throw to Olympic victory. At the same time she improved the Olympic record of her predecessor Olga Kusenkova from Russia, who has since retired, by fourteen centimeters. Zhang Wenxiu won silver, Manuela Montebrun received bronze. Anita Włodarczyk took fourth place ahead of Clarissa Claretti. Martina Hrašnová from Slovakia was sixth ahead of Betty Heidler and Jelena Priyma.
Yipsi Moreno won her second medal in hammer throw with her gold medal after silver in Athens four years ago . It was the first Cuban Olympic victory in this young discipline.
The Chinese Zhang Wenxiu and the French Manuela Montebrun won the first medals for their countries in the women's hammer throw.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Bottom line | annotation |
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1 | Yipsi Moreno |
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x | 73.95 m | 72.61 m | x | 74.70 m | 75.20 m | 75.20 m | OR |
2 | Zhang Wenxiu |
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74.00 m | 74.32 m | 73.40 m | 73.50 m | 70.75 m | 73.53 m | 74.32 m | |
3 | Manuela Montebrun |
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67.63 m | 70.55 m | 70.01 m | 72.54 m | 71.92 m | 70.63 m | 72.54 m | |
4th | Anita Włodarczyk |
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69.39 m | x | 71.56 m | 70.86 m | x | x | 71.56 m | |
5 | Clarissa Claretti |
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x | 71.33 m | x | x | x | x | 71.33 m | |
6th | Martina Hrašnová |
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60.28 m | x | 71.00 m | x | 70.19 m | x | 71.00 m | |
7th | Betty Heidler |
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x | x | 70.06 m | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
70.06 m |
actually qualified for the final of the top eight |
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8th | Jelena Priyma |
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68.19 m | 69.72 m | 67.33 m | 69.72 m | ||||
9 | Stiliani Papadopoulou |
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x | x | 64.97 m | 64.97 m | ||||
ogV | Kamila Skolimowska |
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x | x | x | without space | ||||
DOP | Aksana Myankova |
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disqualified after eight years | |||||||
Darja Ptschelnik |
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The reigning world champion Betty Heidler from Germany has to be satisfied with seventh place here
The Polish Olympic champion from 2000 Kamila Skolimowska ended her final competition with three invalid attempts
Web links
- SportsReference Hammerwurf Women , accessed July 6, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed on July 6, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on July 6, 2018
Video
- Athletics Hammer Throw Women - Final , posted August 20, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed July 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on July 6, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on July 6, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed July 6, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on July 6, 2018
- ↑ IAAF World Records, Hammer Throw Women , accessed on July 6, 2018
- ↑ a b c d Doping at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and London 2012: A new medal table every day on eurosport.de 23 November 2016; accessed on July 6, 2018
- ↑ Doping Rule Violation , May 19, 2008 at iaaf.org, accessed on July 6, 2018