Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Athletics - Hammer Throw (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Women
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	50 athletes from 30 countries
Competition phase	18./20. August 2008
Medalist
gold	Yipsi Moreno ( CUB )
silver	Zhang Wenxiu ( CHN )
bronze	Manuela Montebrun ( FRA )

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 )	75.02 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Betty Heidler ( Germany )	74.76 m	Osaka 2007
European Champion 2006	Tatyana Lyssenko ( Russia )	76.67 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Yipsi Moreno ( Cuba )	75.20 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
2008 Central American and Caribbean Champion	Candice Scott ( Trinidad and Tobago )	69.26 m	Cali 2008
South American Champion 2007	Johana Moreno ( Colombia )	61.93 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian Champion 2007	Liao Xiaoyan ( People's Republic of China )	60.58 m	Amman 2007
African champion 2004	Marwa Hussein ( Egypt )	62.26 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Kelly Humphries ( Australia )	45.57 m	Saipan 2008

Existing records

World record	77.80 m	Tatyana Lyssenko ( Russia )	Tallinn , Estonia	August 15, 2006
Olympic record	75.02 m	Olga Kusenkowa ( Russia )	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 The gold medal was revoked.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

The Croatian Ivana Brkljačić is eliminated with 68.38 m as eighth of her qualification group

The German Kathrin Klaas does not reach the final with her 67.54 m as tenth in her qualification group

The Argentine Jennifer Dahlgren also retires with a width of 66.35 m

August 18, 2008, 9:10 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	71.31 m	x	73.92 m	73.92 m
2	Martina Hrašnová	Slovakia	70.03 m	x	72.87 m	72.87 m
3	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	71.76 m	-	-	71.76 m
4th	Betty Heidler	Germany	66.28 m	71.51 m	-	71.51 m
5	Stiliani Papadopoulou	Greece	66.68 m	69.36 m	69.29 m	69.36 m
6th	Maryia Smaliachkova	Belarus	x	69.22 m	x	69.22 m	actually qualified for the final
7th	Stéphanie Falzon	France	x	68.93 m	x	68.93 m
8th	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	66.54 m	x	68.38 m	68.38 m
9	Bianca Perie	Romania	68.21 m	66.29 m	x	68.21 m
10	Iryna Novoschylova	Ukraine	67.36 m	x	68.11 m	68.11 m
11	Anna Bulgakova	Russia	x	68.04 m	x	68.04 m
12	Jelena Konewzewa	Russia	66.81 m	67.83 m	x	67.83 m
13	Inna Sayenko	Ukraine	x	66.92 m	x	66.92 m
14th	Merja Korpela	Finland	62.70 m	65.76 m	66.29 m	66.29 m
15th	Wang Zheng	People's Republic of China	65.64 m	61.36 m	x	65.64 m
16	Sultana Frizell	Canada	x	60.43 m	65.44 m	65.44 m
17th	Éva Orbán	Hungary	65.01 m	x	65.41 m	65.41 m
18th	Zoe Derham	Great Britain	64.74 m	64.61 m	64.57 m	64.74 m
19th	Zalina Marghieva	Moldova	x	64.20 m	x	64.20 m
20th	Loree Smith	United States	62.25 m	62.33 m	63.60 m	63.60 m
21st	Silvia Salis	Italy	x	x	62.28 m	62.28 m
22nd	Vânia Silva	Portugal	x	58.10 m	59.42 m	59.42 m
23	Galina Mitjaeva	Tajikistan	x	48.49 m	51.48 m	51.48 m
ogV	Jessica Cosby	United States	x	x	x		without space
DOP	Darja Ptschelnik	Belarus					in the final, later disqualified

Group B

August 18, 2008, 10:50 am

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Zhang Wenxiu	People's Republic of China	73.36 m	-	-	73.36 m
2	Manuela Montebrun	France	69.80 m	69.86 m	72.81 m	72.81 m
3	Clarissa Claretti	Italy	67.15 m	71.82 m	-	71.82 m
4th	Jelena Priyma	Russia	70.69 m	69.79 m	65.64 m	70.69 m
5	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	65.79 m	69.79 m	67.01 m	69.79 m
6th	Arasay Thondike	Cuba	x	66.68 m	68.74 m	68.74 m
7th	Sviatlana Sudak	Turkey	68.22 m	67.36 m	67.18 m	68.22 m
8th	Amber Campbell	United States	67.68 m	x	x	67.68 m
9	Eileen O'Keeffe	Ireland	62.53 m	62.05 m	67.66 m	67.66 m
10	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	66.39 m	67.54 m	66.95 m	67.54 m
11	Iryna Sekacheva	Ukraine	62.83 m	x	67.47 m	67.47 m
12	Lenka Ledvinová	Czech Republic	65.98 m	65.23 m	67.17 m	67.17 m
13	Alexandra Papageorgiou	Greece	66.72 m	65.73 m	x	66.72 m
14th	Jennifer Dahlgren	Argentina	58.60 m	x	66.35 m	66.35 m
15th	Yunaika Crawford	Cuba	66.16 m	65.00 m	64.08 m	66.16 m
16	Johana Moreno	Colombia	x	64.31 m	64.66 m	64.66 m
17th	Małgorzata Zadura	Poland	63.35 m	64.13 m	x	64.13 m
18th	Candice Scott	Trinidad and Tobago	63.03 m	62.53 m	x	63.03 m
19th	Berta Castells	Spain	62.44 m	61.76 m	x	62.44 m
20th	Marina Marghieva	Moldova	61.03 m	x	62.12 m	62.12 m
21st	Paraskevi Theodorou	Cyprus	x	61.00 m	x	61.00 m
22nd	Sanja Gavrilović	Croatia	60.55 m	60.37 m	60.36 m	60.55 m
ogV	Amélie Perrin	France	x	x	x		without space
	Georgina Toth	Cameroon	x	x	x
DOP	Aksana Myankova	Belarus					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
1	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	x	73.95 m	72.61 m	x	74.70 m	75.20 m	75.20 m	OR
2	Zhang Wenxiu	People's Republic of China	74.00 m	74.32 m	73.40 m	73.50 m	70.75 m	73.53 m	74.32 m
3	Manuela Montebrun	France	67.63 m	70.55 m	70.01 m	72.54 m	71.92 m	70.63 m	72.54 m
4th	Anita Włodarczyk	Poland	69.39 m	x	71.56 m	70.86 m	x	x	71.56 m
5	Clarissa Claretti	Italy	x	71.33 m	x	x	x	x	71.33 m
6th	Martina Hrašnová	Slovakia	60.28 m	x	71.00 m	x	70.19 m	x	71.00 m
7th	Betty Heidler	Germany	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
8th	Jelena Priyma	Russia	68.19 m	69.72 m	67.33 m				69.72 m
9	Stiliani Papadopoulou	Greece	x	x	64.97 m				64.97 m
ogV	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	x	x	x					without space
DOP	Aksana Myankova	Belarus								disqualified after eight years
	Darja Ptschelnik	Belarus

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  The Chinese Zhang Wenxiu wins the silver medal

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  Bronze medalist Manuela Montebrun from France

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  The Polish Olympic champion Anita Włodarczyk

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  The reigning world champion Betty Heidler from Germany has to be satisfied with seventh place here

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  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

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on July 6, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on July 6, 2018
3. ↑ 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 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on July 6, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF World Records, Hammer Throw Women , accessed on July 6, 2018
6. ↑ ^{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
7. ↑ Doping Rule Violation , May 19, 2008 at iaaf.org, accessed on July 6, 2018