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2005 World Championships In Athletics – Women's Hammer Throw
The Women's Hammer Throw event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 10 and August 12. The qualification standard was set at 70.00 metres or at least the best 12 qualified for the final round. Medalists Schedule *''All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)'' Abbreviations *''All results shown are in metres'' Records Qualification Group A Group B Final See also * 2005 Hammer Throw Year Ranking References External linksIAAF results, heats hammerthrow.wz {{DEFAULTSORT:2005 World Championships in Athletics - Women's hammer throw |
Hammer Throw
The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consists of a metal ball attached by a steel wire to a grip. The size of the ball varies between men's and women's competitions. History With roots dating back to the 15th century, the contemporary version of the hammer throw is one of the oldest of Olympic Games competitions, first included at the 1900 games in Paris, France (the second Olympiad of the modern era). Its history since the late 1960s and legacy prior to inclusion in the Olympics has been dominated by Europe and Eastern European influence, which has affected interest in the event in other parts of the world. The hammer evolved from its early informal origins to become part of the Scottish Highland games in the late 18th century, where the original version of the event is sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamila Skolimowska
Kamila Skolimowska (4 November 1982 – 18 February 2009) was a Polish hammer thrower. She is best known for her gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which made her the youngest Olympic hammer champion, as well as for her two medals from the European Championships. Her personal best throw, and former Polish record, was 76.83 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Doha. She died on 18 February 2009 in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal at the Polish national team training camp. Early life and career She was born in Warsaw.. Retrieved on 28 December 2008. Her father is super heavyweight weightlifter Robert Skolimowski who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal at the 1986 World Weightlifting Championships. Skolimowska first made herself known at age fifteen, when she won the hammer throw event at the 1997 European Junior Championships; the first time hammer throw was staged at the European Junior Championships. She was actually fourteen years and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathrin Klaas
Kathrin Klaas (born 6 February 1984 in Haiger, Hesse) is a female hammer thrower from Germany. She is member of the Eintracht Frankfurt athletes team. Her personal best throw is 76.05 metres, set at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... Achievements References * External links 1984 births Living people People from Lahn-Dill-Kreis Sportspeople from Giessen (region) German female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany Eintracht Frankfurt athletes World Athletics Championships athletes for Germany Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yekaterina Khoroshikh
Yekaterina Khoroshikh (russian: Екатерина Хороших; born 21 January 1983 in Rostov Oblast) is a female hammer thrower from Russia. Her personal best is 76.63 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Zhukovsky. Doping ban Khoroshikh tested positive for 6α-methylandrostendione in May 2007 and was subsequently handed a two-year ban from sportsAssociated PressReport: Russian hammer thrower Gulfia Khanafeyeva fails doping test espn.com, 17 January 2008 Achievements See also *List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ... References External links * 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Rostov Oblast Russian female hammer throwers Doping cases in athletics Russian sportspeople in doping cases ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Dahlgren
Jennifer Dahlgren Fitzner (born 21 April 1984) is an Argentine hammer thrower. Having spent much of her life in the United States, she competed as an amateur for the University of Georgia. She set the US collegiate hammer record and was the NCAA Outdoor champion in both 2006 and 2007. She is a three-time gold medallist at the South American Championships and won the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. Dahlgren has represented Argentina at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as having competed at the World Championships in Athletics on three occasions. She first broke the South American record in the discipline in 2004 and has raised it several metres to her current best of 73.74 m. She is one of the continent's top performers in the event, in which South American athletes are historically weak. In 2010 she won the Konex Award Merit Diploma as one of the five best Athletes from the last decade in Argentina. Career Dahlgren's first major tournament was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Heidler
Betty Heidler (born 14 October 1983) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw. She held the world record from 2011 until 2014 with her personal best throw of 79.42 m (260 ft 6 in). She is the 2012 Olympic silver medallist, the 2007 World champion and the 2009 and 2011 World Championship silver medallist. She also finished fourth in the Olympic finals in 2004 and 2016. Career She now lives in Frankfurt and is a member of the Eintracht Frankfurt athletics team. She works for the German Federal Police where she is a member of the sports support group and started studying Bachelor of Laws at the Fernuniversität Hagen in 2007. She put in a dominant performance at the 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing with a winning mark of 72.48 m, beating her nearest rival by more than three metres. Heidler won the inaugural IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge in 2010, finishing at the top of the rankings ahead of Anita Wlodarczyk. She won the gold medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Nilsson (athlete)
Cecilia Nilsson (born 22 June 1979) is a retired female hammer thrower from Sweden. She set her personal best (69.09 metres) on 24 May 2008 at a meet in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-An .... Achievements References * 1979 births Living people Swedish female hammer throwers {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethany Hart
Bethany Hart (born April 10, 1977) is a retired American hammer thrower. She competed at the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final. Her personal best throw was 69.89 metres, achieved in June 2008 in West Point The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known Metonymy, metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academies, United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a f .... References 1977 births Living people American female hammer throwers Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{US-hammerthrow-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sini Pöyry
Sini Tuuli Susanne Latvala (née Pöyry, born 3 February 1980 in Kankaanpää) is a retired female hammer thrower from Finland. Her personal best throw is 69.16 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Kaustinen Kaustinen ( sv, Kaustby) is a municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is part of the Central Ostrobothnia regions of Finland, region. The municipality has a population about 4300 and covers an area of of which is water. The popula .... She was nicknamed "Sintsa". Achievements References *sports-reference 1980 births Living people People from Kankaanpää Finnish female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Finland Sportspeople from Satakunta {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éva Orbán
Éva Orbán (born 29 November 1984 in Pápa) is a Hungarian hammer thrower. She set her personal best and a Hungarian national record with a throw of 71.33 metres on the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ..., with that she won the silver medal of the event. Achievements Awards * Hungarian athlete of the Year (3): 2011, 2012, 2013 References 1984 births Living people People from Pápa Hungarian female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Hungary World Athletics Championships athletes for Hungary Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berta Castells
Berta Castells Franco (born 24 January 1984) is a Spanish female hammer throw The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consist ...er. Her personal best throw is 70.52 metres, achieved in 2016 in Manresa (Spain). Achievements References * * External links * * * * * 1984 births Living people Spanish female hammer throwers Athletes from Catalonia Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Spain People from Tarragonès Sportspeople from the Province of Tarragona Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Spain Athletes (track and field) at the 2013 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darya Pchelnik
Darya Vladimirovna Pchelnik (also Daria or Dariya, ; be, Дар'я Уладзіміраўна Пчэльнік, translit=Darja Uladzimiraŭna Pčeĺnik; born 20 December 1980 or 20 December 1981), is a hammer thrower from Belarus. Her personal best is 76.33 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Minsk. Pchelnik was born in Hrodna in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. She first tried the hammer throw at age 18 under the coaching of Igor Tsitsorin and quickly committed to the event. She finished tenth at the 2005 Summer Universiade, won the 2007 Summer Universiade and finished fourth at the 2008 Olympic Games. In addition she competed at the 2005 World Championships without reaching the final. She had a strong start to the 2010 season after throwing 75.42 m to win at the Grande Prêmio Caixa Governo do Pará in May. In 2016, Pchelnik's stored urine samples from the 2008 Olympic Games underwent re-analysis, which resulted in a positive test for the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
