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2001 World Championships In Athletics – Women's Hammer Throw
The final of the Women's Hammer Throw event at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was held on Tuesday August 7, 2001. There were a total number of 34 participating athletes. The qualifying rounds were staged on Monday August 6, with the mark set at 67.00 metres. Medalists Schedule *''All times are Mountain Standard Time ( UTC-7)'' Startlist Abbreviations *''All results shown are in metres'' Records Qualification Group A Group B Final See also * 2000 Women's Olympic Hammer Throw (Sydney) * 2001 Women's Summer Universiade Hammer Throw (Beijing) * 2001 Hammer Throw Year Ranking * 2002 Women's European Championships Hammer Throw (Munich) * 2004 Women's Olympic Hammer Throw (Athens) References IAAFhammerthrow.wz {{DEFAULTSORT:2001 World Championships in Athletics - Women's hammer throw Hammer A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammer Throw
The hammer throw (HT for short) is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track-and-field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and Javelin throw, 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. These three components are each separate and can move independently. Both the size and weight of the ball vary between men's and women's events. The women's hammer weighs for college and professional meets while the men's hammer weighs . History Tradition traces it to the Tailteann Games (ancient), Tailteann Games in Hill of Tara, Tara, Ireland, around the year 1830 BC. Some time later the Celtic warrior Cú Chulainn, Culchulainn reputedly took a chariot axle with a wheel still attached, spun it around and hurled it a long way. The wheel was later replaced by a rock with a wooden handle attached. A sledgehammer began to be used for the sport in Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mia Strömmer
Mia Marianne Strömmer (born February 26, 1974, in Tampere) is a retired female hammer thrower from Finland. She set her personal best throw (69.63 metres) on March 24, 2001, in Potchefstroom. That mark was the Finnish records in athletics, national record until 2019. Achievements References *sports-reference 1974 births Living people Athletes from Tampere Finnish female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Finland Finnish Athletics Championships winners {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Guillén
Nancy Guillén (born October 14, 1976) is a retired female hammer thrower from El Salvador. She set her personal best throw (62.43 metres) on June 9, 2001 at a meet in San Salvador. This is the current Salvadorean record. She attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most .... Achievements References * 1976 births Living people Salvadoran female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for El Salvador World Athletics Championships athletes for El Salvador Central American Games gold medalists for El Salvador Central American Games medali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasha Williams (athlete)
Tasha Aimee Williams (born 31 July 1973 in Dunedin) is a retired athlete who has represented New Zealand in rugby union, athletics, bobsleigh, weightlifting and powerlifting. Her personal best throw in the hammer throw was 65.91 metres, achieved on 24 February 2001 in Hastings. Biography Williams has represented New Zealand in rugby union, athletics, bobsleigh, weightlifting and powerlifting. Rugby career At the age of 17, she featured for the Black Ferns at RugbyFest 1990 on 28 August against a Russia XV's team. She made her international rugby union debut on 2 September 1994 against Australia at Sydney. Achievements See also *New Zealand records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in New Zealand. Those maintained by New Zealand's national athletics federation, Athletics New Zealand (ANZ), are the official records. This list also includes those listed by the IAAF but not r ... References External links * * * * * 1973 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanne Keil
Susanne Keil (born 18 May 1978 in Frankfurt am Main) is a female hammer thrower from Germany. Her personal best throw is 72.74 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Nikiti. This ranks her third among German hammer throwers, behind 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 Olympi ... and Kathrin Klaas. A member of LG Eintracht Frankfurt Keil is a two-time national champion in the women's hammer throw (2002 and 2003) Achievements References * 1978 births Living people Athletes from Frankfurt German female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Germany 21st-century German sportswomen {{Germany-hammer-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masumi Aya
is a Japanese hammer thrower. Her personal best throw is 67.26 metres, achieved in August 2006 in Toyama Toyama may refer to: Places * Toyama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in the Hokuriku region on the main Honshu island * Toyama (city), the capital city of Toyama Prefecture * Toyama Station, the main station of Toyama, Toyama * Toyama Sta .... International competitions External links * 1980 births Living people Japanese female hammer throwers Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Athletes (track and field) at the 2002 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Japan Asian Athletics Championships winners Asian Athletics Championships medalists Japan Championships in Athletics winners 21st-century Japanese sportswomen Asian Games bronze medalists in athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang Wenxiu
Zhang Wenxiu (, born 22 March 1986 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a retired Chinese female hammer thrower. Career She won the 2005 Asian Championships and 2006 Asian Games. She finished tenth at the 2001 World Championships, seventh at the 2004 Olympics, fifth at the 2005 World Championships and fourth at the 2006 World Cup. She then won bronze medals at the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games. She also holds the world junior record with 73.24 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Changsha. At 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, she originally won the gold medal but was stripped of it after testing positive for the prohibited substance zeranol. Zhang was reinstated after successfully appealing the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which accepted her explanation that the zeranol came from contaminated food. Achievements See also *China at the World Championships in Athletics China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Norgren
Anna Mahon, née Norgren (born 19 December 1974) is a retired female hammer thrower from the United States. Her personal best is 72.01 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Walnut, California. She holds the position of Assistant Superintendent of Brookfield Schools. Mahon formerly held the position of principal at Amity Regional High School Amity High School is a regional public high school located in Woodbridge, Connecticut, United States. It provides high school education (grades 9–12) for the children in the towns of Woodbridge, Orange, and Bethany (which together form Regiona .... She previously served as an English teacher, English department chairperson, and associate principal at the same school. Her husband, Sean Mahon, who still works at Amity High School, is a P. E. teacher and indoor girls' track coach. International competitions References * 1974 births Living people Sportspeople from Stamford, Connecticut American female hammer throwers Olympic track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivana Brkljačić
Ivana Brkljačić (born 25 January 1983 in Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany) is a female former hammer thrower from Croatia. Career She achieved good results as a teenager, winning the World Junior Championships twice and finishing 11th in the 2000 Olympic finals at the age of 17. In the hammer throw contest at the 2004 Olympics she missed qualification to the final round by 6 centimetres. Her personal best throw, and also a national record, is 75.08 metres, set at the June 2007 EAA meeting in Warsaw. In 2009 Brkljačić became a director of the Hanžeković Memorial, a member of the IAAF World Challenge series of athletics meetings. On 27 May 2010 Brkljačić announced her retirement from professional sport. Her last competition appearance was at the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Pogroszewska
Agnieszka Pogroszewska (born February 20, 1977) is a retired female hammer thrower from Poland. She set her personal best (67.98 metres) on June 8, 2001 at a meet in Poznań. She represented Poland at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics and competed at the European Athletics Championships in 1998 and 2002. Pogroszewska has also taken part in the Summer Universiade, finishing eleventh in 2001 and improving to win the bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receives ... at the 2003 Summer Universiade. Competition record References * 1977 births Living people Polish female hammer throwers Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Place of birth missing (living people) FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Poland Competitors at the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyudmila Gubkina
Lyudmila Gubkina (; born 13 August 1973 in Navapolatsk, Vitsebsk Voblast) is a Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...ian hammer thrower. Her personal best is 69.92 metres, achieved in August 2000 in Minsk. Achievements External links * * 1973 births Living people Belarusian female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Belarus Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games silver medalists for Belarus FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Belarus Competitors at the 1997 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evdokia Tsamoglou
Evdokia Tsamoglou (; born December 15, 1978, in Thessaloniki) is a female hammer thrower from Greece. Her personal best throw is 68.12 metres, achieved in August 2003 in Nikiti, Sithonia Sithonia (), also known as Longos, is a peninsula and part of the larger peninsula of Chalkidiki in Greece. The Kassandra, Chalkidiki, Kassandra Peninsula lies to the west of Sithonia and the Mount Athos peninsula to the east. Sithonia is also the .... This places her third on the Greek all-time list, behind Alexandra Papayeoryiou and Stiliani Papadopoulou. - The Athletics Site Honours References * 1978 births Living people Greek female hammer throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Greece Athletes from Thessaloniki Competitors at the 2001 Summer Universiade 21st-century Greek sportswomen Greek Athletics Championships winners {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
