Women Hammer Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla, Spain - Tuesday 24.08 - Gold Medal: Mihaela Melinte, Romania
Final 18:00Distance1.2.3.45.6.
1. Mihaela MelinteROUROU75.20m71.5773.2374.2170.58X75.20
2. Olga KuzenkovaRUSRUS72.56mX68.1871.7969.23X72.56
3. Lisa MisipekaAMSAMS66.06m65.0265.02X64.4466.0665.85
4. Katalin DivosHUNHUN65.86m64.63X65.86XXX
5. Debbie SosimenkoAUSAUS65.52m65.52X61.5662.9263.7963.85
6. Lyudmila GubkinaBLRBLR65.44m64.12X62.9965.3365.4465.44
7. Simone MathesGERGER64.93m64.93X63.0864.6663.0862.36
8. Kirsten MunchowGERGER64.03mXX64.0359.9163.5863.05
9. Svetlana SudakBLRBLR63.99m62.8162.8863.99
10.Dawn EllerbeUSAUSA63.55mX59.7363.55
11.Tatyana KonstantinovaRUSRUS62.52m59.3962.5262.16
12.Manuela MontebrunFRAFRA62.44m62.44XX
13.Cecile LignotFRAFRA62.14mXX62.14
14.Lorraine ShawGBRGBR62.09m62.0961.54X
15.Manuela PriemerGERGER61.99m61.9960.4459.16
16.Florence EzehFRAFRA60.74m57.5858.8260.74
17.Amy Christiansen-PalmerUSAUSA59.80m59.2458.7659.80
18.Yipsi MorenoCUBCUB58.68mXX58.68
19.Maria Dolores PedraresESPESP57.66mX57.6654.84
20.Anelia YordanovaBULBUL53.20mX53.20X
21.Kamila SkolimowskaPOLPOL50.38m50.38XX

Women Hammer Throw - History

As with the women’s pole vault in Seville, this new event produced a splendid winning performance. No world record here but Melinte came close to her pending mark of 75.97 with a series which climaxed with 75.20, at the time the third longest ever throw. She thought that, but for the heat, she might have thrown one or two metres further. Kuzenkova, the event’s previous trail blazer, smashed her first effort into the netting but worked her way through to a final round 72.56, the longest ever non-winning mark. There was a huge gap after them but it was encouraging for the small nations that the bronze should go to a native of American Samoa, the US-based Misipeka.
Last of the 21 competitors with her only valid throw of 50.38 was 16 year-old Skolimowska … winner of the Olympic title a year later with 71.16!
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