Women Hammer Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla, Spain - Tuesday 24.08

Women Hammer Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla, Spain - Tuesday 24.08 - Gold Medal: Mihaela Melinte, Romania

Final 18:00		Distance	1.	2.	3.	4	5.	6.
1. Mihaela Melinte	ROU	75.20m	71.57	73.23	74.21	70.58	X	75.20
2. Olga Kuzenkova	RUS	72.56m	X	68.18	71.79	69.23	X	72.56
3. Lisa Misipeka	AMS	66.06m	65.02	65.02	X	64.44	66.06	65.85
4. Katalin Divos	HUN	65.86m	64.63	X	65.86	X	X	X
5. Debbie Sosimenko	AUS	65.52m	65.52	X	61.56	62.92	63.79	63.85
6. Lyudmila Gubkina	BLR	65.44m	64.12	X	62.99	65.33	65.44	65.44
7. Simone Mathes	GER	64.93m	64.93	X	63.08	64.66	63.08	62.36
8. Kirsten Munchow	GER	64.03m	X	X	64.03	59.91	63.58	63.05
9. Svetlana Sudak	BLR	63.99m	62.81	62.88	63.99
10.Dawn Ellerbe	USA	63.55m	X	59.73	63.55
11.Tatyana Konstantinova	RUS	62.52m	59.39	62.52	62.16
12.Manuela Montebrun	FRA	62.44m	62.44	X	X
13.Cecile Lignot	FRA	62.14m	X	X	62.14
14.Lorraine Shaw	GBR	62.09m	62.09	61.54	X
15.Manuela Priemer	GER	61.99m	61.99	60.44	59.16
16.Florence Ezeh	FRA	60.74m	57.58	58.82	60.74
17.Amy Christiansen-Palmer	USA	59.80m	59.24	58.76	59.80
18.Yipsi Moreno	CUB	58.68m	X	X	58.68
19.Maria Dolores Pedrares	ESP	57.66m	X	57.66	54.84
20.Anelia Yordanova	BUL	53.20m	X	53.20	X
21.Kamila Skolimowska	POL	50.38m	50.38	X	X

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!