1999 World Championships in Athletics - Women's Hammer

These are the official results of the Women's Hammer Throw

Hammer throw

The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

event at the 1999 IAAF World Championships in Athletics

1999 World Championships in Athletics

The 7th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29....

in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 21 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday 24 August 1999 at 18:00h.

Medalists

Gold	Mihaela Melinte Mihaela Melinte Mihaela Melinte is a Romanian hammer thrower. She holds the world junior record, and with 76.07 metres she held the world record until Tatyana Lysenko beat it in July 2005... Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea... (ROM)
Silver	Olga Kuzenkova Olga Kuzenkova Olga Sergeyevna Kuzenkova is a Russian athlete, the first woman to throw the hammer more than 70 meters.She won gold in the women's hammer throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.She trained with Aleksandr Seleznyov.-Notes:... Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... (RUS)
Bronze	Lisa Misipeka Lisa Misipeka Lisa Vasa Misipeka is a Samoan athlete who specialises in the hammer throw. She won the bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics. It was the first ever international medal for American Samoa... American Samoa American Samoa American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa... (ASA)

Schedule

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Final Round
24.08.1999 – 18:00h

Final Round
24.08.1999 – 18:00h

Startlist

Order	№	Season Best 1999 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1999 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville, Spain, where the final of the men's competition was held on Sunday August 22, 1999...	Personal Best
1	42	66.78	67.16
2	431	66.08	66.82
3	217	66.34	66.34
4	338	66.12	66.12
5	1000	67.24	67.24
6	793	75.97	75.97
7	433	66.30	66.30
8	348	65.39	65.39
9	838	72.09	72.09
10	96	68.21	68.21
11	8	67.00	67.00
12	844	74.30	74.30
13	85	68.27	68.27
14	352	68.11	68.11
15	1012	70.16	70.16
16	120	65.10	65.10
17	426	67.13	67.13
18	490	67.20	67.20
19	275	61.28	61.28
20	754	66.62	66.62
21	385	67.21	66.75

Records

Standing records prior to the 1999 World Athletics Championships
World Record Women's hammer world record progression The first World Record in the hammer throw for women was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1994.To June 7, 2010, the IAAF has ratified 19 world records in the event.-Record Progression:...		75.97 m	May 13, 1999	Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Event Record	New Event
Season Best 1999 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1999 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville, Spain, where the final of the men's competition was held on Sunday August 22, 1999...		74.30 m	June 4, 1999	Moscow, Russia
Broken records during the 1999 World Athletics Championships
Event Record		75.20 m	August 24, 1999	Seville, Spain

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance
Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance
		71.57	73.23	74.21	70.58	X	75.20	75.20 m
		X	68.18	71.79	69.23	X	72.56	72.56 m
		65.02	65.02	X	64.44	66.06	65.85	66.06 m
4		64.63	X	65.86	X	X	X	65.86 m
5		65.52	X	61.56	62.92	63.79	63.85	65.52 m
6		64.12	X	62.99	65.33	65.44	65.44	65.44 m
7		64.93	X	63.08	64.66	63.08	62.36	64.93 m
8		X	X	64.03	59.91	63.58	63.05	64.03 m

9		62.81	62.88	63.99				63.99 m
10		X	59.73	63.55				63.55 m
11		59.39	62.52	62.16				62.52 m
12		62.44	X	X				62.44 m
13		X	X	62.14				62.14 m
14		62.09	61.54	X				62.09 m
15		61.99	60.44	59.16				61.99 m
16		57.58	58.82	60.74				60.74 m
17		59.24	58.76	59.80				59.80 m
18		X	X	58.68				58.68 m
19		X	57.66	54.84				57.66 m
20		X	53.20	X				53.20 m
21		50.38	X	X				50.38 m

Medalists

Schedule

Startlist

Records

Final

See also