Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Women's hammer throw
Encyclopedia
The final of the Women's Hammer Throw
competition at the 1997 Summer Universiade
took place on August 29, 1997 in Catania
, Italy
. The event was contested for the first time at the Summer Universiade.
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...
competition at the 1997 Summer Universiade
Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade
The Athletics Tournament at the 1997 Summer Universiade took place in the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Sicily at the end of August 1997, shortly after the World Championships in Athens, Greece. New events were the women's hammer throw, pole vault and half marathon competition.-Men’s events:-Women’s...
took place on August 29, 1997 in Catania
Catania
Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. The event was contested for the first time at the Summer Universiade.
Medalists
| Gold |  Mihaela MelinteMihaela 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 KuzenkovaOlga 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 |  Deborah SosimenkoDeborah Sosimenko Deborah Sosimenko is a retired female hammer thrower from Australia, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. She won a total number of eight national titles during the 1990s and early 2000s.-Achievements:-References:* *... Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... (AUS) |
Abbreviations
- All results shown are in metres
Q automatic qualification q qualification by rank DNS did not start NM no mark WR world record AR area record NR national record PB personal best SB season best
Final
| Rank | Athlete | Attempts | Distance | Note | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| 69.84 m | |||||||||
| 65.96 m | |||||||||
| 65.02 m | |||||||||
| 4 | 63.48 m | ||||||||
| 5 | 61.70 m | ||||||||
| 6 | 61.52 m | ||||||||
| 7 | 59.84 m | ||||||||
| 8 | 57.52 m | ||||||||
| 9 | ??? | ??? m | |||||||
| 10 | ??? | ??? m | |||||||
| 11 | ??? | ??? m | |||||||
| 12 | ??? | ??? m | |||||||