Anita Włodarczyk
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Nationality | Polish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Rawicz, Poland | 8 August 1985||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 100 kg (220 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Skra Warsaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anita Włodarczyk (Polish pronunciation: [aˈnita vwɔˈdart͡ʂɨk]; born 8 August 1985) is a Polish hammer thrower. She is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion and the first woman in history to throw the hammer over 80 m; she currently holds the women's world record of 82.98 m. She is considered the greatest women’s hammer thrower of all time.[2]
Career
Włodarczyk won her first national U23 championships in 2007, and went on to compete in the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships, although she did not progress beyond the qualifying round. She finished sixth in the hammer throw competition at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Włodarczyk qualified for the 2008 World Athletics Final and won a bronze medal. The following year, she took part in the 2009 European Team Championships, winning her first gold medal at a major international competition.
Włodarczyk achieved a personal best throw of 76.20 metres (250.0 ft), achieved on 30 May 2009 in Biała Podlaska, beating her previous record by 81 cm and improve 76.59 m in Golden Spike Ostrava. Prior to the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, she produced a national record-breaking performance in Cottbus, winning the competition with a world-leading 77.20-metre (253.3 ft) throw. This was fourth longest throw by a woman in hammer throw.
On 22 August 2009, during the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Germany, Włodarczyk set a world record with a throw of 77.96 metres (255 ft 9 in).[3] Her season ended prematurely when she twisted her left ankle during her celebration.[4] Returning to competition at the Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar in April 2010, she easily won her event with a throw of 75.13 m.[5] She then proceeded to break her existing world record with a 78.30-metre (256.9 ft) hammer throw at the Enea Cup in Bydgoszcz on 6 June 2010.[6] She won the bronze at the 2010 European Athletics Championships and was ranked second overall for the season in the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, finishing behind Betty Heidler.[7] She finished outside of the medals at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, coming fifth overall.
In 2012, Włodarczyk finished third at the Ostrava Golden Spike and was the runner-up at the Prefontaine Classic.[8] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won the silver medal with a throw of 77.60 m.[9] On 11 October 2016, she was retroactively awarded gold after Russia's Tatyana Lysenko was stripped of the medal after testing positive in reanalysis of her stored doping samples. [10]
In 2014, Włodarczyk won the European Championship with a throw of 78.76, which was a championship and national record.[11]
On 1 August 2015 Włodarczyk set a new world record with a throw of 81.08 metres (266.0 ft) and became the first woman to throw the hammer over 80 metres (260 ft).[12] She went on to win the gold medal at the World Championships, once again throwing over 80 metres (260 ft).
On 15 August 2016 Włodarczyk won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio, setting a new world record with a throw of 82.29 metres (270.0 ft).[13] On 28 August 2016, she threw 82.98 metres (272.2 ft), setting a new world record just two weeks after the Olympics at the EAA 7th Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Warsaw.
In competition, Włodarczyk uses some of the equipment that belonged to the late Kamila Skolimowska, as a tribute to her fellow hammer thrower.[14]
Awards
For her sport achievements, she received:
Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (5th Class) in 2009.[15]
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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2007 | European U23 Championships | Debrecen, Hungary | 9th | 63.74 m |
2008 | European Winter Throwing Cup | Split, Croatia | 1st | 71.84 m |
Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 6th | 71.56 m | |
World Athletics Final | Stuttgart, Germany | 3rd | 70.97 m | |
2009 | European Team Championships | Leiria, Portugal | 1st | 75.23 m |
World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 1st | 77.96 m | |
2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 3rd | 73.56 m |
2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 5th | 73.56 m |
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 1st | 74.29 m |
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 1st | 77.60 m | |
2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 2nd | 78.46 m |
Jeux de la Francophonie | Nice, France | 1st | 75.62 m | |
2014 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 1st | 78.76 m |
2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 1st | 80.85 m |
2016 | European Championships | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1st | 78.14 m |
Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1st | 82.29 m OR |
References
- 1 2 Anita Włodarczyk's profile at the IAAF site
- ↑ Landells, Steve (15 August 2016). "Report: women's hammer final – Rio 2016 Olympic Games". IAAF. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
- ↑ Earth Times
- ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=55178.html IAAF.
- ↑ Turner, Chris (24 April 2010). "Wlodarczyk blasts out 75.13m release in Dakar – IAAF World Challenge". IAAF. Archived from the original on 27 April 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Jackowski, Pawel (6 June 2010). "78.30m World record in the Hammer Throw by Wlodarczyk in Bydgoszcz - UPDATED". IAAF. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ "Murofushi and Heidler take overall titles and prize of $30,000 each – IAAF World Hammer Throw Challenge". IAAF. 8 September 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ Gains, Paul (2 June 2012). "Dibaba 30:24.39 and Kiprop 27:01.98 on stunning but wet first night in Eugene – Samsung Diamond League". IAAF. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ "Athletics at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's Hammer Throw Final Round | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russian-stripped-of-2012-olympic-womens-hammer-throw-gold/2016/10/11/1792446c-8fc9-11e6-bc00-1a9756d4111b_story.html
- ↑ "2014 European Athletics Championships" (PDF). European Athletics. 15 August 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
- ↑ Florian van Dijck (2015-08-01). WOMEN HAMMER OVER 80M!!! WLODARCZYK THROWS WR !!! 81.08m (266′ 0″)
- ↑ "Hammer Throw Women - The XXXI Olympic Games". IAAF.org. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ↑ Mulkeen, Jon; Mikiel, Marta. "Inspired by Skolimowska, Wlodarczyk aims to become first to throw 80 metres". IAAF. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ↑ Prezydent.pl
External links
- Anita Włodarczyk profile at IAAF
Records | ||
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Preceded by Tatyana Lysenko Betty Heidler |
Women's Hammer World Record Holder August 22, 2009 – May 21, 2011 August 31, 2014 – |
Succeeded by Betty Heidler Incumbent |
Awards | ||
Preceded by Valerie Adams |
Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year 2014 |
Succeeded by Genzebe Dibaba |