The hammer throw is one of the most amazing events in our sport. Throwing a steel ball on a chain, much less, controlling it, takes great skill. Pawel Fadjeck won the mens, and Anita Wlodarczyk, the World record holder and Olympic champion, won the women’s. Here’s the results from June 17!
Anita Wlodarczyk, photo by PhotoRun.net
P-T-S Meeting
Å amorÃn (x-bionicsphere), 17/06/2017
Men’s results
Hammer Throw – Men
Pts
1 Fajdek , Pawel POL 78.67 78.67
2 Nowicki , Wojciech POL 76.04 76.04
3 Lomnický , Marcel SVK 74.86 74.86
4 Elseify , Ashraf Amgad QAT 73.84 73.84
5 Miller , Nick GBR 73.74 73.74
6 Lingua , Marco ITA 72.73 72.73
7 Pars , Krisztián HUN 72.67 72.67
8 Charfreitag , Libor SVK 67.11 67.11
Women’s results
Hammer Throw – Women
Pts
1 Wlodarczyk , Anita POL 75.45 75.45
2 Skydan , Hanna AZE 72.47 72.47
3 Wang , Zheng CHN 72.20 72.2
4 Fiodorow , Joanna POL 70.94 70.94
5 Šafránková , Katerina CZE 68.16 68.16
6 Tavernier , Alexandra FRA 66.24 66.24
7 Lomnicka , Nikola SVK 64.17 64.17
8 Hrasnová , Martina SVK 60.88 60.88
Author
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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