Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk underlined her absolute dominance of the women's hammer by throwing a world record 82.29 metres to win the Rio Olympic gold by an incredible 554 centimetres on Monday Aug 15,2016
The only woman to have thrown the hammer further than 80 metres, the 31-year-old world champion had already broken the Olympic record with a second throw of 80.40 when she entered the ring for the third time.
Anita Wlodarczyk was the second Pole to win the title after Kamila Skolimowska, who won the inaugural women's hammer at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 before dying at the age of 26 of a pulmonary embolism while training.
Anita Wlodarczyk finished runner-up to Tatyana Lysenko at the London Games four years ago but the Russian was unable to defend her title in Rio after being banned for doping for the second time in her career earlier this year
China's Zhang Wenxiu threw 76.75 to add a silver medal to the bronze she won on home soil at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Former world junior champion Great Britain's Sophie Hitchon was third with a British record 74.54 from her final throw to claim a first medal for her country in the women's hammer
The
25-year-old from Burnley broke the British record with her final throw
of the competition to land an historic hammer bronze at the games this
morning.
The
ex-ballet dancer, who only squeezed into the final as the 11th of 12
qualifiers, launched the hammer out to 74.54 metres to move from sixth
place to third.
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