2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw

The women's hammer throw at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 12 and 14 July.[1][2][3]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Alexandra Tavernier  France	Alexia Sedykh  France	Alena Navahrodskaya  Belarus

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Zhang Wenxiu (CHN)	73.24 m	Changsha, China	24 June 2005
Championship Record	Bianca Perie (ROU)	67.95 m	Bydgoszcz, Poland	9 July 2008
World Junior Leading	Alexandra Tavernier (FRA)	68.44 m	Forbach, France	27 May 2012
Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Championship Record & World Junior Leading	Alexandra Tavernier (FRA)	70.62	Barcelona, Spain	14 July 2012

Qualification

Qual. rule: qualification standard 62.00 m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q)

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Note
1	B	Alexandra Tavernier	France	66.22			66.22	Q
2	B	Alena Navahrodskaya	Belarus	59.44	65.61		65.61	Q
3	A	Alexia Sedykh	France	65.54			65.54	Q
4	A	Julia Ratcliffe	New Zealand	X	63.22		63.22	Q
5	B	Na Luo	China	61.54	X	59.45	61.54	q
6	A	Iliána Korosídou	Greece	60.09	X	61.01	61.01	q
7	B	Bianca Lazar Fazecas	Romania	X	51.01	60.92	60.92	q, PB
8	B	Abbi Carter	Great Britain	60.75	58.70	55.87	60.75	q, PB
9	A	Shelby Ashe	United States	X	60.19	X	60.19	q
10	A	Réka Gyurátz	Hungary	X	56.22	60.01	60.01	q
11	A	Elizabeta Tsareva	Russia	59.93	54.34	53.34	59.93	q
12	B	Eva Reinders	Netherlands	59.32	X	57.57	59.32	q
13	A	Danielle McConnell	Australia	53.67	58.87	58.94	58.94
14	B	Viktoriya Sadova	Russia	57.46	58.78	X	58.78
15	B	Heli Rinnekari	Finland	X	57.99	58.01	58.01
16	B	Jennifer Nevado	Spain	X	53.49	57.93	57.93
17	B	Mikayla Genge	Australia	57.87	X	X	57.87	PB
18	B	DeAnna Price	United States	55.03	56.34	57.82	57.82
19	B	Valeriia Semenkova	Ukraine	57.45	X	X	57.45	SB
20	B	Petra Jakeljic	Croatia	56.11	56.03	56.65	56.65
21	A	Roxana Perie	Romania	50.13	56.18	54.84	56.18
22	A	Yolanda González	Mexico	49.35	55.66	55.19	55.66
23	A	Claudia Štravs	Slovenia	54.19	54.45	53.86	54.45
24	B	Veronika Kanuchová	Slovakia	X	54.30	X	54.30
25	A	Génesis Olivera	Venezuela	51.11	X	54.23	54.23
26	B	Paola Miranda	Paraguay	X	53.14	X	53.14
27	A	Catherine Beatty	Cyprus	X	52.42	52.19	52.42
28	A	Marinda Petersson	Sweden	50.25	49.61	X	50.25
29	B	Agápi Proskinitopoúlou	Greece	X	49.16	X	49.16
30	B	Sandra Malinowska	Poland	X	45.19	X	45.19
-	A	Al'ona Shamotina	Ukraine	X	X	X	NM
-	A	Daniela Gómez	Argentina	X	X	X	NM
-	B	Ecem Akçakara	Turkey	X	X	X	NM
-	B	Eleni Larsson	Sweden	X	X	X	NM
-	B	Fruzsina Fertig	Hungary	X	X	X	NM
-	A	Hanna Zinchuk	Belarus	X	X	X	NM
-	A	Malwina Kopron	Poland	X	X	X	NM
-	A	Mikaela Gerkman	Finland	X	X	X	NM
-	A	Sara Savatovic	Serbia	X	X	X	NM

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Note
	Alexandra Tavernier	France	66.14	X	X	70.62	69.12	X	70.62	CR
	Alexia Sedykh	France	65.29	67.34	64.99	66.76	63.74	65.64	67.34
	Alena Navahrodskaya	Belarus	62.96	67.13	X	63.26	X	60.89	67.13	PB
4	Julia Ratcliffe	New Zealand	60.62	67.00	65.90	X	66.63	65.33	67.00	AJ
5	Iliána Korosídou	Greece	61.00	60.36	63.32	58.90	59.62	X	63.32	PB
6	Na Luo	China	X	60.28	63.19	59.77	59.89	X	63.19
7	Eva Reinders	Netherlands	61.63	59.40	X	X	59.08	56.27	61.63
8	Réka Gyurátz	Hungary	57.25	60.88	59.46	X	58.38	60.09	60.88
9	Elizabeta Tsareva	Russia	58.70	55.85	60.72				60.72
10	Shelby Ashe	United States	X	58.62	X				58.62
11	Bianca Lazar Fazecas	Romania	57.67	X	58.09				58.09
12	Abbi Carter	Great Britain	56.46	56.49	X				56.49

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 39 athletes from 27 countries participated in the event.

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (2)
•  Belarus (2)
•  China (1)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (2)
•  Greece (2)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Poland (2)
•  Romania (2)
•  Russia (2)
•  Serbia (1)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  Spain (1)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Ukraine (2)
•  United Kingdom (1)
•  United States (2)
•  Venezuela (1)

References

1. http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=W/discCode=HT/combCode=hash/timetable.html
2. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
3. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• WJC12 Hammer throw schedule