Women Hammer Throw Qualification
Qualification standard 59.00 metres or at least 12 best qualified.
There were five automatic qualifiers in Group A and two in Group B in this morning’s qualification rounds for the women’s hammer throw final, which will take place on Saturday evening.
The contest on Saturday will be keen as all of the automatic qualifiers were within one metre of each other.
The leading qualifier was Spain’s Berta Castells, with her second round throw of 60.45 metres, following a foul in the first round.
Behind Castells followed Russia’s Yuliya Rozenfeld with a new personal best of 59.66 metres from her second effort after a first attempt of 56.73. The other qualifier in Group A was Croatia’s Ivana Brkljacic, who threw the implement 59.63 metres with her first attempt.
In Group B Nataliya Zolotukhina (UKR) threw 59.20 with her first effort to qualify and she was followed by Slovak Reupublic’s Martina Danisova with59.04 metres also from her first effort.
This heat produced three national junior records from Jennifer Dahlgren (ARG) with 57.05, a mark that suffices to take her through to the final; 56.04 metres became the national junior record for Venezuela, from Adriana Benaventa, who missed qualification by just two places; and back down the lists, Nina Cotolupenco set a national junior record for tiny Moldova with her mark of 50.29 metres.
