The final of the Women's Hammer Throw

Hammer throw

The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

 event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary was held on Saturday August 22, 1998. There were a total number of 35 participating athletes. The qualifying rounds were staged a day earlier, on Friday August 21, with the mark set at 61.50 metres. It was the first time in history that women competed in the hammer throw at the European Championships.

Medalists

Gold	Mihaela Melinte Mihaela Melinte Mihaela Melinte is a Romanian hammer thrower. She holds the world junior record, and with 76.07 metres she held the world record until Tatyana Lysenko beat it in July 2005... Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...  (ROM)
Silver	Olga Kuzenkova Olga Kuzenkova Olga Sergeyevna Kuzenkova is a Russian athlete, the first woman to throw the hammer more than 70 meters.She won gold in the women's hammer throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.She trained with Aleksandr Seleznyov.-Notes:... Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...  (RUS)
Bronze	Kirsten Münchow Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...  (GER)

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

  Q	automatic qualification
  q	qualification by rank
  DNS	did not start
  NM	no mark
  WR	world record
  AR	area record
  CR	championship record
  NR	national record
  PB	personal best
  SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships
World Record Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...		73.14 m	July 16, 1998	Poiana Brasov Poiana Brasov Poiana Braşov is the most popular Romanian ski resort and an important tourist centre preferred by many tourists not only from Romania, but also from Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and other European states.... , Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
Event Record Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...	New Event
Season Best 1998 Hammer Throw Year Ranking This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1998 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. One of the main events during this season were the 1998 European Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where the final of the men's competition was held on August 19,...		73.80 m	May 15, 1998	Togliattigrad, Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
Broken records during the 1998 European Athletics Championships
Event Record Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...		71.17 m	August 22, 1998	Budapest Budapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter... , Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

Final Ranking

Rank	Athlete	Attempts			Distance	Note
		1	2	3
1					68.65 m
2					66.81 m
3					64.12 m
4					64.10 m
5					62.72 m	SB
6					62.69 m
7					62.46 m
8					62.25 m
9					61.62 m
10					61.11 m
11					60.64 m
12					59.15 m
13					58.88 m
14					58.72 m
15					58.61 m
16					58.35 m
17					57.79 m
18					57.40 m
19					56.42 m
20					55.90 m
21					55.37 m
22					54.68 m
23		52.10	54.34	51.01	54.34 m
24					54.29 m
25					54.13 m
26					53.87 m
27					53.63 m
28					53.01 m
29					52.63 m
30					51.70 m
31					50.70 m
32					50.62 m
—		X	X	X	NM
—		X	X	X	NM

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
		68.41	66.19	69.02	X	70.63	71.17	71.17 m	CR
		69.23	69.28	63.72	X	X	X	69.28 m
		X	61.28	X	61.03	X	65.61	65.61 m
4		56.29	63.60	X	X	62.96	64.05	64.05 m
5		63.74	58.90	X	60.04	61.93	X	63.74 m
6		62.15	X	X	X	X	63.03	63.03 m
7		X	61.50	62.68	X	59.63	X	62.68 m
8		60.47	60.88	60.91	62.36	61.92	61.62	62.36 m
9		60.14	X	60.12				60.14 m
10		58.07	59.47	X				59.47 m
11		X	54.55	58.19				58.19 m
12		X	52.98	X				57.68 m