2010 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge

2010 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge 1st 24 April–1 September 11 2011 The 2010 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge was the inaugural edition of the IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge, an international series of hammer throw competitions around the world. Koji Murofushi of Japan won the men's challenge, while Betty Heidler of Germany prevailed on women's side. Origin 2010 marked the first edition of the IAAF Diamond League, which replaced the IAAF Golden League as the highest level of international track and field meetings. The Diamond League sought to showcase all the events, but according to IAAF, hammer throw could not be included for infrastructure reasons.http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=49550.html IAAF Diamond League – All the events, all around the World 2009-03-02 2011-04-30 IAAF 2009-03-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20090306041708/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=49550.html dead Therefore, a separate Hammer Throw Challenge was created. Awards On February 19, IAAF announced a US$202,000 prize fund for the Challenge, to be split equally between men and women. The overall winners would pocket $30,000 each.http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=101/newsid=55599.html IAAF throws weight behind Hammer discipline with $202,000 purse IAAF 2010-02-19 2011-04-30 2010-12-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20101212064128/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=101/newsid=55599.html dead In addition, each of the fourteen competitions would award $7,500 in prize money, with $2,000 going to the winner. Format and calendar The 2010 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge consisted of a total of 14 competitions (seven for men and seven for women), in a total of 11 meets (three meets would feature both men and women). Points were scored simply by adding together an athlete's three best results from the Challenge (no more than one per meet). Hammer Challenge set to throw Dakar into a spin http://www.iaaf.org/IWC10/news/kind=101/newsid=56525.html IAAF 2011-04-30 2010-04-22 An athlete could compete in as many meets as they liked, but only the three best results would count. Any athlete achieving a new (and ratified) world record would receive a 1-meter bonus. Meetinghttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/index.html IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge IAAF 2011-04-30 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110122022551/http://www.iaaf.org/ht10/index.html 2011-01-22 CityCountryDateTypeMeeting Grand Prix IAAF de DakarDakarSenegalApril 24WomenOsaka Grand PrixOsakaJapanMay 8MenColorful Daegu Pre-ChampionshipsDaeguSouth KoreaMay 19WomenGrande Premio Brasil Caixa de AtletismoRio de JaneiroBrazilMay 23BothGolden Spike OstravaOstravaCzech RepublicMay 26BothFanny Blankers-Koen GamesHengeloNetherlandsMay 30MenBrothers Znamensky MemorialZhukovskyRussiaJune 26WomenMeeting de Atletismo MadridMadridSpainJuly 2MenISTAF BerlinBerlinGermanyAugust 22WomenRieti MeetingRietiItalyAugust 28-29BothHanžeković MemorialZagrebCroatiaSeptember 1Men Results Men JPN Osaka, May 8PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventcode=4443/sex=M/discCode=HT/result.html#MHT IAAF 2010-05-08 2011-04-30 Osaka Grand Prix1Dilshod NazarovTJK78.842Yury ShayunouBLR77.953Koji MurofushiJPN77.864Nicola VizzoniITA75.805Artem RubankoUKR75.646Aleksey ZagorniyRUS75.157Igors SokolovsLAT74.998Ali Mohamed Al-ZinkawiKUW74.809Marco LinguaITA72.67 BRA Rio de Janeiro, May 23PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventcode=4442/sex=M/discCode=HT/result.html#MHT IAAF 2010-05-23 2011-04-30 Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo1Dilshod NazarovTJK77.382Igors SokolovsLAT77.093Artem RubankoUKR76.544Jérôme BortoluzziFRA72.485Wagner DomingosBRA70.926Juan Ignacio CerraARG69.777Marcos dos SantosBRA63.918Allan WolskiBRA61.92 CZE Ostrava, May 26PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventCode=4440/index.html IAAF 2010-05-26 2011-04-30 49th Ostrava Golden Spike1Krisztián ParsHUN79.152Dilshod NazarovTJK78.693Sergej LitvinovGER77.644Markus EsserGER76.455Olli-Pekka KarjalainenFIN75.876Ali Mohamed Al-ZinkawiKUW75.007Aleksey ZagorniyRUS74.998Szymon ZiólkowskiPOL72.509Marco LinguaITA70.34Libor CharfreitagSVKNM NED Hengelo, May 30PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventcode=4441/sex=M/discCode=HT/result.html#MHT 2010-05-30 2011-04-30 Fanny Blankers-Koen Games1Sergej LitvinovGER78.982Dilshod NazarovTJK78.293Krisztián ParsHUN77.144Olli-Pekka KarjalainenFIN76.945Libor CharfreitagSVK75.916Ali Mohamed Al-ZinkawiKUW75.657Yury ShayunouBLR74.498Igors SokolovsLAT74.129Markus EsserGER72.5810Szymon ZiólkowskiPOL71.0811Marco LinguaITA68.19 ESP Madrid, July 2PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventcode=4439/sex=M/discCode=HT/result.html#MHT IAAF 2010-07-02 2011-04-30 28º Meeting de Atletismo Madrid 20101Dilshod NazarovTJK78.492Libor CharfreitagSVK78.403Krisztián ParsHUN78.234Sergej LitvinovGER77.005Igors SokolovsLAT76.396Szymon ZiólkowskiPOL75.807Nicolas FigèreFRA75.108Nicola VizzoniITA74.769Wojciech KondratowiczPOL74.6310Javier CienfuegosESP68.0411Isaac VicenteESP66.99 ITA Rieti, August 28-29The Rieti meeting featured an unusual format, with a three-round qualification on August 28 and a four-round, four-thrower final on August 29. For the purposes of the Hammer Throw Challenge, the best result from the final would stand for the top four, and the best result from the qualification would apply for the rest.PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.rietimeeting.com/info/results/re1870001.html Rieti Meeting 2010-08-29 2011-04-30 Rieti 2010 - IAAF World Challenge https://web.archive.org/web/20111008204652/http://www.rietimeeting.com/info/results/re1870001.html 2011-10-08 dead 1Koji MurofushiJPN80.962Libor CharfreitagSVK79.623Dilshod NazarovTJK78.344Sergej LitvinovGER76.775Pavel KryvitskiBLR76.456Nicola VizzoniITA76.397Krisztián ParsHUN75.818Szymon ZiólkowskiPOL75.739Olli-Pekka KarjalainenFIN73.8210Yury ShayunouBLR72.9211Valeri SviatokhaBLR72.3112Marco LinguaITA70.03 CRO Zagreb, September 1PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventCode=4437/index.html IAAF 2010-09-01 2011-04-30 IAAF World Challenge Zagreb1Koji MurofushiJPN79.712Libor CharfreitagSVK77.243Krisztián ParsHUN76.964Markus EsserGER76.195Dilshod NazarovTJK75.956Yury ShayunouBLR75.357Szymon ZiólkowskiPOL74.488Ali Mohamed Al-ZinkawiKUW73.429Olli-Pekka KarjalainenFIN71.8910Andras HaklitsCRO71.83Sergej LitvinovGERNM 35-year-old Koji Murofushi of Japan, Olympic gold medalist from 2004, managed to beat Tajikistan's Dilshod Nazarov by two and a half meters despite only competing three times. Libor Charfreitag, who won the European championship in 2010, placed third. Final StandingsPosAthleteCountryJPNBRACZENEDESPITACROTotalhttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/standings/sex=M/disc=HT/detail.html 2010 Hammer Throw Challenge Standings IAAF 2010-09-01 2011-04-30 2010-08-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20100826191819/http://www.iaaf.org/ht10/standings/sex=M/disc=HT/detail.html dead 1Koji MurofushiJPN77.8680.9679.71238.52Murofushi's results add up to 238.53, and accordingly Wikipedia is at a loss as to why all official sources give the total shown above.2Dilshod NazarovTJK78.9477.3878.6978.2978.4978.3475.95236.023Libor CharfreitagSVKNM75.9178.4079.6277.24235.264Krisztián ParsHUN79.1577.1478.2375.8176.96234.525Sergej LitvinovGER77.6478.9877.0076.77NM233.626Igors SokolovsLAT74.9977.0974.1276.39228.477Yury ShayunouBLR77.9574.4972.9275.35227.798Nicola VizzoniITA75.8074.7676.39226.959Olli-Pekka KarjalainenFIN75.8776.9473.8271.89226.6310Szymon ZiólkowskiPOL72.5071.0875.8075.7374.48226.0111Ali Mohamed Al-ZinkawiKUW74.8075.0075.6573.42225.4512Markus EsserGER76.4572.5876.19225.21This is another discrepancy, as Esser's results add up to 225.22.13Marco LinguaITA72.6770.3468.1970.03213.04 Women SEN Dakar, April 24PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.athletisme-senegal.com/new/int_1.php?page=direct_2 Fédération Sénégalaise d'Athlétisme 2010-04-24 2011-04-30 MEETING DE LA VILLE DE DAKAR https://web.archive.org/web/20110904151352/http://www.athletisme-senegal.com/new/int_1.php?page=direct_2 2011-09-04 dead 1Anita WłodarczykPOL75.132Marina MarghievaMDA72.143Tatyana LysenkoRUS70.024Clarissa ClarettiITA69.205Silvia SalisITA68.366Jennifer DahlgrenARG67.947Amber CampbellUSA67.838Nataliya ZolotukhinaUKR66.959Maryia SmaliachkovaBLR64.1810Volha TsanderBLR61.7211Amy SèneFRA58.51 KOR Daegu, May 19PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventcode=4449/sex=W/discCode=HT/result.html#WHT IAAF 2010-05-19 2011-04-30 2010 Colorful Daegu Pre-Championships Meeting1Betty HeidlerGER75.282Tatyana LysenkoRUS72.363Kathrin KlaasGER72.124Anita WłodarczykPOL71.865Sultana FrizellCAN71.236Zalina MarghievaMDA70.757Amber CampbellUSA69.018Iryna SekachovaUKR68.219Andrea BunjesGER60.3110Na-ru KangKOR55.58 BRA Rio de Janeiro, May 23PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventcode=4442/sex=W/discCode=HT/result.html#WHT IAAF 2010-05-23 2011-04-30 Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo1Darya PchelnikBLR73.012Stéphanie FalzonFRA69.653Jessica CosbyUSA68.634Marina MarghievaMDA67.855Rosa RodríguezVEN65.006Barbara ŠpilerSLO64.927Jennifer DahlgrenARG64.528Johana MorenoVEN64.159Josiane SoaresBRA62.7810Anna Paula PereiraBRA54.77 CZE Ostrava, May 26PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventCode=4440/index.html IAAF 2010-05-26 2011-04-30 49th Ostrava Golden Spike1Anita WłodarczykPOL75.742Betty HeidlerGER75.253Darya PchelnikBLR73.004Kathrin KlaasGER72.325Jennifer DahlgrenARG72.186Tatyana LysenkoRUS71.007Zalina MarghievaMDA70.218Clarissa ClarettiITA69.169Stéphanie FalzonFRA68.7110Marina MarghievaMDA67.8311Katerina ŠafránkováCZE63.5212Romana GrómanováCZE59.41 RUS Zhukovsky, June 26PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/eventcode=4593/sex=W/discCode=HT/result.html#WHT IAAF 2010-06-26 2011-04-30 Znamensky Memorial1Tatyana LysenkoRUS76.032Yipsi MorenoCUB75.193Stéphanie FalzonFRA72.374Darya PchelnikBLR72.175Sultana FrizellCAN71.326Oksana KondratevaRUS68.847Iryna SekachovaUKR66.248Marina MarghievaMDA65.039Anna BulgakovaRUS61.84 GER Berlin, August 22PosAthleteCountryResulthttp://www.istaf.de/index.php?content=istaf2010&disz=18&lang=de ISTAF Berlin 2010-08-21 2011-04-30 ISTAF Berlin https://web.archive.org/web/20110927160941/http://www.istaf.de/index.php?content=istaf2010&disz=18&lang=de 2011-09-27 dead 1Betty HeidlerGER75.352Anita WłodarczykPOL74.433Tatyana LysenkoRUS73.144Kathrin KlaasGER71.665Yipsi MorenoCUB70.226Bianca PerieROU70.027Amber CampbellUSA69.478Jennifer DahlgrenARG68.149Stéphanie FalzonFRA65.0310Darya PchelnikBLR63.08 ITA Rieti, August 28-29The Rieti meeting featured an unusual format, with a three-round qualification on August 28 and a four-round, four-thrower final on August 29. For the purposes of the Hammer Throw Challenge, the best result from the final would stand for the top four, and the best result from the qualification would apply for the rest.PosAthleteCountryResult1Tatyana LysenkoRUS74.802Yipsi MorenoCUB73.783Zhang WenxiuCHN73.704Anita WłodarczykPOL73.575Jennifer DahlgrenARG70.436Amber CampbellUSA69.877Zalina MarghievaMDA69.158Nataliya ZolotukhinaUKR68.929Stéphanie FalzonFRA66.44Darya PchelnikBLRNM 2007 World champion Betty Heidler edged out reigning champion and world record holder Anita Włodarczyk in a close race. 2006 European champion Tatyana Lysenko placed third. Final StandingsPosAthleteCountrySENKORBRACZERUSGERITATotalhttp://www.iaaf.org/ht10/standings/sex=W/disc=HT/detail.html 2010 Hammer Throw Challenge Standings IAAF 2010-09-01 2011-04-30 2010-12-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20101212064612/http://www.iaaf.org/ht10/standings/sex=W/disc=HT/detail.html dead 1Betty HeidlerGER75.2875.2575.35225.882Anita WłodarczykPOL75.1371.8675.7474.4373.57225.303Tatyana LysenkoRUS70.0372.3671.0076.0373.1474.80223.96See comments above on the discrepancies with Murofushi and Esser. Lysenko's top results add up to 223.97.4Yipsi MorenoCUB75.1970.2273.78219.195Darya PchelnikBLR73.0173.0072.1763.08NM218.186Kathrin KlaasGER72.1272.3271.66216.107Jennifer DahlgrenARG67.9464.5272.1868.1470.43210.758Stéphanie FalzonFRA69.6568.7172.3765.0366.44210.739Zalina MarghievaMDA70.7570.2169.15210.1110Amber CampbellUSA67.8369.0169.4769.87208.3511Marina MarghievaMDA72.1467.8567.8365.03207.82 References Category:IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge Hammer Throw Challenge