The men&rsquo;s Tokyo Olympic hammer medallists will renew their rivalry at the Kip Keino Classic &ndash; a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event &ndash; in Nairobi on 7 May.
Poland&rsquo;s Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki, Norway&rsquo;s silver medallist Eivind Henriksen and Poland&rsquo;s bronze medallist Pawel Fajdek will all be in action, with four-time world champion Fajdek on the hunt for back to back wins in Kenya&rsquo;s capital city.
Fajdek bought his 2021 season to a close in Nairobi, throwing 79.19m to beat Nowicki with 77.99m. This time they will be joined by Henriksen, who started his season with a fourth-place finish and 75.05m throw at the European Throwing Cup in Leiria. 
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 Nowicki had the competition of his life to win in Tokyo, the 33-year-old improving to 82.52m to break his bronze medal streak after finishing third at his previous four successive global championships. Henriksen set a Norwegian record by throwing 81.58m for silver, while Fajdek threw 81.53m for bronze.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a dream for the two of us to be on the podium together,&rdquo; Nowicki said later, on becoming an Olympic medallist alongside his compatriot Fajdek. Now the two will be battling for the top spot in Nairobi.
Since 2008, the pair have clashed in a total of 107 finals, with Fajdek leading the head-to-head, 86-21.
The Kip Keino Classic is the third Gold level meeting in this year&rsquo;s World Athletics Continental Tour, which kicks off at the USATF Bermuda Games on Saturday (9) and then moves on to the Golden Games at Mt. SAC on 16 April.

Wojciech Nowicki, Eivind Henriksen and Pawel Fajdek will renew their rivalry at the Kip Keino Classic.

Olympic medallists in Nairobi hammer head-to-head

A look back at the key moments of 2021 in the throws events

2021 review: throws

As the countdown to the World Athletics Awards 2021 continues, we shine a spotlight on the five women and five men who have been nominated for this year&rsquo;s Rising Star awards. The winners will be selected by an international panel of experts and be announced live at the World Athletics Awards 2021 on 1 December. 
<h2>Silja Kosonen</h2>
Despite a sporting background that includes football, swimming, skiing and orienteering, it is within athletics that Silja Kosonen has navigated her way to the very top.
From world and European U20 titles to global age-group and national senior records, it has been a standout year for the 18-year-old Finnish thrower, who started the season with a hammer best of 71.34m to her name.&nbsp;
That wasn&rsquo;t to remain her PB for long. Making her season debut in the snow at the Finnish Winter Throwing Championships in Kaustinen in early March, Kosonen improved to 72.44m &ndash; a senior national record that also broke the long-standing European U20 record set by the late 2000 Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska.&nbsp;
A few months later, she graduated from being the best ever in Europe to the best in the world, throwing 73.43m in Vaasa in June to break the 16-year-old world U20 hammer record held by China&rsquo;s Zhang Wenxiu. With that performance the teenager secured her second successive Finnish Championships gold, and she went on to claim the European U20 title in Tallinn.
But in a busy year, Kosonen still had plenty to aim for. Making her Olympic debut in Tokyo two weeks later, she threw 70.49m to finish 14th in qualifying, a mark which saw her place in the top half of the field.
By the time she lined up at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kosonen had thrown beyond 70 metres in six competitions throughout the season and she added another to that tally to gain her first global gold in Kenya. 
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 Starting her series with 70.53m, she improved to a championship record of 71.64m in the second round and recorded 68.41m in the third, before fouling the fourth, throwing 65.28m in the fifth and then 70.63m in the sixth.
She later explained how her win meant &ldquo;everything&rdquo;.
&ldquo;It shows that I can get good results, even under a lot of pressure,&rdquo; said Kosonen, who led a repeat of the European podium also featuring French thrower Rose Loga and Maryola Bukel of Belarus. &ldquo;I can say that I am a world champion. It means so much.
&ldquo;It has just been the perfect season. I&rsquo;m going to remember this day forever. Out of my five well taken throws, three of them were above 70 metres, and that shows me that I am on the right track in my career.&rdquo;
Well and truly on track, if this year&rsquo;s performances are anything to go by. 
<h2>Erriyon Knighton</h2>
Still aged just 17, Erriyon Knighton is already the fastest U20 200m runner of all time and he will remain eligible for the age group throughout all of 2022 and 2023.
The world U20 record he broke this year? It belonged to a certain Usain Bolt, as did the world U18 best Knighton also improved. During a superb season of sprinting, the US athlete took his PB in the half lap event from 20.33 to 19.84 and became an Olympic finalist, finishing just 0.19 shy of a medal in fourth.
A huge achievement, but he had wanted even more. &ldquo;I just never want to feel this feeling ever again,&rdquo; he said later. &ldquo;So, I just have to come back again.
&ldquo;The goal from the start was to make the podium. I&rsquo;m just taking it all in, that&rsquo;s all you can do.&rdquo;&nbsp;
He certainly seemed to take the season in his speedy long stride. Hailing from Tampa in Florida, Knighton had turned professional at the start of the year and opened his outdoor season with a 200m PB of 20.31 before running a wind-assisted 9.99 for 100m. He took 0.01 off his 200m best at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting at Mt SAC but then really stormed into the spotlight in Jacksonville at the end of May. Winning against some top competition, he ran 20.11 to take 0.02 from the world U18 best set by Bolt in 2003.
Then it was time for the US Olympic Trials. First the teenager cruised to another world U18 best of 20.04 to win his heat and he later explained how he believed a time of 19.8 or 19.7 would be needed to make the US Olympic team.
He was up for the challenge.
He won his semifinal in 19.88, breaking the world U20 record of 19.93 set by Bolt in 2004, and went even quicker in the final, his time of 19.84 placing him third, to secure his spot on the team for Tokyo. 
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&ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to be dangerous in the future,&rdquo; silver medallist Bednarek said when asked about Knighton after the race. &ldquo;Seventeen years old and being able to run this fast. He&rsquo;s raw, got a lot of talent and a lot of things to work on. He&rsquo;s definitely going to be a monster in the future.&rdquo;

We focus on the five women and five men who have been nominated for this year’s Rising Star awards.

Spotlight on Rising Stars: Silja Kosonen and Erriyon Knighton

If there was any doubt over just how much the World Athletics U20 Championships experience means to athletes, then the upset women&rsquo;s hammer champion Silja Kosonen showed when she discovered she was due to travel home before her medal ceremony made it clear.
&ldquo;Getting European U20 Championships gold, going to the&nbsp;Olympics and now this, it&rsquo;s like crowning everything,&rdquo; said the Finnish thrower after her win in Nairobi. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m super happy but I was just crying because I don&rsquo;t know if I am going to make it to the medal ceremony, but I guess my team is going to try. Other than that, I am super happy. I am going to remember this day forever.&rdquo;
Thankfully, she did make it to the ceremony, and the 18-year-old could not contain her joy at being on top of the podium and making even more memories alongside her fellow medallists Rose Loga of France and Maryola Bukel of Belarus.
Asked how much her medal meant, Kosonen replied: &ldquo;It means everything. It shows that I can get good results, even under a lot of pressure. I can say that I am a world champion. It means so much.&rdquo;
On who she will dedicate it to, she added: &ldquo;To my family, my coach and to everyone cheering me on.&rdquo; 
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 It has been a remarkable year for Kosonen, who&nbsp;opened her season with a senior national record of 72.44m to also break the long-standing European U20 record set by the late 2000 Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska.&nbsp;
The rising throws star then improved by almost another metre, throwing&nbsp;73.43m in June to break the 16-year-old world U20 hammer record held by China&rsquo;s Zhang Wenxiu. That performance came in Vaasa, where Kosonen claimed her second Finnish title, and she went on to win the European U20 title in Tallinn and compete at the Olympics in Tokyo before her World U20 Championships success in Nairobi. The teenager threw beyond 70 metres at each of those competitions and has broken that barrier at a total of seven events in 2021, adding more than two metres to her best this year.
It is coach Jani Pihkanen who has guided her to that success, with that partnership having begun in 2018.
&ldquo;I think many underestimate him because he is only 26, but he is very good because he has thrown,&rdquo; Kosonen said of Pihkanen. &ldquo;So he knows what he is talking about and he is so young that we connect well.&rdquo;
Kosonen also attributes her development to her training set up and having avoided illness and injury during the pandemic. She trains in Raisio, near Turku, which is just five minutes from her home.
&ldquo;Everything has gone well,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t had any injuries, I haven&rsquo;t been sick. I have been super careful, because of Covid.&rdquo;
Kosonen&rsquo;s journey in athletics properly began around three years ago, when she decided to focus on the hammer ahead of her other sports.
&ldquo;I have done everything from swimming and orienteering to skiing and cross country,&rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;I focused on athletics maybe at the age of 15 because I didn&rsquo;t have time for everything. I played football for a long time and ended that in 2019.
&ldquo;This is the best, I like this so much.&rdquo; 
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 With four gold medals and one silver at the World U20 Championships, the Finnish team placed second on the medal table behind hosts Kenya and Kosonen believes that is the result of a good team spirit, good facilities and lots of hard work.
Forming part of a well-rounded team, her fellow gold medallists were heptathlete Saga Vanninen, 400m hurdler Heidi Salminen and javelin thrower Janne Laspa, while Juho Alasaari secured silver in the pole vault.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s so good,&rdquo; beamed Kosonen, delighted to be continuing Finland&rsquo;s throws success but helping to put the hammer in the spotlight. &ldquo;And it&rsquo;s not only the medals, but making finals.&rdquo;
Having made her Olympic debut in Tokyo at the age of just 18, Kosonen is sure to be targeting more global championships action as she steps up to the senior stage, with much to look forward to with two editions of the World Athletics Championships and the Olympic Games all taking place within the next three years.
She also has some key figures to look to for inspiration.
&ldquo;Sophie Hitchon in Rio was really good,&rdquo; replied Kosonen when asked about her idols. &ldquo;Her last throw there, it took the bronze medal.
&ldquo;And of course Anita Wlodarczyk,&rdquo; she smiled. &ldquo;You have to say her because you know, 82 metres, almost 83!&rdquo;
The way she has started, don&rsquo;t be surprised to see Kosonen following in their footsteps.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

Silja Kosonen broke the championship record to get gold in Nairobi.

World U20 win caps superb season for record-breaker Kosonen

Heading into the Tokyo Olympic Games, five athletes had a shot at making history by becoming the first woman to win three Olympic gold medals in a single individual athletics discipline.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce narrowly missed out in the 100m, Valerie Adams was delighted to take bronze in the shot put, Sandra Perkovic finished just outside the podium places in the discus, and Barbora Spotakova missed out on making the final in the javelin.
It all then came down to Polish hammer thrower Anita Wlodarczyk.
The 36-year-old had won Olympic gold in 2012 and 2016, which, along with her four world titles and multiple world records, underlined her status as the most dominant athlete of her generation.
But when Wlodarczyk cut short her 2019 season in order to undergo surgery on her knee, she wasn&rsquo;t sure if she&rsquo;d be ready to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Ultimately, she was one of many athletes who in some way benefited from the postponed Games. The extra year meant another 12 months of rehab, and she returned to competition earlier in 2021, gradually improving as the season progressed.
Sadly the anticipated showdown with world champion DeAnna Price didn&rsquo;t quite materialise as the US thrower picked up an ankle injury shortly after setting a North American record of 80.31m at the US Trials. To her credit, Price made it to Tokyo and reached the final, but was some way off her best and finished eighth with 73.09m.
Wlodarczyk, meanwhile, looked back to her best and sent her hammer out to 76.01m, 77.44m and then 78.48m in the Olympic final to secure her third gold, making history in the process. 
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<td width="32%">ATHLETE</td>
<td width="15%">COUNTRY</td>
<td width="18%">EVENT</td>
<td width="35%">GOLD MEDALS</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Anita Wlodarczyk</td>
<td>POL</td>
<td>Hammer</td>
<td>🥇 2012, 🥇 2016, 🥇 2020</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shirley Strickland</td>
<td>AUS</td>
<td>80m hurdles</td>
<td>🥇 1952, 🥇 1956</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nina Ponomaryova</td>
<td>URS</td>
<td>Discus</td>
<td>🥇 1952, 🥇 1960</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Iolanda Balas</td>
<td>ROU</td>
<td>High jump</td>
<td>🥇 1960, 🥇 1964</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tamara Press</td>
<td>URS</td>
<td>Shot put</td>
<td>🥇 1960, 🥇 1964</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Wyomia Tyus</td>
<td>USA</td>
<td>100m</td>
<td>🥇 1964, 🥇 1968</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tatyana Kazankina</td>
<td>URS</td>
<td>1500m</td>
<td>🥇 1976, 🥇 1980</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Jackie Joyner-Kersee</td>
<td>USA</td>
<td>Heptathlon</td>
<td>🥇 1988, 🥇 1992</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gail Devers</td>
<td>USA</td>
<td>100m</td>
<td>🥇 1992, 🥇 1996</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Marie-Jose Perec</td>
<td>FRA</td>
<td>400m</td>
<td>🥇 1992, 🥇 1996</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heike Drechsler</td>
<td>GER</td>
<td>Long jump</td>
<td>🥇 1992, 🥇 2000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Derartu Tulu</td>
<td>ETH</td>
<td>10,000m</td>
<td>🥇 1992, 🥇 2000</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Veronica Campbell-Brown</td>
<td>JAM</td>
<td>200m</td>
<td>🥇 2004, 🥇 2008</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Yelena Isinbayeva</td>
<td>RUS</td>
<td>Pole vault</td>
<td>🥇 2004, 🥇 2008</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Meseret Defar</td>
<td>ETH</td>
<td>5000m</td>
<td>🥇 2004, 🥇 2012</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Valerie Adams</td>
<td>NZL</td>
<td>Shot put</td>
<td>🥇 2008, 🥇 2012</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Tirunesh Dibaba</td>
<td>ETH</td>
<td>10,000m</td>
<td>🥇 2008, 🥇 2012</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce</td>
<td>JAM</td>
<td>100m</td>
<td>🥇 2008, 🥇 2012</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Barbora Spotakova</td>
<td>CZE</td>
<td>Javelin</td>
<td>🥇 2008, 🥇 2012</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Sandra Perkovic</td>
<td>CRO</td>
<td>Discus</td>
<td>🥇 2012, 🥇 2016</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
 &ldquo;The medal is so cool,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s heavy, which is kind of a symbol of the difficulties I endured to get here.
&ldquo;After the competition I slept for maybe 50 minutes. It was so emotional. I didn&rsquo;t have time to reply to all the messages of congratulations I received. My email box is full!
&ldquo;With no fans, it was a totally different competition,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;Different, but still very special. I will never forget the medal ceremony though. It was one of the most important. That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;ve kissed the medal. This one is special and means a lot. Of course the ceremony in Rio where Irena Szewinska presented the medal to me was also very special, but this has a different story behind it.&rdquo; 
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<h2>Wlodarczyk's dominance</h2>
Few athletes dominate the world all-time lists like Wlodarczyk does in the hammer.
She was the first - and, until recently, only - woman to throw beyond 80 metres. Of all the 76-metre throws in history, she owns more than half of them. And her dominance becomes more pronounced as the distances get farther:
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="20%">75m+</td>
<td width="80%">40% (Wlodarczyk owns 252 of 634 throws)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>76m+</td>
<td>54% (Wlodarczyk owns 171 of 316 throws)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>77m+</td>
<td>68% (Wlodarczyk owns 117 of 172 throws)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>78m+</td>
<td>86% (Wlodarczyk owns 71 of 83 throws)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>79m+</td>
<td>93% (Wlodarczyk owns 40 of 43 throws)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>80m+</td>
<td>94% (Wlodarczyk owns 17 of 18 throws)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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</div>
 Wlodarczyk isn&rsquo;t done yet, though, and she already has her sights set on adding two more medals to her collection in 2022.
&ldquo;The Olympic final was my last competition this season,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Now it&rsquo;s time for a short holiday and then I will start my preparations for next year, where there are two medals on offer: the World Championships and the European Championships.&rdquo;
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Heading into the Tokyo Olympic Games, five athletes had a shot at making history by becoming the first woman to win three Olympic gold medals in a single individual athletics discipline.

Following Tokyo triumph, triple winner Wlodarczyk secures place in Olympic history

If at first you don&rsquo;t succeed, try, try, try and try again.
Thankfully that&rsquo;s exactly that Wojciech Nowicki did as the Polish thrower landed his first global title, winning the hammer in Tokyo with a lifetime best performance of 82.52m.
The 32-year-old had earned bronze medals at the past four successive global championships, a streak that started back in 2015. The 32-year-old was probably starting to wonder if he&rsquo;d ever earn a world or Olympic title, but today he finally seized his opportunity with the greatest series of his career.
He was the only thrower to land a hammer beyond the 80-metre line in the first round, taking an early lead with 81.18m. Norway&rsquo;s Eivind Henriksen ended that round in second place after throwing a national record of 79.18m, putting him ahead of a quintet of men who produced throws between 77 and 78 metres.
Nowicki extended his lead in round two, throwing 81.72m, then Ukrainian youngster Mykhaylo Kokhan also joined the evening&rsquo;s 80-metre club with 80.39m, moving into second. Meanwhile, four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek, competing in his first Olympic final after disappointment in 2012 and 2016, sat in fifth place at the end of the second round.
The big throws continued from Nowicki and he sent his hammer out to 82.52m with his third effort, breaking his lifetime best by 67 centimetres. Henriksen also maintained his top form, producing the first 80-metre throw of his life to consolidate his third place with 80.31m.
Little changed at the top in round four, but Fajdek finally connected in the fifth round with 81.53m &ndash; his best throw at a global championships since the 2013 World Championships. It was enough to elevate the Pole to the silver medal position, but it was short lived as Henriksen responded with yet another Norwegian record, this time throwing 81.58m to reclaim the second spot.
Nowicki was untouchable, though, and he produced an 82.06m throw in the fifth round to maintain his incredible series. Despite another 80-metre effort from Henriksen, the positions remained the same after the last round and Nowicki was confirmed the Olympic champion.
&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t expect to win but I was very well prepared,&rdquo; said Nowicki. &ldquo;It was the best competition of my whole career and I am very happy. It&rsquo;s a dream for the two of us (Nowicki and Fajdek) to be on the podium together.&rdquo;
Henriksen becomes the first Norwegian athlete to win an Olympic medal in the hammer.
&ldquo;I am still shocked about the result and the medal,&rdquo; said Henriksen, who headed to Tokyo with a personal best of 78.25m. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a lot of years of hard work finally paying off after a lot of injuries. It&rsquo;s been six tough years.&rdquo;
Fajdek, meanwhile, finally conquered his demons to claim his first Olympic medal with the longest throw ever recorded for an Olympic bronze. To him, the medal felt like gold.
&ldquo;For me it is even more than a gold medal,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I tried to compete two times before (at the Olympic Games), and it was terrible. This time in Tokyo I qualified for the final, and I was sure that I was going to take one of the medals.
&ldquo;This year was the worst ever for me,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I was nervous, and it was extremely hard. It was tough, so this medal is everything for me. I am still the world champion, and I promise I will be ready to defend that title. In Paris 2024 I will be a different person.&rdquo;
Kokhan didn&rsquo;t improve upon his 80.39m and finished fourth. World bronze medallist Quintin Bigot was fifth with 79.39m and Britain&rsquo;s Commonwealth champion Nick Miller was sixth with a season&rsquo;s best of 78.15m.
US champion Rudy Winkler, who had been in consistent 80-metre form this year, finished seventh with a best of 77.08m.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Wojciech Nowicki 🇵🇱 POL</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">82.52m PB</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Eivind Henriksen 🇳🇴 NOR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">81.58m NR</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Pawel Fajdek 🇵🇱 POL</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">81.53m</td>
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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try and try again.

Nowicki breaks bronze streak to land hammer gold in Tokyo

Anita Wlodarczyk, already the finest women's hammer thrower of all-time, added another stunning superlative to her career on Tuesday (3) when she became the first woman to win three Olympic titles in the same event.
Wlodarczyk took command of the competition in the third round with a 77.44m effort and was never threatened to add the Tokyo title to her Olympic triumphs in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016. She further padded her lead with a 78.48m throw in the fourth round, fouled in the fifth and, with the victory secured, capped the competition with a 77.02m effort.
"I feel good. I was dreaming of becoming the queen of the hammer throw," said the 35-year-old, who has already stashed away four world titles, four continental crowns and six world records. Underscoring her dominance, until just a few weeks ago, she was the only woman to throw beyond 80 metres.
The victory wasn't as dramatic as her last Olympic win, where she set a world record of 82.29m and produced what were at the time three of the five longest throws in history. But there was a question about her form leading into her fourth Olympic appearance: had she recovered enough from a 2019 knee injury and subsequent surgery that sidelined her from the 2019 World Championships and the entire Covid-19 pandemic-shortened 2020 season?
Early indications were positive. Wlodarczyk opened with a 73.87m effort in her first outing this year and followed up with a 77.93m in Bydgoszcz. She threw a seemingly effortless 76.99m in qualifying two days ago, another good sign.
Once she spun herself into her rhythm tonight, there was no stopping her.
"I have been injured and came back from it in time and won an Olympic gold medal," she said.
Wang Zheng of China came closest, throwing 77.03m in the final round to move up to second and knock Wlodarczyk's teammate Malwina Kopron to bronze to replicate the podium finish at the 2017 World Championships. Kopron's produced her best effort of 75.49m in the fifth round to secure the bronze.
Further back, Alexandra Tavernier of France, the 2015 World Championships bronze medallist, was fourth, reaching 74.41m, just ahead of Canadian Camryn Rogers, who threw 74.35m for fifth.
Bianca Florentina Ghelber of Romania, a finalist at the 2011 and 2013 World Championships, reached a PB 74.18m to finish sixth.
World champion&nbsp;DeAnna Priceof the US, who has been hobbled by a foot injury since the US trials, was eighth, reaching 73.09m.
Bob Ramsak for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Anita Wlodarczyk 🇵🇱 POL</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">78.48m</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Wang Zheng 🇨🇳 CHN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">77.03m</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Malwina Kopron 🇵🇱 POL</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">75.49m</td>
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Anita Wlodarczyk, already the finest women's hammer thrower of all-time, added another stunning superlative to her career on Tuesday.

Wlodarczyk underlines legend status with third Olympic hammer title

<h2>Men's hammer</h2>
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Could this finally be Pawel Fajdek&rsquo;s moment?
The Pole has been the best performer in the men&rsquo;s hammer over the past decade, during which time he has won four world titles and produced 62 80-metre throws. But when it comes to the Olympic Games, Fajdek hasn&rsquo;t had the best of luck.
He headed to London in 2012 as the third-best thrower in the world, but didn&rsquo;t record a valid throw in the qualifying round. In Rio four years later, he struggled in qualifying once more and registered a best of just 72.00m, which wasn&rsquo;t enough to advance.
If he can conquer those demons in Tokyo, he will be among the favourites for gold.
Although his lifetime best of 83.93m, a Polish record, was set back in 2015, the 32-year-old continues to churn out big throws and has bettered 82 metres four times this year, topped by his world-leading 82.98m in May.
His 2021 record isn&rsquo;t without blemish, though, and in a couple of outings this year he has registered five fouls in his competition series.
While he might not need a huge throw to make it through qualifying, Fajdek will need to be close to his best in the final if he hopes to claim his first Olympic gold, because USA&rsquo;s Rudy Winkler heads to the Japanese capital in sensational form. 
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 The world finalist broke the 80-metre barrier for the first time just last year, but has backed up that form with consistent big throws. He won at the US Olympic Trials with a North American record of 82.71m, producing a series with five 80-metre throws. He commented afterwards how the competition felt almost effortless, suggesting there&rsquo;s more to come.
In recent years, Fajdek has had to look no farther than his home country for top-level opposition. Poland&rsquo;s Wojciech Nowicki beat Fajdek to the European title in 2018 and has earned bronze medals at the past three World Championships.
He also claimed bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games, but will be keen to shake off his reputation as a perennial third-place finisher. A season&rsquo;s best of 81.36m in his final pre-Tokyo competition suggests he&rsquo;s rounding into form at the right time.
Ukrainian youngster Mykhaylo Kokhan, an age-group star over the past few years, finished fifth at the World Championships in Doha and has continued to improve. He beat Fajdek and Nowicki at the recent Continental Tour Gold meeting in Szekesfehervar, throwing a PB of 80.78m &ndash; the best ever throw by a 20-year-old. He may throw farther in Tokyo, though, as he has a knack of producing PBs in major championship finals.
Since taking world silver in 2019, France&rsquo;s Quentin Bigot has also improved. He set a PB of 78.99m at the start of the year and then threw 79.70m in Turku last month.
World and European bronze medallist Bence Halasz is also one to watch. The Hungarian threw a season&rsquo;s best of 78.12m in his last competition before heading to Tokyo.
Others to look out for include USA&rsquo;s Daniel Haugh, who has set five PBs this year, 2017 world silver medallist Valeriy Pronkin, Mexican record-holder Diego Del Real who finished fourth in Rio five years ago, Chilean record-holder Humberto Mansilla, Slovakia&rsquo;s Marcel Lomnicky and British champion Taylor Campbell.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
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<h2>Women's hammer</h2>
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For a long time, the hammer-throwing world was at Anita Wlodarczyk&rsquo;s feet.
Arguably the most dominant athlete of her generation, the Pole won back-to-back Olympic titles in 2012 and 2016, notched up four world and European golds, and set six world records, becoming the first woman to throw beyond 80 metres. In fact, up until a few weeks ago, she remained the only woman to have ever produced an 80-metre throw.
But her incredible run of form was forced to grind to a halt in 2019 when she underwent knee surgery, meaning she was unable to contend for a fifth world title in Doha.
The postponement of the Olympic Games meant she was able to take her time with rehab, and she returned to competition earlier this year with an encouraging 73.87m in her first outing. But things really started to click at the Szewinska Memorial in Bydgoszcz in late June where Wlodarczyk won with a season&rsquo;s best of 77.93m, giving the Pole a clear sign that she could be competitive once more in Tokyo. 
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 But since Wlodarczyk&rsquo;s hiatus, another woman has emerged as the No.1 hammer thrower in the world.
USA&rsquo;s DeAnna Price extended her own North American record to 78.24m in 2019, then went on to win the world title in Doha. The 28-year-old&rsquo;s progression has continued this year, too, with an 78.60m heave in April and, more recently, an 80.31m victory at the US Trials to become just the second woman in history to break the 80-metre barrier.
Although she suffered a couple of losses during the early season, Price is clearly hitting top form at the right time and so will head to Tokyo as the gold medal favourite. And just as she became the first US woman to win a world hammer title in Doha, she could similarly break new ground in Tokyo by becoming the first US woman to win an Olympic hammer title.
In fact, the USA is perhaps the strongest nation in the world at the moment in the women&rsquo;s hammer. Brooke Andersen, who threw 78.18m earlier this year, and Pan-American champion Gwen Berry, a 77.78m performer at her best, make up a formidable trio.
There are many other women capable of throwing in the region of 75 metres, which is typically where medals are won.
Malwina Kopron, the 2017 world bronze medallist, won the Polish title with a season&rsquo;s best of 75.42m and has backed that up with marks of 75.41m, 75.40m and 75.28m.
Alexandra Tavernier, the world bronze medallist in 2015, has been similarly consistent around 75 metres and extended her own French record to 75.38m earlier this year.
No African athlete has ever won an Olympic medal in the hammer, men&rsquo;s or women&rsquo;s, but Nigeria&rsquo;s Annette Echikunwoke could end that drought. The 24-year-old, who hadn&rsquo;t broken 70 metres before this year, set an African record of 75.49m in May.
New Zealand&rsquo;s Lauren Bruce has made a similarly big breakthrough over the past year. She set an Oceanian record of 73.47m last September and improved it to 74.61m two months ago.
China&rsquo;s Wang Zheng, another continental record-holder, has competed sparingly this year and heads to Tokyo with a season&rsquo;s best of 73.55m, but the three-time world medallist can never be discounted.
Others to keep an eye on include Canada&rsquo;s NCAA champion Camryn Rogers, world silver medallist Joanna Fiodorow of Poland, Venezuela&rsquo;s Rosa Rodriguez, New Zealand&rsquo;s Julia Ratcliffe and 18-year-old world U20 record-holder Silja Kosonen of Finland.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Expected highlights in the women's and men's hammer.

Tokyo Olympics preview: hammer

Every athlete has a story.

100 ones to watch in Tokyo: long throws

Marking a historic anniversary, Germany&rsquo;s Karl-Hans Riehm has become the latest world record-breaker to make a generous donation of competition kit to the World Athletics Heritage Collection.
Riehm, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games silver medallist and multiple world record-breaker in the hammer throw, has not only kindly gifted his Olympic singlet but also the club vest which he wore when he created athletics history 46 years ago today.
Uniquely all six throws surpassed the old world record!
Karl-Hans Riehm&rsquo;s autographed blue singlet of the TV Germania Trier club was worn by him when he broke the hammer world record no less than three times in a single competition on 19 May 1975.
In Rehlingen, Germany, in front of a crowd of 4000 spectators, the West German opened with 76.70m to add four centimetres to the world record that had been set by the USSR&rsquo;s Aleksey Spiridonov the previous year.
On his next attempt, Riehm improved further to 77.56m. A third-round effort of 77.10m followed before he added almost another metre to the world record with a massive effort of 78.50m.
His final two throws reached 77.16m and 77.28m, making Riehm the only athlete in any field event to ever exceed the prevailing world record with all six attempts.
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Riehm holds another rare and distinguished place in athletics history. Along with the USA&rsquo;s Mac Wilkins in the discus throw in San Jose in 1976 and Italian Alessandro Andrei in the shot put in Viareggio in 1987, he is one of three men to have set three world records in one event, in the same competition, on the same day.
<h3>A family wager of 1000 Deutsche Marks</h3>
Reflecting on his day of days, Riehm this week recalled: &ldquo;It was really the extent of my success which made it such a huge surprise. I had an idea that a world record might be possible because I had thrown slightly further in training once. But you can never be sure what the conditions will be like, and humans are not machines.
&ldquo;I phoned my grandfather ahead of the competition and told him that I might be able to throw a world record at the meeting. He did not think that it would be possible and promised me 1000 German Mark if I did it.
<img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/60a4ce2b1426fc52b5364309.jpg" alt="" width="950" height="600" /> Karl-Hans Riehm during his world record-breaking competition in Rehlingen (&copy;&nbsp;IMAGO)
 &ldquo;The night before the meeting, there was a big party in our home, my parents were celebrating their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. I went over to the neighbours&rsquo; house to sleep, at around 10pm.
&ldquo;The next day, tensions were running high. I came close to the world record distance in the warm-up already. &ldquo;On the first attempt, I threw 76.70m, which was four centimetres over Spiridonov&rsquo;s record. They say that all the tension just evaporates after a world record, but for me it was the opposite. I did not let up. It was as if the floodgates had been opened. &ldquo;On the second attempt, I threw almost a metre further (77.56m) and on the fourth, 78.50m. Over the old world record in all six attempts &ndash; it was incredible.&rdquo;
He added: &ldquo;The funny thing was that after each world record, the competition had to be interrupted. For each world record, the distance had to be measured for a second time with a second steel tape, which was 100m long. Each time, my equipment had to be re-weighed as well, but the scales were in the stadium, so the judges had to run over there each time. &ldquo;After the second world record, they brought the scales over from the stadium and placed them right next to the field, so things sped up after the third world record!&rdquo;
<h3>The Rehlingen crowd went crazy</h3>
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&ldquo;There were 4000 people there and all the spectators were obviously going crazy," Riehm remembered. &ldquo;Afterwards, I drove home with my wife and I just kept shaking my head and saying: &lsquo;I will never be able to match this again&rsquo;.
&ldquo;None of this would have been possible without the amazing training conditions that we had at the German army&rsquo;s sport development group in Warendorf. We trained 13 sessions a week. Sleep, train, eat. Sunday off to spend time with our families.
&ldquo;To my family&rsquo;s amusement, my grandfather did pay up and give me the 1000 Marks, as promised!&rdquo;
<h3>Moscow boycott and a medal at last</h3>
Riehm went on to throw another world record of 80.32m in 1978. To date this is the last global mark set by a non-Soviet male hammer thrower.
At the age of 33, and at his third Olympics, Riehm finally climbed the podium at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games.
He had finished 10th and then fourth at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games but the West German boycott of the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, when he had thrown over 80 metres and was the best thrower in the world outside of the Soviet Union, had robbed him of his best chance for a medal up to that point.
However, in a reversal of circumstances, the Soviet throwers were absent from the 1984 Olympic Games and Riehm took full advantage. He threw 77.98m to take the silver medal, just 10cm behind the Finnish winner Juha Tiainen.
<h3>On public display from July</h3>
Riehm&rsquo;s two donated singlets will go on permanent exhibition in the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) in July.
<img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/60a4cec11426fc52b536430c.jpg" alt="" width="950" height="612" /> The vests will be introduced to the museum&rsquo;s displays along with another 60 new artefacts, when <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/heritage/mowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">phase 2 of the world&rsquo;s first 3D virtual sports museum is launched</a>.
Post-pandemic, when actual public exhibitions are again possible, the singlets will also be displayed at major global athletics events.
Chris Turner for World Athletics Heritage
With many thanks to Olaf Brockmann for his assistance in coordinating the donation.

Marking a historic anniversary, Germany’s Karl-Hans Riehm has become the latest world record-breaker to make a generous donation of competition kit to the World Athletics Heritage Collection.

Riehm's three world records left Rehlingen reeling with delight

Four-time world hammer champions Anita Wlodarczyk and Pawel Fajdek are among the first star names confirmed for the Paavo Nurmi Games &ndash; a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting &ndash; in the Finnish city of Turku on 7-8 June.
When Wlodarczyk last competed at the Paavo Nurmi Games, she set a meeting record of 75.61m. Just one week later, however, she cut short her 2019 season due to injury and subsequently sat out the entire year in 2020.
Earlier this month, however, the two-time Olympic champion from Poland returned to action with an encouraging 73.87m at a low-key competition in Antalya. The 35-year-old is now ready to line up at top-flight competitions as she prepares to defend her Olympic title in Tokyo later this year.
Compatriot Fajdek will also be making a return appearance in Turku. He won in 2015, broke the meeting record with 81.12m in 2016 and extended it to 82.40m in 2017.
He will be joined in Turku by the three athletes with whom he shared the podium at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019. Compatriot Wojciech Nowicki, who beat Fajdek in Turku in 2018, fellow world bronze medallist Bence Halasz of Hungary and world silver medallist Quentin Bigot are all set to compete.
World champion Daniel Stahl will contest the discus at the Paavo Nurmi Games for the third time. The Swedish thrower set a meeting record of 69.23m in Turku last year. He also had a throw that landed beyond the 70-metre line, but it was later ruled to be a foul after the referee analysed video footage of the performance.
Stahl will no doubt be keen to achieve a valid 70-metre throw in Turku next month when he lines up against 2017 world champion Andrius Gudzius of Lithuania.
German javelin duo Johannes Vetter and Thomas R&ouml;hler also return. Vetter, the 2017 world champion, won in Turku last year with 91.49m, breaking the 91.28m meeting record that had been set in 2016 by Olympic champion R&ouml;hler.
Vetter, who last year produced the second-best throw in history with his 97.76m effort in Chorzow, has started 2021 in fine form, throwing 91.50m in Offenburg at the end of April.
In the women&rsquo;s triple jump, world indoor silver medallist Kimberly Williams of Jamaica takes on European champion Paraskevi Papahristou of Greece, while the men&rsquo;s 800m line-up includes world indoor champion Adam Kszczot, and European indoor medallists Mateusz Borkowski and Jamie Webb.
Organisers for World Athletics

Four-time world hammer champions Anita Wlodarczyk and Pawel Fajdek are among the first star names confirmed for the Paavo Nurmi Games – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – in the Finnish city of Turku on 7-8 June.

Wlodarczyk leads strong throws cast for Turku

World-leading marks achieved at this stage of the season don&rsquo;t tend to leave too much of an imprint on the world all-time lists, but Shaunae Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s 49.08 to win the 400m at the USATF Grand Prix in Eugene &ndash; the first World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of 2021 &ndash; broke the stadium record for an iconic venue.
The Bahamian Olympic champion ran a well-timed race. She held a slight lead at half way and still had USA&rsquo;s Lynna Irby for company on the final bend, but she opened up a clear margin on the rest of the field down the home straight to cross the line in 49.08, the fourth-fastest time of her career.
It also chopped 0.26 from the previous stadium record, set in 2003 by Ana Guevara. Global champions Sanya Richards-Ross, Allyson Felix and Tonique Williams-Darling are among the other past winners on the Hayward Field track, so Miller-Uibo will gain a boost in confidence knowing that she has out-performed such legendary athletes at this venue.
&ldquo;The 400 is my favourite event, so I love coming in and trying to figure it out and having some fun with unravelling the secrets of it,&rdquo; said the world silver medallist. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been really working on getting our strength up and now that we are in the middle of the season we are going to work on speed and getting ready to put down some great performances in the 200s.&rdquo;
Irby finished second in 50.28, holding off Jessica Beard (50.38).
<h3>Winkler and Andersen make big statements in the hammer</h3>
World finalist Rudy Winkler showed his breakthrough into 80-metre territory last year was no fluke, producing the best mark of his career to win the hammer with 81.98m.
He opened with a trio of throws that fell just shy of 78 metres, then followed it with a foul in the fourth round. He found his rhythm in round five, though, throwing 80.09m and then went even farther with his final throw of the competition, sending his hammer out to 81.98m.
Not only did he smash his previous best, he moved up to second on the North American all-time list, just 54 centimetres shy of area record-holder Lance Deal.
&ldquo;My first couple of throws were not right technically,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but on my last two throws I executed the way I wanted and threw a personal best.&rdquo;
In the women&rsquo;s hammer, world champion DeAnna Price suffered a rare defeat to a domestic rival as Brooke Andersen backed up her recent breakthrough to win with 77.99m.
Price led after the first two rounds with a best of 72.85m, but Andersen responded in round three with 77.56m. Price improved to 76.15m in round five, but couldn&rsquo;t catch Andersen, who threw 77.79m in round four and 77.99m in round five.
Andersen&rsquo;s winning mark is just 19 centimetres shy of the PB she set two weeks ago. More significantly, though, it&rsquo;s the first time she has beaten Price.
<h3>Camacho-Quinn dominates sprint hurdles</h3>
Light rain started to fall half way through the competition programme, but it did little to slow down Jasmine Camacho-Quinn in the 100m hurdles.
The Puerto Rican blasted out of the blocks and could not be caught, storming clear to win in 12.46 &ndash; just 0.14 of the world-leading PB she set last week. Jamaica&rsquo;s Brittany Anderson was a distant second in 12.82 with USA&rsquo;s Taliyah Brooks (12.83) and Sydney McLaughlin (12.86) close behind.
The conditions may have hampered the times in the men&rsquo;s 400m, but it was still an exciting spectacle as USA&rsquo;s Michael Norman held off a strong challenge from training partner Rai Benjamin.
Norman ran a controlled first half, going through 200m with a slight lead over Michael Cherry and Benjamin. Coming off the final bend, though, Benjamin drew level with Norman and then edged ahead very slightly, but Norman responded well and regained the lead.
Norman won in 44.67 with Benjamin taking second in 44.97. Teenager Justin Robinson was third in 45.55.
Blessing Okagbare came through strongly in the closing stages of the 100m to win in 10.97 with Morolake Akinosun finishing second in 11.09.
Trayvon Bromell&rsquo;s approach to the men&rsquo;s 100m was the polar opposite but no less effective. The 2016 world indoor champion exploded out of the blocks and had a huge lead at half way. World 200m champion Noah Lyles made up a bit of ground in the second half, but couldn&rsquo;t catch Bromell, who won in 10.01 to Lyles&rsquo; 10.17.
<h3>British double for Muir and McColgan</h3>
Laura Muir and fellow Briton Eilish McColgan dominated the 1500m and 5000m respectively.
Muir ran well ahead of the pacemaker from the early stages of the 1500m and by the time she reached the bell, she had a five-second lead over the rest of the field. She went on to win in 4:01.54 as USA&rsquo;s Helen Schlachtenhaufen came through to take second place in 4:04.36.
Earlier in the programme, McColgan produced a convincing run to win the 5000m in 14:52.44, covering the final kilometre in 2:52, despite having no one to push her. USA&rsquo;s Abbey Cooper was a distant second in 15:13.27.
Oliver Hoare, who set an Oceanian indoor 1500m record earlier this year, broke his outdoor PB to win the men&rsquo;s 1500m. He doggedly stuck to the pacemaker from the outset, then maintained the pace to win unopposed in 3:33.54.
Canada&rsquo;s Justyn Knight was second in 3:35.85, while world 800m champion Donavan Brazier was third in 3:37.58.
Elsewhere, world champion Anderson Peters won the javelin with 82.72m, and Chase Ealey took the women&rsquo;s shot put with 18.93m.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

World-leading marks achieved at this stage of the season don’t tend to leave too much of an imprint on the world all-time lists, but Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s 49.08 to win the 400m at the USATF Grand Prix in Eugene – the first World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of 2021 – broke the stadium record for an iconic venue.