More superb throwing in Belarus – 76.66m women’s Hammer!

It is starting to sound like a needle that has got stuck on a old vinyl LP record this summer, but once again we can repeat the news that “there have been some fantastic throwing event results in Belarus”.

At the Olympic training centre of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk yesterday at the Ovsyanik memorial, the field events dominated to such an extent – men’s 100m 10.80, Mile 4:06, 400m Hurdles 52.91 etc… - that the track does not get even a mention in this report beyond this paragraph.  
       
In the men’s Shot Put, World champion Andrey Mikhnevich had a 20.99m effort, and there was an 84.90m release by Vadim Devyatovski in the Hammer Throw but the two highest performances, of more than just note, came from the women’s Shot Put and Hammer Throw.

In the Shot, Nadezhda Ostapchuk, the World silver medallist from 2003, set a new national record of 21.09m improving on the 20.93m which she set on 3 July.

But the performance of the meeting came from Olga Tsander in the women’s Hammer Throw who set a national record of 76.66m which after last week’s World record by Russia’s Tatyana Lysenko of 77.06m, is the second longest throw of all-time.

Tsander’s previous PB and national record was 74.72m from 2004, her best in 2005 before Thursday (21) being 70.82m.

Click here for story about Lysenko’s World record

Chris Turner
IAAF Editorial Manager

Shot
1 Mikhnevich Andrei 1976  20.99

Discus
1 Kaptyukh Vasili 1967  62.80 
2 Malashevich Aleksander 1977  62.76 

Hammer
1 Devyatovski Vadim 1977  84.90

Women

Shot
1 Ostapchuk Nadezhda 1980  21.09 NR
2 Khoroneko Natallia 1982  19.13

Discus
1 Zvereva Ellina 1960  60.91

Hammer
1 Tsander Olga 1976  76.66 NR
2 Pchelnik Darya 1980  71.08
3 Menkova Oksana 1982  70.15
4 Sudak Svetlana 1971  69.80
5 Pavlyukovskaya Nadezhda 1984  67.40