WCH Tokyo 25 facts and figures: women's hammer

Last three sets of World Athletics Championships medallists

Last two sets of Olympic medallists

2024: 1 Camryn Rogers (CAN) – 76.97m, 2 Annette Echikunwoke (USA) – 75.48m, 3 Zhao Jie (CHN) – 74.27m
2020: 1 Anita Włodarczyk (POL) – 78.48m, 2 Wang Zheng (CHN) – 77.03m, 3 Malwina Kopron (POL) – 75.49m

Longest winning throws in World Athletics Championships history

80.85m – Anita Włodarczyk (POL), 2015
78.96m – Brooke Andersen (USA), 2022
78.46m – Anita Włodarczyk (POL), 2013

Shortest winning throw in World Athletics Championships history

70.65m – Yipsi Moreno (CUB), 2001

Best marks on Japanese soil

78.48m 1 Anita Włodarczyk (POL) - Tokyo (Olympics 03.08.2021
77.03m 2 Wang Zheng (CHN) - Tokyo (Olympics) 03.08.2021
76.99m 1q Anita Włodarczyk (POL) - Tokyo (Olympics) 01.08.2021

Best marks on Asian soil

80.85m 1 Anita Włodarczyk (POL) - Beijing (World Championships) 27.08.2015
79.73m 1 Anita Włodarczyk (POL) - Doha 06.05.2017
78.48m 1 Anita Włodarczyk (POL) - Tokyo (Olympics) 03.08.2021

Biggest winning margins

4.52m – 2015: Anita Włodarczyk (POL) – 80.85m, Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) – 76.33m
3.44m – 2022: Brooke Anderson (USA) – 78.96m, Camryn Rogers (CAN) – 75.52m
2.88m – 2013: Anita Włodarczyk (POL) – 78.46m, Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) – 75.58m

​​Smallest winning margins

0.02m – 2007: Betty Heidler (GER) – 74.76m, Yipsi Moreno (CUB) – 74.74m
0.04m – 2001: Yipsi Moreno (CUB) – 70.65m, Olga Kuzenkova (RUS) – 70.61m
0.62m – 2005: Yipsi Moreno (CUB) – 73.08m, Tatyana Lysenko (RUS) – 72.46m

Best mark by round

Qualification — 77.10m Hanna Skydan (AZE), 2023
Final — 80.85m Anita Włodarczyk (POL), 2015

Multiple winners

2001/03/05 - Yipsi Moreno (CUB)
2009/13/15/17 - Anita Włodarczyk (POL)

Winners by country

4 - Poland
3 - Cuba
2 - United States
1 - Romania
1 - Germany
1 - Russia
1 - Canada

Five historic facts

• Anita Włodarczyk (POL) holds four of the five longest throws in World Championships history. She won her first world title in Berlin 2009 with a world record of 77.96m before extending her championship record to 78.46m in 2013 and 80.85m in 2015. She won gold again in London with 77.90m
• Not only does Włodarczyk hold the world record with 82.98m, she also holds the world V35 (78.48m) and world V40 (70.94m) records
• China have won seven medals in the women's hammer at the World Championships but they are yet to win a gold medal (three silver, four bronze medals)
• De'Anna Price (USA) won the first ever US medal in the women's hammer in Doha in 2019. Since then, the United States have won five of the nine medals on offer in the event
• American Samoa (ASA) won their first and only medal in World Championships history in the first staging of the women's hammer in Seville in 1999. Lisa Misipeka won bronze in a competition won by Mihaela Melinte (ROU)

​​Potential storylines

• Will there be a North American winner for the fourth successive edition of the World Championships?
• Can Camryn Rogers (CAN) become the first athlete since Anita Włodarczyk to win back-to-back titles in the hammer? "Coming in as Olympic champion and reigning world champion, I feel the pressure but one of my favourite sayings is that pressure is a privilege...it will take a long throw to win in Tokyo in both the women's and men's hammer throws," she said.  
• Having won three world titles for Cuba, Yipsi Moreno (ALB) will be competing in her first World Championships since Moscow 2013. At 44, she will become the event's oldest participant in World Championships history. 
• Can Anita Włodarczyk win her fifth World Championships medal in the stadium where she became the first woman to win three Olympic titles in the same event in Tokyo? 
• Will there be a Finnish medallist in the women's hammer for the first time in World Championships history? Krista Tervo and Silja Kosonen have both surpassed the 77 metre-barrier in 2025 
• The automatic qualifying mark for the final is 74.00m