2019 World Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw

In the absence of world record holder Anita Włodarczyk, who has dominated hammer throwing since 2012, this was the first major championship opportunity for someone else. With the defending champion recovering from knee surgery,[2] world leader DeAnna Price seized the opportunity on the second throw of the competition with a 76.87m that nobody would beat all day, except Price, who threw her best of 77.54 m (254 ft 4 in) in the third round. The next thrower into the ring was Włodarczyk's Polish teammate Joanna Fiodorow, who tried to pick up the slack, throwing her personal best 76.35m which dominated everybody else. Zalina Petrivskaya's first throw of the competition was dropped to third place after the first three throwers. She maintained that position until the middle of the fifth round when Wang Zheng's 74.76m grabbed bronze.

Before the competition records were as follows:[3]

World record	Anita Włodarczyk (POL)	82.98 m	Warsaw, Poland	28 August 2016
Championship record		80.85 m	Beijing, China	27 August 2015
World Leading	DeAnna Price (USA)	78.24 m	Des Moines, United States	27 July 2019
African Record	Amy Sene (SEN)	69.70 m	Forbach, France	25 May 2014
Asian Record	Wang Zheng (CHN)	77.68 m	Chengdu, China	29 March 2014
North, Central American and Caribbean record	DeAnna Price (USA)	78.24 m	Des Moines, United States	27 July 2019
South American Record	Jennifer Dahlgren (ARG)	73.74 m	Buenos Aires, Argentina	10 April 2010
European Record	Anita Włodarczyk (POL)	82.98 m	Warsaw, Poland	28 August 2016
Oceanian record	Julia Ratcliffe (NZL)	71.39 m	Townsville, Australia	28 June 2019

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 71.00 m.[4]

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:[5]