IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge

The IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge is an annual hammer throw series, organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations. First held in 2010, the series of hammer throw competitions for men and women are primary held at meetings with IAAF World Challenge status. The rankings are decided by combining the total (in metres) of each athlete's three greatest throws at the permit events during the season. Further points can be gained by those who break or equal the world record mark for the event.[1]

IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge
SportHammer throw
Founded2010
ContinentGlobal
Official websiteHammer Throw

The total prize money available in 2010 was US$202,000, split evenly between male and female athletes. The male and female winners each receive $30,000, while second and third placed athletes are entitled to $20,000 and $14,000 respectively. Increasingly smaller prizes are given to the remaining throwers who rank in the top twelve.[1][2] The eleven meetings which had permit status in 2010 offered either a men's contest, a women's contest, or both – an arrangement which gave athletes of each sex a total of seven opportunities to score points for the challenge.[1]

The competition's creation was a result of the IAAF Golden League being replaced by the IAAF Diamond League in 2010 – hammer throw was the sole track and field event not to feature on the new top level circuit. The challenge was designed to allow hammer throwers to compete in a global seasonal competition, similar to that found for other track and field events on the IAAF Diamond League.

The most successful athlete of the series is Poland's Anita Włodarczyk, who won the women's title six times straight from 2013 to 2018.[3] Her compatriot Paweł Fajdek is the most successful man, with five victories.[4] Germany's Betty Heidler and Hungarian Krisztián Pars have each won the title on three occasions. Fajdek holds the men's series record score of 248.48 metres while Włodarczyk is the women's series record holder with 240.44 metres.

Editions

Edition Year Start date End date Meets Ref.
1201024 April1 September11[5]
220118 May13 September9[6]
320126 May9 September8[7]
420135 May8 September15[8]
5201411 May7 September13[9]
6201521 March13 September14[10]
720165 March19 August11[11]
8201721 May11 August9[12]
9201819 May22 August10[13]
10201928 April2 October10[14]
112020[15]

Meetings

Key:

  • M : Men
  • W : Men
  • B : Both
#MeetingArenaCityCountry 20102011201220132014201520162017201820192020
1 IAAF World Challenge Dakar Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor Dakar Senegal WWWWB
2 Golden Grand Prix Osaka Yanmar Stadium Nagai Osaka Japan MMMMWWWMW
3 Colorful Daegu Championships Meeting Daegu Stadium Daegu South Korea WWW
4 Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos Rio de Janeiro Brazil BBBWWMM
5 Golden Spike Ostrava Městský stadion Ostrava Czech Republic BBBBBBBBBW
6 Fanny Blankers-Koen Games Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion Hengelo Netherlands M
7 Paavo Nurmi Games Paavo Nurmi Stadium Turku Finland MMMMMW
8 Brothers Znamensky Memorial Meteor Stadium Zhukovsky Russia WBB
9 Gyulai István Memorial Bregyó közi Regionális Atlétika Központ Székesfehérvár Hungary MBBBWWB
10 Meeting de Atletismo Madrid Centro Deportivo Moratalaz Madrid Spain MMMMMW
11 ISTAF Berlin Olympiastadion Berlin Germany WWWWW
12 Rieti Meeting Stadio Raul Guidobaldi Rieti Italy BBBBMM
13 Hanžeković Memorial Sportski Park Mladost Zagreb Croatia MMM
14 Ponce Grand Prix de Atletismo Estadio Francisco Montaner Ponce Puerto Rico MB
15 IAAF World Challenge Beijing Beijing National Stadium Beijing China WWWW
16 Prefontaine Classic Hayward Field Eugene United States WM
17 Moscow Challenge Luzhniki Stadium Moscow Russia WB
18 Janusz Kusociński Memorial City Athletics Stadium Szczecin Poland BMBBBBB
19 Karlstad Grand Prix Tingvalla IP Karlstad Sweden MMM
20 World Championships Varies Varies Varies BBBB
21 Rabat Meeting Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium Rabat Morocco WM
22 Melbourne Track Classic Lakeside Stadium Melbourne Australia MM
23 Jamaica International Invitational Independence Park Kingston Jamaica WW
24 Olympic Games Varies Varies Varies BB
25 PTS Meeting Šamorín x-bionic sphere Šamorín Slovakia BM
26 Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Silesian Stadium Chorzów Poland W
27 Nanjing World Challenge Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Nanjing China W
28 European Athletics Festival Bydgoszcz Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium Bydgoszcz Poland M
29 Pál Németh Memorial IAAF Training Centre Szombathely Hungary B

Medalists

Men

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2010 Koji Murofushi
 Japan (JPN)
238.52 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan (TJK)
236.02 Libor Charfreitag
 Slovakia (SVK)
235.26
2011 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary (HUN)
239.03 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan (TJK)
235.72 Primož Kozmus
 Slovenia (SLO)
233.90
2012 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary (HUN)
242.35 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
236.47 Aleksey Sokirskiy
 Ukraine (UKR)
233.39
2013 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
244.23 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary (HUN)
244.17 Lukáš Melich
 Czech Republic (CZE)
239.80
2014 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary (HUN)
244.84 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
241.49 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan (TJK)
241.37
2015 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
248.01 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan (TJK)
236.20 Krisztián Pars
 Hungary (HUN)
234.75
2016 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
242.89 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan (TJK)
236.37 Wojciech Nowicki
 Poland (POL)
232.63
2017 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
248.48 Wojciech Nowicki
 Poland (POL)
236.32 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan (TJK)
231.40
2018 Wojciech Nowicki
 Poland (POL)
241.89 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
240.04 Bence Halász
 Hungary (HUN)
232.46
2019 Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
241.86 Wojciech Nowicki
 Poland (POL)
237.47 Bence Halász
 Hungary (HUN)
234.99

Women

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2010 Betty Heidler
 Germany (GER)
225.88 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
225.30 Tatyana Lysenko
 Russia (RUS)
223.96
2011 Betty Heidler
 Germany (GER)
228.09 Yipsi Moreno
 Cuba (CUB)
220.46 Kathrin Klaas
 Germany (GER)
219.77
2012 Betty Heidler
 Germany (GER)
230.49 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
223.13 Tatyana Lysenko
 Russia (RUS)
222.05
2013 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
233.83 Tatyana Lysenko
 Russia (RUS)
227.59 Betty Heidler
 Germany (GER)
226.93
2014 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
232.52 Betty Heidler
 Germany (GER)
228.54 Kathrin Klaas
 Germany (GER)
222.65
2015 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
235.28 Betty Heidler
 Germany (GER)
222.28 Martina Hrašnová
 Slovakia (SVK)
222.20
2016 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
240.44 Sophie Hitchon
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
218.11 Zalina Petrivskaya
 Moldova (MDA)
217.80
2017 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
235.62 Wang Zheng
 China (CHN)
225.77 Hanna Skydan
 Azerbaijan (AZE)
221.75
2018 Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
228.12 Gwen Berry
 United States (USA)
223.31 Joanna Fiodorow
 Poland (POL)
222.03
2019 DeAnna Price
 United States (USA)
226.55 Wang Zheng
 China (CHN)
226.34 Joanna Fiodorow
 Poland (POL)
224.46

See also

References

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  4. Fajdek and Price win 2019 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF (2019-10-17). Retrieved 2019-10-19.
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