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

Sport	Hammer throw
Founded	2010
Continent	Global
Official website	Hammer 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.
1	2010	24 April	1 September	11	[5]
2	2011	8 May	13 September	9	[6]
3	2012	6 May	9 September	8	[7]
4	2013	5 May	8 September	15	[8]
5	2014	11 May	7 September	13	[9]
6	2015	21 March	13 September	14	[10]
7	2016	5 March	19 August	11	[11]
8	2017	21 May	11 August	9	[12]
9	2018	19 May	22 August	10	[13]
10	2019	28 April	2 October	10	[14]
11	2020				[15]

Meetings

Key:

• M : Men
• W : Men
• B : Both

#	Meeting	Arena	City	Country	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
1	IAAF World Challenge Dakar	Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor	Dakar	Senegal	W	W		W		W	B
2	Golden Grand Prix Osaka	Yanmar Stadium Nagai	Osaka	Japan	M	M	M	M	W	W		W	M	W
3	Colorful Daegu Championships Meeting	Daegu Stadium	Daegu	South Korea	W	W	W
4	Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo	Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	B	B	B				W	W	M	M
5	Golden Spike Ostrava	Městský stadion	Ostrava	Czech Republic	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	B	W
6	Fanny Blankers-Koen Games	Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion	Hengelo	Netherlands	M
7	Paavo Nurmi Games	Paavo Nurmi Stadium	Turku	Finland					M	M	M	M	M	W
8	Brothers Znamensky Memorial	Meteor Stadium	Zhukovsky	Russia	W	B				B
9	Gyulai István Memorial	Bregyó közi Regionális Atlétika Központ	Székesfehérvár	Hungary				M	B	B	B	W	W	B
10	Meeting de Atletismo Madrid	Centro Deportivo Moratalaz	Madrid	Spain	M	M	M		M			M	W
11	ISTAF Berlin	Olympiastadion	Berlin	Germany	W		W	W	W	W
12	Rieti Meeting	Stadio Raul Guidobaldi	Rieti	Italy	B	B	B	B	M	M
13	Hanžeković Memorial	Sportski Park Mladost	Zagreb	Croatia	M	M	M
14	Ponce Grand Prix de Atletismo	Estadio Francisco Montaner	Ponce	Puerto Rico				M	B
15	IAAF World Challenge Beijing	Beijing National Stadium	Beijing	China				W	W	W	W
16	Prefontaine Classic	Hayward Field	Eugene	United States				W			M
17	Moscow Challenge	Luzhniki Stadium	Moscow	Russia				W	B
18	Janusz Kusociński Memorial	City Athletics Stadium	Szczecin	Poland				B	M	B	B	B	B	B
19	Karlstad Grand Prix	Tingvalla IP	Karlstad	Sweden				M	M	M
20	World Championships	Varies	Varies	Varies				B		B		B		B
21	Rabat Meeting	Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium	Rabat	Morocco					W	M
22	Melbourne Track Classic	Lakeside Stadium	Melbourne	Australia						M	M
23	Jamaica International Invitational	Independence Park	Kingston	Jamaica							W		W
24	Olympic Games	Varies	Varies	Varies							B				B
25	PTS Meeting Šamorín	x-bionic sphere	Šamorín	Slovakia								B	M
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

• The Osaka meet was held at the Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki, Kanagawa in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2017, and was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo in 2013 and 2014
• The 2013 Gyulai István Memorial was held in Budapest
• The 2014 Rabat meeting was held in Marrakesh
• The Brazilian meet was held at the Arena Caixa Atletismo in São Bernardo do Campo in 2016 and 2017, and at the National Training Centre in Bragança Paulista in 2018 and 2019
• The 2018 and 2019 Janusz Kusociński Memorial was held at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów

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

• IAAF Race Walking Challenge
• IAAF World Cross Challenge
• IAAF Combined Events Challenge

References

1. Hammer Challenge set to throw Dakar into a spin. IAAF (2010-04-22). Retrieved on 2010-09-15.
2. "Murofushi and Heidler take overall titles and prize of $30,000 each – IAAF World Hammer Throw Challenge". IAAF. 2010-09-08. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
3. Wlodarczyk and Nowicki win 2018 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF (2018-08-27). Retrieved 2019-10-19.
4. Fajdek and Price win 2019 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF (2019-10-17). Retrieved 2019-10-19.
5. 2010 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
6. 2011 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
7. 2012 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
8. 2013 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
9. 2014 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
10. 2015 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
11. 2016 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
12. 2017 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
13. 2018 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
14. 2019 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
15. 2020 IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-10-19.

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