2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw

Events at the 2007 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The Women's Hammer Throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 28, 2007 (qualification) and August 30, 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan. The qualification standard was set at 71.00 metres.

The winning margin was 2 cm. As of 2024, this remains the only time the women's hammer throw was won by less than 4 cm at these championships.

Gold	Betty Heidler  Germany (GER)
Silver	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba (CUB)
Bronze	Zhang Wenxiu  China (CHN)

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Tatyana Lysenko (RUS)	77.80 m	August 15, 2006	Tallinn, Estonia
Championships Record	Mihaela Melinte (ROM)	75.20 m	August 24, 1999	Seville, Spain
Season Best	Tatyana Lysenko (RUS)	77.30 m	April 22, 2007	Bogatyr Adler, Russia

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Attempts			Distance	Note
				1	2	3
1	1	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	74.69	—	—	74.69 m	Q
2	3	Betty Heidler	Germany	X	72.27	—	72.27 m	Q
3	8	Manuela Montebrun	France	69.02	69.77	69.40	69.77 m	q
4	10	Arasay Thondike	Cuba	69.14	68.39	X	69.14 m	q
5	11	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva	Russia	65.91	X	68.65	68.65 m	q
6	13	Martina Danišová	Slovakia	X	67.13	68.15	68.15 m
7	14	Cecilia Nilsson	Sweden	68.09	67.01	64.30	68.09 m
8	18	Alexandra Papayeoryiou	Greece	66.88	X	X	66.88 m
9	19	Yelena Priyma	Russia	X	61.79	66.84	66.84 m
10	23	Sviatlana Sudak-Torun	Turkey	65.65	65.22	X	65.65 m
11	25	Jennifer Dahlgren	Argentina	65.64	X	X	65.64 m
12	30	Berta Castells	Spain	63.32	X	60.93	63.32 m
13	31	Liu Yinghui	China	X	62.83	62.62	62.83 m
14	32	Masumi Aya	Japan	61.55	62.68	59.43	62.68 m
15	33	Mihaela Melinte	Romania	X	X	62.40	62.40 m
16	34	Vânia Silva	Portugal	X	56.28	61.81	61.81 m
17	36	Katalin Divós	Hungary	57.22	59.45	58.61	59.45 m
18	38	Brittany Riley	United States	X	X	55.72	55.72 m
—	—	Susanne Keil	Germany	X	X	X	NM
—	—	Aksana Miankova	Belarus	X	X	X	NM

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Nation	Attempts			Distance	Note
				1	2	3
1	2	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	72.87	—	—	72.87 m	Q SB
2	4	Zhang Wenxiu	China	X	71.31	—	71.31 m	Q
3	5	Eileen O'Keeffe	Ireland	71.07	—	—	71.07 m	Q
4	6	Yelena Konevtseva	Russia	70.29	70.65	—	70.65 m	q
5	7	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	66.57	69.57	70.18	70.18 m	q
6	9	Clarissa Claretti	Italy	X	X	69.53	69.53 m	q
7	12	Yunaika Crawford	Cuba	65.64	66.80	68.55	68.55 m	q
8	15	Jessica Cosby	United States	63.44	67.90	66.36	67.90 m
9	16	Merja Korpela	Finland	67.87	65.89	X	67.87 m
10	17	Stéphanie Falzon	France	66.37	66.82	67.19	67.19 m
11	20	Amélie Perrin	France	X	66.67	66.51	66.67 m
12	21	Lenka Ledvinová	Czech Republic	66.57	63.22	65.71	66.57 m
13	22	Olga Kuzenkova	Russia	66.56	X	65.09	66.56 m
14	24	Mona Holm	Norway	X	63.16	65.65	65.65 m
15	26	Kristal Yush	United States	61.74	64.24	64.63	64.63 m
16	27	Bianca Perie	Romania	64.18	60.09	62.10	64.18 m
17	28	Kathrin Klaas	Germany	X	X	64.00	64.00 m
18	29	Nataliya Zolotukhina	Ukraine	61.27	63.64	62.58	63.64 m
19	35	Rosa Rodríguez	Venezuela	58.43	61.77	61.56	61.77 m
20	37	Hao Shuai	China	X	59.09	X	59.09 m

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Attempts						Distance	Note
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Betty Heidler	Germany	X	74.76	X	73.73	71.31	73.10	74.76 m
	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	72.84	X	X	74.33	70.87	74.74	74.74 m
	Zhang Wenxiu	China	X	73.11	X	74.21	74.39	X	74.39 m
4	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	73.75	70.54	65.69	70.78	70.06	70.77	73.75 m
5	Yelena Konevtseva	Russia	72.45	70.11	X	X	70.35	68.90	72.45 m
6	Eileen O'Keeffe	Ireland	70.93	64.27	69.06	66.90	69.21	69.38	70.93 m
7	Clarissa Claretti	Italy	X	70.25	70.73	67.56	70.74	X	70.74 m
8	Manuela Montebrun	France	69.77	70.36	67.42	69.16	66.41	69.92	70.36 m
9	Arasay Thondike	Cuba	65.84	70.20	67.65				70.20 m
10	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva	Russia	67.79	X	69.08				69.08 m
11	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	68.16	X	X				68.16 m
12	Yunaika Crawford	Cuba	67.30	X	67.56				67.56 m

• 2007 in hammer throw

• Official results, qualification - IAAF.org
• Official results, final - IAAF.org
• Event report - IAAF.org
• hammerthrow.wz
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