Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's hammer throw

Women's hammer throw at the XVI Pan American Games
Venue	Telmex Athletics Stadium
Dates	October 24
Competitors	14 from 11 nations
Medalists
Yipsi Moreno   Cuba   Sultana Frizell   Canada   Amber Campbell   United States
«2007 2015»

Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games
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 competition of the athletics events at the 2011 Pan American Games took place on the 24 of October at the Telmex Athletics Stadium.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion is Yipsi Moreno of Cuba.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Betty Heidler (GER)	79.42	Halle, Germany	May 21, 2011
Pan American Games record	Yipsi Moreno (CUB)	75.20	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	July 23, 2007

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the minimum standard (58.00 meters) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2010 to September 14, 2011).^[2]

Schedule

Abbreviations

• All distances shown are in meters:centimeters

Results

14 athletes from 11 countries competed.^[3]

Final

^[4]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
01 !	Yipsi Moreno	Cuba	73.67	x	x	x	x	75.62	75.62	PR
02 !	Sultana Frizell	Canada	65.09	x	66.96	68.90	70.11	25.74	70.11
03 !	Amber Campbell	United States	66.54	x	x	69.93	x	x	69.93
4	Arasay Thondike	Cuba	68.88	x	x	x	x	64.97	68.88
5	Keelin Godsey	United States	67.84	65.06	x	67.24	62.61	61.41	67.84
6	Jennifer Dahlgren	Argentina	x	65.59	x	x	67.11	x	67.11
7	Odette Palma	Chile	x	x	63.69	x	x	64.79	64.79
8	Rosa Rodríguez	Venezuela	64.07	64.78	x	x	x	63.08	64.78
9	Josiane Soares	Brazil	59.73	x	61.47				61.47
10	Crystal Smith	Canada	x	60.26	x				60.26
11	Althea Charles	Antigua and Barbuda	52.86	56.89	59.49				59.49	PB
12	Eli Moreno	Colombia	x	56.91	59.23				59.23
13	Natalie Grant	Jamaica	x	x	57.73				57.73
14	Zuleyma Mina	Ecuador	57.16	x	56.72				57.16

References