Yipsi Moreno González is a Cuban hammer thrower. She is a triple world champion and Olympic gold medalist, a former world junior record holder and current area record holder.
Kamila Skolimowska was a Polish hammer thrower. She is best known for her gold medal in the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, which made her the youngest Olympic hammer champion, as well as for her two medals from the European Championships. Her personal best throw, and former Polish record, was 76.83 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Doha. She died on 18 February 2009 in Vila Real de Santo António, Portugal at the Polish national team training camp.
Yunaika Crawford Rogert is a Cuban hammer thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2004 with a personal best throw of 73.16 metres.
Iryna Vasiliyevna Yatchenko is a Belarusian former discus thrower best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics, although she was eventually stripped of the latter medal due to a doping offence. She also became world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. Her personal best is 69.14 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Minsk.
Zalina Marghieva is a female hammer thrower who competes for Moldova. Born in Russia, she is the sister of Marina Marghiev and Serghei Marghiev, and is coached by her father Soslan.
Marina Nichișenco, née Marghiev is a female hammer thrower who competes for Moldova. Her personal best throw is 71.50 metres, achieved in January 2009 in Chişinău. She is a former national record holder. Born in Russia, she is the older sister of Zalina Marghieva and Serghei Marghiev, and is coached by her father Soslan.
Hanna Skydan is a Ukrainian-Azerbaijani hammer thrower. She competed for her country of birth at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and for Azerbaijan at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Women's hammer throw.
Oksana Yurevna Kondratyeva is a Russian track and field athlete competing in the hammer throw. Her personal best of 77.13 m ranks her in the all-time top ten of the event. She represented Russia at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, placing seventh.
Olivia Dalila Rugama Carmona is Nicaraguan javelin thrower. She represented her nation Nicaragua at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also registered her own national record of 55.28 metres in the women's javelin throw at the 2007 Bolivarian Games in Caracas, Venezuela. Throughout her career, Rugama was part of the team of the Polytechnic University of Nicaragua's track and field squad.
Aneliya Kumanova is a retired Bulgarian shot putter and hammer thrower. Representing her nation Bulgaria in two editions of the Olympic Games, Kumanova initiated her athletics career as a hammer throw specialist, before turning sights extensively on the shot put event. In 2000, Kumanova demolished a Bulgarian record at 65.35 metres in the hammer throw from the European Cup Series in Sofia, and then attained her own personal best of 18.38 in the shot put at the same tournament three years later. Throughout her athletics career, Kumanova trained for the sport club Levski-Spartak Club in Petrich under her personal coach Kharalampi Georgiev.
Tina Čarman is a retired Slovenian long jumper. She was selected to compete for the Slovenian Olympic team in the long jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics after recording a personal best of 6.56 metres from a national athletics meet in Dolenjske Toplice. Carman also trained as a member of the athletics squad for the Dolenjske Toplice Sports Club under her coach Dobrivoje Vučkovič.
Giannoula "Ioanna" Kafetzi is a retired Greek sprinter and long jumper. Kafetzi won a bronze medal, as part of the women's 4 × 100 m relay team, at the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis, Tunisia, until she decided to focus extensively in the long jump and competed for the Greek squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics. During her athletics career, Kafetzi spanned a personal best of 6.71 metres in the long jump at the Venizelia International Meet in Chania.
Alibay Shukurov (Azerbaijani: Əlibəy Şükürov; born 2 May 1977 in Baku, Azerbaijan, is a retired Azerbaijani middle-distance runner, who specialised in both the 800 metres and the 1500 metres. He was selected to compete for the Azerbaijan Olympic squad in the 800 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics, after posting his own personal best in 1:46.64 from the national athletics meet in Baku.
Julia Dubina is a Georgian triple jumper. She was selected to compete for the Georgian Olympic squad in the triple jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics, after leaping her own personal best and a national record of 14.03 metres from the athletics meet in Baku.
Olga Shchukina is a retired Uzbek shot putter. Shchukina was selected to the Uzbek Olympic squad in the shot put at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but her feat had been outweighed with a doping failure for testing positive on clenbuterol during the pre-competition screening, which resulted to her immediate expulsion from the Games. During her athletic career, Shchukina launched her personal best shot of 17.26 at the 2004 Asian Cup League Meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Oksana Volodymyrivna Zakharchuk is a retired Ukrainian shot putter. She represented Ukraine in the women's shot put at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also set a personal best of 19.05 metres from the national athletics meet in Kyiv.
Tetyana Shchurenko is a retired Ukrainian triple jumper. She represented her nation Ukraine in the triple jump at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also set a personal best of 14.22 metres from the national athletics meet in Kyiv.
Jaclyn "Jackie" Jeschelnig-Ulm is an American hammer thrower. A graduate of Ashland University, she won five NCAA Division II and nine Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship titles in both the hammer and weight throw, and achieved a thirty-ninth-place finish at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Jeschelnig also owned an outdoor personal best of 68.83 m by placing first at the 2004 Ohio State Relays Meet in Columbus, Ohio that secured her a spot on the U.S. track and field team for the Olympics.
The women's hammer throw at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Beijing National Stadium on 26 and 27 August.
Tatyana Vladimirovna Gordeyeva is a retired Russian heptathlete. She has won a total of two medals, a silver and a bronze, in heptathlon at the European Cup Super League, and has been selected to compete for Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but later withdrew from the meet after falling at one of the hurdles in the opening heat. Gordeyeva trained under the tutelage of head coach Mikhail Zatselyapin for the national track and field team in combined events, while serving as a member of the Russian Army in her native Volgograd.
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