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{{short description|Polish hammer thrower (born 1985)}}
{{for|the Polish long jumper|Anna Włodarczyk}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=MarchJuly 20232024}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name = Anita Włodarczyk
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|nationality = Polish
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|8|8|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Rawicz]], [[GreaterPolish People’s Republic|Poland Voivodeship]], Poland
|height = 1.7876 m<ref name="IAAFbio">[http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=0/athcode=201743 Anita Włodarczyk's profile at the IAAF site]</ref>
|weight = 100 kg<ref name="IAAFbio"/>
|sport = [[Sport of athletics|Athletics]]
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{{MedalCount|total=yes
|[[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]|3|0|0
|[[IAAF World Athletics Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]|4|0|0
|[[European Athletics Championships|European Championships]]|4|01|1
|[[IAAF Continental Cup|Continental Cup]]|1|0|0
|[[European Athletics Team Championships|European Team Championships]]|2|1|0
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{{Medal|Competition|[[Athletics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
[[File:Olympic rings.svg|center|80px]]
{{Medal|Gold|[[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London]]|[[Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}▼
{{Medal|Gold|[[2016Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics|2016 Rio de2012 JaneiroLondon]]|[[Athletics at the 20162012 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2020Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics|20202016 Rio de TokyoJaneiro]]|[[Athletics at the 20202016 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
▲{{Medal|Gold|[[2012Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics|20122020 LondonTokyo]]|[[Athletics at the 20122020 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[World Athletics Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics|2009 Berlin]]|[[2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2013 World Championships in Athletics|2013 Moscow]]|[[2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
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{{Medal|Gold|[[2016 European Athletics Championships|2016 Amsterdam]]|[[2016 European Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[2018 European Athletics Championships|2018 Berlin]]|[[2018 European Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
{{Medal|Silver|[[2024 European Athletics Championships|2024 Rome]]|[[2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
{{Medal|Bronze|[[2010 European Athletics Championships|2010 Barcelona]]|[[2010 European Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw|Hammer throw]]}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[European Athletics Team Championships|European Team Championships]]}}
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'''Anita Włodarczyk''' ({{IPA-|pl|aˈɲita vwɔˈdart͡ʂɨk}}; born 8 August 1985) is a Polish [[hammer throw]]er. She is the [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012]], [[2016 Summer Olympics|2016]] and [[2020 Summer Olympics|2020]] [[Olympic champion]], and the first woman in history to throw the hammer over 80 m; she currently holds the women's world record of 82.98 m. She is considered the greatest women'sfemale hammer thrower of all time.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ansari |first=Aarish |date=16 June 2021 |url=https://olympics.com/en/featured-news/olympic-records-throwing-javelin-discus-hammer-shot-put |title=Olympic records in throwing events -– going the distance with a spear, disc, hammer and ball |publisher=IOC |access-date=2 August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Landells |first=Steve |date=15 August 2016 |url=https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/olympic-games/the-xxxi-olympic-games-5771/news/report/women/hammer-throw/final |title=Report: women's hammer final – Rio 2016 Olympic Games |publisher=IAAF |access-date=15 August 2016}}</ref>
 
She was voted the [[Polish Sports Personality of the Year]] in 2016 and received the Commander's Cross with Star of the [[Order of Polonia Restituta]] in 2021 for her outstanding achievements in sport.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://poland.pl/culture-and-art/sport/wlodarczyk-chosen-polish-sportsperson-2016/ |title=Włodarczyk chosen as Polish sportsperson of 2016 |website=poland.pl |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20210001023 |language=pl |title=M.P. 2021 poz. 1023 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
 
[[File:Włodarczyk Kopron London 2017.jpg|thumb|Włodarczyk (on the left) celebrating her gold medal of 2017 World Championships with teammate and bronze medalist [[Malwina Kopron]].]]
 
==Career==
===Early life and competition===
Włodarczyk won her first national U23 championships in 2007, and went on to compete in the [[2007 European Athletics U23 Championships]], although she did not progress beyond the qualifying round. She finished sixthfourth in the [[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|hammer throw competition]] at the [[2008 Olympic Games]].
 
Włodarczyk qualified for the [[2008 World Athletics Final]] and won a bronze medal. The following year, she took part in the [[2009 European Team Championships]], winning her first gold medal at a major international competition.
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Włodarczyk achieved a personal best throw of {{convert|76.20|m}}, achieved on 30 May 2009 in [[Biała Podlaska]], beating her previous record by 81&nbsp;cm and improve 76.59 m in [[Golden Spike Ostrava]]. Prior to the [[2009 World Championships in Athletics]], she produced a [[List of Polish records in athletics|national record]]-breaking performance in [[Cottbus]], winning the competition with a world-leading {{convert|77.20|m|adj=on}} throw. This was fourth longest throw by a woman in [[hammer throw]].
 
===First world record===
On 22 August 2009, during the [[2009 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships in Athletics]] in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]], Włodarczyk set a world record with a throw of {{convert|77.96|m|ftin}}.<ref>[http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/282457,wlodarczyk-gets-hammer-throw-world-record-at-worlds.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609175811/http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/282457,wlodarczyk-gets-hammer-throw-world-record-at-worlds.html |date=9 June 2016 }} ''Earth Times''</ref> Her season ended prematurely when she twisted her left ankle during her celebration.<ref>http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=55178.html[[International Association of Athletics Federations|IAAF]]. {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121002185741/http://www.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=55178.html |date=2 October 2012 }}</ref> Returning to competition at the [[Meeting Grand Prix IAAF de Dakar]] in April 2010, she easily won her event with a throw of 75.13&nbsp;m.<ref>{{cite news |last=Turner |first=Chris |date=24 April 2010 |url=http://www.iaaf.org/IWC10/news/kind=100/newsid=56549.html |title=Wlodarczyk blasts out 75.13m release in Dakar – IAAF World Challenge |publisher=IAAF |access-date=25 April 2010 |archive-date=27 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100427064253/http://www.iaaf.org/IWC10/news/kind%3D100/newsid%3D56549.html |url-status=live}}</ref> She then proceeded to break her existing world record with a {{convert|78.30|m|adj=on}} hammer throw at the Enea Cup in [[Bydgoszcz]] on 6 June 2010.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/7830m-world-record-in-the-hammer-throw-by-wlo |last=Jackowski |first=Pawel |title=78.30m World record in the Hammer Throw by Wlodarczyk in Bydgoszcz -– UPDATED |date=6 June 2010 |publisher=IAAF |access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref> She won the bronze at the [[2010 European Athletics Championships]] and was ranked second overall for the season in the [[IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge]], finishing behind [[Betty Heidler]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/murofushi-and-heidler-take-overall-titles-and |title=Murofushi and Heidler take overall titles and prize of $30,000 each – IAAF World Hammer Throw Challenge |publisher=IAAF |date=8 September 2010 |access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref> She finished outside of the medals at the [[2011 World Championships in Athletics]], coming fifth overall.
 
===Olympic Games and further successes===
In 2012, Włodarczyk finished third at the [[Ostrava Golden Spike]] and was the runner-up at the [[Prefontaine Classic]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Gains |first=Paul |date=2 June 2012 |title=Dibaba 30:24.39 and Kiprop 27:01.98 on stunning but wet first night in Eugene – Samsung Diamond League |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/dibaba-302439-and-kiprop-270198-on-stunning-b |publisher=IAAF |access-date=8 May 2016}}</ref> At the [[2012 Summer Olympics]], she won the silver medal with a throw of 77.60 m.<ref>{{cite web |title=Athletics at the 2012 London Summer Games: Women's Hammer Throw Final Round {{!}} Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2012/ATH/womens-hammer-throw-final-round.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173221/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2012/ATH/womens-hammer-throw-final-round.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com|access-date=19 December 2015}}</ref> On 11 October 2016, she was retroactively awarded gold after Russia's [[Tatyana Lysenko]] was stripped of the medal after testing positive in reanalysis of her stored doping samples.<ref name="LysenkoSanctioned2012">{{cite web |title=IOC sanctions Tatyana Lysenko for failing anti-doping test at London 2012 |url=https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-tatyana-lysenko-for-failing-anti-doping-test-at-london-2012 |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="IAAFLondon2012">{{cite web |title=Hammer Throw Women -– The XXX Olympic Games |url=https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/olympic-games/the-xxx-olympic-games-4871/results/women/hammer-throw/final/series |website=IAAF.org |access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="GoldInLondon2012">{{cite web |title=London 2012 Hammer Throw Women |url=https://www.olympic.org/london-2012/athletics/hammer-throw-women |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=11 August 2017}}</ref>
 
In 2014, Włodarczyk won the [[European Championships in Athletics 2014|European Championship]] with a throw of 78.76, which was a championship and national record.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATW054101_C73S.pdf |title=2014 European Athletics Championships |date=15 August 2014 |access-date=19 December 2015 |publisher=[[European Athletics Association|European Athletics]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013210927/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATW054101_C73S.pdf |archive-date=13 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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On 1 August 2015 Włodarczyk set a new world record with a throw of {{convert|81.08|m}} and became the first woman to throw the hammer over {{convert|80|m}}.<ref>Florian van Dijck (1 August 2015). [https://throwholics.com/2015/08/women-hammer-over-80m-wlodarczyk-throws-wr-81-08m-266-0/ WOMEN HAMMER OVER 80M!!! WLODARCZYK THROWS WR !!! 81.08m (266′ 0″)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124082932/https://throwholics.com/2015/08/women-hammer-over-80m-wlodarczyk-throws-wr-81-08m-266-0/|date=24 November 2015}}</ref> She went on to win the gold medal at the [[2015 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|World Championships]], once again throwing over {{convert|80|m}}.
 
On 15 August 2016 Włodarczyk won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Rio, setting a new world record with a throw of {{convert|82.29|m}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hammer Throw Women -– The XXXI Olympic Games |url=https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/olympic-games/the-xxxi-olympic-games-5771/results/women/hammer-throw/final/series#resultheader |website=IAAF.org |access-date=16 August 2016}}</ref> On 28 August 2016, she threw {{convert|82.98|m}}, setting a new world record just two weeks after the Olympics at the EAA 7th [[Kamila Skolimowska]] Memorial in Warsaw. In competition, Włodarczyk uses some of the equipment that belonged to the late Skolimowska, as a tribute to her fellow hammer thrower.<ref name=Skolimowska>{{cite news |last1=Mulkeen |first1=Jon |last2=Mikiel |first2=Marta |title=Inspired by Skolimowska, Wlodarczyk aims to become first to throw 80 metres |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/feature/anita-wlodarczyk-hammer-world-record |publisher=IAAF |access-date=28 August 2015}}</ref>
 
In 2014, 2016 and 2017 she was given [[Track & Field News Athlete of the Year]] award.
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In 2017, she received [[Polish Sportspersonality of the Year]] Award for her sports achievements in the previous year. She finished the year with a 42 contests winning streak which began in July 2014.<ref>https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-challenge/news/golden-spike-ostrava-world-challenge-2018-wlo {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
 
{{As of|2020}}, she holds all of the top 15 women's hammer throw results and 27 out of the top 30.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hammer Throw women senior -– All time top lists |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/throws/hammer-throw/outdoor/women/senior?regionType=world&page=1&bestResultsOnly=false&firstDay=1900-01-01&lastDay=2020-08-31 |access-date=31 August 2020 |website=www.worldathletics.org}}</ref>
 
===Third consecutive Olympic gold medal===
At the [[2020 Summer Olympics]], she won the [[Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|hammer throw]] event with a throw of 78.48 m. Włodarczyk is the only woman to ever win this event three times in a row (in the [[Hammer throw#Olympic medalists|men's competition]], only [[John Flanagan (hammer thrower)|John Flanagan]] did so, winning the event at the [[Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw|1900]], [[Athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw|1904]] and [[Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw|1908 Summer Olympics]]). She is also the first woman to win a specific individual athletics event three times in a row at the Olympic Games. With three Olympic gold medals, she ranks third in the all-time [[Poland at the Olympics#Multiple medallists|medal table]] among Polish athletes who competed at the Summer Olympics, behind racewalker [[Robert Korzeniowski]] and sprinter [[Irena Szewińska]].
 
==Awards and accolades==
Some of the selected awards and honours she received for her sports achievements include:
For her sport achievements, she received:<br />
[[Image:POL Polonia Restituta Kawalerski BAR.svg|65px|Knight's Cross]] Knight's Cross of the [[Polonia Restituta|Order of Polonia Restituta]] (5th Class) in 2009.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120708172504/http://beta.prezydent.pl/aktywnosc/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,678,lista-odznaczonych-medalistow.html Prezydent.pl]</ref>▼
 
▲[[Image:POL Polonia Restituta Kawalerski BAR.svg|65px|Knight's Cross]] *Knight's Cross of the [[Polonia Restituta|Order of Polonia Restituta]] (5th Class) in, 2009.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120708172504/http://beta.prezydent.pl/aktywnosc/ordery-i-odznaczenia/art,678,lista-odznaczonych-medalistow.html Prezydent.pl]</ref> [[Image:POL Polonia Restituta Kawalerski BAR.svg|65px|Knight's Cross]]
In 2021 [[Mattel]] announced the creation of a Shero Barbie doll with Włodarczyk's image for her “inspiration to others” in pursuing their dreams. She became the third Polish woman to have one after [[Martyna Wojciechowska]] and [[Iwona Blecharczyk]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hammer-throwing champ joins distinguished list of ‘inspirational women’ after being turned into Shero Barbie doll |url=https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/hammer-throwing-champ-joins-distinguished-list-of-inspirational-women-after-being-turned-into-shero-barbie-doll-20388 |access-date=2022-07-15 |website=www.thefirstnews.com |language=en}}</ref>▼
* Officer's Cross of the [[Order of Polonia Restituta]], 2016<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20160001208 |language=pl |title=M.P. 2016 poz. 1208 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref> [[Image:POL Polonia Restituta Oficerski BAR.svg|65px|Officer's Corss]]
*[[Polish Sports Personality of the Year]] awarded by the ''[[Przegląd Sportowy]]'' magazine, 2016<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://poland.pl/culture-and-art/sport/wlodarczyk-chosen-polish-sportsperson-2016/ |title=Włodarczyk chosen as Polish sportsperson of 2016 |website=poland.pl |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
*Honorary Citizen of the town of [[Rawicz]], 2016<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/la/654764/anita-wlodarczyk-zostala-honorowa-obywatelka-rawicza |language=pl |title=Anita Włodarczyk została Honorową Obywatelką Rawicza |website=sportowefakty.wp.pl |author=Michał Bugno |date=23 December 2023}}</ref>
*Commander's Cross with Star of the [[Order of Polonia Restituta]], 2021<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP20210001023 |language=pl |title=M.P. 2021 poz. 1023 |website=isap.sejm.gov.pl |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref> [[Image:POL Polonia Restituta Komandorski ZG BAR.svg|65px|Commander's Cross with Star]]
▲*In 2021, [[Mattel]] announced the creation of a Shero Barbie doll with Włodarczyk's image for her “inspiration to others” in pursuing their dreams. She became the third Polish woman to have one after [[Martyna Wojciechowska]] and [[Iwona Blecharczyk]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hammer-throwing champ joins distinguished list of ‘inspirational'inspirational women’women' after being turned into Shero Barbie doll |url=https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/hammer-throwing-champ-joins-distinguished-list-of-inspirational-women-after-being-turned-into-shero-barbie-doll-20388 |access-date=2022-07-15 July 2022 |website=www.thefirstnews.com |language=en}}</ref>
 
==International competitions==
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|-
|2021
|[[Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|[[Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|78.48 m]]
|-
|2023
|[[2023 World Athletics Championships|World Championships]]
|[[Budapest, Hungary]]
|13th (q)
|[[2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw|71.17 m]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2024
|[[2024 European Athletics Championships|European Championships]]
|[[Rome]], [[Italy]]
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|[[2024 European Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw|72.92 m]]
|-
|[[Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Paris, France]]
|4th
|[[Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|74.23 m]]
|}
 
==See also==
*[[Sport in Poland]]
*[[List of Polish records in athletics]]
*[[List of Poles#Athletics|List of Polish track and field athletes]]
 
==References==
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Rawicz]]
[[Category:SportspeopleAthletes from Greater Poland Voivodeship]]
[[Category:Skra Warszawa athletes]]
[[Category:Polish female hammer throwers]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes offor Poland]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Poland]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
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[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics]]
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