2003 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's hammer throw

The women's hammer throw event at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadion on 17 and 20 July.

Medalists

Gold	Kamila Skolimowska Poland
Silver	Aksana Menkova Belarus
Bronze	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva Russia

Results

Final

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	69.24	71.38	65.75	69.48	–	62.48	71.38	CR
	Aksana Menkova	Belarus	65.12	x	67.58	65.83	66.40	65.71	67.58
	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva	Russia	65.08	66.98	64.73	65.38	x	65.39	66.98
4	Betty Heidler	Germany	x	60.97	63.22	66.49	65.57	x	66.49
5	Tatyana Lysenko	Russia	63.58	51.76	64.48	63.31	63.74	x	64.48
6	Merja Korpela	Finland	60.85	63.02	58.96	63.04	64.44	63.24	64.44
7	Sanja Gavrilović	Croatia	61.37	63.10	x	62.69	63.39	63.88	63.88
8	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	62.92	x	x	63.04	x	x	63.04
9	Bianca Achilles	Germany	62.51	x	59.54				62.51
10	Debby van der Schilt	Netherlands	59.52	61.90	x				61.90
11	Shirley Webb	Great Britain	58.71	x	59.81				59.81
	Marina Lapina	Azerbaijan	x	x	x				NM

Qualifications

17 July
Qualifying 64.50 or 12 best to the Final

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Gulfiya Khanafeyeva	Russia	65.28	Q
2	Merja Korpela	Finland	63.97	q
3	Ivana Brkljačić	Croatia	63.31	q
4	Bianca Achilles	Germany	63.01	q
5	Martina Danišová	Slovakia	60.36
6	Małgorzata Zadura	Poland	59.81
7	Eileen O'Keeffe	Ireland	59.64
8	Stiliani Papadopoulou	Greece	58.68
9	Katariina Lahti	Finland	57.95
10	Marie Hilmersson	Sweden	54.43
11	Aurélie Philippon	France	53.92
12	Rebecka Kvist	Sweden	47.95
	Alina Joaca Bine	Romania	NM

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Kamila Skolimowska	Poland	66.02	Q
2	Aksana Menkova	Belarus	65.98	Q
3	Betty Heidler	Germany	63.41	q
4	Sanja Gavrilović	Croatia	62.93	q
5	Shirley Webb	Great Britain	61.90	q
6	Debby van der Schilt	Netherlands	61.57	q
7	Tatyana Lysenko	Russia	61.32	q
8	Marina Lapina	Azerbaijan	61.18	q
9	Stéphanie Falzon	France	59.15
10	Mona Holm	Norway	57.31
11	Elisa Palmieri	Italy	53.57
12	Johanna Doyle	Ireland	53.19
13	Jenni Viljanen	Finland	52.88
	Karin Engström	Sweden	NM

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

• Azerbaijan (1)
• Belarus (1)
• Croatia (2)
• Finland (3)
• France (2)
• Germany (2)
• Great Britain (1)
• Greece (1)
• Ireland (2)
• Italy (1)
• Netherlands (1)
• Norway (1)
• Poland (2)
• Romania (1)
• Russia (2)
• Slovakia (1)
• Sweden (3)