Anita WÅ‚odarczyk

Anita Włodarczyk ( born August 8, 1985 in Rawicz ) is a Polish hammer thrower.

Anita Włodarczyk began her athletic career in her hometown at the club Kadet Rawicz. Since 2005, she starts to AZS AWF Poznań. In the Junior European Championships 2007 in Debrecen she finished 9th overall with a distance of 62.11 m. Her breakthrough into the world's top hammer throwers they experienced in 2008. It improved her personal best already for the season opening in May 2008 to 72.18 m and increased in June at a meeting in Biberach an der Riss at 72.80 m. Then she took for Poland participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she finished sixth with 71.56 m.

The 2009 season started for them with further performance gains. She began the winter season with a personal best of 75.05 m, then increased to 76.20 m and then improved on 8 August in Cottbus at a final preparatory meeting before the World Athletics Championships 2009 the Polish record of Kamila Skolimowska of 76.83 m to 77.20 m. This litter was the fourth best in the history of the women's hammer throw. At the finals of the World Championships in Berlin on August 22, they improved this length and set with 77.96 m in her second attempt a new world record. During the jubilation at this world record distance Włodarczyk injured his foot and could not run another experiment more. Nevertheless, she won the world title before Betty Heidler. On June 6, 2010, she improved her own world record in Bydgoszcz on 78,30 m, which she then lost on 21 May 2011 to Betty Heidler. At the 2010 European Championships she won the bronze medal with 73.56 meters, a year later, she took the same length 5th place in the World Championships in Daegu. In June 2012, she threw at the European Championships 2012 in Helsinki the hammer to 74.29 m and won the title.

At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, she won the silver medal with a jump of 77.60 meters.

Anita Włodarczyk is 1,78 m tall and weighs 94 kg.