US hammer thrower DeAnna Price in action (© Kirby Lee)
In just her second competition of the year, world champion DeAnna Price of the USA added 36 centimetres to her own North American hammer record on Friday (9) at the Tom Botts Invitational in Columbia, Missouri, winning with 78.60m.
Her mark moves her up one place to third on the world all-time list behind world record-holder Anita Wlodarczyk and Germany’s Betty Heidler. It s also the best throw in the world since August 2018, and the best throw ever recorded within the first four months of the year.
Any one of Price’s six throws in Columbia would have been sufficient to win. She opened with 72.52m and then improved in each of the next four rounds, throwing 73.46m, 76.29, 77.20m and then 78.60m. She rounded out her series with 75.53m.
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