WLODARCZYK Anita

General
RETIREMENT PLANS
She is aiming for a third consecutive hammer throw title at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, and then plans to retire after the rescheduled 2022 World Championships in Eugene, OR, United States of America. "It would be nice to finish my career with gold in Eugene. Two years ago [2018] I was planning to finish after Tokyo. Then I had an operation [which caused her to miss the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar], so I figured I would fight until 2021, maybe 2022. That's the plan in my head, and we'll see what will come of it." (przegladsportowy.pl, 17 Sep 2020, 25 Apr 2020)

LONDON UPGRADE
She originally won a silver medal in the hammer throw at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but in October 2019 she was promoted to the gold medal position after Tatyana Lysenko from the Russian Federation was disqualified due to an anti-doping violation. (worldathletics.org, 01 Jan 2020; bbc.co.uk, 11 Oct 2016; rp.pl, 27 Oct 2019)

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she became the first female hammer thrower from any nation to win two Olympic gold medals in the event. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Oct 2020)

At the 2017 World Championships in London, England, she became the first Polish athletics competitor from any discipline to win four world championship gold medals, following previous victories at the 2015, 2013 and 2009 editions of the tournament. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Oct 2020)

In 2015 she became the first female hammer thrower to throw over 80m when she recorded a throw of 81.08m at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Throws Festival in Cetniewo, Poland. (IAAF, 01 Aug 2015)