World champion Tatyana Lysenko became the fourth woman to win the Olympic Hammer Throw title, and brought the title back to Russia whose Olga Kuzenkova had won the second Olympic crown in 2004. The 28-year-old did it in style with two Olympic records but this was not an unchallenged campaign with Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk, 2009 World champion and a former World record holder like Lysenko, making a fifth and a sixth counter attack to nearly unseat the Russian.