Betty Heidler (born 14 October 1983) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the hammer throw. She held the world record from 2011 until 2014 with her personal best throw of 79.42 m (260 ft 6 in). She is the 2012 Olympic silver medallist, the 2007 World champion and the 2009 and 2011 World Championship silver medallist. She also finished fourth in the Olympic finals in 2004 and 2016.
Career Heidler now lives in Frankfurt and is a member of the Eintracht Frankfurt athletics team. She works for the German Federal Police where she is a member of the sports support group and started studying Bachelor of Laws at the Fernuniversität Hagen in 2007.
She put in a dominant performance at the 2010 European Cup Winter Throwing with a winning mark of 72.48 m, beating her nearest rival by more than three metres.Mikhnevich and Müller put on a show at the European Cup Winter Throwing . European Athletics (20 March 2010). Retrieved 23 March 2010.
Heidler won the inaugural IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge in 2010, finishing at the top of the rankings ahead of Anita Wlodarczyk. She won the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships then went on to take the silver medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. In May 2011, in Halle, she achieved a new world record hammer throw, of 79.42 m. She began the 2012 season with a series of wins, performing at the Colorful Daegu Meeting, Golden Spike Ostrava, and Prefontaine Classic.
Heidler won a medal at the 2012 London Olympics. The event was not without controversy as the referees first failed to correctly measure Heidler's bronze-winning throw. She was later promoted to the silver medal position, after Tatyana Lysenko was disqualified for a doping violation in 2016 in reanalysis of her stored doping samples.
Achievements Representing 2000World Junior ChampionshipsSantiago, Chile19th (q)52.18 m2002World Junior ChampionshipsKingston, Jamaica17th (q)53.82 m2003European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland4th66.49 mWorld Championships Paris, France11th65.81 m2004Olympic Games Athens, Greece4th72.73 mWorld Athletics Final Szombathely, Hungary6th69.65 m2005European U23 Championships Erfurt, Germany2nd69.64 mWorld Championships Helsinki, Finland29th (q)61.91 mWorld Athletics Final Szombathely, Hungary6th69.95 m2006European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden5th70.89 mWorld Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany1st75.44 m (CR)2007World Championships Osaka, Japan1st74.76 m2008Olympic Games Beijing, China9th70.06 mWorld Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany5th69.72 m2009Universiade Belgrade, Serbia1st75.83 m (GR)World Championships Berlin, Germany2nd77.12 m (NR)World Athletics Final Thessaloniki, Greece1st72.03 m2010European Cup Winter Throwing Arles, France1st72.48 mEuropean Championships Barcelona, Spain1st76.38 m2011World Championships Daegu, South Korea2nd76.06 m2012European Championships Helsinki, Finland17th (q)65.06 mOlympic Games London, Great Britain2nd77.13 m2013World ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia18th (q)68.83 m2014European ChampionshipsZürich, Switzerland5th72.39 m2015World ChampionshipsBeijing, China7th72.56 m2016European ChampionshipsAmsterdam, Netherlands2nd75.77 mOlympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil4th73.71 m
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