03 August,2015 07:08 AM IST | | Agencies
Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk became the first woman to break the 80m-barrier when she set a new world record in the hammer with a throw of 81.08m on Saturday
Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk
Warsaw: Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk became the first woman to break the 80m-barrier when she set a new world record in the hammer with a throw of 81.08m on Saturday.
Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk
She improved on her own world record of 79.58m which she set in Berlin in August 2014.
Twenty-nine-year-old Wlodarczyk reached her new mark at the Festival of Throwers in Wladyslawowo on the Baltic coast.
