American DeAnna Price, the 2019 world champion, could not find her power during the final and finished eighth overall.

The Pole, who holds the world and Olympic record in the sport, has four world championship golds and was the first woman to send the hammer past 80 meters.

Hammer thrower Gwen Berry placed her left hand on her hip and took a quarter-turn so she was facing the stands, not the flag, while the national anthem played.