# 2010 in hammer throw

This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 2010 in both the men's and the women's hammer throw. The main event during this season were the 2010 European Championships in Athletics in Barcelona, Spain, where the final of the men's competition was held on July 28, 2010. The women had their final five days later, on July 30, 2010.

## Men
### Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 season in track and field :
| World Record | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 86.74 m | August 30, 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany |

### 2010 World Year Ranking

| Rank | Mark | Athlete | Venue | Date |
| 1 | 80.99 m | Koji Murofushi (JPN) | Rieti, Italy | 2010-08-28 |
| 2 | 80.59 m | Libor Charfreitag (SVK) | Walnut, United States | 2010-04-17 |
| 3 | 80.44 m | Pavel Kryvitski (BLR) | Brest, Belarus | 2010-05-22 |
| 4 | 80.11 m | Dilshod Nazarov (TJK) | Dushanbe, Tajikistan | 2010-06-18 |
| 5 | 79.64 m | Krisztián Pars (HUN) | Veszprém, Hungary | 2010-05-01 |
| 6 | 79.12 m | Nicola Vizzoni (ITA) | Barcelona, Spain | 2010-07-28 |
| 7 | 79.09 m | Igors Sokolovs (LAT) | Riga, Latvia | 2010-03-06 |
| 8 | 78.98 m | Sergej Litvinov (GER) | Hengelo, Netherlands | 2010-05-30 |
| 9 | 78.87 m | Markus Esser (GER) | Halle, Germany | 2010-05-15 |
| 10 | 78.73 m | Yury Shayunou (BLR) | Brest, Belarus | 2010-05-22 |
| 11 | 78.40 m | Ali Mohamed Al-Zinkawi (KUW) | Castres, France | 2010-07-20 |
| 12 | 78.33 m | Valery Sviatokha (BLR) | Grodno, Belarus | 2010-06-26 |
| 13 | 78.22 m | Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS) | Adler, Russia | 2010-04-23 |
| 14 | 78.18 m | Wojciech Kondratowicz (POL) | Bielsko-Biała, Poland | 2010-07-09 |
| 15 | 78.13 m | Igor Vinichenko (RUS) | Sochi, Russia | 2010-05-27 |
| 16 | 77.99 m | Szymon Ziolkowski (POL) | Barcelona, Spain | 2010-07-28 |
| 17 | 77.73 m | Kirill Ikonnikov (RUS) | Yerino, Russia | 2010-06-11 |
| 18 | 77.69 m | Nicolas Figère (FRA) | Amnéville, France | 2010-06-23 |
| 19 | 77.36 m | Mohsen El Anany (EGY) | Cairo, Egypt | 2010-03-26 |
| 20 | 77.35 m | A.G. Kruger (USA) | Tucson, United States | 2010-05-23 |
| 21 | 77.31 m | Dzmitry Shako (BLR) | Brest, Belarus | 2010-05-22 |
| 22 | 77.07 m | Kibwe Johnson (USA) | Ashland, United States | 2010-07-31 |
| 23 | 77.05 m | Jérôme Bortoluzzi (FRA) | Saint-Mard, France | 2010-07-16 |
| 24 | 77.02 m | Artem Rubanko (UKR) | Fortaleza, Brazil | 2010-05-16 |
| 25 | 77.01 m | Dmitriy Marshin (BLR) | Minsk, Belarus | 2010-06-04 |

## Women
### Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 season in track and field :
| World Record | Anita Włodarczyk (POL) | 77.96 m | August 22, 2009 | Berlin, Germany |
| Standing records after the 2010 season in track and field |||||
| World Record | Anita Włodarczyk (POL) | 78.30 m | June 6, 2010 | Bydgoszcz, Poland |

### 2010 World Year Ranking

| Rank | Mark | Athlete | Venue | Date | Note |
| 1 | 78.30 m | Anita Włodarczyk (POL) | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 2010-06-06 | WR |
| 2 | 76.38 m | Betty Heidler (GER) | Barcelona, Spain | 2010-07-30 | |
| 3 | 76.03 m | Tatyana Lysenko (RUS) | Zhukovsky, Russia | 2010-06-26 | PB |
| 4 | 75.42 m | Darya Pchelnik (BLR) | Belém, Brazil | 2010-05-15 | |
| 5 | 75.19 m | Yipsi Moreno (CUB) | Zhukovsky, Russia | 2010-06-26 | |
| 6 | 74.53 m | Kathrin Klaas (GER) | Pretoria, South Africa | 2010-03-12 | |
| 7 | 73.83 m | Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) | Jinan, PR China | 2010-08-06 | |
| 8 | 73.74 m | Jennifer Dahlgren (ARG) | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 2010-04-10 | |
| 9 | 73.52 m | Bianca Perie (ROU) | Bucharest, Romania | 2010-07-16 | |
| 10 | 73.40 m | Stéphanie Falzon (FRA) | Montreuil-sous-Bois, France | 2010-06-08 | |
| 11 | 72.24 m | Sultana Frizell (CAN) | Fränkisch-Crumbach, Germany | 2010-05-24 | |
| 12 | 72.14 m | Marina Marghieva (MDA) | Dakar, Senegal | 2010-04-24 | |
| 13 | 71.94 m | Amber Campbell (USA) | Sacramento, United States | 2010-05-29 | |
| 14 | 71.90 m | Oksana Kondrateva (RUS) | Yerino, Russia | 2010-06-11 | |
| 15 | 71.66 m | Volha Tsander (BLR) | Minsk, Belarus | 2010-07-14 | |
| 16 | 71.50 m | Zalina Marghieva (MDA) | Moscow, Russia | 2010-06-29 | |
| 17 | 71.27 m | Britney Henry (USA) | Tucson, Arizona, United States | 2010-05-23 | |
| 18 | 71.25 m | Silvia Salis (ITA) | San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy | 2010-03-07 | |
| 19 | 71.24 m | Jessica Cosby (USA) | Des Moines, Iowa, United States | 2010-06-26 | |
| 20 | 71.19 m | Wang Zheng (CHN) | Chongqing, PR China | 2010-06-26 | |
| 21 | 70.80 m | Stiliani Papadopoulou (GRE) | Patras, Greece | 2010-06-12 | |
| 22 | 70.36 m | Malgorzata Zadura (POL) | Lublin, Poland | 2010-06-13 | |
| 23 | 70.35 m | Arasay Thondike (CUB) | Havana, Cuba | 2010-02-11 | |
| 24 | 70.30 m | Nataliya Zolotukhina (UKR) | Yalta, Ukraine | 2010-05-28 | |
| 25 | 70.25 m | Iryna Sekachova (UKR) | Kyiv, Ukraine | 2010-05-12 | |