Lysenko wins women's hammer throw in Daegu

Russia's former world record holder Tatyana Lysenko defeated the current holder Betty Heidler from Germany to claim her first world title here on Sunday with a 77.13-meter effort in the women's hammer throw final. The 27-year-old opened the final by improving her seasonal best mark by three times out of three attempts to 77.13m, which brought her the first ever gold medal in a global major event. The mark is also the second longest in the world championships history, just behind Anita Wlodarczyk's winning mark of 77.96m in Berlin 2009. Heidler, the 2007 world champion who smashed the world record with a stunning 79.42m in Halle in May 2011, got the silver with 76.06m from her penultimate throw. China's Zhang Wenxiu won her third bronze medal in major global events by throwing the hammer to 75.03m in her first attempt. The 25-year-old Asian record holder landed world bronze in 2007 and the same color medal at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Cuba's twice world champion Yipsi Moreno managed to record only twice out of six attempts and finished fourth with her seasonal best of 74.48m. Defending champion Wlodarczyk followed Moreno with this year's personal best mark of 73.56m.