15th IAAF World Championships: Website | Schedule | Hammer Throw Results

LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - UNLV track & field alumna Amanda Bingson was one of 12 participants to advance to Thursday morning's (4:00 am PT) hammer throw finale at the 15th IAAF World Championships in Beijing. Bingson was 11th overall behind a measurement of 229-7 (69.99m), and was one of eight to qualify on distance, while four of her competitors advanced automatically with a minimum of 237-10 (72.50) at the Bird's Nest (Beijing Olympic Stadium) Tuesday night.

Poland's Anita Wlodarczyk and France's Alexandra Tavernier kicked off the event with the top-two qualifying throws in their first attempts. The former, who became the first woman to crack the 262-5 (80.00m) barrier when she threw a world-record distance of 266-0 (81.08m) earlier this month, while the former countered with a personal-best 244-0 (74.39m). Zheng Wang placed herself amongst the top three on her second attempt, a throw of 239-8 (73.06m).

Bingson opened up her performance with a 219-9 (66.99m) followed by a foul on her second time in the ring. Her third and final attempt placed her seventh after the first round (15 entrants).

The Las Vegas native and Silverado High School graduate has represented Team USA internationally previously at the 2012 London Olympics, 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow (2013) and 2014 IAAF Continental Cup (Marrakech, Morocco).

Bingson won three straight Mountain West titles in the hammer throw from 2010-12 before she became a regular on Team USA's roster beginning with a second-place finish at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. She followed that performance with back-to-back victories at the 2013 and '14 USATF Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa and Sacramento, Calif., respectively.

She not only broke stadium records en route to both of her first-place efforts, but she also rewrote the American record book in '13 with a mark of 248-5 (74.92m).