European Athletics Championships 1998 / men's hammer throw

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17th European Athletics Championships
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discipline Hammer throw
gender Men
Attendees 36 athletes from 18 countries
venue HungaryHungary Budapest
Competition location Népstadion
Competition phase August 18 (qualifying)
August 19 (final)
Medalist
gold medal Tibor Gécsek ( HUN ) HungaryHungary 
Silver medal Baláz's Kiss ( HUN ) HungaryHungary 
Bronze medal Karsten Kobs ( GER ) GermanyGermany 

The men's hammer throw at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18 and 19, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

In this competition the Hungarian hammer throwers achieved a double victory. European champion was the World Cup -Third of 1995 Tibor Gécsek . Second place went to the 1996 Olympic champion, Balázs Kiss . The German Karsten Kobs won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record 86.74 m Soviet UnionSoviet Union Yuri Sedych EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany August 30, 1986
European record
EM record

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

Iwan Zichan retired with 71.50 m in the qualification
Marko Wahlman failed to make a valid attempt

August 18, 1998

36 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 77.00 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 75.75 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space Surname nation Width (m)
1 Adrian Annus HungaryHungary Hungary 79.52
2 Christos Polichroniou GreeceGreece Greece 77.99
3 Heinz Weis GermanyGermany Germany 77.46
4th Ihar Astapkovich Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 77.43
5 Szymon Ziółkowski PolandPoland Poland 76.66
6th Wladyslaw Piskunow UkraineUkraine Ukraine 76.24
7th Vasily Sidorenko RussiaRussia Russia 75.60
8th Andrij Skwaruk UkraineUkraine Ukraine 75.56
9 Loris Paoluzzi ItalyItaly Italy 75.00
10 Enrico Sgrulletti ItalyItaly Italy 74.91
11 Sergei Kirmasov RussiaRussia Russia 74.50
12 Gilles Dupray FranceFrance France 73.92
13 Andras Haklits CroatiaCroatia Croatia 73.41
14th Pavel Sedláček Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 72.68
15th Vítor Costa PortugalPortugal Portugal 72.28
16 Ivan Zichan Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 71.50
17th Paddy McGrath IrelandIreland Ireland 66.25
NM Marko Wahlman FinlandFinland Finland ogV

Group B

space Surname nation Width (m)
1 Tibor Gécsek HungaryHungary Hungary 79.44
2 Ilya Konovalov RussiaRussia Russia 78.09
3 Baláz's Kiss HungaryHungary Hungary 78.06
4th Karsten Kobs GermanyGermany Germany 76.57
5 Oleksandr Krykun UkraineUkraine Ukraine 75.90
6th Christophe Épalle FranceFrance France 75.75
7th Nicola Vizzoni ItalyItaly Italy 74.65
8th Vladimír Maška Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 74.12
9 Holger Klose GermanyGermany Germany 74.05
10 David Chaussinand FranceFrance France 73.30
11 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen FinlandFinland Finland 73.13
12 Jan Bielecki PolandPoland Poland 72.48
13 Alexandros Papadimitriou GreeceGreece Greece 72.47
14th Maciej Pałyszko PolandPoland Poland 72.03
15th Mikalai Aulasevich Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 69.11
16 Per Karlsson SwedenSweden Sweden 67.20
17th Dorian Çollaku AlbaniaAlbania Albania 64.88
18th Roman Linscheid IrelandIreland Ireland 63.75

final

August 19, 1998

space Surname nation Result (noun) 1st attempt (m) 2. attempt (m) 3rd attempt (m) 4th attempt (m) 5th attempt (m) 6th attempt (m)
1 Tibor Gécsek HungaryHungary Hungary 82.87 80.64 x 81.66 x 82.87 82.25
2 Baláz's Kiss HungaryHungary Hungary 81.26 80.96 80.71 x 78.87 80.38 81.26
3 Karsten Kobs GermanyGermany Germany 80.13 x 77.83 75.22 x 80.13 x
4th Heinz Weis GermanyGermany Germany 80.04 76.89 80.04 78.79 x 77.28 77.15
5 Szymon Ziółkowski PolandPoland Poland 78.16 x x 77.38 x x 78.16
6th Christos Polichroniou GreeceGreece Greece 77.97 x 77.97 x 74.95 77.43 x
7th Ihar Astapkovich Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 77.81 x x 77.81 x x 76.93
8th Adrian Annus HungaryHungary Hungary 77.29 75.77 76.19 x 77.29 76.43 76.09
9 Ilya Konovalov RussiaRussia Russia 76.11 76.11 75.66 75.33 not in the final of the
eight best throwers
10 Wladyslaw Piskunow UkraineUkraine Ukraine 75.10 x 74.30 75.10
11 Oleksandr Krykun UkraineUkraine Ukraine 74.34 74.34 73.41 x
12 Christophe Épalle FranceFrance France 74.00 70.33 74.00 72.82

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References and comments

  1. IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed October 13, 2019