European Athletics Championships 2002 / men's hammer throw

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (qualification) August 7th (final)
Medalist Adrián Annus ( HUN )   Wladyslaw Piskunow ( UKR )   Alexandros Papadimitriou ( GRE )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's hammer throw at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 6th and 7th, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the Hungarian Adrián Annus . He won before the Ukrainian World Cup third in 1999 Wladyslaw Piskunow . Bronze went to the Greek Alexandros Papadimitriou .

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	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.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

6th of August

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 79.00 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 77.78 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

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  After his 77.57 m, Nicola Vizzoni was 21 centimeters short of the final

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  Karsten Kobs, 1999 world champion , was eliminated from the qualification with 77.44

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  77.17 m was too little for Szymon Ziółkowski to be in the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Alexei Sagorny	Russia	80.16
2	Adrian Annus	Hungary	79.82
3	Nicolas Figère	France	78.50
4th	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	78.39
5	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	78.24
6th	Wladyslaw Piskunow	Ukraine	78.16
7th	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	78.06
8th	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	77.57
9	Karsten Kobs	Germany	77.44
10	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	77.17
11	Holger Klose	Germany	76.98
12	Ilya Konovalov	Russia	76.79
13	David Soderberg	Sweden	74.64
14th	Vladimír Maška	Czech Republic	74.52
15th	Bengt Johansson	Sweden	71.27
16	Dorian Çollaku	Albania	67.47

Group B

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  Christophe Épalles 76.27 m were not enough for the final

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  Primož Kozmus failed in the qualification with 72.60 m

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  Markus Esser scored 70.15 m and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	79.96
2	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	79.32
3	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	79.18
4th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	79.03
5	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	77.78
6th	Vadim Khersontsev	Russia	77.00
7th	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	76.92
8th	Jan Bielecki	Denmark	76.82
9	Christophe Épalle	France	76.27
10	Maciej Pałyszko	Poland	75.51
11	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	72.60
12	Vítor Costa	Portugal	72.43
13	Hrístos Polihroníou	Greece	71.70
14th	Markus Esser	Germany	70.15
NM	Andras Haklits	Croatia	ogV

final

August 7th

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Adrian Annus	Hungary	81.17	76.00	78.75	80.82	81.17	80.37	-
2	Wladyslaw Piskunow	Ukraine	80.39	x	78.23	79.58	x	80.39	x
3	Alexandros Papadimitriou	Greece	80.21	76.81	78.31	78.51	77.86	80.21	78.61
4th	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	80.17	80.13	x	80.17	x	80.06	80.05
5	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	80.15	79.22	x	80.15	78.68	x	79.23
6th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	79.25	79.25	78.62	x	x	76.91	78.52
7th	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	79.20	79.20	x	x	x	76.63	x
8th	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	78.57	x	78.41	78.57	x	x	x
9	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	77.86	72.60	77.86	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Miloslav Konopka	Slovakia	77.33	76.69	76.94	77.33
11	Alexei Sagorny	Russia	77.01	77.01	x	x
12	Nicolas Figère	France	76.49	76.17	x	76.49

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  Libor Charfreitag reached number seven - his greater successes came later

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  Olli-Pekka Karjalainen came eighth - in 2005 he was third in the World Cup and in 2006 European champion

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  Iwan Zichan finished ninth - later he won medals, but was convicted of doping abuse several times

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Men Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed October 31, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 31, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Hammer Throw European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 483 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 31, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, hammer throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 31, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 31, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed October 31, 2019