European Athletics Championships 2012 / men's hammer throw

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 28th (qualification) June 30th (final)
Medalist Krisztián Pars ( HUN )   Alexei Sagorny ( RUS )   Szymon Ziółkowski ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's hammer throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 28 and 30, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the Hungarian vice world champion in 2011 and European championship third in 2010, Krisztián Pars . He won before the Russian World Cup third in 2009 Alexei Sagorny . Bronze went to the Polish Olympic champion in 2000 , world champion from 2001 , World Cup third out of 205 and vice world champion from 2009 Szymon Ziółkowski .

Existing records

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

The European Championship record, which has existed since 1986 , was not achieved at these European championships either.

Legend

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

x

invalid

qualification

June 28, 2012, 1:55 pm

31 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 77.50 m. Only one athlete exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eleven next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 72.85 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Eivind Henriksen was only 31 centimeters short of the final with his 72.54 m

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	78.09	77.16	x	78.09
2	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	74.54	74.54	x	x
3	Alexei Sagorny	Russia	74.00	72.10	73.55	74.00
4th	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	73.84	73.84	73.32	x
5	Jérôme Bortoluzzi	France	73.46	70.29	73.46	x
6th	Mattias Jons	Sweden	72.85	71.56	72.85	x
7th	Nicolas Figère	France	72.84	72.84	71.17	x
8th	Eivind Henriksen	Norway	72.54	72.54	x	71.59
9	Lorenzo Povegliano	Italy	72.47	x	72.47	x
10	Juryj Schajunou	Belarus	72.18	x	72.18	72.07
11	Andriy Martynyuk	Ukraine	71.69	71.48	68.39	71.69
12	Marco Lingua	Italy	71.07	x	70.81	71.07
13	Andras Haklits	Croatia	69.31	69.31	x	x
14th	Constantions Stathelakos	Cyprus	68.20	68.07	67.30	68.20
15th	Dorian Çollaku	Albania	59.92	59.44	59.92	x
NM	David Soderberg	Finland	ogV	x	x	x

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	76.42	73.99	76.42	74.18
2	Oleksiy Sokyrskyy	Ukraine	75.35	75.35	x	72.56
3	Pavel Kryvitski	Belarus	74.39	70.78	x	74.39
4th	Markus Esser	Germany	74.04	74.04	73.42	x
5	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	73.74	72.05	x	73.74
6th	Valeryy Svyatocha	Belarus	73.01	73.01	x	70.48
7th	Kristóf Németh	Hungary	72.46	69.42	71.23	72.46
8th	Anatoly Posdnyakov	Russia	71.79	69.08	67.84	71.79
9	Tuomas Seppänen	Finland	71.15	69.84	70.57	71.15
10	Javier Cienfuegos	Spain	70.91	x	70.91	x
11	Igors Sokolovs	Latvia	70.80	69.77	x	70.80
12	Quentin Bigot	France	70.78	68.36	x	70.78
13	Mark Dry	Great Britain	70.27	69.32	x	70.27
14th	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia	69.65	x	69.65	x
15th	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	68.92	x	68.92	x

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  71.15 m was not enough for Tuomas Seppänen to take part in the final

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  Javier Cienfuegos came to 70.91 m and was eliminated

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  With his 70.80 m Igors Sokolovs failed in the qualification

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  The defending champion and third place in the 2007 World Cup, Libor Charfreitag, was not in the form of previous years and retired with 69.65 m

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  For Lukáš Melich the competition was over after his 68.92 m after qualifying

final

June 30, 2012, 2105 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	79.72	78.57	79.40	x	79.72	79.46	77.47
2	Alexei Sagorny	Russia	77.40	74.97	76.51	x	x	75.92	77.40
3	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	76.67	76.44	x	x	x	74.31	76.67
4th	Valeryy Svyatocha	Belarus	75.83	75.83	x	x	73.34	73.15	75.07
5	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	75.13	75.13	74.77	74.22	74.77	x	x
6th	Mattias Jons	Sweden	74.56	74.50	73.64	x	74.56	x	74.44
7th	Markus Esser	Germany	74.49	74.18	73.26	73.00	74.49	72.23	74.43
8th	Jérôme Bortoluzzi	France	74.49	73.89	74.49	73.10	x	73.89	74.05
9	Pavel Kryvitski	Belarus	73.67	x	x	73.67	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Olli-Pekka Karjalainen	Finland	73.48	69.97	73.08	73.48
11	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	73.41	73.41	x	72.97
NM	Oleksiy Sokyrskyy	Ukraine	ogV	x	x	x

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  Krisztián Pars, 2011 Vice World Champion and 2010 European Championship -Dritter, was European champion

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  For Szymon Ziółkowski, 2000 Olympic champion and three-time World Cup medalist ( 2001 gold / 2005 bronze / 2009 silver), there was a bronze medal

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  Nicola Vizzoni, Olympic runner-up in 2000 and European runner-up in 2010 , finished fourth

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  The European champion from 2006 and World Cup third from 2005 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen, finished tenth like in 2010

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  Markus Esser came in seventh place

Video

• 2012 european champ Helsinki men hammer final on youtube.com (French), accessed on 19 January 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 19, 2020
• European Championship 2012 Helsinki, Men Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed January 19, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 19, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Hammer Throw European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 512f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 19, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, hammer throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 19, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed January 19, 2020