European Athletics Championships 2014 / men's hammer throw

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 14th (qualification) August 16th (final)
Medalist Krisztián Pars ( HUN )   Paweł Fajdek ( POL )   Sergei Litvinov jun. ( RUS )

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

The hammer throw men in the 2014 European Athletics Championships was held on 14 and 16 August 2014 in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich held.

The Hungarian defending champion Krisztián Pars became European champion . He was the Olympic champion in 2012 , runner-up of 2011 / 2013 and the European Championship -Third of 2010 . Second place went to the reigning world champion Paweł Fajdek from Poland . Bronze went to the Russian Sergei Sergejewitsch Litvinow , son of the Olympic champion and former world champion Sergei Nikolajewitsch Litvinow .

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 that had existed since 1986 , which was also the world record , remained completely untouched.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

22 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 75.00 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). In the end, 73.85 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

August 14, 2014, 10:07 am

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	77.06	74.98	77.06	-
2	Sergei Litvinov jun.	Russia	76.12	76.12	-	-
3	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	75.87	75.87	-	-
4th	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	74.93	71.97	74.57	74.93
5	Krisztián Pars	Hungary	74.44	74.44	x	x
6th	Tuomas Seppänen	Finland	74.37	x	72.88	74.37
7th	Javier Cienfuegos	Spain	72.55	71.53	72.31	72.55
8th	Eivind Henriksen	Norway	72.31	70.15	72.30	72.31
9	Sjarhej Kalamoyez	Belarus	72.14	72.14	x	70.94
10	Martin Bingisser	Switzerland	64.62	64.37	64.62	64.40
NM	Yevhen Vynohradov	Ukraine	ogV	x	x	x

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  Javier Cienfuegos did not reach the final with his 72.55 m

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  Eivind Henriksen retired with 72.31 m in the qualification

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  Martin Bingisser had no chance with his 64.62 m

Group B

Lukáš Melich with his 73.48 m was 37 centimeters short of participating in the final

August 14, 2014, 11:32 am

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	77.45	x	77.45	-
2	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova	76.25	73.46	x	76.25
3	David Soderberg	Finland	75.83	69.71	75.83	-
4th	Pavel Kryvitsky	Belarus	75.44	72.87	75.44	-
5	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	74.26	70.10	74.26	71.26
6th	Pavel Barejscha	Belarus	73.85	71.07	70.41	73.85
7th	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	73.48	72.42	70.32	73.48
8th	Kristóf Németh	Hungary	73.33	71.64	72.38	73.33
9	Ákos Hudi	Hungary	72.53	71.82	x	72.53
10	Dzmitry Marshyn	Azerbaijan	71.42	69.15	x	71.42
11	Markus Johansson	Sweden	69.21	69.21	67.91	67.10

final

August 16, 2014, 3:00 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	82.69 WL	78.12	78.45	82.12	78.36	81.69	82.69
2	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	82.05	x	78.48	x	x	82.05	x
3	Sergei Litvinov jun.	Russia	79.35	77.33	77.09	x	x	79.35	x
4th	Pavel Kryvitsky	Belarus	78.50	x	76.48	x	x	78.05	78.50
5	Szymon Ziółkowski	Poland	78.41	75.71	76.98	x	76.54	77.36	78.41
6th	Primož Kozmus	Slovenia	77.46	77.45	77.46	75.46	x	x	x
7th	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	76.89	73.21	76.23	75.42	76.89	x	x
8th	David Soderberg	Finland	76.55	75.01	76.55	75.87	x	70.88	73.56
9	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova	75.18	74.33	75.06	75.18	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Pavel Barejscha	Belarus	74.73	x	74.73	73.73
11	Nicola Vizzoni	Italy	73.04	72.75	73.68	73.04
12	Tuomas Seppänen	Finland	73.70	68.78	73.05	73.70

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  The Olympic champion from 2012 and two-time runner-up ( 2011 / 2013 ) Krisztián Pars successfully defended his title with Weltjahresbestleistung

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  Pawel Fajdek, reigning world champion, became vice European champion - he had further successes ahead of him

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  Szymon Ziółkowski, among other things Olympic champion in 2000 and world champion in 2001 , reached fifth place

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  Primož Kozmus, among others Olympic champion from 2008 , Olympic runner-up in 2012 and world champion from 2009 , came in sixth

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  Marcel Lomnický (right) finished seventh

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  Nicola Vizzoni, second in the Olympic Games in 2000 and European Vice Champion in 2010 , came in eleventh place

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  Twelfth place Tuomas Seppänen

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 9, 2020
• European Championship 2014 Zurich, Men Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed on February 9, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 9, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, hammer throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on February 9, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed February 9, 2020