European Athletics Championships 2016 / men's hammer throw

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 8th (qualification) July 10th (final)
Medalist Paweł Fajdek ( POL )   Ivan Zichan ( BLR )   Wojciech Nowicki ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The men's hammer throw at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held on July 8th and 10th, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

In this competition, hammer throwers from Poland won two gold and bronze medals. European champion was the two-time world champion ( 2013 / 2015 ) and Vice European Champion 2014 Paweł Fajdek . He won before also twice world champion ( 2003 / 2007 ) and Olympic bronze medalists of 2008 Ivan Tsikhan from Belarus , who had in the past on several occasions because of its violations of doping rules locks and medal disqualifications suffered. Bronze went to Wojciech Nowicki, third in the 2015 World Cup .

Existing records

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

Even at these European championships, the EM record that had been in place since 1986 , which was also the world record , was never in danger. There was only one throw beyond the 80-meter mark.

Legend

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

-	waived
x	invalid

qualification

28 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 75.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 60.46 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

July 8, 2016, 12:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	76.10	73.34	74.19	76.10
2	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland	75.85	74.33	75.85	-
3	Chris Bennett	Great Britain	74.39	74.39	72.62	x
4th	David Soderberg	Finland	72.96	72.96	x	70.19
5	Andrij Martynjuk	Ukraine	72.37	x	72.15	72.37
6th	Pavel Barejscha	Belarus	72.19	70.71	72.19	x
7th	Eivind Henriksen	Norway	71.93	69.38	71.93	70.30
8th	Bence Pásztor	Hungary	71.20	70.56	70.38	71.20
9	Simone Falloni	Italy	70.51	70.51	69.76	x
10	Lukáš Melich	Czech Republic	70.50	69.45	66.38	70.50
11	Nejc Pleško	Slovenia	70.44	66.55	70.44	x
12	Nick Miller	Great Britain	67.76	67.76	x	x
NM	Eşref Apak	Turkey	ogV	x	x	x
	Libor Good Friday	Slovakia		x	x	x

Hammer throwers eliminated from group A in qualification:

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  Eivind Henriksen - seventh place with 71.93 m

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  Bence Pásztor - eighth place with 71.20 m

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  Lukáš Melich - tenth place with 70.50 m

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  Libor Charfreitag ( 2007 World Cup third, 2010 European champion) failed to make a valid attempt

Group B

July 8, 2016, 1:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	78.82	x	x	78.82
2	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	74.68	72.97	74.68	x
3	Mihaíl Anastasákis	Greece	74.01	73.26	71.95	74.01
4th	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova	73.95	73.95	x	x
5	Özkan Baltacı	Turkey	73.10	73.10	71.34	70.67
6th	Marco Lingua	Italy	72.94	72.94	x	x
7th	Javier Cienfuegos	Spain	72.73	70.97	71.21	72.73
8th	Sjarhej Kalamoyez	Belarus	72.55	67.36	69.94	72.55
9	Mark Dry	Great Britain	71.96	71.65	69.59	71.96
10	Ákos Hudi	Hungary	70.37	69.48	70.37	69.94
11	Constantions Stathelakos	Cyprus	70.20	70.20	x	68.36
12	Tuomas Seppänen	Finland	69.76	69.76	69.48	x
13	Oleksandr Dryhol	Israel	68.10	x	68.10	64.69
14th	Serhiy Reheda	Ukraine	66.72	66.72	65.56	66.36

Hammer throwers eliminated from group B in qualification:

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  Ákos Hudi ranked tenth with 70.37 m

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  Tuomas Seppänen ranked twelfth with 69.76 m

final

July 10, 2016, 5:10 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	Paweł Fajdek	Poland	80.93	80.46	78.85	79.09	80.37	80.93	79.69
2	Ivan Zichan	Belarus	78.84	76.60	75.16	76.42	76.18	75.84	78.84
3	Wojciech Nowicki	Poland	77.53	74.52	77.31	77.53	x	77.43	76.02
4th	Mihaíl Anastasákis	Greece	75.89	75.89	x	x	x	x	x
5	Marcel Lomnický	Slovakia	75.84	73.26	75.41	75.19	75.84	74.55	x
6th	Sjarhej Kalamoyez	Belarus	74.65	69.11	73.97	x	74.65	x	67.88
7th	David Soderberg	Finland	74.22	74.22	73.83	72.98	x	72.01	73.86
8th	Serghei Marghiev	Moldova	73.21	71.40	70.90	72.66	66.42	73.21	x
9	Özkan Baltacı	Turkey	71.35	68.96	71.35	69.36	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Chris Bennett	Great Britain	70.93	69.85	70.43	70.93
11	Marco Lingua	Italy	70.00	70.00	x	x
12	Javier Cienfuegos	Spain	68.17	68.17	x	x

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  Paweł Fajdek, two-time world champion ( 2013 / 2015 ) and in 2014 Vice European champion, now also won the EM -Titel

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  After several doping-related punishments of two-time world champion (was 2003 / 2007 ) and Olympic bronze medalist from 2008 Ivan Tsikhan Vice European Champion

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  Bronze medalist Wojciech Nowicki - 2015 World Cup third, here with his trainer Malwina Sobierajska-Wojtulewicz

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  Marcel Lomnický (right) finished fifth

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  Javier Cienfuegos reached the final and was twelfth

Video

• David Söderberg 74.22m - European Athletics Championships Amsterdam 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on March 1, 2020

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on March 1, 2020
• European Championship 2016 Amsterdam, Men Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed March 1, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 1, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on March 1, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} Doping fraudster Tsikhan wins hammer silver on sport.de August 20, 2016, accessed on March 1, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples on olympic.org December 5, 2012, accessed March 1, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b} Revision of results following sanctions of Tsikhan and Ostapchuk on worldathletics.org August 27, 2014, accessed March 1, 2020
4. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed March 1, 2020